The question
Do you study or work?
What is your major?
What will you do after your studies?
Would you change your major?
Do you prefer studying in the morning or the afternoon?
Are you looking forward to working?
How much time do you study each week?
What would you change about your school?
How to answer it
This question has come back: candidates reported it on 30 June 2026, 23 July 2026. Questions that repeat across sittings are the ones worth rehearsing properly.
This is the standard identity set and it opened sittings in both June and July, so it is worth actually preparing. The two questions that reward thought are 'would you change your major' and 'what would you change about your school' — both hypothetical, both easy to fumble into a flat no. Have a genuine second choice of subject and one concrete complaint about your institution.
What moves the band
- The conditional questions need would throughout: I'd probably have gone for, what I'd change is.
- Give the study-hours question a real number and a qualification — it sounds like a person rather than a script.
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.
Practise these next
Know the number. Now move it.
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