Should people change careers more often than they used to?
A strong Part 3 answer takes a position in the first clause, supports it with one reason and one concrete case, and then names where it stops being true. Around a minute.
The question, as the examiner gives it
Should people change careers more often than they used to?
no preparation, about 1 minute to speak
A band 7 to 8 answer
About 130 words at a natural pace — roughly what 60 seconds holds.
Answer it yourself first
Record your own answer first. A model you have read three times comes out with a flattened rhythm, and examiners are trained to hear exactly that. Read it afterwards for the vocabulary and the shape, not to memorise the sentences.More often than their grandparents, certainly, because the alternative assumes industries stay stable for forty years and very few do. But I am wary of the version of this advice that treats change as automatically good. There is a particular kind of person who moves every two years and is permanently a beginner, and they never reach the point where the work becomes genuinely interesting, which is usually somewhere around year four. What I would say is that the useful thing to keep changing is the problem rather than the employer. And the real obstacle to changing careers is rarely courage. It is that a switch usually means a substantial pay cut for two years, which is impossible for most people with dependants, and no amount of encouragement fixes that.
The words that earn marks
Each one links to how it is pronounced.
- stable
the precise adjective for unchanging industries
- wary
the exact adjective for cautious disagreement
- permanently
four syllables with the stress on the first
- substantial
three syllables with the stress on the second
- dependants
the British spelling of the noun
- obstacle
three syllables with the stress on the first
- encouragement
four syllables with the stress on the second
How a strong answer is built
- 1Agree with the historical comparison.
- 2Warn against the extreme version.
- 3Offer a sharper formulation.
- 4Name the real obstacle, which is financial.
Sounds to watch
The ones this answer leans on most.
Straight answers
How long should my answer to “Should people change careers more often than they used to?” be?
About 60 seconds. Long enough for the answer plus a reason or an example, short enough that the examiner can get through the rest of the set.
Should I memorise the model answer?
No. Record your own version first, then read the model for the shape and the vocabulary. A memorised answer changes rhythm and pace noticeably, and examiners are trained to hear it — it usually costs more than the better wording gains.
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