IELTS Speaking Practice (Cue Cards, Timers and Feedback)

About the IELTS Speaking Practice (Cue Cards, Timers and Feedback)

Practise the IELTS Speaking test in its three parts: questions on familiar topics (Part 1), a cue card with one minute to prepare and a talk that stops at two minutes (Part 2), and a discussion of the same theme (Part 3) — or a full practice test of about 11–14 minutes in the same order. The questions are read aloud by your browser’s voice, like an examiner, and every topic, question and cue card was written for MySmartCoPilot.

After the session you get feedback on what IELTS examiners listen for, measured from your recordings and transcripts: your pace, pauses and fillers and the linking words you used (fluency and coherence), how many of your words are at each CEFR level from A1 to B2 and how varied they are (lexical resource), and flags for common grammar errors such as “he go” or “more better” (grammatical range and accuracy). Your answers are transcribed on your device — by your browser’s own speech recognition when it can do that without the internet, otherwise by the Whisper model — and nothing you say is uploaded.

This is practice feedback, not a band score: only certificated IELTS examiners award bands. MySmartCoPilot is not affiliated with the IELTS partners.

The test format this practice follows

According to ielts.org’s description of the Speaking test, the test is a face-to-face interview of 11–14 minutes in three parts:

• Part 1 (4–5 minutes): general questions on familiar topics such as home, family, work, studies and interests.
• Part 2 (3–4 minutes): a task card asks you to talk about a topic and explain one aspect of it. You have one minute to prepare, with a pencil and paper for notes, and the examiner stops you when the two minutes are up, then may ask one or two questions on the same topic.
• Part 3 (4–5 minutes): a discussion of issues related to the Part 2 topic, in a more general and abstract way.

Here Part 1 answers stop after 45 seconds, Part 3 answers after 90 seconds and rounding-off answers after 30 seconds (MySmartCoPilot’s practice limits — in the test the examiner decides when to move on). Part 2 uses the official one minute and two minutes.

What the feedback measures, criterion by criterion

IELTS assesses four criteria (ielts.org): fluency and coherence, lexical resource, grammatical range and accuracy, and pronunciation. The feedback measures what can be counted, without predicting a band:

• Fluency and coherence: words a minute, silences of a second or more (long pauses) per minute of speech, fillers and repeats in the transcript, how long your Part 2 talk lasted, and the linking words you used, by kind (contrast, cause, example, sequence, opinion…).
• Lexical resource: the share of your words at each level of the CEFR-J Wordlist (A1–B2), the B2 words and the words beyond the list you used, the moving-average type–token ratio (word variety over 50-word windows) and the words you repeated most.
• Grammatical range and accuracy: flags for a few dozen common learner errors (a/an, he go, they is, more better, informations, didn’t went, since two years, one of my friend, I am agree, discuss about…), each with a suggestion and a reason.
• Pronunciation: not assessed. A speech model shows what it understood, not how clear your pronunciation is; listen to your recordings.

Where the word levels come from

Levels come from the CEFR-J Wordlist Version 1.6, compiled by Yukio Tono, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, which places about 7,000 English words at CEFR levels A1 to B2 (used here with acknowledgement, as its terms ask; words with several parts of speech take their lowest level). Inflected forms are looked up by their dictionary form (“studies” → study, “went” → go). Because the list stops at B2, a word outside it is shown as “not in the A1–B2 list”: usually a C1–C2 or specialist word, sometimes a name or a recognition mistake. The CEFR levels themselves are the Council of Europe’s; the Council publishes no official word list.

Limitations

• Practice feedback only: no band score is predicted, and numbers such as words a minute or the share of B2 words are not part of IELTS’s scoring.
• Transcripts can be wrong — with names, noise, quiet speech or a strong accent — and speech recognition can smooth over small grammar slips or leave out “um” and “uh”; read the transcript before trusting a flag or a count.
• The grammar checker knows a few dozen common errors only; no flag does not mean no errors.
• Word levels come from a list made for learners up to B2; they describe how common your words are, not whether you used them well.
• The examiner’s voice is your browser’s synthetic voice. If your browser has no English voice, the questions are shown but not read.
• MySmartCoPilot is not affiliated with or endorsed by the IELTS partners. All questions and cue cards are MySmartCoPilot’s own; real test questions will differ.

Privacy

The microphone is used only during a session. Recordings stay in this page’s memory: they are not saved, not uploaded and gone when you leave the page. Transcripts are made on your device — by your browser’s own speech recognition when it can work without the internet (it is used only when your browser reports that English is installed on this device, never its online service), otherwise by Whisper through MySmartCoPilot’s on-device AI, downloaded once after you agree. Your progress table (practice type, topic and the measures shown — no audio and no transcripts) is kept in this browser until you clear it. Questions are read by your browser’s voices; if it only has online voices, it sends MySmartCoPilot’s question text, never your recording, to its maker.