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Hello, everyone and good evening. Thank you for your patience. Um Can you just indicate in the chat whether you guys can hear me and then we will go ahead and start, please just let us know if you can hear us and we can go ahead. We'll just wait for someone to type in the chat. Ok, super. Well, hi, everyone. Welcome to um our webinar about the Ielts and the O et. Um I'd like to introduce Daniel from the BMA. Um So this webinar is proudly sponsored by the BMA and Daniel is just gonna talk about the BMA and what they offer. So take care. Cool. Thank you. Yeah, I'll be super quick um put some stuff in the, um, the side bar as well. Um So, yeah, so, hi everyone. So I'm, I'm Dan. Um I work at the BMA based in London. Um But yeah, I've, I've met a few, a few, er, the guys that came over that graduated before you, so in the year, year above. Um So hopefully when you do come over and, and start uh next year I'll get, I get to meet you in person as well. Um So, yeah, so first things first, I'll, I'll speak about all the BMA S in a minute, but I'm hope hopefully everyone knows what the BMA is and what's, what's been going on. Um, here in terms of, of pay. Um, and, and what's happened recently in terms of agreeing a deal for, for resident doctors. We're saying resident doctors now, um, not junior doctors. Um, so, so it's gonna affect you guys coming over. Um And we've, we've got a pretty good pay increase of 20% over the last two years. Um for resident doctors, this has happened because of our membership basically. So what we do is run is, is run by you. So, so we are a union that's um member led. So, so what you guys wanna do when you resident doctors um as, as medical students as well um is, is what we do. Um So most people, most doctors, most, most students in the UK are members and the good news is you guys, even though you're based in Bulgaria, you can be members as well. Um Good time to obviously do it. This isn't available online, but there's a bit of a deal if you wanted to, to join today. Um So you get your first month free and you'd also get a 10 lb Amazon voucher sent over from me. Membership's 3 lbs 50 a month. So it's basically like getting uh what like the equipment of about four months free essentially, then if you just went online and did it, um It's a bit not tricky, but it's a bit, it's a bit convoluted the way you have to, to join. Um you guys. So if you did want to join, just use that QR code or link, I've put in the chat. Um And from there, I put the instructions in the, in the chat as well. But basically you select, um you do select I'm UK medical students, but then you select overseas Bulgaria and then just follow it through like that if you do wanna join today and get, take advantage of that deal, just drop me an email after you've done so, and I'll get the Amazon voucher sent over to you as well. All right. So that's about joining. Um So yeah, so hopefully everyone knows what the BMA and what it does. Um So yeah, so essentially it's the trade union for doctors and medical students in the UK. Um Like I said, we're probably probably the most powerful trade union in, in the UK at the moment. Um With, with what we've achieved along with sort of the, the train drivers. Um So three ways of looking at how, how we can help you um individually locally and then nationally. So on an individual sense, you've got a, a bunch of tools that you can use right away. So learning tools and stuff. Also, when you do start here, there's an F one, if you run into issues with your rotors or your, er, contracts or any, anything nonclinical, basically, you can come to us, um, as a member and, and we'll help you. So that's individual sense locally. So you'll obviously ba be based on their trust. If you're part of a, a group of F ones, we're going through a similar issue. Again, we have people based at every single trust, uh, in the country. Um, so we can come along and we usually get, get things sorted pretty quickly. We've got people, um, dotted everywhere. Um, and we usually get answers to things pretty quickly, things sorted out pretty quickly. We've also got med reps as well. Um, so when you do come here you can become, er, a representative of, of your, um, of your cohort. Um, and, and sort of be sort of the, the linchpin between us, er, and the people who work with and then obviously in national sense, um, what's been going on recently with the strikes. Um, so that's an, an example of how we organize, um, nationally to, to get results. Uh, yeah, those are the tools as well that you can use right away. Um, so as a member you can use our BMA library. So everything's online. So it doesn't matter that we've also got a physical one, in, in BMA House in Newton Square here in London. Um, to be honest, in COVID, we closed that, that one and moved everything online anyway. So, so everyone's got the same sort of access. Um every textbook, every journal you could possibly want is is on there. Um So you're going to access that straight away um B MJ learning as well. So you've probably heard of the, the BM JBM J is the moniker that basically comes underneath the BMA. So everything B MJ um related, all the tools mostly are, are free. So you've got a lot of revision tools and whatnot there, especially especially er explorer tool, sorry. Um So this is essentially a psychometric test which is takes about 20 minutes to complete, asks you all sorts of work life balance questions and then at the end, um it breaks down what specialties will suit you according to the answer you've given. Um So yeah, so thing, I sometimes we get some confusion with things like um MDU and MPS, but they're indemnity companies. So they deal with sort of, if you were to accidentally cut a patient, it's, it's them who you go to. So sort of clinical stuff, you go to the indemnity companies, mdu mps, we're the nonclinical side. So everything sort of pay related relationships and work um is, is us. So the union side of things is us. Um So yeah, so it's not uncommon for us to get back. Um A lot of money for doctors, a lot of doctors are on contracts they've been on for years and then they sort of send it to us speculatively and then we go, you know, you're being paid, um, wrong for a number of years and, and we recover that money. So it's your money. Um, if you sign a contract and, and it was wrong when you signed it, it wasn't your fault, you're not s set into that. Um, so, yeah, so there's always ways that, that, that we can help you when you do start. There's those other things that we can help with um, listed there. I know I don't have a long, so go for everything. Um These are the kind of questions that, that you might have um next year when you start, but if you're a BMA member, you can come to us and, and, and we, we can help, um get things sorted, like pretty much straight away. So just to give up the, unless I'm sure everyone knows what's going on with, with the junior doctor pay dispute. Now, resident doctor, sorry, Junior Doctor, I'm still in the transition phase of saying resident doctor. Um, essentially there was a vote here for everyone who comes under Junior Doctor Monica. Um up until, was it last month o on whether to accept the, the government, the new government's deal? Um I'm happy to say that it's gone through. So it went through on, yeah, 16th of September. So essentially it's been a 22.3% average increase over the last two years. So you guys are gonna benefit from that. It's, your pay is gonna be 22.3% on average, um, higher than it was, say if you graduated two years ago. So, done a good job there. The, um, obviously pay restoration was, the, was the main, was the main thing. And although we're about, we're about 16 17% off pay restoration at the moment. Um, the plan is essentially to take this deal which we had we've done. Um And then we'll see what the, the um DVR B come up with next year in terms of a pay award. If that pay award is not in line with reaching pay restoration, then there will be um most likely um strikes. Once again, there will be definitely a vote on where we go on strike once again. Um So, yeah, so all members, only members will be um part of this and that's why your sort of membership has been so high. And that's why we've been able to get the, the results we've got. So it's sort of a stop for now, but we'll see sort of April next year um where we're at with the government once again, but 22% over two years we've done uh incredibly well and, and like I said, probably one of the most powerful um trade unions at the moment. So, yeah, so it's so it sort of like Robin VC said, um it's a bank and build. So, so that 22% is in the bag and then we, we go from there next year. Um So yeah, hopefully we're doing, doing you guys proud for coming in. But yeah, never been a more important time to be a member, especially coming in uh to F one this next year and there's obviously lots of stuff that you can use right away. Um So if you were thinking about it anyway, take advantage of, of the, the deals on the screen cos if you go online, you just start paying 3 lbs 50 a month. Um as is, but this way, at least you get sort of a lot of that money back in the first month free. Um That's it from me. I've left instructions on how you want to join. You can also get in touch with me. Um But yeah, thanks for listening and, and enjoy your session. Thank you so much, Dan. I really appreciate your time. Um OK, I'm gonna hand over to Judith. Hi guys. Can everybody hear me? Ok. That's good. So, hi, my name is Judith. I am a graduate of Clever Medical University in Bulgaria along with everybody on this talk who you'll hear from. We're all graduates of Clever Medical University. And so we'll be talking to you today about the Ielts and the O ET and I'm sure s um many of you have heard of it. Um And many of you wonder what it is and why we have to do it. So I'll start off with the IE LT talk if we want to share the presentation. So hopefully this session will be interactive. Um Hopefully we can get it to be interactive. So if you guys wanna get a pen and paper to make notes and to we have some mock questions for you, which you can join us in answering. So what is the Ielts? So the Ielts stands for the International English Language Testing System. And it's a test for um testing English proficiency. It's a test to test your control of the English language. Now, what it is not is a test to test your accent. It's not testing your accent. But how well you um how well you speak with the English language, how well you mastered it. Now, as you can see on the screen, it consists of four sections, the listening section, the speaking section, the writing and the reading. What's important to know as well is that there are two types of Ielts exams. There's the academic Ielts and the General Ielts. The General Ielts is not for us as medical students and um future doctors who want to work um whether it's in the UK or elsewhere. The General Ielts is for those who want to migrate um to an English speaking country and you want to do like some um a lower level thing below a degree. So you're not trying to do a degree, but maybe you just need it for work or just to move to that country. Our ielts that we have to do is the academic ielts. So that's for people who want to study at undergrad, undergrad level or postgraduate level or get a professional registration, like a GMC license or an IMC license. Um So the total test time is two hours and 44 minutes. And like I said, it's not to test your accent, but to test your English proficiency. So I'll start with the listening section. So the listening section tests your ability to understand speakers of um different accents of many countries. So you can hear uh various accents. For example, you could hear an Australian accent, a British accent, an American Canadian if you can hear the difference between them, um maybe even an Irish and a South African accent. So it's not just um even though the exam is run by the British Council, it's not just a