Write it, see every mark, write it again.
Most letters lose marks on what goes in and what stays out. Practise that first, then write under the real timing and get feedback on your exact sentences in about 30 seconds.
24 OET Writing tasks with case notes
12 medicine and 12 nursing. Letter types: advice, discharge, referral, transfer.
Discharge to the community nursing service: new insulin and diabetic foot ulcer
180–200 words · 5 min reading + 40 min writing
Transfer to residential aged care after a stroke: dysphagia and pressure injury
180–200 words · 5 min reading + 40 min writing
Referral to pulmonary rehabilitation after a COPD admission
180–200 words · 5 min reading + 40 min writing
Postnatal discharge to a child and family health nurse: feeding concerns after gestational diabetes
180–200 words · 5 min reading + 40 min writing
Advice to a carer: managing newly diagnosed heart failure at home
180–200 words · 5 min reading + 40 min writing
Discharge to the community nurse: new colostomy in an older man living alone
180–200 words · 5 min reading + 40 min writing
Referral to a falls prevention program after a fall at home
180–200 words · 5 min reading + 40 min writing
Transfer to a rehabilitation unit after knee replacement complicated by delirium
180–200 words · 5 min reading + 40 min writing
Discharge to the school nurse: child newly diagnosed with epilepsy
180–200 words · 5 min reading + 40 min writing
Referral to hospital-in-the-home for intravenous antibiotics
180–200 words · 5 min reading + 40 min writing
Discharge to the community palliative care nurse: end-of-life care at home
180–200 words · 5 min reading + 40 min writing
Referral to a community mental health nurse after an intentional overdose
180–200 words · 5 min reading + 40 min writing
Urgent referral to a gastroenterologist: iron-deficiency anaemia and rectal bleeding
180–200 words · 5 min reading + 40 min writing
Discharge to GP after pneumonia with new atrial fibrillation
180–200 words · 5 min reading + 40 min writing
Transfer to orthopaedics: hip fracture in a patient on warfarin
180–200 words · 5 min reading + 40 min writing
Advice to a school principal: child with peanut anaphylaxis and asthma
180–200 words · 5 min reading + 40 min writing
Urgent referral to a rheumatologist: suspected rheumatoid arthritis
180–200 words · 5 min reading + 40 min writing
Urgent referral to a dermatologist: suspected melanoma
180–200 words · 5 min reading + 40 min writing
Discharge to GP after gallstone pancreatitis
180–200 words · 5 min reading + 40 min writing
Discharge to community nurse: cellulitis and leg wound care
180–200 words · 5 min reading + 40 min writing
Referral to a neurologist: first witnessed tonic-clonic seizure
180–200 words · 5 min reading + 40 min writing
Referral to a paediatrician: faltering growth and chronic diarrhoea
180–200 words · 5 min reading + 40 min writing
Urgent same-day referral to a cardiologist: exertional syncope in a young athlete
180–200 words · 5 min reading + 40 min writing
Transfer to a residential aged care facility after delirium
180–200 words · 5 min reading + 40 min writing