What is Occupational English Test? What is the similarity between IELTS and OET Score?

Occupational English Test for Healthcare professionals

OET abbreviated as the Occupational English test that is an English language test to check the proficiency and level of the individual in speaking and listening English.  This test is mainly conducted for the people belong to the healthcare sector. This test promotes healthcare professionals who want them to enroll in foreign countries so that they can serve other countries as well. It also helps them to work and practice in an English-speaking environment. 

The Listening sub-test structure

Part A

Objective: consultation extracts 

Time duration: (about 5 minutes each)

Part A evaluates your ability to identify particular information during a discussion. In which two records or discussion of health professional-patient consultations will be given to student using which you students to complete the message on health professional’s notes.

Part B

Objective: Short workplace extracts 

Time duration: (about 1 minute each)

Part B evaluates your knowledge to distinguish the detail, basis, opinion or view of short passages from the healthcare workplace. In this part, you will be given six recordings passages like team instructions, handovers, or talks with health professionals. After listening to all these six recordings you have to answer one multiple-choice question for each passage.

Part C

Objective: Presentation extracts 

Time Duration: (about 5 minutes each)

Part C evaluates your strength to follow a recorded presentation or interview on a range of available healthcare topics. You will listen to two different passages and you will answer six multiple-choice questions for each extract.

What is the similarity between IELTS and OET Score?

The scorecard for both IELTS and OET is different from each other as in the case of IELTS marking is based on numbers while in case of OET is grades are given. In IELTS separate score is given for each paper which is marked out of 9. OET is ranked from A (best) to E, with a comparable numerical score to show more precisely where in the grade a candidate sits.

The score equivalencies between the two tests are as follows:

IELTS	OET	OET numerical score
8-9	A	450-500
7-7.5	B	350-440
6.5	C+	300-340
5.5-6	C	200-292
4-5	D	100-192
4	E	0-92

OET Recognition

Healthcare regulatory groups and Higher Education healthcare administrators are the bodies that recognized the OET. OET test is conducted in 40 countries over 115 test centers. The countries where it is recognized are the UK, Ireland, Australia, Dubai, Ukraine, New Zealand, Singapore, and Namibia.