British accent or a standard British accent that you'll hear, you could hear um an accent from different countries and with the listening exam, they can use multiple accents within this exam. So there, as you can see on the screen, there are four recordings and meaning there are four parts to the exams and you get 30 minutes um of recordings in total. Now you, there is a paper version of the Ielts and an online version with the paper version, you have 30 minutes of recording and then they give you 10 minutes to transfer your answers to an answer. So they give you a separate piece of paper to write your answers at the end for 10 minutes. Whereas on the online one, you obviously just click on the computer, your answer and that's all the time that you get to answer it. So there are 40 questions in total. It's one mark per question and you'll only hear it once. So there's no rewinding, there's no pausing. You have no control over that. You have no control over the speed either. And so, um, there are a variety of topics that can be used in the recording. So you've got common topics like social situations and daily life. Um, maybe you'll hear a conversation about someone talking about their day or maybe you'll hear a conversation between two people and one person's asking about getting help to move out of their house. And another common topic, common topic is education. And to me this one is, I would place this as the number one, um, type of topic that they talk about. So education meaning things like maybe you'll hear a lecture or maybe you'll hear a conversation between two students or a conversation between a student and their, and their professor. You can also have topics to do with work. Um, so a job interview or, um, somebody describing, um, their job or maybe you'll just be listening to a workplace conversation and you can have um topics about travel and tourism, about health, um about transportation. Um So recording one tends to be a conversation between two people in an everyday sort of situation. Um So for example, like I said before, it could be like they're ordering food or they're booking tickets for something. And um so let's go to the next slide. So it's a conversation between two people and the category tends to be social situations. Um And yeah, it, it consists of 10 questions. So I'll let you now listen to the instructions for um recording one to give you an idea of the things that they say. Um is everybody able to hear it? I can't hear anything just yet. OK? Maybe if the person is sharing the screen, make sure not to mute. OK. Try again and see. All right. Uh Do you wanna just try sharing your screen again and then clicking with chrome tab part one? Perfect. Thank you. You're a man phoning to find out about some children's engineering workshops. First, you have some time to look at questions. 1 to 3. OK. So as you heard from the audio, it gives you time to read over your questions. So um whether it's the online one or the paper, one, it gives you time to read the questions and then it will play the audio. So let's go on to the next slide and we ourselves are gonna try. Um I'm gonna put on the pole. So next slide, please, I'm gonna put, I'm gonna put up a poll and you'll get to hear the recording and see if you can answer the questions. So the first, the two questions are to do with um question. Well, number one and number two. number 12 and three, that's what we'll be answering. Um So I'll put up the first poll. Go ahead. Hello, children's engineering workshops. Oh, hello. I wanted some information about the workshops in the school holidays. Sure. I have two daughters who are interested. The younger ones, Lydia, she's four. Do you take Children as young as that? Yes. Our tiny engineers workshop is for 4 to 5 year olds. What sorts of activities do they do? All sorts? For example, they work together to design a special cover that goes round an egg so that when it's inside they can drop it from a height and it doesn't break. Well, sometimes it does break. But that's part of the fun. Right. And Lydia loves building things. Is there any opportunity for her to do that? Well, they have a competition to see who can make the highest tower. You'd be amazed how high they can go. Right. But they're learning all the time as well as having fun. For example, one thing they do is to design and build a car that's attached to a balloon and the force of the air in that actually powers the car and makes it move along. They go really fast too. Ok. Well, ok, so I noticed that some of you um for the first question about create a cover, you answered immediately. Um And everybody got it right. Those who answered it is create a cover for egg, for an egg. And then the second one was um so not everybody got it right. 88% of people got it right. Which is still good. So as she said, um they make a car powered by a balloon. So that's just a little snippet of recording one and the type of conversations you have even the speed of the conversations and the actions that you can use. So recording two if we move on to the next slide is tends to be a monologue and it tends to be again, social situations about a product or a service or an everyday thing. And again, it's 10 questions. As you can see, they can split their 10 questions into different parts. So you see on the screen we've got questions 11 to 14. And then next, you'll have the remainder of the questions. And as you can see on the example, this one is um a monologue about a company Stevenson's. Um And then let's go on to the next slide. So again, we're gonna try um to answer a question from part two. Now listen and answer a question. So this is a different type of um so they can use different styles of questions as you saw before you had what you call um fill in the blank or M CQ. Um As you can see, this one is a map and this is also another style of question that they have. Now, I'm gonna give you some time to read or to analyze the map because with this style of question, you have to match the letters to the numbers 15 to 20 that's been given. So I'll give you like 30 seconds to look at the maps or diagram, study it and then we'll attempt to answer the question. Ok. So let's attempt to answer two of two questions from this. Yeah, please press play. Thank you. Now listen and answer questions 15 to 20. Ok. Now I'll briefly help you to orientate yourselves around the site. As you can see, we're in the reception area which we try to make attractive and welcoming to visitors. There's a corridor running left from here and if you go along that the door facing you at the end is the entrance to the coffee room. This looks out onto the main road on one side and some trees on the other. And that'll be where you meet each morning. The factory is the very big room on the far side of the site next to it is the warehouse which can be accessed by lorries going up the road to the turning area at the end, you can get to the warehouse by crossing to the far side of the courtyard and then the door is on your right somewhere you'll be keen to find is the staff canteen. This is right next to reception. I can confidently say that the food. OK. So that was just a taste of this style of question which when I first saw this in my practice test and then I had this done in the exam. Um It does throw you off. And even though I'm a visual person, I'm not, I'm not as my friends will tell you, I'm not good at directions. Um So this style of question, I found quite challenging and needed more practice to do. So. Now with recording three, it, this is when we move more into the academic educational side of things. So it's less um less casual, less social and more academic. So if we move on to the next slide, um recording three tends to be a conversation between more than two people, it can be up to four people you'll hear. Um not all talking at the same time and the categories tend to be educational and informative. For example, like I said before, between uni students or between students and their tutor. And then with recording for, again, you've got the same style of um same category of questions, same subject. Um So academic um or um about work about uh lecture and again, it's a monologue. So like recording two was a monologue. Recording four tends to be commonly a monologue. Now, I'm not saying that all the time will be like this, but this is what I found both practicing and in my exam. Um So we, I'll give you a snippet of recording four if we go on to the next slide, just so you can see. Um Now, as you can see, this one is also split, even though there's 10, um about 10 questions, this one is also split. So with this part three, the recording that you first hear is for two questions, as it says, just question 21 and question 22. And then the next recording will be for two questions again. And so they'll let you, they'll split it like that, the recordings like that. If you're, if you're only supposed to answer X amount of questions, the recording will be for X amount of questions. So you don't generally tend to get a whole load of audio in one go and then you have to guess what the question is. So, um I've got another question for you to answer in regards to this. So let's play. Now, listen carefully and answer questions 21 to 24. How are you getting on with your art project, Tom? OK. Like they gave us the theme of birds to base our project on and I'm not really all that interested in wildlife, but I'm starting to get into it. I've pretty well finished the introductory stage. So, have I, when they gave us all those handouts with details of books and websites to look at? I was really put off but the more I read, the more interested I got. Mm, me too. I found I could research so many different aspects of birds in art, color, movement texture. So I was looking forward to the bird park. visit. What a letdown. It poured with rain and we hardly saw a single bird. Much less used than the trip to the Natural History Museum. I liked all the stuff about evolution there. The workshop sessions with Doctor Fletcher were good too, especially the brainstorming sessions. Ah, I missed those because I was ill. I wish we could have seen the projects last year. Students did. Mm. I suppose they want us to do our own thing. Not copy. Have you drafted your proposal yet? Yes, but I haven't. All right. So, well, it um those of you who answered C and E and again, this is the style of question and um the way the conversations will, will run. Um Initially, when I attempted this question, I did not hear the answer. I did not hear um c but this is just to show you that even though the question says which two parts of their art projects do, do Jess. Jess and Tom agree on. It's not, the audio is not gonna be like, I'm Jess. I agree on this. I'm Tom, I agree on this or Jess and Tom agree on this. It's just gonna be a natural conversation that you're hearing every day. The same way people talk to you, um, is the same way these audio will audios will go, it's not gonna, um, they're not gonna spoon feed you, uh, the answers because that's not what the test is on. The test is on how you, how you can, how well you can hear and understand people who just speak in an everyday conversation. Um So this was the end of listening just to let you know that for those who are doing the online um, online ielts, you will get headphones on the day or you should get headphones at your test center. So you won't be in a room and you'll hear like loads of computers all playing the same audio that won't happen. But whereas with the paper one, you will all listen to the same audio in the room. So now I'm gonna hand it over to Jemima who will be doing about the reading. Hi guys. Thank you, Judith for going through the listening section. So I'm gonna be going through the reading section. So the reading part of the ielts, obviously, it's testing your reading. It's also testing your comprehension. Um If you studied in the UK, um I think in S ATS and G CSE S sometimes there were passages that you would read and they, you'd be asked