Reading
Part A is hard locked at 15 minutes and closes on its own. You cannot borrow time from Parts B and C, and the interface will not let you pretend otherwise.
Sit the OET before you sit the OET
Every sub-test on the real clock, with the same locks, scored 0 to 500 like the day itself.
Your four scores
Never averaged into one number
Listening
380
Clears Grade B
Reading
350
Clears Grade B
Writing
320
Below Grade B
Speaking
410
Clears Grade B
Your profession changes the paper
Listening and Reading are shared. Writing case notes and Speaking role-plays are written for your profession, not adapted from someone else's.
Four sub-tests, built to their own rules
Each one behaves the way it behaves on test day, including the parts candidates usually discover too late.
Listening
42 questions across three parts. In exam mode the player has no pause, no rewind and no replay, because the room does not have them either.
Practice mode puts the controls back.
Writing
Five minutes of reading with the editor disabled, then forty to write. Case notes are scoped to your profession, and the word target is on screen throughout.
Referral, discharge, transfer, or patient and carer.
Speaking
Two role-plays with a card each: three minutes to prepare, five to speak, one take. The interlocutor brief is shown afterwards so you can see what you were speaking against.
Most people lose marks to the clock
So the clock is built first. Every locked and unlocked state is visible, named, and counted down.
15:00
LockedReading Part A closes itself
Fifteen minutes, then the section is gone. Finish early and the time is lost, not banked.
05:00
LockedWriting starts read only
The case notes are on screen and the editor is disabled. You cannot start drafting early.
45:00
OpenListening runs straight through
One continuous clock. The recording plays once and the answer sheet stays open to the end.
05:00
OpenSpeaking gives you one take
Preparation ends, the microphone opens, and the window closes on schedule whether you stopped or not.
Four numbers, read independently
OET reports each sub-test on its own 0 to 500 scale in steps of 10. There is no combined score, and averaging four results hides the one that will hold up your registration.
Grade B
0200350450500
Grade B is the ask
Most regulators want 350 in every sub-test. Some accept a lower Writing score. Check yours before you book.
Writing and Speaking are marked on rubrics
You get a score per dimension with the reason attached, not a single opaque number.
Progress is tracked per sub-test
Four separate lines over time, so a rising Speaking score cannot mask a flat Reading one.
From candidates who have sat it
“I had failed Reading twice on timing alone. Practising with Part A closing itself was the thing that fixed it.”
“The five minutes of locked reading time felt punishing at first. On the day it was the only part that felt familiar.”
“Seeing the four scores separately told me exactly which one to work on. Everything else I had used gave me an average.”
Questions people ask first
Find out where you actually are
One full sub-test, on the clock, scored on the same scale as the real thing. No card needed.
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