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Could you pass an English job interview today?

Five real questions. Answer out loud. Get a score out of 100 — before an interviewer scores you for real.

  • 5 real questions
  • Feedback after every answer
  • Your voice stays on your device
The card you leave with

78/100

Strong answer

Clear stories — but two answers ended without a result.

What would you score?

How it works

Five questions. Sixty seconds each.

  1. Set the scene. Your target role, and whether you speak or type.
  2. Answer out loud. Your intro, your motivation, a project story, a hard question, and your closing question.
  3. Get feedback as you go. A score out of 100 after every answer, plus the one thing to fix.
  4. Take the card. Your readiness band, your three fixes, and a card worth daring someone with.

How you are scored

Five things an interviewer actually notices

  • Structure (25%) — does the answer open, develop and land, or just stop?
  • Clarity (25%) — specific and easy to follow, or general and hard to picture?
  • Confidence (20%) — owning your actions, finishing your thoughts, not over-hedging. Judged from your words — never your accent or voice.
  • Grammar (15%) — only errors that get in the way of being understood. Small slips cost nothing.
  • Speaking fluency (15%) — pace, pauses, fillers, restarts. Typed answers are re-weighted across the other four.

The questions

English interview questions and answers you'll practise

One question per category — the same five categories almost every English job interview is built from.

  1. "Tell me about yourself." A strong answer takes 45–60 seconds: your current role, one concrete result, and the link to this job — not a life story from school onwards.
  2. "Why do you want this position?" One honest personal reason plus one specific thing about the company or product. Generic praise that fits any employer reads as no research.
  3. "Tell me about a project you are proud of." The STAR shape: situation in a sentence or two, your own actions in the middle ("I", not only "we"), and a measurable result at the end.
  4. The risk question. A variant of "What is your biggest weakness?", "Tell me about a disagreement at work" or "How do you handle pressure" — something real, plus the concrete step you are already taking.
  5. "Do you have any questions for us?" "No, I think you covered everything" is the weakest answer of the whole interview. Ask one or two questions about the work itself, not only salary and holidays.

Questions

Before you start

Is the interview trainer really free?

Yes. Three complete five-question interviews per day are free, including the feedback after every answer and the final readiness card. No card, no trial and no signup is required to finish a session or to see your result.

Do I need to create an account?

No. You can set up, answer all five questions, read every piece of feedback, see your score and share your card without registering. An Elispeak account is only needed if you want to continue practising in the app afterwards.

Is my voice recorded or uploaded?

Your audio is not. Your browser transcribes what you say on your own device using its built-in speech recognition, so no recording is ever created or uploaded. The resulting text of your answer is then sent to Elispeak and our AI provider so it can be turned into feedback, and it is discarded afterwards — we do not store your answers and they are not used to train anything. Closing the tab erases the session.

What if I do not want to use my microphone?

Choose the typing option before you start. You get the same questions, the same feedback and the same readiness card. Speaking fluency is simply not scored, and the remaining four dimensions are re-weighted to make up the whole score.

How are the answers scored?

Each answer is scored from 1 to 5 on structure, clarity, confidence, grammar and speaking fluency, then combined into a score out of 100. Confidence is judged from what you say — owning your actions, finishing your thoughts, not over-hedging — never from your accent, pitch or voice.

What does the shareable card contain?

Only your readiness band, your score out of 100 and three generic labels. It never contains your answers, your transcript, your target role or the company you are interviewing with.

How long does it take?

About eight minutes. Five questions, up to sixty seconds per answer, plus the time you spend reading the feedback between questions. You can retry any answer once.

What are the most common job interview questions in English?

Almost every English job interview contains a variant of five questions: 'Tell me about yourself', 'Why do you want this position?', 'Tell me about a project you are proud of', a risk question such as 'What is your biggest weakness?' or 'Tell me about a disagreement at work', and finally 'Do you have any questions for us?'. The trainer asks exactly these five, one per category, so one session covers the core of a real interview.

What makes a good interview answer in English?

Recruiters scan for two things: was the answer on topic, and did it finish without stalling. A strong answer opens with one sentence that addresses the question directly, gives one concrete example with a number, a name or a timeframe, and lands on a result or a lesson. A structured 45-60 second answer with small grammar slips beats a flawless answer that wanders for two minutes.