Describe a subject that you did not like in the past, but now you like it | Speaking for IELTS PDF Download

You should say:

• what it was
• when you studied the subject
• why you didn’t like it before
• and explain why you have an interest in it now.

Sample Answer:

• Well, I’m afraid that the subject that I didn’t like in my high school was physics. But I had to learn it because of the exams, you know. It was one of the compulsory courses during my entire middle school for six years.
• My physics teacher always tended to be demanding with us, he seemed like making the abstract theory more obscure, and sometimes I didn’t understand what my teacher had said, and he also left endless homework to us, which really made me frustrated. I felt that physics was the most challenging subject in the world.
• Another reason was that there were too many abstract formulas I had to remember. You know, I was not good at memorizing things, so I often used the incorrect formula in the exams, and made lots of mistakes, and got low marks as a result. But after I grew up, I found that physics was a really indispensable curriculum in school education because it could help me develop the logical and rigorous thinking pattern so that I sometimes found myself a critical thinker. Besides, with the knowledge of physics, I’m aware of many physical phenomena around me, such as optics, mechanism, which helps me understand the intrinsic principle of many devices.