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There are many candidates who ask questions about total word count or word limit for Writing Sub-Test In OET.
This article gives you the answer for it and also helps you with making your write-up much stronger so that you can get a good score in your OET writingsub-test.
You need to know which words in your letter are counted and which words are not counted.
Are combined words counted as one single word or two words?
What if the write-up carries more than the word limit as recommended?
What if the write-up carries less number of words?
What is the actual purpose of the word-limit in OET Exam?
To be honest, the word-limit of 180-200 words act as a guide for the test takers.
If the word limit has not been given, then it would have created a problem for the assessors to grade the answer. Another reason is the word limit assigned is just enough to judge the writing skills of the candidate.
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There are some candidates who write far too much without following the guidelines. But, in reality, the case notes are written in such a way that the word count of 180-200 words would just be enough to explain the task in a satisfactory way within the time limit of 40 minutes.
What type of words are counted and not counted?
Remember, the salutations, the opening sentences of the letter will not be counted. Only those words which are there in the body of the letter are counted.
Remember words or word-groups such as date, reference, regards, the address may not get counted. The closing sentence is also not counted (the sentences which you may write at the end fo the letter).
If you are writing a word that is a combination of two different words (joined with a hyphen) then such a word will be counted as a single word.
It is not advisable to count the words
There are some candidates who write the letter and count the words and or count the words while writing the letter.
It is not at all a good practice. You shall learn to assess how many words you must have written for the answer.
And remember, even the assessor will not count the words. As they also have got better things and have not time to ponder over trifles. They will analyze the letter, check for the relevant information and provide a gWant to get higher score in your OET? Well, get enrolled for theOET Preparation Online. Take OET sample tests to improve your overall score in your real OET exam.
Referral letters are a vital, if time-consuming, aspect of a GP’s life. A well-written referral can make all the difference when a patient visits a specialist, and show a level of care and expertise on the part of the referring clinician.
The right referral letter can make all the difference
One-off/single consultation or short-term assessment These types of referrals are often for investigation and management of a presenting symptom or problem.
Dear Dr [insert doctor name],
Mr Black requests a referral for a skin cancer check. He has no previous history of skin cancer and uses sun protection. I am able to perform his future annual skin cancer checks.
To another medical specialist for routine (annual) review of a chronic problem
Dear Dr [insert doctor name],
Thank you for seeing Mr Habib for an annual cardiac review. He has a previous history of non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction in 2009 and coronary stents were inserted at that time. I will continue to review him three-monthly to monitor his risk factors and manage his medications.
To another medical specialist where shared care is anticipated in the longer-term
Dear Dr [insert doctor name],
Thank you for seeing Ms Rossetti for an opinion and suggested management in regard to her resistant hypertension. Her blood pressure has consistently stayed in the range of 180–190/95–100. I have performed a range of investigations, including echocardiogram, renal artery doppler and renal function tests, which were all normal. Copies are attached. She developed a cough with angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, but has tolerated candesartan. Her usual medications are listed below
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Mr. Richard Simons Social worker 67 Epping Rd, Macquarie Park, NSW 2113.
08 th September 2018
Dear Mr. Richard Simons, Re: Ms Sonia Callesina, 74 years old.
Ms Sonia Callesina is a lonely woman who developed some psychological problems after undergoing an abdominal surgery for intestinal obstruction and hernia repair. She will require your on-going care and counselling to improve her psychological health.
Ms Sonia was sent to the rehabilitation center after her surgery, as she showed mental changes. She was reluctant to receive medical and nursing services and was less interactive. She was obsessive to see her daughter, who is unable to look after her because of illness. In addition, she suffered extreme depression and mood changes along with the complete loss of hope.
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The OET writing exam will require for you to write a letter of around 180-200 words regarding a patient.
This task is similar for both nurses and doctors however each will write a letter specific to their profession.
You will be given:
The task (this explains what you must do, for example: Write a letter regarding Mr Smith who is being discharged from hospital back to his nursing home.)
The patient’s case notes and full medical history
The OET writing exam can be difficult.
1. Understand the writing task
The first thing you should look for is the writing task.
You can see an example of one below.
2. Understand the case notes
As advised by the OET exam board, the next thing you will need to do is study the case notes.
The first five minutes of the exam are for reading the case notes only. You will not be allowed to start writing until this time is up.
