Speaking Task 6: Dealing with a Difficult Situation
Task 6 gives you a difficult situation with two choices. You pick one person to talk to and explain yourself. Scorers look for tact, clear reasons, and a workable solution.
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Speaking Task 6 format: how the test plays out
Every panel below is a moment from the exam interface this site rebuilds. Read the flow once, then run the same screens yourself in the demo.
An awkward conflict offers two ways out, and each one lets somebody down. Pick your person and line up two reasons.
Speak directly to the person affected for 60 seconds, warm but firm, with a workable backup plan.
60 seconds to choose your person and prepare, 60 to explain yourself.
That is the whole flow. The demo runs these exact screens with a real question, timed like test day.
How Speaking Task 6 is scored
Trained raters score each Speaking task on four equally weighted dimensions: Content and Coherence, Vocabulary, Listenability, and Task Fulfillment. All eight tasks feed one Speaking result, reported as CELPIP levels 1 to 12 aligned with CLB.
Four equally weighted dimensions per task, including Listenability
All eight tasks count, there is no task you can safely throw away
Levels 1 to 12, aligned with CLB for immigration targets
In Task 6 tone and audience count under Task Fulfillment, which is why the same words can score differently depending on who you chose to address.
Practice here scores every recording on the same four dimensions plus grammar, with a word by word transcript and a CLB style estimate.
Submit and get the AI report
Your recording is scored on four dimensions plus grammar, with strengths and weaknesses on each one, grammar fixes pulled from your own words, a word by word transcript you can replay, and a CLB style estimate. Each note points at something specific to fix, so you know where the next point comes from.
Inside your Speaking score report
Every answer comes back as one report in two parts: a transcript of what you said, and the grading details that show where the score came from. Both are built from your own answer, and the improvement lives in the details.
First, replay your answer word by word
Click any word to hear yourself say it. A word the transcript got wrong is usually a word your pronunciation got wrong, and the thin stretches of your answer are easy to find and replay.
The same answer as readable text. Grammar points are marked right where they happened, and opening one shows the fix written on your own sentence.
Then, the grading details
Strengths and weaknesses on every dimension
Content and Coherence, Vocabulary, Listenability, and Task Fulfillment each get their own read: what worked, what fell short, and what to change. You can tell exactly which dimension is holding the score back.
See where you stand
Your result lands on a distribution of scores from every test taker on the site, and each dimension is set against the site average, so you know whether you are ahead, on pace, or behind on that skill.
A written review, sentence by sentence
Overall feedback reads your whole answer back: an overall assessment, sentence by sentence improvements with the why behind each change, vocabulary upgrades for words you actually used, and key sentences rewritten at three levels.
Grammar notes on your own sentences
Improvement points are marked right in the transcript. Open one and the correction is written on your sentence, so you fix the habit you actually have instead of a textbook example.
Speaking Task 6, answered
What is the timing for CELPIP Speaking Task 6?
60 seconds to pick one of two ways out and prepare, then 60 seconds speaking directly to the person your decision affects.
What kind of situations appear in Task 6?
Everyday conflicts where each option lets somebody down, like double booked commitments. There is no right choice, only a well explained one.
How is Speaking Task 6 scored?
Four equally weighted dimensions, with tone and audience awareness feeding Task Fulfillment. Warm but firm delivery with a workable backup plan earns the points.
Do I speak to the person directly?
Yes, you address them as if they were in front of you, which is what makes Task 6 feel harder than it is. Practicing the framing removes most of the discomfort.
All CELPIP Speaking question types, covered
8 tasks · about 20 minutes on the mock
Explain an awkward situation to someone involved without making it worse.
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