questions about the passages. So it's kind of similar to this. Um So as you can see on the slide, the sources of the text are usually from books, journals, magazines. Um the audience is usually um a nonspecialist audience and the topics are usually of general interest. So things like history, science, anthropology, things like this. Um Sometimes you'll have visual aids as well to help with explaining what the text is talking about and any like esoteric times, like any tech technical vocab, there'll be like a simple definition on the page just to make sure you're not confused. Uh next slide, please. So in terms of marking, um spelling and grammar is really important. So marks are deducted for incorrect spelling and grammar on your sheet or if you type like if you're online and you're typing, um the time is an hour that includes transfer time if you're doing the written version. So when you're, you're ready to transfer your answers over to the answer sheet, it's all included in the time. You don't get any extra time for that. So the reading part is split up into three sections. So obviously, you do about 20 minutes per section as much as you can. Um altogether there are 40 questions and it's one mark per correct answer and your final score is given as a band from 1 to 9. Um It can be either in whole or half band, so you could get a 8.5 or a seven or nine. So yeah, next slide, please. So according to the Ielts website, there are 11 types of questions. So there are quite a few types and I would suggest trying all types of questions. Um So the main ones I'm gonna talk about today are the most common ones. So those are MC QS, identifying information, true, false, not given and matched headings. So we're gonna go into these three types of questions. So next slide, please. So in terms of M CQ type questions, the most important part of this type of question is to be understa is to understand the differences between the different options that they give you. Um So you to read the questions carefully, understand the differences between the different options like ABCD E um and then skim the text. So the text is usually maybe a page and a half, two pages. So skim through the whole text, read the text quickly essentially to get a general understanding of what you're doing and what the um text is talking about. Um As you're skimming through the text, look for synonyms in the questions that you have, that, that relate to the question um that you're trying to answer and use that to locate the relevant section of the text. So again, like the most important part is the differences between the um the answers. We're gonna do an example together So you'll be able to see what I'm talking about. Um Once you're able to locate that part, that's the most important part of the text, the text that relates to the question you're doing read that section carefully. So not the whole text, the section that you need read that carefully, and then you're gonna be able to answer the question, you'll see when we do an example. So to summarize quickly, find the paragraph that relates to the question, read that part carefully and then answer your question. OK. Can we go on next, please? OK. So can you zoom in to our text a little bit just so everyone can see. Yeah, cool. So the first question was basically asking, can you show us what the first question says? Sorry, actually, sorry. It's a little bit difficult. So the first question, um in this case, it's actually some questions will tell you what paragraph to look at. So in this, in this case, it's asking us to look at paragraph one. So the question is when referring to laughter in the first paragraph, the writer size is a, its impact on language, B its function in human culture, C its value to scientific research or d its universality in animal societies. So I'm gonna answer this question myself. Um Can you just take us to the first paragraph, please? Okie Doke. And I'm just gonna essentially tell you where it is. So you can read the first paragraph if you want. But essentially the answer is at the bottom, the last part of the paragraph where it says like other human emotions and expressions, laughter and humor provide psychological scientists with re rich resources for studying human psychology, ranging from the development of language to the neuroscience of social perception. So the answer for this question, what is, what's being emphasized is its value to scientific research? So um essentially what you would have had to do is skim through. Um If it was asking for a different question, you'll see in the next um example, skim through, find what's relevant, read that section and then answer the question. So can you um I'm gonna put up the poll for question two. Um The question is, what does the writer suggest about Charlie Douglas? So if you zoom out a little bit, Mira, just a tiny bit so they can see and then scroll down a bit, we can take away the first paragraph. So basically guys take a look at the next few paragraphs. Um Hold on, wait, hold on. OK. Yeah. If you just, you can count. Yeah, from there. That's cool. So take a look at the question. What does the writer suggest about Charlie Douglas skim through essentially find which paragraph is talking about Charlie Douglas Zoom into that paragraph, read all of it and then answer the question. So I'll just wait for people to start um their responses. This might take a while because it's reading. So, take your time once you've got a few responses. All right, we're getting some responses in. Keep going, guys, I'll still wait for a few more responses to help you out. It's the second paragraph. So theory is focusing on the evolution of laughter. That's the paragraph you're supposed to be looking at Okie Doke. So we've got some responses or some people think a uh So actually most people think a it looks like. Um So the answer is actually c so let's zoom in on this paragraph. So basically, what we're trying to show is the answer is he wanted to show that he wanted his shows to appeal to audiences across the social spectrum. So, um I think from the second line take, for example, the recorded laugh and TV shows back in the 19 fifties, Char Charlie Douglas hated dealing with unpredictable laughter. Um These, so he made his own laughing tracks. These were intended to help people at home feel like they're in a social situation such as crowded theater. So that's essentially where you get your answer. These were intended to help people feel people at home feel like they were in a social situation. So he wanted his shows to appeal to audiences across the social spectrum. I hope that makes sense. Um We have the second question. Um Give me a sec, let me pull it. What makes the Santa Cruz study particularly significant? So, again, can you zoom out a little bit, please, Mara and then go up. Ok, cool. You can stop there. You can stop there. Yeah. So basically find what's talking about this Santa Cruz study, read that section and then answer the question and I'll give you guys a few moments and then we can move on to the next. All right, we're getting some responses in, keep going um to make it easier. It's this um in the study conducted in 2016, that's the paragraph. Okie Doke. So most people got this one right. So the answer was b the similar results produced wide, produced by a wide range of cultures. So, um if we look at uh let me find the line. OK. So here, a team made up of more than 30 psycho psychological scientists, anthropologists and biologists then played these recordings to listeners from 24 diverse culture, uh societies from indigenous tribes in New Guinea to city dwellers in India and Europe. At the last line says on average, these results were un remark were remarkably consistent worldwide. People's guesses were correct approximately 60% of the time. So essentially what's significant about this is that there were similar results produced over a wide range of cultures. So they had people from New Guinea, people from India and they were all answering similarly. Essentially that's um that's why it's the answer. OK. Can we move on to the next slide? Then we'll look at another type of question. Um If this isn't making sense guys, please ask questions so we can explain things further. Um Okie Doke. So the next type of question that's common is true, false, not given. So essentially you'll be given um a passage and then you'll be given some statements and you have to answer whether it's true, whether it's false or whether the information that's in the, the statement is not given. So, um you're gonna read the whole statement first. So the question statement, that's what you'll do first and think about what it means. Then again, once you've understood the statements, think about synonyms, synonyms are what uh is gonna help or what going to help you locate the section, essentially locate the relevant section. Um So once you've done that, read that section carefully and then you should be able to answer the question. So once you've read that sec that section, if the meaning in the statement matches the section and it agrees with it, then it's true. If it doesn't, it's false. And if you're not really sure you can't really tell from the um can I hope you guys can hear me? I think. Yeah. OK. Cool. Um All right. Can you move on to the next slide and then we can do uh an example and then can you just zoom into our text? Cause the questions will be on the pole? OK. Cool. Um The first question was about the first paragraph. So the first statement was um sorry, Mia, can you show us what the first statement is? Apologies. So the first statement is on leaving school more did what his father wanted him to do. So we're gonna look at the passage and look at whether it's true, false or not given. Um So the first paragraph is essentially where we're looking because it talks about school. Um So we're gonna go to the second line. Uh He studied at Castleford grammar School from 1909 to 1915 where his early interest in art was encouraged by his teacher. After leaving school, he hoped to become a sculptor, but instead he complied with his father's wishes and trained to be a school teacher. So the answer is true because he did what his father wanted him to do. He complied with his father's wish. That's true. Ok. So I'm gonna do the next two. I'm gonna pull the next two questions and let's see what everyone thinks. So the next question, uh can you scroll uh um past the first paragraph? So they've got the rest of the paragraphs to look at. Thank you very much. Yep. Cool. So this is the next question Moore began studying sculpture in his first time at the Leeds School of Art. So what does everyone think? So, what I would say is look for Lead School of Art when you find that section zoom in, read it and let me know if it's true, false or not given Okie doke. So most people think it's false and they are correct. Um More began studying sculpture in his first time. Um It does not say that it says that although he wanted to study sculpture, no teacher was appointed until his second year. So he didn't study sculpture in his first time. So that's false. So well done. Everyone. Um I'm gonna do the next question. The next poor question. Um When more started at the Royal College of Art, its reputation for teaching sculpture was excellent. So again, what I suggest you do find Royal College of Art, find that zoom in and answer the question and not give you some time to answer the question. I'll just wait for a few more responses to see what people think. And then we'll move on to the last type of question that I'll be going through. I'll just wait for a few more. OK, cool. So most people have said it's not given. So you're correct. That information is not given. If you read that paragraph, it's not, it doesn't talk about its reputation at all. It doesn't talk about, it's teaching methods or anything like that. So yeah, that's not given. So as you can see, essentially with this type of questions like the a when the answer is not given, you cannot find that information in