The main difficulty with this is that the writing case notes are not written in perfect sentences and might be challenging to understand.
It is your job to understand these case notes and to transform them into grammatically correct sentences.
For example a case note which reads:
NURSING MANAGEMENT AND PROGRESSdaily dressings surgery incision site
What exactly are they asking here?
‘Nursing management relates’ to what the patient will require in the future to manage their symptoms.
‘Daily dressings’ refers to changing the patient’s bandages and ‘surgery incision site‘ refers to the wound where the surgery was performed.
We might therefore write:
To continue the patient’s care, he will require for his bandages to be changed everyday at the site of the surgery.
Of course there is no set rule of exactly how to explain this information however you should try to use all of the relevant details within the case notes and to ‘transform’ them into sentences with good grammar and structure.
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3. Know your abbreviations
OET writing case notes may also use abbreviations.
Abbreviation means a shorter form of a medical vocabulary or phrases. For example ‘BP’ instead of ‘blood pressure.’
What do the abbreviations mean in this example?
PHxpt. suffered with heart attack – 4-yr
In this case ‘PHx‘ refers to ‘patient history’. While ‘pt‘ means ‘patient’ and ‘4-yr‘ means ‘4 years ago’.
This sentence might therefore read in your letter as:
The patient’s history shows that Mr Smith suffered from a heart attack four years ago.
In your letter you will not be using abbreviations. You should instead expand on the abbreviations and turn them into full sentences.
Other common abbreviations in the writing exam are:
* BMI= body mass index
*OTC = over the counter
*r//v = review
*r/v = review
*ICU = intensive care unit
*SOB = shortness of breath
5. Plan your writing structure
Once you have decided which case notes to use (see Tip 4 above) you will need to structure them within your letter.
The first paragraph should state: Why are you writing, patient name, date of event, hospital, medical condition and what type of letter is it?
There is no set rule of how to do this however you can find some examples below.
“I am writing regarding Mr Smith who is being discharged from London City Hospital on 01/01/2019 after a myocardial infarction.” “I am contacting you in regards to Mr Lionel Ramamurthy who was admitted to Newton Hospital on May 20th 2019 with a provisional diagnosis of renal failure. I am referring this patient to your care for further treatment and investigation.”
DISCHARGE LETTER: The next paragraph should explain what happened to the patient when they were admitted. Did the patient have difficulty breathing? What were the symptoms? What were the results of tests?
TRANSFER LETTER: Similarly the second paragraph should include what happened to the patient. What symptoms do they have? What medication has been given?
REFERRAL LETTER: The second paragraph should include a timeline of what happened to the patient during the course of their treatment. For example, “The patient presented on 01/01/2018 with a history of a sore throat… Three weeks later this developed into…”
The end of your letter
In the next paragraph you should discuss any further relevant information that the recipient of the letter should know about. What is the patient’s medical history? Are they on any medication? What is their general progress?
Each paragraph of the next one or two paragraphs should have its own ‘theme’ or ideas, meaning one might be about the patient’s lifestyle while the other is about the patient’s medical history.
The final paragraph should explain any further tasks the recipient needs to undertake. Do they need to book the patient in for an appointment? Do they need to monitor his diet or blood sugar levels?
You should end your letter with:
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.
Yours sincerely…
(Your profession)
You do not need to include your name on the letter, only your profession.
How are you finding the writing exam? We’ll be releasing another article soon focusing on the common grammar mistakes that students make.
If you are finding the OET writing exam difficult, you might be interested in our OET writing correction service. This involves sending your work to our teachers for detailed feedback and corrections.
We’d love to hear from you. Feel free to ask us any questions in the comments below and our teachers will get back to you.
Learning correct spelling is hugely important to mastering the English language. It also plays a role in effective healthcare communication, such as reducing the risk of medication errors.
This is reflected in OET. But not all parts of OET put the same emphasis on correct spelling.
So before you sit OET, it’s important to understand that different parts of OET have different requirements when it comes to spelling.
Make sure you’re clear on these by following these 3 tips:
Listening Part A
Provided the assessor can work out the word you are attempting to spell, and this is the correct answer, you will get the mark.
