OET Speaking practice that feels like the real exam
The OET Speaking sub-test is a role-play — so reading about it will never be enough. OEZ lets you actually sit it: out loud, against the clock, with a patient who answers back.
How the real sub-test works
In the exam you get 3 minutes with a role-play card, then about 5 minutes of consultation with an interlocutor playing your patient (or a carer). You are scored on four linguistic criteria — Intelligibility, Fluency, Appropriateness of Language, and Resources of Grammar and Expression (0–6 bands) — and five clinical communication criteria: Relationship building, Understanding the patient's perspective, Providing structure, Information gathering and Information giving.
How OEZ replicates it
- An AI patient that behaves like the interlocutor — answers briefly, drops hints for you to pick up, pushes back, and hides a real concern the way exam cards do.
- Real exam timing — 3-minute card time, ~5-minute role-play, a signal to wrap up, and the interlocutor closing the consultation like exam day.
- A live coach in practice mode — after each thing you say, your best next move, plus a running tally on the five clinical criteria.
- Marking on the official criteria — every band justified with quotes from your own words, your pace and fillers measured from your actual audio.
- A report that teaches — the moment you missed, the sentence that would have earned the band, a phrase bank from your case, and a drill for tomorrow.
Original cases for every profession
OEZ's role-play cards are original scenarios in the authentic OET format, for all twelve OET professions — from nursing and medicine to veterinary science. Every card carries a human complication the patient can play — a deadline, a fear, a family voice at home — because that is exactly what the real cards do.
Want to see the marking in depth? Read how OET Speaking is actually marked, or walk through a complete role-play example.
Practise this on OEZ — start freeFull speaking role-plays with an AI patient, timed writing tasks, and marking modelled on OET’s published criteria. No card needed.