the text and you can't even um and it can, it's not even implied. So that's how you answer these types of questions. If we can move on to the next slide, this is the last type of question I'll be going through and I'm hoping this is making sense to everyone. Thank you, Okie Doke. So matched headings, um essentially with this type of question, it is likely you'll have to read the whole text. So as you, you'll see the type of example we have, but essentially, um the text will be broken up into sections from, from like section A to section ZZ. Um And you have to match headings that you're given to each section. So each heading was kind of like a title of the section. So you'd read the section and choose the appropriate title essentially. So um the headings, like I said are titles and you ideally match any obvious headings first. Anything that is obvious, match those first. Um And also, again, focus on the differences in meaning. Um Can you go on to the next slide so I can show us the example. Okie Doke. So I will do the first one. So for section A, if you go over to section A for me, please in the text. Yeah. So section A when I read it, I read through what the section was saying and then I looked at the headings and the right heading for this one. To be honest, actually, let me leave it for you guys to read. Um it's not too long section. A and then you'll see that the right heading for this one is about um I can't remember, I think it's like um from products to inspiration or inspiration to product or something. Um OK. Can you show us the headings, please, Mira, if you don't mind. So it's heading number three, from initial inspiration to a new product. So again, I read the, the whole section and then I looked to see which matched like the, the best, like which made the most sense for the type of like as a title essentially. Um ok, so I'm gonna do a poll section B. Um If you don't mind showing a section B, please, um This one might be a little bit harder because we're gonna have to be kind of going back and forth. Um So I'll give people some time to read the section B and then I will um show you the, the titles I should have actually written the titles in this poll. But yeah, we'll, we'll figure it out. Um I'll give you a few moments to read section B and then I'll move over and show you the titles. All right. All right. Do you mind moving over to the section, the section headings and just show us the headings. So these are the headings guys. I'm hoping you kind of remember what you read. Um So we're looking at section A, a title for section B. Mhm. Do you mi mind moving back to section B please? My right just so people can look again and then again move back to section, then we can move back to the titles, can stay here for about 30 seconds and then we can move back to the headings. Mm ok. And then can you move back to the headings just so people can look at the headings again? Ok, cool. So the right answer is heading number six, cleaning water from a range of sources. Um So the section was essentially explaining the persons um contraption and how it works. Um And essentially it says it here like it's particularly valuable in regions where natural groundwater reserves have been polluted or where seawater is the only source available. So, uh actually sorry, it's the second line. It's um that can take water from different places such as the sea river, bore holes and rain. Those are the different sources that's ta that's referring to. Um we can do number C if everyone wants to or we can move on, but that's essentially the three top types of um example. Uh sorry, the three top types of questions that I asked. Yeah, let's do, let's do see, let's do see. Um I'll ask the question here. So if it's read section C and then Marat will show you the other the titles. So I'll give you a bit longer to read this like a minute and a bit and then we'll show. All right, can we show the titles, please? People are answering more. People are answering. Could you show us the um, yeah, the text again. Section c you can skim through it again and then we'll show you the titles and then, then I'll tell you the right answer. And, um, everyone will be given, giving their tips and tricks for each section at the end, um, during the Q and A. So, yeah, any questions you have, please put them in the chat and we'll answer them at the end and we'll give you our tips and tricks for the sections as well at the end. All right, can you move over to the titles? Yeah, I'll wait for a few more responses and I'll give you the right answer. Okie Doke. So I think most of you did get that right. Um The answer was um number five, can you show them what number five was, please? So, v um what makes the device different from alternatives? And if you go back to the section and I can highlight what it's talking about. Um So for example, in the second line, it says its main selling point is that unlike standard desal desalination techniques, it doesn't require a generated power supply, just sunlight. So that sentence is obviously referring to how it's different from other standard techniques. Um Yeah, essentially that's it. So um those are the main types of questions that come up again there are 11 types. So it's a good idea to look through all of them, practice all the types of questions. And we also have um a list of resources at the end. Um And like a Google drive to share with you guys. But yeah, thank you. That's the reading section done. So I'll hand over to Marat for the writing section and that's just talking about the threshold. So, um sorry, basically, the bands are quite close together, the scoring threshold. So it's like a mark or so between each band. So every mark counts as much as possible. So try and do your best in the reading section because it is one of the easiest sections as compared to writing. Um So just try and get the highest score. But yeah, over to the writing section. OK. Uh Good evening everyone. Uh My name is Doctor Morata. I'm going to be covering the writing section for the Ielts academic. Uh The writing section is arguably the one section, a lot of people find quite difficult no matter who you ask a lot of the answers you, a lot of the responses you receive will be focused on writing, focus on writing. Um because nobody really understands how to approach it and that, you know, you can put words on paper, but whether it's the right words that you put on paper, that's a different matter and understanding the marking scheme, the criteria and what they expect from you is very important in understanding how to um formulate your response to the task uh that they assign to you. So, the writing section is 60 minutes long. It's an hour long. You're free to, uh, exercise that time. However, you wish you can spend 10 minutes on task 1, 50 minutes on task two, or you can spend 20 minutes or you can spend 3030 divide it. However, you like, generally, uh a lot of the recommendations that you come across, even on the Ielts Bridge Council website, they recommend you spend 20 minutes on task one and 40 minutes on task two. Um, and that's because task two carries um, more weight than task one. That's not to belittle. Task one. It's also important but it's just understanding that task two carries more weight than task one. Um So the two tasks, um, they are both essays, uh short essays but they, uh the questions itself are different. So for task one, you'll be given a diagram, a table, a chart, an image, something graphic for you to then go on to explain. And for task two, you'll be given a short essay, er, er, essay title for which you will then have to, uh, give an opinion, uh, agree or disagree, er, compare and contrast and so on and so forth. We'll, we'll go, uh, discuss those in a moment once we get to it and at the end of the writing section, you will be given a final score based on um the banding 1 to 9. And uh they take the average between your task one and task two results. So for task one is a, a diagram component. So you'll be given a diagram, you may be given one diagram or you may be given two diagrams and it won't necessarily be the same. So you could get a mix of by uh bar chart and pie chart. You could get a line chart, a table, uh a diagram or you can even get a schematic process showing you um the process of manufacturing metal, for example. And it will ask you to um talk about it for task two, it's more essay style. Um And you'll be given a topic of general interest. It could be about health care, it could be about politics, about business, uh travel, transportation, literally anything it could be on. And everyone in the exam has a different sort of essay title for both sections as well. Actually, for all of Ielts the same, everyone has different sorts of uh questions that they'll be given. So no two candidates will be taking the same test. That makes sense. Um You'll be the second task involves writing a response to a question, giving reasons and examples to support the answer. And the range of questions include opinions, whether you agree or disagree with the title or the statement, the advantages and disadvantages, problems and solutions discussions. Uh or a two part question. So you'll be given one of these um five uh questions, the marking criteria um is scored using um a four criteria uh category. So firstly, you'll be marked on whether you achieve the task. So how well you answer the question. Um If you're able to present your information accurately, if you're able to answer all ta all parts of the task, provide a clear overview um and highlight the key features for the uh second part coherence and cohesion. Um How well is the text structured? So do you manage your para paragraphs? Well, uh do each para is each paragraph uh central to the idea that you're trying to explain and express in addressing the um question that's been asked in the task and how well you use linking words and cohesive devices to connect sentences and paragraphs together. And number three is lexical resources. So the these uh this is more a question, a test of how good your range of vocabulary is, how wide of a range of vocabulary your ability to use less common lexical terms. So words that you wouldn't necessarily hear very often um and obviously avoiding spelling errors and word formulation. And the last one is grammatical range and accuracy. How good is your grammar? Are you able to use a wide range of grammatical structures and tenses and manage your punctuation, avoiding errors in sentences and just to expand on these four criterias, ability to answer the question, ability to write the minimum number of words is very important. Section, one is 150 words. Section two is 250 words. You can go a bit over, um, that, that's not a problem. If you go 1020 words over that, that's fine. But try to meet the minimum number of words that they tell you to meet. So don't stop at 149, try to go over even if it's 155, that's fine. Just make sure you hit the minimum number of words, use uh proper grammar and vocabulary like I said, structural essays and answers and use connecting words. Um and just as a quick overview for the structure of the response you should be given for task one, it should comprise of an introduction with an overview and then a main body one and two conclusions are completely optional. You won't be penalized if you exclude conclusion from task one, the only difference with task between task one and task two is task two. You are required to include a con a conclusion to sum up everything you've written. So just bear that in mind this will come back to. So this is a mo mock er for task one, this is a potential diagram that you could receive on the day of your exam. And the question is the graph shows the population of India and China from the year 2000 to the present day with projections for growth to the year 2050 summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant. So you can approach this from many different angles. You can dissect this in many different ways, but you have to bear in mind, you have only 