Describe a person who wants to work in the medical field
The cue card
Describe a person you know who wants to work in the medical field.
You should say
- who they are
- what medical work they want to do
- why they want to do it
- and explain how you feel about their ambition
How to answer it
Pick someone real and specific — a cousin revising for entrance exams, a friend who volunteers at a clinic — because the 'why' bullet is where invented people collapse. Give the ambition a concrete cause: a relative who was ill, a school placement, a documentary. The final bullet asks for your opinion, so take a position: admiration plus one honest reservation about the hours or the cost of training is a richer answer than pure praise.
What moves the band
- Career language pays here: qualify as, specialise in, do a residency, be on call, a demanding but rewarding field.
- The Part 3 questions are policy questions. Answer them as policy — cost, fairness, workforce shortages — not as more description of your cousin.
Part 3 questions reported with it
Part 3 follows the topic of the cue card, so these are the discussion questions the same candidates were asked next.
- Why do many young people avoid studying medicine?
- Should governments pay for medical students' training?
- Is it fair that doctors earn more than nurses?
These are candidate recalls. These are questions reported by test-takers after their exams, not official or leaked IELTS material. Wording varies by test version, location and memory. Use them for timed practice — never as a prediction of what you will be asked.
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