Practice with realistic IELTS-style speaking questions across all three parts. Record your responses — we transcribe them and score you against the official IELTS Speaking band descriptors, delivered to your inbox in 15–25 minutes.
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The IELTS Speaking test is an 11–14 minute face-to-face interview with a certified examiner. On test day it's a real conversation; on this site you record your responses and our expert examiner transcribes them, then scores against the four official IELTS Speaking criteria — calibrated against samples graded by real IELTS examiners. Same module for Academic and General Training. Cue cards rotate quarterly — our test bank reflects the current January–April 2026 rotation.
Part 1 (4–5 minutes): the examiner asks short personal questions on familiar topics — your hometown, your work or studies, hobbies, food. Part 2 (3–4 minutes): the cue card. You get one minute to prepare, then speak for 1–2 minutes uninterrupted on the assigned topic. Part 3 (4–5 minutes): the examiner extends Part 2 themes into more abstract discussion — opinions, comparisons, predictions about society.
Fluency and Coherence — speech rate, hesitations, ability to develop ideas at length without falling apart. Lexical Resource — range and precision of vocabulary; can you paraphrase, use idioms naturally, find the right word for the moment? Grammatical Range and Accuracy — variety of structures and frequency of errors. Pronunciation — individual phonemes (/θ/ vs /s/), sentence stress, intonation, intelligibility. Each is scored 0–9; final band is the rounded average.
Use your one-minute prep to plan four anchor points: 1) opening line that names the topic, 2) two specific examples or reasons, 3) a personal story, 4) a closing reflection. Don't memorise scripts — examiners spot rote answers and penalise lexical resource. Aim to use 2–3 less common topical phrases per response (e.g. 'I'm somewhat ambivalent about', 'on reflection') without forcing them. Stop talking at the 2-minute mark even mid-sentence.
Not 'native-like accent' — IELTS doesn't reward Americans over Indians or Britons over Australians. They reward intelligibility and natural sentence stress. Common band-killers: monotone delivery (no falling intonation at sentence end), missed contractions ('I have' instead of 'I've'), and word-stress errors on long words ('photoGRAPHy' vs 'photoGRAPHy'). Record yourself, listen back, and you'll spot 80% of these without a coach.
Each Speaking test on this site presents authentic Part 1 topics + a current cue card + Part 3 follow-ups. Your microphone records every answer; submissions go to expert evaluation and a band-by-criterion report lands in your inbox in 15–25 minutes. Test 1 is free; Test 2+ unlocks with our paid plans.
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