How to answer Personality related questions in IELTS?

IELTS Speaking test checks your vocabulary, sentence coherence and fluency. Here, you have to prove yourself a good speaker of English language. For that, you need to impress the examiner by using powerful English words. Sharpen your English language skills by regular learning. Mostly, it has been observed that examiner asks you the question related to the personality in any Part of the Speaking test. Let’s discuss one of the questions on personality that you may face in your Speaking test of IELTS.

Describe a feature of your personal character that you find important.

You have to say:

• What is it?
• Is it a common characteristics?
• How is it helpful to you? And explain why it is important to you.

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Sample Answer

Talking about personal characteristic is a fascinating job. But on on the other hand, it is tough to talk about. This is because the way we describe ourselves may differs from the way other people judge us. However, we know ourselves better so I would talk about my ability to stay calm, even in adverse situation. I am an easy going person who always try to stay peaceful in any situation and for me, it is really an important feature of my personality. From my past experience, I can say that whenever I reacted to anything promptly without understanding the problem clearly, my decisions were always wrong and I had to repent for that at later stage. It is an uncommon characteristic as per my opinion because I have seen numerous people who lose their temper very quickly in severe situation making the stage more awful. So, I would say that this quality is not rare, but very less number of people own this strength.

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As per saying, actions speak louder than words. So, instead of using tongue one should utilize his/her brain to stabilize the unbalanced situation. Stay calm and take the appropriate decision by following required course of actions. Immediate decisions can be be fragile which may lead to misunderstanding and can break relationships as well. Furthermore, it also reflects you as a weak person if you cannot stay calm. In my opinion, this quality is very essential that every person should have. It prevented me from any kind of regression in life. I never had to lament because of my wrong decisions. Whether it is my personal life or my professional life, my calm nature always helps me to move in a right direction. This Sample answer can also help you to answer the following questions based on personality:

• Describe a quality or skill you have.
• Describe a quality you really admire.
• Describe a good quality you or one of your family members has.
• Describe a good quality you find important for success.

Important vocabulary that can be used while talking about your’s or someone else’ personality.

• creative: when someone makes something that is superb or unthinkable
• reliable: you can trust this person
• clever: smart, brilliant, intelligent
• self-confident: self-assured
• ambitious: determined
• Influential: successful, powerful
• nosy: inquiring all the time, interested more in people’s affairs
• blunt: one who speaks direct without being diplomatic
• stingy: mean
• impatient: easily annoyed or irritated by something
• short-tempered: temperamental: gets angry on trivial matters
• annoying: irritating: boring

Instead of giving answers in one or two words you can expand your speaking using above mentioned words.

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