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Learn the fix. Drill it. Prove it on a test you haven’t seen.

Each lesson takes 5–8 minutes and ends with a quick check and a drill. Then you try a test you haven’t seen yet, so you know the skill moved and not just your memory of the answers.

1LearnOne weakness, one short lesson, examples you can copy.
2Drill2–10 minutes of focused practice with instant marking.
3VerifyAn unseen test in exam mode, first attempt. That’s the proof.

Listening

7 lessons · about 44 minutes in all

Listening · Part A

Part A: completing the notes

How Listening Part A works, how to use the reading time, and how to choose the exact words that fill each gap in the case notes.

7 min read Listening · Part A

Part A: spelling that counts

What the spelling rule in Listening Part A really means, British and American pairs, word forms, and the word families candidates misspell most.

6 min read Listening · Part A

Part A: following the consultation

Use the clinician's topic changes, corrections and the note headings to keep your place in Listening Part A, and recover fast after a missed gap.

6 min read Listening · Part A

Part A: numbers, dates and doses

Hear and write numbers correctly in Listening Part A: teens and tens, decimals, doses, frequencies, dates, blood pressure and ranges.

6 min read Listening · Part B

Part B: short workplace extracts

How Listening Part B works, the four kinds of question it asks, and how to avoid the two most common three-option traps.

7 min read Listening · Part C

Part C: paraphrase and distractors

Follow long talks and interviews in Listening Part C, match options to paraphrases, and avoid the 'says it, then rejects it' trap.

6 min read Listening · Part C

Part C: the speaker's attitude

Answer Listening Part C opinion questions by hearing hedges, contrast markers, evaluative words and tone, and by separating own views from reported ones.

6 min read

Reading

6 lessons · about 34 minutes in all

Reading · Part A

Part A: scanning fast in 15 minutes

A minute-by-minute plan for Reading Part A: map the four texts, scan for numbers, names and headings, copy answers exactly, never leave a blank.

7 min read Reading · Part A

Part A: the 'which text' questions

Answer Part A matching items by knowing what each text is for. Tables, flowcharts, leaflets and guidelines each answer different questions.

6 min read Reading · Part B

Part B: purpose, main point and what staff must do

Read six short workplace texts the efficient way: stem first, then the text, then test each option against the three common traps.

6 min read Reading · Part C

Part C: inference questions

Answer Part C inference items by locating the right lines, reading around them, and removing options that are too strong, mixed or not in the text.

5 min read Reading · Part C

Part C: word meaning and reference

Work out what a word, or 'this', 'the latter' or 'such an approach', means in this text, using the sentences around it, not the dictionary.

5 min read Reading · Part C

Part C: the writer's attitude and other people's views

Tell the writer's view apart from people quoted in the text, using hedging, evaluative words, 'While X, Y' and verbs like claims or acknowledges.

5 min read

Writing

6 lessons · about 37 minutes in all

Writing

Purpose: tell the reader what you need

State why you are writing in the first paragraph, then expand it with specific requests. Choose the right verb and avoid generic openers.

7 min readPurpose Writing

Choosing what to include from the case notes

Select case notes from the reader's point of view: keep what they need, explain why it matters, summarise the rest and transfer facts accurately.

6 min readContentConciseness and clarity Writing

Conciseness: fewer words, same meaning

Cut filler, combine related notes into one sentence and summarise timelines, without falling into note-form. Many weak and better pairs.

6 min readConciseness and clarity Writing

Tone and reader: writing for a GP or a carer

Match abbreviations and jargon to your reader, stay clinical and objective, keep a formal register and write polite, clear requests.

6 min readGenre and style Writing

Layout and paragraphs: a letter the reader can scan

Set out the address, date, Re: line and salutation, then plan paragraphs by purpose, not by the order of the case notes.

6 min readOrganisation and layout Writing

Grammar that letters actually need

Tenses for history, the passive for clinical actions, articles, reporting results, linking words, punctuation and note-expansion errors.

6 min readLanguage

Speaking

9 lessons · about 55 minutes in all

Speaking

Relationship building: opening well and sounding kind

How to open the role-play, show respect and say empathy out loud so assessors can hear it on the recording.

7 min readRelationship building Speaking

The patient's perspective: ideas, concerns, expectations

Find out what the patient thinks, fears and hopes for, catch the hints they drop, and link your explanation back to their words.

7 min readUnderstanding and incorporating the patient's perspective Speaking

Providing structure: order, signposts and timing

Follow the card order, signal each change of topic, organise explanations into clear chunks and manage your five minutes.

6 min readProviding structure Speaking

Information gathering: listen, ask well, summarise

Listen without cutting in, move from open to closed questions, avoid double and leading questions, clarify vague answers and summarise.

6 min readInformation gathering Speaking

Information giving: explain in chunks and check

Start from what the patient already knows, explain in small chunks, invite reactions, check understanding with teach-back and ask what else they need.

6 min readInformation giving Speaking

Angry and anxious patients: what to say and what not to

Step-by-step ways to calm an angry patient or an anxious relative, with phrases that work, phrases that backfire and model dialogues.

6 min readRelationship buildingUnderstanding and incorporating the patient's perspective Speaking

Breaking bad news: a calm, staged approach

A simple staged way to give serious news in a role-play: prepare, find out what they know, warn, tell simply, pause, plan next steps.

6 min readRelationship buildingInformation giving Speaking

Intelligibility and fluency: being easy to listen to

What clear pronunciation and natural flow mean on a recording, why accent is not the problem, and daily routines that make you easier to follow.

5 min readIntelligibilityFluency Speaking

Appropriate language and range: register, politeness, grammar

Choose patient-friendly words, soften requests politely, use a range of grammar for advice and possibility, and paraphrase when a word is missing.

6 min readAppropriateness of languageResources of grammar and expression