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      1. OET for Nurses: It’s tailored to your profession If you’re a nurse, you are probably comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, dealing with difficult patients, making decisions under pressure, and understanding complex information quickly. These skills make you perfectly suited to the various OET sections, as each one mirror real-life scenario that nurses face in the workplace. For example, the OET speaking section is a role-play exercise in which you must interact with a “patient” who has come in with a medical complaint. In the OET writing section, you must write a discharge letter using relevant information about a patient under your (hypothetical!) care. The benefit of preparing for tasks like these is that nurses get a chance to practice important professional skills that they will need to showcase in a Western context (e.g. UK hospitals). It’s crucial to remember that moving to another country usually comes with massive cultura...

                    Both IELTS (International English Language Testing System) and OET (Occupational English Test) are used to test the English language of healthcare professionals in different parts of the world. They are chosen by regulatory bodies to ensure doctors, nurses and other professions have sufficient language skills to communicate at a high level with patients and colleagues, and so ensure safe and effective care. Similarities There are a number of similarities between the two tests. 1. Each one consists of four sub-tests, one for each skill: reading, listening, writing and speaking. 2. A test takes place on one day. 3. There is no pass/fail, but a graded score – different institutions need test takers to achieve different scores. Differences 1. Content IELTS tests academic English – at least the version of IELTS used by Higher Education institution...