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What is the duration of the Speaking part.

It is supposed to be 11-14 minutes.

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IELTS Speaking

If the thought of talking to an examiner for 14 minutes in English makes you freeze — you're not alone. IELTS Speaking is the section most candidates fear, and the one where simple preparation strategies pay the biggest dividend: knowing the format, having ready-to-go phrases for the task-card prep minute, and practising stretching answers beyond two sentences.

The Speaking section of IELTS is an 11–14 minute face-to-face interview: warm-up questions, a 1–2 minute task-card monologue, and an abstract discussion. Scored on fluency and coherence, lexical resource, grammatical range and accuracy, and pronunciation.

IELTS

If a university or visa application has ever asked you for an IELTS band score, you know the stakes are real: the same English you've been speaking comfortably for years suddenly has to fit a specific format and produce a specific number. Failing isn't usually about your English — it's about not knowing the test.

IELTS (International English Language Testing System) is the most widely accepted English-language proficiency test worldwide. Four sections — Listening, Reading, Writing, Speaking — scored 0–9 per section and overall.