Examples:
The correct answer is pneumonia. These answers, among other possibilities, are acceptable: newmonia, neumonea, pnemonia
The correct answer is injection. These answers, among other possibilities, are acceptable: injecktion, injecsion. This answer is not acceptable: infection. The assessor cannot guess whether you were attempting to write injection and made a typo or thought the answer was infection.
Tip: If you’re unfamiliar with the spelling of the answer, spell it phonetically (as it sounds).
For gap-fill questions, if you have found the correct answer, you will not need to make any changes to the words in the text. For example, you will not need to change the adjective in the text to a noun to make it fit the gap. The correct answer can be lifted as it is from the text.
For short answers to questions, you only need to write the answer, perhaps less than 3 words. You do not need to write a complete sentence.
Tip: Copy the word or words exactly from the text.
Writing sub-test
The accuracy of your spelling is assessed in the Writing sub-test. To achieve a B grade, you do not have to have perfect spelling but it’s always good to aim for perfection.
Some misspelled words will stand out more than others for example: misspelling writting in the phrase: I am writing to… Or, misspelling sincerly in the closing phrase: Yours sincerely. Make a good impression and make sure you avoid such simple mistakes.
While both American and British spelling conventions are accepted, you need to be consistent with your spelling of the same word throughout the letter. For example, if you use the American spelling of tumor then all other occurrences of this word should use American spelling rather than the British spelling: tumour.
Tip: Write a list of words you find difficult to spell on a piece of paper or card about the size of a credit card. Keep it in your purse or wallet then, whenever you have a few minutes, you can take out the list and revise your spelling
For more great tips like these, make sure you take a look at our OET blog. You will also find language quizzes, grammar tips and links to preparation videos.
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Contrary to popular belief, commas don’t just signify pauses in a sentence .. In fact, precise rules govern when to use this punctuation mark. When followed, they lay the groundwork for clear written Communication
We’ve compiled a list of all of the times when you need the mighty coma
1.
Use a comma before any coordinating conjunction (and, but, for, or, nor, so, yet) that links two independent clauses.
Example: “I went running, and I saw a duck.”
You may need to learn a few grammatical terms to understand this one.
An independent clause is a unit of grammatical organization that includes both a subject and verb and can stand on its own as a sentence. In the previous example, “I went running” and “I saw a duck” are both independent clauses, and “and” is the coordinating conjunction that connects them. Consequently, we insert a comma.
If we were to eliminate the second “I” from that example, the second clause would lack a subject, making it not a clause at all. In that case, it would no longer need a comma: “I went running and saw a duck.”
2.
Use a comma after a dependent clause that starts a sentence.
Example: “When I went running, I saw a duck.”
A dependent clause is a grammatical unit that contains both subject and verb but cannot stand on its own, like “When I went running …”
Commas always follow these clauses at the start of a sentence. If a dependent clause ends the sentence, however, it no longer requires a comma. Only use a comma to separate a dependent clause at the end of a sentence for added emphasis, usually when negation occurs.
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3.
Use commas to offset appositives from the rest of the sentence.dent clause that starts a sentence.
Appositives act as synonyms for a juxtaposed word or phrase. For example, “While running, I saw a mallard, a kind of duck.” “A kind of duck” is the appositive, which gives more information about “a mallard.”
For example, “I saw a duck, a magician, and a liquor store when I went running.”
That last comma, known as the serial comma, Oxford comma, or Harvard comma, causes serious controversy. Although many consider it unnecessary, others, including Business Insider, insist on its use to reduce ambiguity.
There’s an Internet meme that demonstrates its necessity perfectly. The sentence, “We invited the strippers, JFK, and Stalin,” means the speaker sent three separate invitations: one to some strippers, one to JFK, and one to Stalin. The version without the Oxford comma, however, takes on an entirely different meaning, potentially suggesting that only one invitation was sent – to two strippers named JFK and Stalin. Witness: “We invited the strippers, JFK and Stalin.”
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“Unsurprisingly, I saw a duck when I went running.”
Many adverbs end in “ly” and answer the question “how?” How did someone do something? How did something happen? Adverbs that don’t end in “ly,” such as “when” or “while,” usually introduce a dependent clause, which rule number two in this post already covered.
Also insert a comma when “however” starts a sentence, too. Phrases like “on the other hand” and “furthermore” also fall into this category.