150 words to play with. OK. We have three sections. We have an introduction, main body, one, main body, two, for the introduction, all we have to do is paraphrase what's given the information that's given to us. So paraphrasing is basically rewording in simple terms. So the information that's given to us on the left is the graph shows the population of India and China. Yy. And then in the graph itself at the top, we have the title changes in the population of India and China between 2000 to 2050. So we just have to rejig that information um change the order of it and that's our introduction. That's all you have to do. Moving on to our first paragraph, we have one graph but two sets of data on the same graph. We have one data representing the population of India and we have one data representing the population of China. So we can use one paragraph to talk about the changes in the population of China. And then we can use the second paragraph to talk about the changes in population growth of India. And while we talk about the second one, we can also compare it back to China because it says if you look at the question, it says uh and make comparisons where relevant at the very end there. So we're summarizing, but we're also comparing um the the two populations. So if we go on to the model answer as an introduction, the growth gives information about population growth in China and India from the year 2000 with predicted changes to 2050. The first comparison, now the main body in 2000, China's population stood at 1.21 0.25 billion. And this number rose steadily to where it is currently at around 1.35 billion. It is projected to peak at 1.45 billion in 2025. When the number will level off and start to decline, it is expected that by 2050 the population will have dropped slightly to 1.4 billion. So it's just focused on the population of China, how it's grown and then how it's dipped and that's all it's doing. It's just summarizing this information here. And then if we go on to our main body two, in contrast. So we're already comparing um although the population of India started at just 1 billion in 2000, it has increased rapidly to just under 1.25 billion today, the data indicates it will continue its upward surge overtaking China in 2030 reaching a peak of 1.6 billion by 2050. So if we were to go back again, this is the line that represents the population of India, it said, you know, this is where it's at at the moment. Uh sorry, India 2000. Uh by the year 2030 there, it's expected to be about equal with the population of China. And then by the year 2050 it's expected to surpass the population of China by billions. Yeah. So then there's also a conclusion on this example on this model, answer overall, the major difference between the two population trends um is that the number of people in China is forecast to start falling uh after 2030 whereas the population of India will continue to soar. So that just sums all the information up um in one sort of paragraph. And like I said, uh you're not expected to include a conclusion for the task one. But if you have the word count, um if you're on the word count by quite a bit, you're more than um they're not gonna penalize you for including a conclusion. So that's something to keep in mind. And I've just included the word count here just so, you know, as a mother law. So on the Bridge Council website, they won't penalize you for going over by a few words, task two is a bit more um challenging. It's challenging because it's more of an essay style question that could be about anything like I said, and a lot of people, uh, don't quite know how to approach it. The thing with task two is they're not assessing you based on whether your answer is correct or incorrect. Uh whether you're politically right or, um, you know, the information you've put down is correct. It's your ability to formulate, combine connect words together to respond to the task at hand. That's what they are looking for. So for ta two, the example, as many people, the title sorry is many people go through life doing work that they hate or have no talent for. Why does this happen? What are the consequences of the situation? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience. Write at least 250 words with Tas Two. Like I said, it's four sections. We have an intro main body, one, main body two and a conclusion for the introduction. Similarly to task one, we want to paraphrase the topic and briefly just give an opinion for the main body. You want to develop your point, you want to give reasons um to support the idea the opinion that you had in your introduction, you, you need to write at least um two paragraphs. So main body, one, main body two, but you also need to keep keep an eye on your word count to make sure you don't go off them. And the conclusion, very basic sum of what you've written just like we did for task one. So the model answer in this case, um as an introduction in many countries throughout the world, young people are pushed into careers that they have no aptitude for or do not want to do. And there are two main reasons for this situation. The first reason is lack of uh tertiary study options in some countries such as China, there are limited places available for tertiary study and those who do not manage to earn a place at the institution of their choice, often find themselves studying a subject which does not interest them or which is a poor match for their skills and aptitudes. The other main reason which is closely aligned to the former point is parental aspirations. Many parents push their Children into a limited set of career options because these choices represent social success, security and money in later life. In many cases, the skills and needs of the Children are ignored as their parents encourage them to earn places in prestigious if inappropriate institutions and to study subjects that are acceptable to their friends and extended family, going on to the second body. And the conclusion, some of these Children who do manage to jump through all the required tubes find that they are trapped in a career which does not suit their needs or abilities and that they can see no escape from the life sentence imposed by well meaning families. This can have both personal and social consequences. Firstly, unsatisfied workers can suffer from job stress which drains human potential and may lead to physical and psychological illness, dissatisfaction and distress also impacts on their chosen profession and on society as a whole, as unhappy. And this affected uh workers tend not to give their best and this affects the quality of their work. In conclusion to sum everything up a person who is pushed into uncongenial work because of social constraints or family pressures is not likely to be a productive and happy member of society. We need to ensure that individual talents and skills are recognized and catered for if we are to have a harmonious and well developed society. 333 words, this is an essay taken from the British Council website. You're more than welcome to go a bit over. Don't go any more than that. Just bear in mind. Um You, they will let you go over it by a bit but not a crazy amount. So if you go over to 400 words, for example, 350 you, you might get penalized for that. So better in mind, the general structure of the writing um uh component for task two again, like I said, they're not looking to, to, they're not assessing you based on whether you are right or wrong. They're assessing your ability to combine words together to explain. Um whether, why, if you agree with a statement, why you agree with it, your ability to express your own thoughts and feelings on that subject matter, your use of vocabulary and grammar and all the electrical resources available to you. And um that's it for task two of the, of the writing section um altogether. And I will pass it on to Doctor Eden to cover the speaking section now. Thanks for listening. Hey, everyone. Can everyone hear me properly? I hope so. Let me see in the chart. Amazing, amazing. So I'm doctor. Um I'm here to basically speak to you about the speaking part of the Ielts exam. Um So I did the Ielts exam in June this June after I graduated. Um and um I passed, thank God. So, um yeah, I'm just gonna give you basically the rundown on the speaking structure. Um So just to start off about how the um structure of the exam is for the speaking part. So just to tell you about the setting, um So you'll basically speak with one qualified Ielts examiner um in a quiet room and you'll both be seated, settled down. Um And that will basically be the setting for your exam. Um It's basically quiet, just the two of you speaking. Um And the duration of the exam is quite short compared to the other three parts. So it is approximately 11 to 14 minutes and there are three parts to the um exam to this part of the exam. Um So um part one, this is just the part of the, the test that is general questions. So the examiner will ask you general questions about yourself. There will be a short introduction where you will just confirm your identity and share your name and so on. That's just part of the general um you know, checks for the exam. But then they'll just go into general questions and ask you about where you, where you're from. What if you're a student? What do you study if you work? What do you work as, um, where do you live? How many things do you have things like that? So that's just, um, the first part of this speaking part of the exam, um, and fought the second part, the examiner will basically give you a ticket, um, on the ticket. It will have a question or a specific topic, um, written on it and you'll be given one minute to prepare, um, your answers on how you're going to approach each, each part of the, um, questions written on the topic. Um And so you will speak for about 1 to 2 minutes. Um, and the examiner will basically tell you when the two minutes is up, so you won't have to worry about over speaking, they'll tell you when to stop. And so for the last part, which is part three. this is when the examiner will ask you more questions related to the topic you picked in the first, um, in the second part. Sorry. Um, and you'll basically have a back and forth conversation. It's not just you answering, but they're gonna assess you as you discuss together. Um, so let's go on to the next slide. And so, uh, I just explain a bit more about part one. so I just have an example here to show you what part one can be like. Um And what things they can ask you for part one. So for example, they can ask you about your hometown and some follow up questions could be that they ask you what kind of place is it? Um Is it, you could answer saying it's small, you could say it's large, it has a lot of people, it doesn't have a lot of people. Um And they could also ask you um what it is that is most interesting about your town. They could ask you what kind of um jobs people usually have in your town. Um And they could also ask you um Is it a good place to live? And then that gives you time to basically expand a little bit more as you speak. You could say I like living here because XYZ, they say I don't like living here because of these reasons. Um So that's some examples of questions relating to your hometown and another example, they could ask you about your personal work or your studies. So, um again, it depends on whether you are a student or you're a worker. So again, they could initially start off and ask, are you a student or do you work? And you could, let's say, I say I'm a worker. Um I could say, yeah, I'm a worker. Um and I recently graduated and so I recently just started work part time. That's what I could say for that part. And another question they could ask in this semester, that is what is your place of work like? And I could say I work in psychiatric wards. I could say that it is um an interesting environment and that is a great team of workers. That's one response I could give. And so some more questions they could ask uh what do