OET for Nurses: Why Taking OET is Often the Right
OET for Nurses: Why Taking OET is Often the Right Choice 1. OET for Nurses: Itu2019s tailored to your profession If youu2019re a nurse, you are probably comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, dealing with difficult patients, making decisions under pressure, and understanding complex information quickly. These skills make you perfectly suited to the various OET sections, as each one mirror real-life scenario that nurses face in the workplace. The benefit of preparing for tasks like these is that nurses get a chance to practice important professional skills.Itu2019s crucial to remember that moving to another country usually comes with massive cultural shifts on top of the language differences. Preparing for the OET allows nurses the chance to practice highly valuable professional skills that may look slightly different in a Western context, like bedside manner expectations and appropriate follow-up questioning procedure. In addition to learning the appropriate English concepts to pass the test, nurses get to improve skills that will serve them well in their next workplace, and hopefully will come out of the OET experience with professional growth on top of their language success. OET for Nurses 2. OET for Nurses: The Vocabulary Will Be Familiar to You Along the same lines as the point above, the OET is extra applicable to medical professionals because it employs common medical vocabulary that youu2019ll be very comfortable with if you are a nurse. While the PTE, IELTS and TOEFL requires that you learn complex English vocabulary that you will probably never use in real life (how many nurses need to write about why they think u201ceducation is a critical element to prosperityu201d in their workplace? If youu2019re a pro with medical vocabulary, the OET will probably intimidate you a lot less than some of the other English tests out there! 3. OET for Nurses: Itu2019s Suited to u201cPencil and Paperu201d and u201cFace-to Faceu201d People We live in exciting times when it comes to technology, and it is pretty cool that lots of exams have become computer-based and offer all kinds of fancy automated grading and voice recognition! However, some people will just always feel more comfortable picking up a pencil and writing something out by hand. In many hospital environments, medical professionals still use paper-based charts and other materials every day, and nurses talk to real patients in their workplace environments, not computers. Many nurses have come to us and complained about how strange and uncomfortable it felt to talk at a computer in exams like the PTE, and how they felt they would have done much better interacting with a human being. Because the OET is paper-based and uses human examiners to test speaking, E2 Language students coming from nursing backgrounds often consider it the ideal test. The u201ctraditionalu201d format sets them at ease, and this (combined with the familiar vocabulary and content) boosts their confidence quite a bit. One thing we definitely know from experience is that a little confidence goes a long way. If youu2019re a nurse and youu2019re intimidated by English proficiency tests like TOEFL, or undecided over PTE or OET, the OET is probably a great option for you.
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