How to improve your OET Listening
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If you are struggling with your OET listening then this is the perfect blog post for you. This post will provide you with some advice on how to improve your listening skills for the OET listening exam.
How the OET exam works:
Section A – consultation extracts (around 5 minutes each)
Section A evaluates your capacity to distinguish explicit data during a meeting. You will pay attention to two recorded health professional-patient consultations and you will finish the health professional's notes utilizing the data you hear. Note: the health professionals might be any of the 12 professionals who can take OET.
Section B – Short workplace extracts (around 1 minute each)
Section B evaluates your capacity to distinguish the detail, substance, assessment or reason for short extracts from the healthcare workplace. You will pay attention to six recorded extracts (for example group briefings, handovers, or wellbeing proficient patient discoursed) and you will address one various decision question for each extract.
Section C – Presentation extracts (5 minutes each)
Section C evaluates your ability to follow a recorded presentation or interview on a scope of available healthcare themes. You will pay attention to two unique extracts and you will address six different decision inquiries for each extract.
The OET listening test is designed to assess a range of listening skills, such as identifying information, opinion or the speaker’s purpose. The skills are assessed through note-completion tasks and multiple-choice questions.
As a healthcare professional you should be familiar with all medical issues or topics that you encounter on a daily basis. You should also familiarise yourself with the format of the exam, for example, if you are already aware of the instructions and rules related to the test then you can be more focused on answering the questions on your exam day.
Healthcare is a profession with an abundance of commonly used abbreviations, such as; A&E for accident and emergency department. It is important to know all of these abbreviations and use them appropriately. In the first Part A of the OET Listening test, you will need to take notes about a patient, using abbreviations for this part of the exam can reduce the risk of making a spelling mistake and it will also reduce the number of letters that you will have to write which will save you time.
Listening to health care podcasts or videos is a great way to improve your listening skills and understand the variety of topics in medicine at the same time, YouTube is a free platform that you can use to gain access to the videos.
During the exam reading the question before listening to the audio is recommended, this technique may help you limit out any ‘distractions’ in the audio that are used to confuse you. After listening to the audio listen out for any keywords or terms that relate to the text.
I hope this blog post helped you to understand the OET exam, if you can manage to utilise these tips then I’m sure your chances of succeeding will greatly increase.
Best of luck and we are here to help you!
