OET Writing practice with the timing and the marking of the real test
OET Writing is a selection test wearing a letter costume: the notes always contain more than the reader needs — and at least one fact the reader cannot safely be without.
How the real sub-test works
You get 5 minutes of reading time (writing locked) with a full set of case notes, then 40 minutes to write a letter — usually a referral, discharge or transfer — of about 180–200 words. It is scored on six criteria: Purpose, Content, Conciseness & Clarity, Genre & Style, Organisation & Layout, and Language.
How OEZ replicates it
- Authentic multi-visit case notes — dated entries, background sections, and deliberate distractors, exactly like the paper.
- Real timing — five minutes of locked reading (highlight the notes, plan your letter), then forty minutes against the clock. Spell-check and autocorrect are off in exam mode.
- A fact-by-fact content check — your letter is verified against the notes: what you included, what you got right, and the safety-critical fact you missed.
- All six criteria scored — with evidence quoted from your own letter and a note on exactly how to move each one up.
- Teaching, not just grading — model rewrites of your sentences, letter-type phrase banks, and a mini-lesson on your weakest skill.
Letters for your profession
Referrals, discharge letters, transfers and community-care letters, matched to your profession's real correspondence — see nursing, medicine, or your own profession from the guides page. And read the one idea that lifts most letters: select, don't copy.
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.