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The Occupational English Test, or OET, is a specialized English language test created for healthcare professionals. The OET test has been administered by CBLA (Cambridge Boxhill Language Assessment), a  joint venture between Cambridge English and the Boxhill Institute, since 2013. Medical workers who wish to work or study in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Ukraine, Dubai, Singapore, or Namibia must apply for the OET in order to demonstrate their level of English proficiency in order to provide quality healthcare. Occupational Therapy, Dentistry, Nursing, Radiography, Veterinary Science, Medicine, Speech Pathology,  Physiotherapy, Dietetics, Podiatry, Pharmacy, and Optometry are among the 12 healthcare professions for which the OET exam was created.  

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The following OET topics will be covered by candidates preparing for their OET examination: The OET Exam is divided into four sections: the Listening Section, which lasts 50 minutes and is divided into three parts; the  Reading Section, which lasts 60 minutes and is divided into three parts; the Writing Section, which is profession-specific and requires candidates to write a letter of recommendation; and finally, the Speaking  Section which requires the candidate to enact a setting from the healthcare environment. 

OET Exam Pattern and   Sections	Duration	Description of sections
Listening	45 minutes	The Listening component is broken into three segments,  each of which tests the candidate's ability to listen in a  variety of forms.
Reading	60 minutes	The Reading component is broken into three segments,  each of which assesses the candidate's ability to read in a variety of formats.
Writing	45 minutes	The Writing part is specific to the profession and asks candidates to produce a letter of recommendation.
Speaking	20 minutes	This section is profession-specific, and candidates must perform a role-play in a healthcare setting.

Description of Sections 

Listening 

The Listening subtest has a total of 42 questions broken into three parts and takes 45 minutes to complete.  Candidates would be required to listen to the recorded speech once and answer the questions while doing so.  The exam would last three hours and include issues of general healthcare interest to all healthcare professionals. 

Part One (Consultation Extracts) 

The first task would require healthcare practitioners to identify specific information during a session. Candidates would be expected to fill up health professional notes based on the two recorded health professional-patient consultations. 

Section B (Short Workplace Extracts) 

Candidates will be expected to listen to various recorded extracts ranging from team briefings to handovers to health professional-patient dialogues and respond to one multiple-choice question for each extract in the second assignment. The candidate is examined on identifying details of short extracts from the healthcare workplace in the second portion. 

Section C (Presentation Extracts)

Candidates would be required to listen to many recorded presentations or interviews on a variety of accessible healthcare issues and answer multiple-choice questions for each extract in the Listening section's third and final test. 

OET Reading Section 

The Reading section lasts 60 minutes and consists of 42 questions broken into three parts. Candidates would be asked to respond to a generic healthcare-related question. 

Part One (Expeditious Reading) 

Candidates would be required to read four short pieces and extract particular information from them for the first task. The essays that the candidates will receive are about general healthcare issues, Matching questions,  sentence completion questions, and short answer questions. 

Section B (Careful Reading) 

Candidates would be given various short texts relevant to generic healthcare issues and asked to identify the major points and answer multiple-choice questions in the second task. Policy guidelines, hospital instructions,  manuals, emails, memos, and internal communication are all possible topics for articles. 

Section C 

Candidates would be asked to identify the precise meaning of the topic supplied to them and answer numerous questions for the third and final exercise in the Reading segment. 

Writing Section 

The Writing component, which lasts 45 minutes, involves the candidate producing a letter, usually a letter of recommendation in his or her field of specialty. The candidate would be given background information about his job that he could or might not include in his reference letter. Because this assignment is profession-specific, a  nurse would be required to write a nursing-specific reference letter, whilst a dentist would be required to write a  dentistry-specific reference letter. 

Speaking Section 

Candidates must individually enact their professional function in real-life settings in a professional healthcare environment for a total of 20 minutes. Candidates are expected to role-play their occupation while the panelist plays a patient for the first portion of the exercise, and the roles are switched for the second part. Before the commencement of each act, candidates are allowed three minutes to prepare for each side. The role-plays are based on fictitious working scenarios that represent the tone of the healthcare setting. Candidates will be provided with sufficient background information in order to prepare for their role-play sessions. 

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