Rachael Brandt

IELTS Speaking

The IELTS Speaking exam is an in-person interview. It can be scheduled on the same day as the paper exam, or up to one week before or after the paper exam. The interview takes 11-14 minutes and contains three sections. In the first section, the interviewer asks very basic questions about general topics: family, hobbies, travel, interests, etc. The second section is a prepared monologue. Test takers have a minute to plan an answer to prompts provided on an index card. The question and answer format resumes in the third segment of the exam. However, this time the questions are more abstract, requiring complex language and vocabulary. The questions will relate in some way to the topic of the monologue in the previous section.
 
IELTS speaking