how to do increase with your OET Test
Taking an OET Sample Test is a great way to test out your skills, better understand the format and see where you can improve.
But the benefits don’t end once you have completed the Reading or Listening sample test. You can also use your answers as part of your OET preparation.
Here’s our 5 top tips about what to do with your answers to get the most out of the experience and improve your scores for next time.
Mark your answers using the official sample answer key
OK, so finding out how well you did seems a bit obvious and of course it’s probably the first thing you think to do. But there are some things to keep in mind.
Firstly, you need to ask yourself if this was your first attempt.
If yes, this was really a fact-finding exercise to understand what the paper and the questions are like. Your score is interesting, but it wasn’t the goal. Plus, you may have allowed yourself more time to complete your answers or listened to the recording more than once which could have increased your score compared to if you had completed the paper under test conditions.
Secondly, you need to ask what score you should be aiming for.
During practice, we recommend a score in the low 30s to be confident of a B on test day. A new Listening and Reading test is written for each test each month with a different topic. This means each month the challenge of the test is slightly more or slightly less than any other month and the grade boundaries move slightly up or down to reflect this.
If you are consistently achieving 30-32 in practice, you can feel confident of achieving a B whatever the passing score. It is better to aim higher than aim for the absolute minimum.
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