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Practical guides for healthcare professionals preparing for the OET — Writing, Speaking, scoring, and profession-specific plans.
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Format, scoring, and which regulators accept the Occupational English Test.
How often each format runs, when bookings close, when results come out, and where to book.
Booking without preparing, answering from medical knowledge, wrong answer sheets, and test tricks.
Writing
Format, the four letter types, and the six official criteria explained one by one.
Tense choice, articles, register slips and copied case notes — each with a fix.
20 common abbreviations like t.d.s., 3/7 and NBM, and how to write each in your letter.
A four-week plan, a repeatable letter structure, and a five-minute final check.
How AI letter scoring works, what gets caught, and how it compares to a human tutor.
Speaking
Format, the 9 official scoring criteria, and how AI role-play practice works.
Five worked role-play scenarios across nursing, medicine, physio, pharmacy and dentistry.
Four-week plan, the five mistakes that cost grades, and a day-of-test checklist.
Where to signpost in a role-play, phrases to use, and what assessors say about it.
Open-then-closed questions, avoiding compound and leading questions, and what assessors say.
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