IELTS Cue Card Topics for 2023

Jan 29, 2023

The Cue Card topics are diverse for the IELTS speaking section. IELTS Cue Card is the second task in the IELTS speaking section. The main focus of this task is assessing if the candidate is proficient enough to structure their response and continue for 2 long minutes.

Candidates often have a misconception of thinking of ielts cue card as q card ielts. To clear the misconception it is not the alphabet "q" but the word "Cue". This IELTS task evaluates the candidate’s ability to continue speaking without any pause, usage of language, and also organizational skills. Since this is a random topic to speak on, mostly personal experiences are talked about.

Table of Contents

IELTS Cue Card Overview
IELTS Cue Card Topics
Topics for 2023
3.1 Favourites
3.2 Time-based
3.3 Person
3.4 Family
3.5 Object
3.6 Place
3.7 Work/study
3.8 Emotions
3.9 Occasions
3.10 Recall
3.11 Popular
3.12 Activity
3.13 Something Important
3.14 Someone
3.15 Child
3.16 Who You Admire
3.17 App/Mobile
3.18 Movie
3.19 Interesting
3. 20 Your Country
3. 21 Health
3. 22 Other Cue Cards

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IELTS Cue Card Overview

In IELTS speaking cue cards, the candidate needs to select a random cue card on which they have to speak for 2 minutes. The cue card is attached with a task card that contains the points to speak on.

The main focus of this task is assessing if the candidate is proficient enough to structure their response and continue for 2 long minutes. The preparation time for task 2 is 1 minute during which they can make notes to help them while speaking. After the 2 minutes, the examiner further asks the candidate a few more questions.

IELTS Cue Card Topics

The IELTS cue card samples given below are categorized according to different topics. These are the cue cards new topics that appeared in the previous year's IELTS exam. Some of the cue card topics latest have been listed below:

IELTS Speaking Cue Card Topics	Analysis
Favourites	In these kinds of topics, candidates need to write about things that they like.
Place	In these kinds of topics, candidates will be asked about places that they have visited or will visit.
Time-based	In these kinds of topics, candidates will have to talk about things that have occurred in the past, present, or future.
Work	Here candidates need to talk about things related to the workplace.
Person	Here candidates need to talk about a friend, guide, or any person they liked.
Study	These are the topics wherein the candidates have to talk about the courses that they want to pursue or pursued.
Object	These are the topics wherein the candidates need to talk about any sort of an object like a mirror, clothes, any random things.
Emotions	These are the topics wherein the candidates need to talk about emotions such as happiness, sadness, anger, and so on.
Occasions	These topics are often about birthdays, new years or more.

IELTS Cue Card Marking Criteria

The IELTS cue card topics last between 11-15 minutes. The following criteria are used to evaluate your performance in this section:

Fluency and Coherence -(FC) (It measures the ability of the candidate to speak fluently without any repetition or interruption)
Lexical resource -(LR) (In this section, the vocabulary of the candidate is assessed)
Grammar -GR (As the name suggests, it measures the grammatical paradigm in the speech)
Pronunciation-(PR) (This test assesses a person's ability to speak English correctly, regardless of their native languages)