What candidates are reporting for the current rotation — Speaking Part 2 cue cards, Writing Task 2 themes, and General Training letter situations — with what each one really tests and a page where you can practise it.
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An IELTS forecast is aggregated candidate recall — the topics people report after sitting the test, collected from public forums and teacher blogs. IELTS does not publish its question bank and nobody has access to live exam content, so a forecast tells you what to rehearse, never what you will be asked.
Reports are self-selected and the bank varies by country and test centre. Use these pages to choose your practice material, and prepare categories rather than memorising answers — a pre-learned response attached to a slightly different question scores worse than an honest one.
The Speaking Part 2 question bank rotates three times a year — in January, May and September — and each rotation keeps a large share of the previous set. We are currently in the Sep–Dec 2026 window.
Writing has no published rotation. Reported Task 2 questions cluster into a stable set of themes asked through five question types, and General Training letter situations repeat across years, so those pages age far better than a Speaking list does.
The IELTS Speaking Part 2 question bank rotated on 1 September 2026. The topics candidates are reporting for the September–December window, what they have in common, and how to practise them.
Read the forecastThe Task 2 themes and question types candidates are reporting for September–December 2026, why the essay type matters more than the topic, and how to prepare without memorising essays.
Read the forecastThe GT Task 1 letter situations candidates are reporting for September–December 2026, the three letter tones, and the bullet-point rule that decides your Task Achievement mark.
Read the forecastThe Academic Reading passage topics candidates are reporting for late 2026, the interdisciplinary shift behind them, and a practice passage in every recurring area.
Read the forecastWhat the four Listening parts actually contain, the contexts that recur in each, and the 2026 shifts candidates report — faster Part 3 and 4 delivery, more map questions, more Southern Hemisphere accents.
Read the forecastA collation of the topics candidates publicly report after sitting the test — posted to forums, comment threads and teacher blogs, then aggregated. It shows you what the current question pool looks like so you can rehearse the right material. It is not leaked exam content, and nobody has access to the live question bank.
They are accurate about the pool and unreliable about your paper. Reports are self-selected, so common topics are over-represented and rare ones may be missing, and question banks vary by country and test centre. Treat a forecast as a rehearsal list, never as a prediction of the questions you will be given.
Three times a year. The Speaking Part 2 question bank rotates in January, May and September, and a large share of the previous set usually carries over, so topics from the last window are still worth preparing.
No. Unlike Speaking Part 2, Task 2 has no published rotation. Reported questions cluster into a stable set of about a dozen themes asked through five question types, which is why preparing the question types matters more than chasing a topic list.
No. Examiners recognise pre-learned material quickly, and a memorised answer attached to a slightly different question scores worse than an honest attempt. Prepare ideas, examples and vocabulary per theme, and rehearse a handful of real experiences you can re-angle onto many prompts.