How is the French Speaking/Oral Exam is conducted? (For the board examinations and NPS Internal Exams)

I haven't experienced the board examination oral because it was cancelled but I will answer based on my experience from the preliminary examinations. For the final oral, you will be let in 15 minutes before your oral starts and given a card with two role plays which will have specific questions you can think of answers to (BUT YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO WRITE ANYTHING). The oral takes place in the following format:

1. 5 minutes for the role plays (30 marks: it is usually the easiest to score section because for a correct grammar usage in your statement you get 3/3 for each answer)

2. 5 minutes for the pre-prepared presentation divided into the following:

3. 2 minutes: speak clearly and fluently about the topic that you have prepared and make sure its only around 1 minute 45 seconds long

4. 3 minutes: discussion over your presentation so make sure that you have thought of questions that can be asked about what you have said since the teacher might as well ask you about certain details you didn't include in your presentation perhaps because you didn't think of them or because you were under time constraints

5. 5 minutes for the general conversation on any of the two themes out of the various themes in IGCSE French. For this part you just have to show your proficiency in being able to construct complex sentences on the spot and let me stress that they must be RELEVANT to the question so do not beat around the bush just to extend your answer because you won't receive any additional marks for it. Do try to include various tenses in your answers though.

NPS Preliminary examinations will be conducted in this format but any SA or UT oral format will be decided by your teacher and may be subject to change but usually includes only the general conversation since it is where most of the students miss out on marks.

Good luck! :)