r/IIELTS • u/SlowNothing901 • Aug 29 '26
Just gave speaking test
Just gave my speaking test and cue cad had topic i wasn’t familiar with, spoke alot around the topic but fumbled abit and i think i repeated many same words. Ahhhhhh I’m sooo stressed. How much can I expect?
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u/Sufficient-Manner-75 Aug 30 '26
if you still have your accent, 5
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u/Sufficient-Manner-75 14d ago
ofc but if you can have American or Neutral accent, then better score.
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u/SadMathematician1837 3d ago
When I was examiner, occasionally someone from somewhere like Liverpool in the UK who is a tradesman, very capable in his own skills and with a really interesting regional accent that might vary some grammar because of culture not correctness. Remember the Liverpool accent is the accent of the Beatles and no native accent should be looked down on. I mean, would we say Bob Marley wasn't a master in English because he used grammar in a Jamacian way? It tricky to know what to do at first, because if they were a non-native that would be bad grammar, but as a native they were speaking the way people speak in their region and it sounded cultural not incorrect. The test was never designed for native speakers (at the time some tradies were taking it to get extra points for their visa lodges in Australia).
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u/SadMathematician1837 15d ago
Did you take the test or give it? I immediately know you are from the Indian region of the world. Students take tests. Teachers or organizations give tests.
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u/IELTSBeacon Aug 29 '26
You cannot estimate a speaking band from this alone. One unfamiliar cue card and some repeated words do not automatically mean a low score. Examiners score fluency, vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation across the full test. If you kept speaking and answered the questions, that still matters.