you like about your job? And they could also ask you, is there anything you don't like about your job? So these are just some examples of some general questions they could ask you in just the part one of the speaking exam. So just they're just general questions just for you to get a general feel of the exam. So let's go on and talk about part two. OK. So part two again, this is when you pick up a ticket or you're given a ticket rather. Um And it has a topic uh written on it or a sentence and then there are some follow up, um, questions or things that you need to answer related to that topic. Um, and then you're given about one minute to prepare an answer, you just jot down some notes about, um, what you're gonna write or what you're gonna speak rather. Um, and then after that, you speak for about 1 to 2 minutes and like I said before, they'll tell you when the 1 to 2 minutes is up. Um So uh this example says, describe something you own, which is very important to you. You should say where you got it from, how long you have had it, what you use it for and explain why it is important to you. So for example, um I could say um an item that is very important to me is uh my Bible, it um English standard version Bible. So that's one thing that I could say and I could describe it and say it's green, it has gold, um it illustrations on it and it's quite thick. That's what I can say. And so for that's me answering the, the general part of the question I could, I'm saying, describe something which is um describe something you own, which is very important to you. So that's me basically describing the item. And then like I go on to the next part, which is these four bullet points and you have to make sure that you address each part. Um So that you can be assessed accurately. So where you got it from. So like I say, I got my bible from my older sister. She got it to me. She gave it to me for a Christmas present. Um and I could explain that it was in 2021 it was a late Christmas present and that's where I got it from my older sister. And then you could expand even more if you wanted to. But because you have four other questions, you can also leave more time to an, um, leave more allocate more time to answer those questions too. And so the second question, how long have you had it for? So I could say I've had it, I was given it in 2021. So I've had it for about three years now and then I could also just talk more about, um, the fact that I've had it, but I can talk about, ok, did I use it things like that? So, basically, um, fill in the time and make sure that I'm answering and, um, using up the two minutes that I have. So, for example, I've had it since 2021 and I could say so that's three years and I could say that, ok, because I have other, I actually have other Bibles as well. I haven't used, um, this Bible for the 43 years, I could say, oh, I've used it, um, for only the last year or so. And you just expand your answer that way because your answer doesn't actually have to be completely true. It just, they just wanna hear you speak basically. Um And so I could say, what do you uh the next part is what do you use the form? So I could say I use it to learn about Jesus. I learn, I use it to grow my relationship with God. I use it to encourage myself and it helps me, that's basically what I could say as a example. And so for the last part, it says, explain why it's important to you. And so the, the, the third and forth are kind of go into each other so you could even combine them together. Um And I could say it's important to me because um my relationship with God is important to me and it's a useful tool for me to come close to God. That's what I could say as an example. So that's just an example of this sort of question for part two. They're kind of all similar in this sense where it's like you're given a topic. Um And then there are four bullet points, you have to approach each one directly. So it's important to make sure that you actually, it, it's good to note down and use that one minute that you do have um to make sure that you do actually address each part of the question. So you can get the fullest marks. Um so that's basically that for part two, let's go to part three, which is the final part of the speaking exam. And so this is the third part of the exam. And this part of the test is a bit different because in part two, you were just answering and the examiners listening to you. But in this um part of the test, you are having a conversation with the examiner and they might make comments as well. They might ask you more questions basically. So some examples here, we have a special event or festival that you like. So I'm basically going to have Judith, Doctor Judith come and she's gonna give um answers to these questions and I'm basically just going to um show you what it can be like for part three. Um So Judith is here. So the, the topic is basically a special event or a festival that you like? So Judith, why do you think that celebrations are important in society? Um I think celebrations are important in society because they're a way to share different cultures and make people aware of the different cultures that um are around them. I also think they're important because they're a way to pass on history and knowledge to the next generation. Mm Do you feel that the generations are lacking that knowledge? Um II actually don't think so because nowadays most people have social media and the internet, which makes us more connected um with those in different countries. So it's easier for us to find out about other people's cultures, other festivals, the history and knowledge of other countries. And so it's easier to know about what's happening thousands of miles away from you. OK. Do you feel that this generation is benefiting for? So you spoke about social media or do you feel that this generation is benefiting from um being able to access celebrations and different cultures through social media? I think, yes, because it's helping people become more aware of harmful language. I think it helps people realize that maybe something they used to say previously would actually offend someone if they were to meet that person. It promotes better harmony between people and between communities. And it's also helps bridge gaps. Um Where before you couldn't put a bridge? Mm I completely agree. And so let me also ask you, do you think that celebrations are experienced differently by different generations? Yes, because as the generations age um and as technology develops um new ideas and new technologies can be used and incorporated into future festivals. Initially, the older generation would have started with um the more traditional festival. But you know, ideas can pop up and the newer generation can uh from the festival to suit their needs. Are there any traditional festivals that are part of your own culture? Um for a part of my culture to have something called a Yam festival? It's similar to the harvest festival in the west. And it's basically celebrating when the yam is ready to be cultivated and shared out? Amazing. Do you think that tradition that traditional festival is still being celebrated today by this generation? Uh Yes, because I'm part of that generation, as are my siblings who are all younger than me, are part of that generation that are celebrating it. And also if your parents or the elders in your community are diligent about um passing on that culture, then it will continue to be celebrated. Amazing. So that's basically the first example done. So that's basically how it can go. It's basically a back and forth conversation and different. Um I can comment, I can add different questions as I go along. So that's basically my experience with the exam as well. She also added extra questions too. Um So that's basically the speaking part of the exam. Um We hope that you guys have a great understanding of the Ielts exam and I'm just gonna pass it back to Doctor Judith. OK, guys, thank you for bearing with us so far. Now, the next part should be quicker. We're gonna go over to the O ET, which is another version of um the English language exam that can be done instead of the Ielts. So now I'll introduce you to Dr Tas and Doctor Jammier who will talk about the O ET. Hello guys. Uh I'm Doctor Tas Bebe. Um And I'll be covering the O ET with my colleague and friend, Doctor Jima. So the O ET stands for the occupational um English test. So um when you're sitting for the Ielts O, et, there's two variations. This is one. it's usually somewhat suggested that it's easier than the Ielts. And as we explain the four categories that come for the reading, writing, speaking and reading, um it will demonstrate as to why it's um somewhat easier compared in comparison to it's um Sister Ielts. Um If you go on to the next slide, please, the um O ETS for working professionals, the one that you should be selecting is the one for medicine. Um I'm not sure if we've got any dentistry students here. Um There's a dentistry, one medicine, nursing and other affiliated occupational um specialty exam that you take amongst O et but the one that's for our cohort and our bulk is the O ET medicine. So please don't forget to make sure which one you are um booking and uh paying for in regards to the test, please book while in advance. It's not as um accessible as the AE LT S, but it is still accessible nonetheless. Um it has a variation of test centers across the world um within Eastern Europe and the UK for the costing of um O ET it's somewhat more expensive than, than the AE LT S. It's around about 307 320 lbs, which is the Australian equivalent of 587. They'll charge you at the Australian dollar um of 587. you can have this as a computer or a paper based test. I myself went for the computer based and at a um center which um takes the O ET so, um, those who are applying for the GMC would require a 350 or above, which is a, a score of B um to be accepted on the GMC Council for the O ET testing. Next slide, please. Um It's recognized over more than 30 health regulation bodies including the GMC, um the IMC, the US um Australia, New Zealand, um the USA and many more. Um when it comes to the proficiency of English, it's one of the leading um um English tests that we can take and a lot of uh IM GS have taken the O ET and do suggest that we take um the O ET over the Ielts. So that's my bias. Um Next slide, please. So as mentioned earlier, there's the reading, listening, writing, speaking and all these have sub testings um within them. Um These are broken down into 40 minutes for listening, 60 minutes for reading, 45 minutes for writing and approximately 20 minutes for speaking. Um There's 42 questions for the listening part for 42 for the reading. Uh There's a one part, written letter for writing and two consultation role plays for speaking next, please. My sorry, I did did forget to mention that the O ET medicine is medically based. So it won't be talking about deforestation or the climate or a business plan or whatever the ielts um integrates within their own system. It can talk about anything but whereas the O ET strictly bases its content medically for the O ET medicine. So you'll have, you know, patient consultation, health care, you know, driven uh memos policies, governance. So it's more or less based with something that you're more familiar with in comparison to something that's talking about deforestation or a business plan or, you know, comparing countries and their, you know, low social economical status and comparing the two as Dr Mra was mentioning earlier as India and China. So if we move on to the next slide, please, the banding of uh the O ET goes as follows C plus is at 300 to 340 which is not um acceptable on the GMC. It's anything from 350 above which is a band of B and the highest you can get is 500 on the far right, you will see the equivalence of the Ielts banding. Um in comparison to the left hand side of the O ET. So A B would give you a seven depending on 352 390 then 400 to 440 would give you a 7.5 and there