Speaking: The test was face-to-face. Everything except part 3 was easy. I got this cue card (#1) in the Speaking Assistant app.
The thing is, I took the test in the evening at 6:30 PM, right after giving my lectures. I was tired and unprepared, so I didn’t use a variety of grammatical structures. I relied on very simple vocabulary and ideas too. At one point, I was given such a difficult question ("How can physical health affect mental health?") that I just said I had no idea and started talking some irrelevant abracadabra. However, the quality of ideas is not assessed in the IELTS Speaking test.
My examiner was Elena. She interrupted me very politely several times during the last part, but since I know that interruptions don’t mean anything bad in IELTS, I didn’t pay attention and kept speaking.
P.S. I didn’t use a single f... idiom in my test.
@ieltsboyko
The thing is, I took the test in the evening at 6:30 PM, right after giving my lectures. I was tired and unprepared, so I didn’t use a variety of grammatical structures. I relied on very simple vocabulary and ideas too. At one point, I was given such a difficult question ("How can physical health affect mental health?") that I just said I had no idea and started talking some irrelevant abracadabra. However, the quality of ideas is not assessed in the IELTS Speaking test.
My examiner was Elena. She interrupted me very politely several times during the last part, but since I know that interruptions don’t mean anything bad in IELTS, I didn’t pay attention and kept speaking.
P.S. I didn’t use a single f... idiom in my test.
@ieltsboyko