Vocabulary acceleration
Raise your daily new-card target and start meeting the same words across contexts — in reading, in listening, and in your own writing. A word you have seen in three places is a word you own.
Writing, introduced
Begin 《25天攻克新HSK5级写作》 at one to two chapters a week. Extract every reusable sentence structure into your own running list. Ten flexible structures you can deploy under pressure are worth more than fifty idioms you can't.
Listening, upgraded
Move from short clips to full podcast episodes and HSK5 practice recordings. The jump from 30-second bursts to a 5-minute episode is the whole point — you are training sustained comprehension, not lucky guesses.
Speaking, optional but valuable
Ten minutes a day of chorusing and shadowing: pick one recording, repeat it in sync, then repeat after a pause. It is tedious and it works. It builds the automatic retrieval that lets you produce sentences without assembling them word by word.