OET Speaking · Live role plays

You can practise Reading alone.
Who have you been speaking to?

Speaking is the one paper you cannot revise by yourself. Everything else you can sit at a desk with a pen. This one needs a patient on the other side of the table, and until exam day most candidates have never had one.

See the two packages Or try a free Reading sample first

A premium AI patient, not a chatbot

The patient has a brief you never see: their condition, their worry, what they will admit only if you ask properly. They answer in the voice the card describes, matched for gender and accent, and they hold that person for the whole five minutes.

They will not do your job for you. Miss a cue and it stays missed. Stack four questions at once and you get a confused answer, exactly as a real patient would give you.

Speaks and listens in real timeNo typing. You talk, they answer, the clock runs.
Voice cast to the cardThe 78-year-old on a home visit does not sound like the 26-year-old antenatal patient.
Holds the personaDistressed stays distressed. Guarded stays guarded until you earn otherwise.
Timed like the examThree minutes with the card, then five with the patient. No pause.

Then it is marked, properly

The moment you finish, the transcript is marked against the nine official criteria, and every comment quotes what you actually said. You get a score out of 500, a predicted grade band, and the one change worth making next.

Intelligibility
Fluency
Appropriateness of language
Resources of grammar and expression
Relationship-building
Understanding the patient's perspective
Providing structure
Information gathering
Information giving

Pronunciation is shown for reference and left out of the total, because it cannot be judged honestly from a transcript. A real examiner marks it from your audio, so your true score can move either way. We would rather tell you that than quietly include a guess.

The report you get

Every mark, with your own words as the evidence

Minutes after you stop speaking, this lands in your dashboard. A score out of 500, a predicted grade band, your delivery measured, and a line-by-line note under every criterion quoting the sentence that earned the mark.

OET Speaking Assessment Report

Role-play transcript analysis, marked against the nine OET speaking criteria

Profession: Nursing
Role play: Home visit, medication management
Words spoken: 560

Estimated score

230/ 500

An estimate, not an official result. OET does not publish its raw-to-500 conversion.

Grade band

Pronunciation cannot be judged from a transcript, so a real examiner working from your audio could move this either way.

Marks from the transcript

15of 33

Across the eight criteria a transcript can judge

117words per minuteAcceptable

80filler wordsHigh for 560 words

3long pausesNoticeable

Criterion marks Linguistic out of 6, clinical communication out of 3

Criterion	Mark	Examiner’s note
Linguistic criteria out of 6
IntelligibilityIndicative	4 / 6	Transcription was largely clear, though heavy repetition such as can I come, come, come in, please? suggests delivery was disjointed rather than unclear.
Fluency	3 / 6	Rate of 117 words a minute is acceptable, but 80 fillers across only 560 words and 3 long pauses make speech markedly halting, as in So, um, uh, uh, huh, like, can I ask a few questions?
Appropriateness of language	3 / 6	Tone is polite, but register slips into card-reading, for example you have to follow the general guidance not to double up. Closing with Have a nice day is flat for a distressed 78-year-old living alone.
Clinical communication out of 3
Relationship-building	1 / 3	Acknowledgement is formulaic and never names the feeling the patient voiced. The patient is not called by her name once, and the opening feeling a bit lost cue is passed over.
Information giving	1 / 3	Options arrived in one undifferentiated block, a weekly, uh, pill, uh, organizer or you can take a pharmacy blister pack, with no chunking. Understanding was never checked during the explanation.
Four more criteria are marked the same way in the report you receive: resources of grammar and expression, understanding the patient’s perspective, providing structure and information gathering.
Total from transcript	15 / 33	Intelligibility is shown for reference only and is excluded from the total.

Examiner’s summary

What happened in the consultation

Every task point was covered and the consultation closed with a summary and a concrete plan. Marks were lost in clinical communication: cues such as feeling a bit lost and I’m not very good with phones were not taken up, and 80 fillers fragmented delivery.

The one change to make next

Give one option at a time and check back after each.

Name the patient and use her name again when you change topic.
Reflect the worry she voiced before offering any solution.
Ask which aid she would prefer, then pause.

The score above is a weak one, and we have left it that way. A report that flatters you sells one session and costs you the exam. This one tells you the sentence that lost the mark and the sentence to say instead.

Both packages include everything

The difference between the two is how many live role plays you get. Nothing else is held back.

The live role play

You speak. The patient answers, interrupts, gets worried, goes quiet. It is a conversation, not a script, and it is the only part of the exam you cannot rehearse alone.

Marked on all nine criteria

Four linguistic out of 6, five clinical out of 3, with your own words quoted back as the evidence for every mark. Not a score with adjectives attached.

Speaking lectures by Dr Nasir

The method for the whole sub-test, taught by Dr Nasir: how the interlocutor runs it, what the card is really asking, and where the marks actually sit.

Speaking hack sentences

The phrase bank for your own profession. The lines that carry a consultation when the pressure is on and your own words desert you.

The complete pattern

The shape every consultation follows, so you are never wondering what comes next while the clock runs.

Your recording and transcript

Every session is kept. Play yourself back, read what you actually said, and take the report to a tutor.

Your profession, not a generic script

70 role-play cards across every profession we cover, each with its own hack sentences. The patient, the setting and the language belong to your field.

Medicine10 cards
Nursing10 cards
Pharmacy10 cards
Physiotherapy10 cards
Midwifery10 cards
Radiography10 cards
Speech pathology10 cards

Sitting a profession that is not listed? Write to us before you buy and we will tell you honestly when it is ready, rather than sell you a package you cannot use.

Two packages

A role play is only counted once you have actually spoken. If your microphone fails or the call drops before you say anything, it costs you nothing.

live role plays

^$30

$6.00 per role play · one-time

A premium AI patient that holds its persona
Marked on all nine OET Speaking criteria
Score out of 500 and a predicted grade band
Speaking lectures by Dr Nasir, hack sentences and the pattern
Your recording and transcript, kept

★ Most chosen

live role plays

^$55

$5.50 per role play · one-time

A premium AI patient that holds its persona
Marked on all nine OET Speaking criteria
Score out of 500 and a predicted grade band
Speaking lectures by Dr Nasir, hack sentences and the pattern
Your recording and transcript, kept

Already on a Complete Course? Precision includes 5 role plays and Elite includes 10, so there is nothing extra to buy.

Clear ours, then sit theirs

Nobody walks into the Speaking room wishing they had read one more page. They wish they had spoken to one more patient. That is the whole of what this is: the conversations you would otherwise only ever have for the first time on exam day.

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