What the IELTS Examiner Is Looking For
The IELTS Speaking assessment has 4 criteria, equal weight:
- Fluency and Coherence: Speaking at natural pace, without excessive hesitation, with logical development of ideas
- Lexical Resource: Range and accuracy of vocabulary
- Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Variety of sentence structures used correctly
- Pronunciation: Clarity — not accent, but intelligibility
Common Nepali Candidate Weaknesses
- Long pauses filled with "umm" and "err" (reduce these — they hurt fluency)
- Repeating the same vocabulary repeatedly
- Short, underdeveloped answers in Part 3
- Speaking too quietly or at unnatural speed
Specific Practice Strategies
- Record yourself daily: Use IELTS speaking part prompts (available free on ielts.org). Listen back critically. Identify your specific weaknesses.
- IELTS Liz and IELTS Simon YouTube: Both free, both excellent for Part 2 and Part 3 strategies.
- Vocabulary expansion: Learn 5 new topic-specific words daily. Collocations matter more than individual words ("deeply concerned" not "very concerned").
- iTalki speaking partners: Free language exchange with native English speakers. Practice giving 2-minute answers to Part 2 prompts.
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