there on, on the far right of the screen, you can see the references that you can see the O ET um you know, uh guidance from the GMC um in regards to the O ET Thank you next slide um the format for listening and I'll just pass this on to um Jima. Hi guys. I hope everyone can hear me. Um Sorry, can you go to the next slide? Not this one next, sorry, it should say uh listening part A Yeah, that's one. Thank you very much. So I will be going to listening part A with you um Today. Um So the listening part has three parts, part A part B, part C. Um Altogether is approximately 40 minutes as Tas mentioned and it has 42 questions. All the pa parts included. Um Part A has two audio recordings. Um It's usually a conversation between a health care profession, professional and patient. It's consultation. Um part um So it, it lasts about like the audio lasts about 4 to 5 minutes. Um It's divided in part A again, is divided into extract one and extract two with 11 to 6 questions in each extract. Um Altogether it's 12 questions. Um This is ma mostly like fill it in the blanks. Um kind of format of this exam. Can you go to the next slide place? So this is how it looks. So I've just included extract one as an example. Um They give you around 30 seconds at the start to look at the question to read through the questions, um, to fill in the blanks and get yourself familiarized with the, um, your test paper, the test ques, um, the test question paper and then they'll start playing the audio. Uh, you need to fill in your answers as you go on, like, as you listen to the audio because there's not gonna be much time for you to transfer your answers. I did the paper based um and they give, and they give you like a separate paper to fill in your answers and uh another booklet, a question booklet on the side. So you go and fill in your answers in your paper. You can do whatever on your question booklet. It's, it's fine, you can scribble whatever they don't care, but then they're gonna look at your answer sheet. So you need to keep your answer sheet um just for the answers. Uh Yeah. As you, as they play the order you fill in your answers, uh do not put any synonyms of the words that you're gonna be hearing, hearing in the a cause they want what you hear. Um And um it's gonna be like you need to look at the headings of um the questions to know when they're moving on to the next um fill in the blank. Um It's kind of tricky, it's kind of hard but I, when you read it and when, once they play the audio, you will, um we will be able to pick up the prompts um of the headings like how they're going and what they're talking in that moment. Um So that's part a uh unfortunately, I was gonna do a sample um with the, but unfortunately, the audio is not working apologies about that. Um So I'll just be, I'll just quickly explain the parts and I have references uh on the slides, you can go and practice um after the talk. Um Next slide, please. So this is another example of how the paper is gonna look. Um Also another thing I forgot to mention is please do read the instructions um because they mention how many words they would want you to fill in or if they want you to put in numbers or just words. So it's important to read through the instructions. Um because if you go on over the limit of the words that they asked you for, then you lose your point because you just put in a whole sentence and, and to fill in the blank, but they were just looking for one word. So look at the instruction um before you move on to the test, next slide, um next slide, please. OK. So part B um it is similar. Um It has six questions, six audios will be played. Um Each, each audio will be around 45 seconds and you'll have 15 seconds to read your Q each question. Um These will be um workplace conversations, consultations or um just a conversation about patient uh their, their um treatment plan or discharge like if they need to be discharged or not, like it's just those kind of short conversation audio um that's gonna be played and the questions are gonna be multiple choice. Uh You select A B or C whichever is appropriate to um whichever you think is appropriate to the question and the audio being played. Next slide, please. Next slide, please. Um Yeah, next side, please. OK. So this is how the paper is gonna look like. Um So this from question 25 to 36 questions in part B. Um So first they will play the audio for question number 25. Um And then they'll give you 15 2nd before they play, they give you 15 seconds to look at the question and then they will play the audio. Um So you select your answer and put it down on your answer sheet. Your answer sheet for this section will be um what you will have to circle the bubbles. Um I don't know if you ever had experience of um those kind of answer sheets. Um So basically you color in the option that you have selected for that question number. Um So you choose for uh either A or B or C, you c that and then they, they move on to the next question where they'll give you 15 seconds to um look at the question and then they'll play the audio again. They won't give you much time to uh circle your answer. So as you're listening to it, and if you get the answer, you need to quickly transfer that to your answer sheet, next slide piece. Um Yeah. So this is one of the question how it looks like they will say that they will introduce the conversation, what the conversation is gonna be about? They will be like you, you will hear a nurse briefing her colleague about the patient and then the, then the conversation is gonna be played and as the conversation is played, um whatever you think the appropriate answer is you choose that next slide please. Next slide please. And then there's part C, part C has two audios again um and it's um divided into extract one and extract two, extract, one has um six questions. Um extract to also has six questions. Um They give you 90 seconds before they play the audio to for you to familiarize yourself with the questions um on the paper. Um It's also again, multiple choice question. You need to circle whatever answer you picked on your answer paper. Uh It's again an audio um about it could be an interview with a doctor or it could be about consultation. Um It's, it, it's gonna be a medical based um audio that would be played. Um Yeah. Um Yeah. But this uh this part is gonna be kind of tricky because um the first six questions, you will have to mark it as the audio is being played. They won't give you a break like they have given you in part B where each audio, each question has its own audio. This part um each extract is gonna have their own audio but not each question. So as you, you mark question number 31 um and once you're marked, question number 31 you need to look for cues. Um where like you will know that. OK, then moved on to the next question. Um Can you change the slide, please? Next slide. So this is the extract one. So as the first audio is being played, you need, you need to answer all these six questions at the same time. So you need to be quick, you need to be alert um and be able to pick up on the prompts um that they have moved on to the next question or if they're on the same uh or if they're on the first question um next slide, please. Next slide. So for here, uh for example, question number 31 and 32 you'll hear the audio and then they'll be, they'll be talking about like there will be an interview between them or they just be having conversation about whatever topic that mentioned in the question. For example, here they're talking about a disease Um I think, I believe it's Chagas disease they're discussing about Chagas disease. Um So the in you have to wait for a prompt that they moved on to the next question. For example, in this one, it would have been better if the audio worked. Um But you in the audio, there, there was a queue where the interviewer says, right? I see other concerns in the US in the USA about Chagas. So that means concerns. And you can see in question number 32 that the word concerns is mentioned, that means they moved on to the next question. So those kind of quick prompts you need to, you should be able to pick up. So that kind of helps you to know which question they are on. Yeah, next slide please. Next slide, please. Uh I think the listening part is over. I will hand over to doctor T for reading and writing. Thank you. Hi guys. Um So in regards to the oe ti think the two areas that you should pay the most attention on is the reading and the writing um because they are the ones that people tend to do slightly poorly on in regards to the listening and speaking. But here we go. Next slide, please. Um In regards to the reading, there are three subsections within reading. Um There's part A, part B and part C um within part A, it's 15 minutes. It's a very um quick snappy kind of pick up the information and answer the questions. Uh It's around about less than 30 seconds to kind of pick up and answer the question. Um You have a short paragraph. Um I'll put some examples um in a short while on the next slide, you have four short texts and you kind of expeditiously get through those texts by picking up key points and moving on and answering those questions. In part B, they are sh short work ex extracts. They can, they, they're mostly like policy documents, uh hospital guidelines, manuals, internal communications, there's emails and such. Um And you select your answer on a multiple choice answer and extracting information from the small snippets that they give. I'm hoping that the hyperlinks that I've attached will work so I can demonstrate to you as to what I'm talking about B and C. I've provided some examples for part A within the presentation, but for parts B and C, I've um attached some hyperlinks to show you as to how the part B and C work. Uh Part B again. Um There's multiple choice questions but part B and C are a combination of the total questions whereas A is standing on its own at I believe 42 um questions um in total for the reading section. So um if we can go on to the next slide, please. Um So if you can zoom in on some other texts, these are the texts I was referring to, this is an example that's um they're all talking about fractures, bones. Um So this part a oh, sorry. The, the text a is discussing, you know what a dislocation, a fracture and a sprain is. Um you have another text um if you can zoom in into any other one. All right. Thank you. What a simple fra factor is the management plan, the clinical assessment that you would do. Um Another one is the analgesia or the pain relief used. Um This is how you would plaster as to ensuring, so they're all related to fractures. Um So this is what I was saying about the part A where you have to quickly read through this information and answer the questions that are asked. So there's a question within the example where he asked for, what kind of analgesia would you use for pain? So, I mean, in regards to all of these, just as a quick overview, the first one is mentioning what type of breaks you have or fractures or sprains you have. So you wouldn't find the answer for pain management or pain relief in text. A whereas if you were to have a quick overview and see that it's, you know, you know, text C is speaking about ampoules, morphine dosage. So your, your, your, your train of thought would kind of steer you towards sea initially. Anyway. So if you go to see um the next um if you can select, um, the first hyperlink it. I'm hoping it works. Oh, dear. Oops. Yeah. Ok. Um, here we are. Um, this is an example of the reading text. Um, if we go down onto the actual segments for questioning it, you know, here it states there's four examples that I provided on the presentation. Um, they're, they're a quick read. You, you can't stand, you can't stay on these sections far too long. Otherwise you'll lose time. Like I said, it's only 15 minutes. It's around about 30 to 90 seconds per question at the very most. Um, if you scroll all the way down, um, a little bit up. Yeah, sorry. So, um, this is the kind of form