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Do you work, or are you a student? · Band 6.5

A real IELTS Speaking Part 2 answer scored Band 6.5 by AI — question: Do you work, or are you a student?. Read the transcript, then get your own speaking graded.

Band 6.5

Prompt: Do you work, or are you a student?

Vex: Greetings. Do you work, or are you a student? Tell me about it.

You: So, I'm a student. Currently, I'm 20 years old and I started my studies two years earlier in the political science. Vex: Political science? Studying power, are we? How Machiavellian Tell me, what are your plans within this realm?

You: Um to be honest, I'm not even really sure about my path because I like to study political science, but I'm not really at ease with the kind of people that work in politics because usually you have to know how to manipulate people. Um and it's not really a common thing for me. So, I think that when I finish my bachelor's degree, I'm maybe gonna leave political science in my past and go with another major for my uh master's degree. Maybe business. Vex: From politics to business. Trading one jungle for another, are we? Though I must admit, navigating the business world might present some... novel challenges. What draws you to that particular shift?

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