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IELTS Speaking Part 2 — sample answers

Tell me, do you work, or are you a student? · Band 6

A real IELTS Speaking Part 2 answer scored Band 6 by AI — question: Tell me, do you work, or are you a student?. Read the transcript, then get your own speaking graded.

Band 6.0

Prompt: Tell me, do you work, or are you a student?

Vex: Ah, you finally made it. Tell me, do you work, or are you a student? Describe it for me.

You: I am a student. Vex: A student, are we? And what exactly are you studying, assuming you've chosen something productive? Enlighten me.

You: I am currently doing my under graduation in biotechnology. So I study stuff like gene technology as well as genetically modified organisms and even production of vaccines in small scale laboratory to large scale factory production. Vex: Biotechnology, hmm? Playing with genes, are we? Let's hope your grammatical structures are as organized as your DNA sequences. What do you plan to do with that?

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