The study journal
Ideas to explore. Skills to practise. Find something useful for your next study session.
OET Letter Organisation: Give Each Paragraph a Clear Purpose
Improve OET letter organisation by grouping relevant information, making time changes clear and using connectors only where they help the reader.
OET Writing: Distinguish a Request From a Confirmed Plan
Choose clear wording for requests, intentions and completed arrangements in OET writing, with original administrative examples and a meaning check.
OET Nursing Grammar: Use Since and For With the Right Time Frame
Practise since, for and present perfect forms for OET nursing writing, while checking whether the time period continues or has finished.
OET Speaking Grammar: Put Indirect Questions in the Right Order
Practise indirect questions for OET speaking with clear word-order examples, an answer reveal and a short recording exercise.
OET Writing for Doctors: Keep the Letter’s Timeline Clear
Organise past events, current information and future requests before choosing tenses in an OET letter, with an original timeline exercise.
OET Passive Voice: Choose “Been” or “Being” Without Changing the Meaning
Understand been and being in OET writing, repair passive verb forms and distinguish a completed action from a process in progress.
OET Grammar Practice: Form Questions That Make the Time Clear
Practise clear questions with do, does, did and have. Choose the time you mean, then check the auxiliary and main verb with original examples.
OET Writing Grammar: Find the Subject Before Choosing the Verb
Correct subject–verb agreement in OET writing by finding the main subject, checking intervening phrases and practising with original sentence examples.
OET Nursing Speaking: Hip Fracture and Changing Concerns
Adapt a hip-fracture conversation when the concern changes from falling to asking for help or managing stairs, with paired cards and a detailed nurse model.
OET Nursing Cue Cards: Diabetes, Shift Work and Safe Questions
Build a responsive diabetes education conversation from cue cards. Explore changing shifts, unclear medicine instructions and how to review an answer without a key.
