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Imagine you are an OET writing examiner and you have to grade dozens
of papers every single day. It is not a very fun existence. You need
constant concentration and unending focus. You cannot let up for a single
letter, yet there are so many that are exactly the same: the same
content, the same ideas, the same mistakes. It can be terribly boring.

When you are writing your OET letter (https://edubenchmark.com/blog/oet-

sample-referral-letter/), you probably don’t think much about the
examiner, but perhaps you should. It is natural to think about yourself
most of all. Let’s face it, you are doing this di cult test in order to
improve your own career prospects. You think about yourself rst and put
your feelings at the center of your OET preparation. However, like many
things in life, it’s a good idea to think about others rst and work from
there.

So what can you do for the OET examiner?

The easiest letters to grade are the ones with the highest quality writing,
but that isn’t particularly helpful to know. Of course, you want high
quality writing! If you could write English with perfect grammar
(https://edubenchmark.com/blog/oet-grammar/) and knew all the correct
OET nursing vocabulary or OET doctor vocabulary, then you wouldn’t have
to worry about a thing. The test would be incredibly easy.

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Instead, you should be thinking about creating a letter
(https://edubenchmark.com/oet-writing-correction) that is easy for the
examiner to read, even if you have to compromise on OET nursing terms
or medical terminology for nurses. Instead of xating upon these things,
you should instead look at creating a piece of writing that has two
essential qualities: clarity and order.

If you can write a discharge letter that contains these two qualities, then
the examiner will read through your writing sub-test quickly and easily,
and this will make his or her day a little easier. Maybe that feeling of
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contentment will help them in judging your writing more positively. After
all, we are all a ected by our mood on some subconscious level. A
happy examiner will of course be more inclined to give out higher grades
than a grumpy and bored one.

How to bring clarity to your writing

Good writing has a trait called clarity. This means that the text is clear
and easy to understand. There are many aspects of letter writing
(https://edubenchmark.com/blog/top-8-oet-referral-letter-writing-tips/) that
come together in order to produce clarity, including punctuation, spelling,
paragraphing, and grammar. All of these things work together to produce
a piece of writing that is easy to read. Even if there are a couple of
small errors in there, the overall letter will be pleasant for the OET
examiner to read, and not so much of a dull chore.

Writing that lacks clarity is often the result of one bad idea: making
things too complicated. All too often, OET candidates decide to dazzle
the examiner with complicated sentences
(https://edubenchmark.com/blog/vary-your-oet-writing-sentence-types-
simple-compound-and-complex/) that run on for tens of words, and fancy
OET vocabulary that is incorrectly used. Instead of making the writing
look more academic and professional, this sort of cheap trick reduces the
clarity and helps create a letter that is far more di cult to read.

The result is that the examiner will have to spend a long time picking
through your ideas in order to understand what you meant. He or she
will have to look long and hard at each sentence just to gure out what
you were trying to say so that they can judge your score
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grade/) e ectively. However, that’s not what you want. It is not a wise
decision, no matter what some lazy teachers have told you.

If you can keep your writing comparatively simple by using straightforward

language and avoiding unnecessary complexity, then you will be on course
for a much happier examiner and therefore a much better exam result.

How to order your writing better

Good writing is well-ordered, whether it is a letter or a letter or an
article. Without order, a piece of writing is just a long, confusing group of
words. As we discussed above, you want to make the reading process as
easy as possible for your examiner, so don’t forget to order your letter as
logically and clearly as possible so that they can take everything in with
ease.

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(https://edubenchmark.com/oet-writing-correction)
Doing this will depend on the content of the information sheet that you
are given, but generally speaking you need to follow a reasonable and
consistent structure. You should group related pieces of information
together into paragraphs with a clear topic, and then sequence them in a
purely logical order.

The easiest structure to implement is as following:

Introduction – Chief Complaint + Purpose
Body Para 1 – Past medical + Social History
Body Para 2 – Nursing Management
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Body Para 3 – Ongoing Care or Discharge Plan

Conclusion – relevant to the task

You can often begin with the earliest pieces of information, if the
information has been sequenced chronologically. Otherwise, it is also
possible to group ideas in terms of importance, with the most important
coming rst, and followed by the next most important idea, and so on.

The case notes (https://edubenchmark.com/blog/oet-writing-referral-letter-

case-notes/) are often quite helpful in that related information is usually
grouped together, so you should take that consideration to mind when
writing your own OET letter (https://edubenchmark.com/blog/oet-sample-
referral-letter/). Pay attention to this during your practice writing
sessions, and you’ll nd that it becomes second nature by the time you
do your exam.

In conclusion, don’t get caught up revising vast lists of di cult words

(https://edubenchmark.com/blog/di cult-vocabulary-for-oet-reading/) from
an OET vocabulary list, when the best thing to do is aim for clear,
ordered, precise language that will make reading your letter less of a
chore for the examiner. Try to simplify your writing
(https://edubenchmark.com/oet-writing-correction) and always keep in
mind a logical structure that you can follow to present your ideas in the
best possible way.

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