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Interview practice online

Most online practice is reading: you look at a question, think of an answer, and move on. The part that transfers to the real thing is saying it out loud, under a little time pressure, and then hearing what came out.
SayDrill records your spoken answer, transcribes it, and shows you counted facts: filler words, pace, pauses, and whether your story reached a result. Three questions are free — no account, no card.

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Reading is recognition. Speaking is recall

When the answer is on the page in front of you, nothing has to come from you. That feels like progress and is worth very little on the day: in the room there is no page to look at.

Speaking is slower, more uncomfortable, and it is the only version of practice that rehearses the thing you will actually be doing — finding the next sentence while your mouth is still moving.

A seven-day way to use it

1. Day 1 — three questions, no fixing — Use the free questions and answer them as you normally would. Read the reports for the two habits you want to change, and note them down.
2. Day 2–3 — same three questions again — Same questions, one habit at a time: cut the filler words, or slow down. Comparing two reports on the same question is what shows change.
3. Day 4–5 — questions from your weakest area — Pick an area from the question bank, or paste the job ad and let the questions follow that role.
4. Day 6 — the awkward questions — Salary expectations, a gap in your CV, a project that failed. They are the ones people avoid and the ones that need the most rehearsal out loud.
5. Day 7 — one answer, start to finish — Record your strongest story once more and read the report next to day 1's. Keep both.

After every answer, do one thing

• Read the transcript out loud in your head once — not to rewrite it, but to hear where it wandered.
• Fix exactly one thing in the next take: the result sentence, the fillers, or the pace.
• Take a number from your own work into the retake. Specifics are what make an answer believable.

What we count, and what we refuse to count

• We count: filler words and where they fell; words per minute; pauses over three seconds; which of the four STAR beats appeared; how often a number, date or name appeared; empty phrases such as “passionate” or “team player”.
• We do not count: your accent, your pronunciation, your personality, your experience, or anything about the person you are.
• We do not keep your recording. It is transcribed, then deleted.

When to stop practising

Stop when the structure holds under a question you have not seen before — when the four beats come out on their own and you no longer need the story written down.

That is a different thing from memorising wording. A rehearsed answer to a question you understood beats a perfect answer to a question you misread.

Where to go next

• Free mock interview practice — what a full round looks like, and what the report contains.
• STAR method practice — the four beats, and the drill.
• The question bank — 49 questions, one page each.
• Three to start with: a process you changed · a deadline you missed · learning a new tool fast.
• Pricing — packs of 3, 5 or 12 questions, one-time.

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