Don't stop speaking until you are told to stop! Do NOT just answer the question and stop. You get NO marks for silence.
IELTS Speaking questions get used more than once. Look at the numerous questions that you can find online and practice saying your own answers in the correct time limit. If you don't get exactly the same question, you have a good chance of getting the same subject in your exam.
Practice, Practice, Practice! Lots of IELTS candidates have a great level of reading and listening in English, but they haven't done enough work on speaking. Speak out loud in English as much as possible. Read an article from a newspaper out loud. Read your practice essays out loud. Pretend you are in an exam and get a friend to ask you Part 1: Interview questions and answer them out loud. Practice makes perfect!
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