As of 13 August 2026, AI can prepare for your GCSE speaking exam.

What to actually do

1. Hand it to a person

   The route this page recommends

   A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.

2. Do it yourself

   Second choice

   A chat interface, no skill needed, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open your exam board's current GCSE specification and the page describing the speaking component, then copy the task format, topics and assessment criteria.
   2. Gather your class notes, vocabulary lists, set texts or presentation topic, and write down whether the exam is GCSE English Language, a modern foreign language or another subject.
   3. Paste the copied specification and your details into the prompt, replacing the bracketed sections, and ask the chatbot to start the practice session.
   4. Answer each question aloud before typing a short transcript or summary of what you said, so the session tests speaking rather than only written composition.
   5. Record one full practice answer on your phone and use Yoodli or another speech coach to identify pauses, pace and repeated words, while treating its mark estimate as feedback rather than an official grade.
   6. Compare the chatbot's comments with the official criteria and mark any claim about the exam format that is not supported by the specification.
   7. Repeat the targeted questions, then ask your teacher to listen to one complete attempt and correct pronunciation, fluency or content that the tools cannot judge reliably.

   Prompt

   Act as a GCSE speaking-practice tutor, not as a ghostwriter. I am preparing for [subject and language, if applicable] with [exam board] for [paper or speaking component]. Here is the official specification, task format and marking criteria:
   
   [PASTE OFFICIAL INFORMATION HERE]
   
   My current level, topic and areas I find difficult are:
   
   [PASTE DETAILS HERE]
   
   Run a realistic practice session. Ask one question at a time and wait for my answer. Do not give me a model answer before I try. After each answer, give concise feedback under these headings: task completion, accuracy, vocabulary or content, fluency and pronunciation if you can assess it, and one specific improvement. Separate facts from suggestions, do not invent exam rules or mark boundaries, and say when the pasted information does not support a conclusion. At the end, give me a short list of the weaknesses to practise and a new set of questions targeting those weaknesses. Keep the language and difficulty suitable for a GCSE candidate.

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.

3. Use a tool built for this

   The distant third