OET Trainer — Writing and Speaking
Practise both available OET sub-tests in one place. The Writing sub-test gives you clinical case notes and 45 minutes to produce a professional healthcare letter. The Speaking sub-test puts you in a live spoken role-play with a simulated patient.
Choose a sub-test below to review a task and begin practising.
What is OET?
The Occupational English Test (OET) is an English-language exam built specifically for healthcare professionals. It measures the communication skills you actually use at work, so that regulators and employers can be confident you are ready to practise safely in an English-speaking country.
The exam has four sub-tests: Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking. On OET Trainer you can practise Writing — turning a set of clinical case notes into a professional healthcare letter — and Speaking, a live spoken role-play with a simulated patient. Both are covered below.
Listening and Reading practice are coming soon — follow those links to see how each sub-test works in the meantime.
Why OET?
OET is recognised as proof of English proficiency by healthcare regulators and councils around the world. Because every task uses a realistic clinical scenario, practising for it also sharpens the everyday communication you rely on with colleagues and patients.
How the Writing sub-test works
You write one letter based on the case notes — most often a referral, but sometimes a discharge, transfer, or update letter. You have 45 minutes in total: 5 minutes to read and plan, and 40 minutes to write your letter.
Read the case notes
Spend the first 5 minutes reading the patient information and the task carefully.
Plan your letter
Decide the purpose and select only the case notes that are relevant to it.
Write the letter
The body of your letter should be about 180–200 words, in full sentences and correct letter format.
Meet the 6 criteria
Your letter is assessed on purpose, content, clarity, genre, organisation and language.
Assessed on 6 criteria
Real Writing feedbacks
Feedback reports from Writing attempts on OET Trainer.
Result 1 of 4: Writing feedback report for a referral letter with an overall estimated band of C+, shown beside the case notes
Scores are AI-estimated practice feedback, not official OET results. Tap an image to enlarge it.
Writing practice
How the Speaking sub-test works
You play the health professional in a short role-play. After a brief preparation period using the doctor's card, you hold a live spoken conversation with an AI patient for about five minutes.
Prepare
Read the doctor's card for a few minutes before the conversation starts.
Hold the conversation
Speak live with an AI-simulated patient for about five minutes, playing the health professional.
Meet the 9 criteria
You are assessed on the official OET Speaking linguistic and clinical communication criteria.
Assessed on 9 criteria
Real Speaking feedbacks
Feedback reports from live Speaking role-plays on OET Trainer.
Result 1 of 4: Speaking task audit: each role-play task marked complete or partial, with the criterion scores alongside
Scores are AI-estimated practice feedback, not official OET results. Tap an image to enlarge it.