The IELTS questions candidates actually got
78 Speaking and Writing questions reported after real exams — each one dated, credited to its source, and marked for how close the wording is to what the candidate saw. Every question comes with a plan for answering it, and you can write or speak your answer in the app and get it marked against the band descriptors.
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.
Speaking
Part 1 topic sets and Part 2 cue cards, with the Part 3 discussion questions reported alongside them.
Writing
Task 2 essay prompts and Task 1 visuals, with the date each one was reported and how exact the wording is.
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Each month keeps its own record, including the cue cards that were named in compilations without enough detail to publish.
How to practise a recalled question without wasting it
Reading a list of questions feels like preparation and is not. The value of a recalled question is that it is a realistic prompt under a realistic clock: one minute to plan and two to speak, or forty minutes and 250 words. Anything else is browsing.
Do not memorise answers to these specific cards. Wording changes between test versions and centres, and examiners can hear a rehearsed script from the second sentence — it costs you in Fluency and Coherence rather than saving you. Practise the shape of the answer instead: which bullet carries the marks, where the tense switches, what your position is.
The part you cannot self-mark is the part that decides your band. Speak or write the answer, then have it scored against the four criteria so you know whether the problem is task response, coherence, lexis or grammar — August 2026's questions are as good a place to start as any.
Know the number. Now move it.
A conversion table tells you where you stand today. Langujet's AI marks your writing and speaking against the real rubric and tells you exactly which criterion is holding your score down.