PSLE Oral Questions · Updated 8 June 2026
Reported English and Chinese Oral themes, common question types, and the safest way to practise them. Use this as a question bank, not a memorisation script.
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2025 matters most because it was the first year of the new English Oral format: real-life photographs, Reading Aloud and SBC no longer linked, and three standalone conversation prompts.
2025 · Day 1
Real-life photograph: ice-cream cart with a long queue
2025 · Day 2
Real-life photograph: busy hawker centre
English archive
Open the years you need. The recurring pattern is more useful than memorising exact wording: visual inference, personal experience, then a broader opinion.
Day 1
New park with exercise corner and pond
Day 2
School Attendants Appreciation Week activities
Day 1
Science Centre future exhibition
Day 2
Girl writing in a diary with treasured items nearby
Day 1
Poster about recycling old sports shoes
Day 2
Child playing games on a tablet during homework time
Day 1
Child asleep early in the morning with an alarm ringing
Day 2
Online talk about taking care of pets
Day 1
Neighbourhood breakfast event
Day 2
Ticket or poster for a P6 graduation concert
Day 1
Library bookshelf with book recommendations
Day 2
Computer-lab reminder poster
Day 1
Secondary school banner for P6 students
Day 2
Speech contest sign-up poster
Day 1
Teachers' Day poem submission activity
Day 2
Cleanest classroom contest
Day 1
Supportive Friend Award nominations
Day 2
Junior baking activity
Day 1
Weekend reading activity
Day 2
School fun run as a family activity
Chinese Oral
Chinese Oral uses 朗读 and 看录像会话. The exact clip changes, but the themes repeat: helping others, family, environment, school life, health, and technology.
Helping others and friendship
A short clip shows a child, classmate, neighbour, or elderly person needing help.
Practise: Prepare one real story about helping someone and one reason the helper also learns something.
Environment and public responsibility
A short clip shows recycling, littering, water saving, or school/community clean-up.
Practise: Practise explaining one action at home or school, then why small actions matter.
Family life and caring for elders
A family or elderly-care scene tests warmth, respect, and personal examples.
Practise: Prepare one specific grandparent, parent, or family routine story instead of a generic speech.
Technology and daily life
Screens, AI, online safety, or device habits are overdue and strong opinion-question territory.
Practise: Practise a balanced view: when technology helps, when it distracts, and your family rule.
Healthy habits
Food, sleep, exercise, hygiene, and daily routines appear naturally in short-clip prompts.
Practise: Prepare one honest habit you improved, not a perfect-sounding answer.
School, learning, and CCA
A school scene asks the child to describe what happened and connect it to their own life.
Practise: Prepare one story about group work, exam stress, CCA, or a teacher's advice.
For the full year-by-year Chinese topic analysis, use PSLE Chinese Oral topics 2026. For hands-on practice, try the free 看录像会话 practice tool.
Question types
Most PSLE Oral questions are variations of these. A student who can handle the type can handle an unfamiliar topic.
Q1
What do you think is happening in the photograph?
短片里发生了什么事？请你描述一下。
Name visible details first, then infer feelings or reasons.
Q2
Have you experienced something similar?
你有没有类似的经历？
Use one real story. Small and specific beats polished but generic.
Q3
Do you think children should learn how to cook?
你同意吗？为什么？
State a view, give a reason, then support it with an example.
Probe
Why do you say that?
你能不能多说一点？
Do not panic. The examiner is giving you a chance to add marks.
Practice path
English Oral practice hub
Reading Aloud plus picture conversation in one path.
English picture practice
5W1H warm-up plus Q1-Q3 prompts.
Free oral diagnostic
Find whether the weak area is content, fluency, pronunciation, or structure.
Full PSLE Oral mock exam
Timed prep, full speaking flow, and parent-readable report.
Methodology
Past-year oral questions are useful for pattern recognition. They are risky when children memorise them as scripts.
FAQ
SEAB publishes syllabus and specimen materials, but it does not publish a complete public archive of actual PSLE Oral photographs, short clips, or examiner question wording. Past-year oral questions online are reconstructed from student, parent, and tuition-centre reports, so wording should be treated as reported rather than official.
Treat them as reported question shapes, not guaranteed official wording. They are useful for practice because the themes and question progression repeat, but students should practise flexible answering rather than memorising the lines.
For the 2025-format English Oral Stimulus-Based Conversation, students should expect three main prompts. The first is anchored to the photograph, while the next questions usually move into personal experience and broader opinion.
PSLE 华文口试 has 朗读 and 看录像会话. The conversation is based on a short clip, not an English photograph. Students still need the same core skills: describe what happened, give a personal example, and explain a clear opinion.