Starting a sentence with “however,” however, is discouraged by many careful writers. A better method would be to use “however” within a sentence after the phrase you want to negate, as in the previous sentence.
6.
Use a comma when attributing quotes.
The rule for where the comma goes, however, depends on where attribution comes.
If attribution comes before the quote, place the comma outside the quotations marks. The runner said, “I saw a duck.”
If attribution comes after the quote, put the comma inside the quotation marks. “I saw a duck,” said the runner.
7.
Use a comma to separate each element in an address. Also use a comma after a city-state combination within a sentence.
“I work at 257 Park Ave. South, New York, N.Y., 10010.”
“Cleveland, Ohio, is a great city.”
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Also use a comma to separate the elements in a full date (weekday, month and day, and year). Also separate a combination of those elements from the rest of the sentence with commas.
“March 15, 2013, was a strange day.” Even if you add a weekday, keep the comma after “2013.”
“Friday, March 15, 2013, was a strange day.”
“Friday, March 15, was a strange day.”
You don’t need to add a comma when the sentence mentions only the month and year . March 2013 was a strange year
9.
Use a comma when the first word of the sentence is “yes” or “no.”
“Yes, I saw a duck when I went running.”
“No, the duck didn’t bite me.”
10.
Use a comma when directly addressing someone or something in a sentence.
My editor often asks, “Christina, is that article up yet?”
Another clever meme shows the problem with incorrect placement of this comma. “Stop clubbing baby seals” reads like an order to desist harming infant mammals of the seal variety. The version with a comma, however, instructs them to stop attending hip dance clubs. “Stop clubbing, baby seals.”
11.
Use a comma between two adjectives that modify the same noun.
For example: “I saw the big, mean duck when I went running.”
Only coordinate adjectives require a comma between them. Two adjectives are coordinate if you can answer yes to both these questions: 1. Does the sentence still make sense if you reverse the order of the words? 2. Does the sentence still make sense if you insert “and” between the words?
Since “I saw the mean, big duck ” and “I saw the big and mean duck” both sound fine, you need the comma.
Sentences with non-coordinate adjectives, however, don’t require a comma. For example, “I lay under the powerful summer sun.” “Powerful” describes “summer sun” as a whole phrase. This often occurs with adjunct nouns, a phrase where a noun acts as an adjective describing another noun – like “chicken soup” or “dance club.”
12.
Use a comma to offset negation in a sentence.
For example: “I saw a duck, not a baby seal, when I went running.”
In this case, you still need the comma if the negation occurs at the end of the sentence. “I saw a baby seal, not a duck.”
Also use commas when any distinct shift occurs in the sentence or thought process. “The cloud looked like an animal, perhaps a baby seal.”
13.
Use commas before every sequence of three numbers when writing a number larger than 999. (Two exceptions are writing years and house numbers.)
For example, 10,000 or 1,304,687.
That concludes today’s lesson. Check your understanding of some other common grammatical mistakes here
Complex connectors: however, therefore, although, unless, subsequently.
Connectors should offer additional information to the reader. They can do this by emphasising contrasting meanings, adding reason or cause and showing succession.
What connectors should I avoid?
Some connectors are not suitable for letter writing. These include:
Academic connectors: furthermore, moreover
Informal connectors: besides, meanwhile, so.
Additionally, you should be wary of using unnecessary connectors in your sentences.
If you can remove the connector and the sentence still makes sense, then you are using a connector when one isn’t needed. Avoid this in OET when it is important to write efficiently without words the reader does not need.
For example:
Furthermore, Mrs Jones will need to attend a follow-up appointment in 3 days’ time.
Instead, you could simply write:
Mrs Jones will need to attend a follow-up appointment in 3 days’ time.
Knowing when you should use Yours sincerely and when should it be Yours faithfully is not always straightforward.
Getting it right
‘Yours sincerely ‘is the more common option. It is used to end a letter when you know the last name of the person you are writing to.
If we start the letter with ‘Dear Dr Mensez’ or ‘Dear Ms Brooks’, then we end the letter with ‘Yours sincerely’.
If you do not know the name of the person we are writing to but instead have their job title or simply Sir/Madam, then use ‘Yours faithfully’.
For example, if we start the letter ‘Dear Dentist’ or ‘Dear Nursing Manager’, then we end the letter with ‘Yours faithfully’.
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