that you, that you would have if you're doing the computer based version that I did, it will give you a, um, a tab where you can come in and out and split screen your, your display. So you can have the questions on one side, but you can bring up the text as you're going along. Sometimes it can be an issue. Um, if you're constantly trying to find where you've lost it, but they do give you a, a full tutorial before you begin your computer based O et um, if we go back to the presentation and select the link for B and C, so I can demonstrate as to how B and C are conducted. Yeah, just, um, B and C, please. So, in B and C, you would have information. Um You've got a question at the very top and a snippet of text below it which pertains to the question that you're answering. There's about six questions um that you answer. So this one is um speaking about the manual, um informs you that the BP machine if you go um slightly down, so we can view the text as an example. Um This is, you know, talking about a digital um automatic BP monitor and the information that it gives um is, you know, talking about how the electromagnetic force, uh you know, kind of does it affect the, the reading and then if you go to the questions mirror, please, um it's at the top. Yeah. So it, so as the information here provides, is it a um likely to interfere with operational machines, er may, may not work correctly in close proximity to others um and should not be considered safe to use in the hospital environment. So if you, when you read the segment, it will, it will say that there's no kind of um issues in regards to using it alongside. So, I mean, I would have, I would do a poll but I'm wary of time and I know you guys have been here for a long time. So I thank you for your attention and time this evening. Um So it, it's the answer is that um um but the BP monitor shouldn't interfere with any other hospital um devices or um and should be considered safe to use in a hospital environment. So, c is the one that you would, you would opt for um, once you read the extract, um if we go back to the presentation. Sorry, Murad. Um Yeah, so the second section is the writing. This is the one that I believe that everyone including myself couldn't really get the handle on because I, there's a, um, a set criteria as to how O et and Ielts, um, mark the, the papers, especially the writing, er, side of the papers. We think that we've been through education, whether you've come from the UK or outside of the UK, we believe that we've, we're competent enough to be able to write a letter. Um, as I found out, uh, when I was practicing for my written, um, side of the O, et that I did struggle to kind of. Oh, ok. I know that you put, um, the address and the name and, you know, have a certain format but when it comes to the writing side of the, uh, the written test, there's a certain format that you would, would do and you kind of wanna stay within the 100 100 and 8200. They don't mark it down as such, but you don't wanna overly extend your letter because then you're waffling and you're not, you know, like me, I like to waffle um, so, um, you kind of gotta keep it concise, they will give you, I'll, I'll show you the example of what, what the letters are. They'll either be a discharge letter, a referral or a transfer letter. The discharge letter can be, um, to a GP or the primary care physician of the patient. Um, a referral letter to any specialty. It could be to ap, you know, a phys, a physiotherapist, it can be to a dermatologist. It can be to hematology. It can be to on, it can be a variety of disciplines. It doesn't really matter as such where the patient is being uh referred to. As long as you remember, the, the main bulk of information is pertinent to the case and task that you've been allocated. Um, it's 45 minutes long and you think 45 minutes is a very long time to write a letter. No, it is not. And I also found this out to be very true. In my case, you are, you are told to spend around about five minutes. Reading the information that they've given. The information that they give you is quite extensive. They'll talk about the individuals. I had a woman from my re if I can recall correctly. Uh, a woman that was in her mid to late thirties who had um, dermatological issues was on a few medications was ATV presenter, traveled um via a plane to attend a, uh or carry out her work. So, and then she had idiopathic, um, eczema as a child. Um, and then there was indication that it could be, you know, um, some in a past medical history that they've changed the medication that it could be related to, uh, medication. But since they've changed the medication, the issue still persists. So you've got to look through the medical that they've given you the information that you have the presenting complaints and piece together the information that you think that will be relevant to whomever you're writing the letter to. Um If we go to the um next slide, I believe um these are the six components that you want to bear in mind. If you go on to the O ET site, there is a criteria for writing um purpose, content, conciseness, clarity, genre and style, organization, layer and language. Please um be mindful of your grammar, um complex sentences and try and not to um waffle in the case of like, you know, you introduce your, your patient, you write, you have all your um you dot all your I's and cross your T's as in you place the letter of whom you're referring the patient to. So it could be, you know, doctor BB, for example, and the the hospital or the primary care facility where the patient is going to. And then um um if you go on to the next slide and we're at um So this is an example that we'll work through. But if there's a worked example that's given, um, it's a task that says that use the information and given in the case notes and write a referral letter for future investigations and a definitive diagnosis to the gastroenterologist. Doctor Jason Roberts at Newton Hospital 11 High Street, um, Newtown. So you've already got the, the doctor that you're referring the patient to the hospital that the, where the doctor works at and the address. So as you all are aware, the letter um address goes at the uh at the top left hand corner, you're referring this, this is a gastroenterological issue. So you'll be writing a referral letter to the gastroenterologist. Um You expand on the relevant notes that you find in the case notes. Um Don't, don't use note form like, you know, BP high, you know, don't use cloak or, or short handed term. This is a formal letter. So stay within formal bounds if you go on to the next slide for me, please. Um So this is the example that was, that is given by the O ET site. As you can see on the top left hand corner, it has the um doctor that you're referring to the hospital and the address that this doctor works at. It's important that you keep this information um correct and you're not making a mistake because this is the information that's given to you. Um You'd, yeah, as all letters you date. Um II dated at the day that it was my o et so it makes a bit more sense, um, rather than trying to make one up when you, when you're under time constraint and then you address the, the doctor as dear Doctor Roberts or dear Miss whoever, if they, if it's a referral to a, um, nurse or a PT or a, you know, whoever they ask you to refer it to make sure that their title is relevant to whomever you are referring to. Um you put in a regards line. So it's regarding Miss uh Anne Hall and the date of birth of the patient uh alongside it. So they know exactly who the patient is and their date of birth. So they can allocate, you can have several uh an holes in one practice and you know, it's kind of indicating that you are somebody that's due diligent. So in the introduction. So you ci broke I, as I was going through the material, it says that break it down that you're thanking the um the doctor that's or the, the individual that's taken the referral. You introduced the patient by name. So it's Miss Anne Hall. II wrote the in the full name for my patient. Um then um the age, the occupation um and what you believe that they've come in with and what you're referring them for in the first instant paragraph that you're, you're gonna open up to because doctors get 100s and thousands of letters a day and they don't need to be reading, you know, a, you know, full, full letter to understand who it is, what you want them to investigate and stuff. So the main body of the letter should include everything from the case notes, the, um, what they've been suffering from, what, what's been the issue, what medication they've been on the past medical history, the family history, if any, um, any signs and symptoms and any treatments that you've provided them, that have not alleviated their symptoms, um That's the main bulk. And at the end, you have to state what you are recommending them for because the task is that you're making a referral for this patient for whatever reason. And at the bottom, it says I have recommended that Miss Hall um reduce her, um her intake of alcohol, et cetera, et cetera. I would like, I would be grateful if you could provide Miss Hall with a definitive diagnosis if there's any queries, refer back to you and he sign you off your sincerely doctor, whomever. Um So you have an introduction where you're introducing the patient. Um and all the information that um that is pertinent to that um patient. So it's the ID, the, the issue that they're coming in with the work main body includes um their, you know, the main, the main issues, the, what you've treated them with, um what you've done and what has hasn't worked and then you basically finish it off with the referral of what you ask the individual, whether it's a doctor or AP et there's an example that you have where you're referring the patient to a physiotherapist. So you wouldn't, you wouldn't address the physiotherapist as a doctor. You would address them as they are and you would, you would state that you would want them to deal with them as the task suggests. So I know that's a very quick overlook. And if you have any questions, do, please pop them into the chat box and I'm more than happy to answer your questions. Um It's, it's quite simple if you stick to, uh, a set format for the letter, um, you can't really go wrong, try not to kind of overcomplicate the situation. Don't include information that's not relevant. So if she fell and broke her knee at the age of five, it's not relevant to a gastroenterologists point of view. Um, but what would be relevant if she was being referred to trauma and orthopedic and she had pain in her leg, that would be then pertinent to that case, that she broke her leg when she was five and she has ongoing issues or there's been an injury to that site already. So only use the information that you believe that is relevant. I don't believe that they mark you down. There's a criteria set on the o et guideline to state, um, the purpose intent clarity, consolidation, um conscious er wording, um gen genre and style um and such and they break it down as to the way they grade you and how you, how they believe that the letter has been written. And if you go to the the topmost section and follow that through, it should bring you to achieving um the highest points on your written side of your exam. Hello, Doctor Jimma. OK. Thank you so much, Tas for that. Um I will go ahead and talk about speaking. Thank you everyone for being patient. Uh I think the feedback form has been posted in the chat. If you all can, if everyone can take a minute and fill it out, it would be great to have for everyone who has presented today. Um So the speaking part is very simple. It lasts for about 20 minutes uh approximately like 15 to 20 minutes. Um So the speaking start part starts with warm up, warm up will be just basic conversation between you and the um examiner uh in the room. Uh The warm up is not marked. It's just to um kind of ease you into the speaking test. Um The warm up uh is gonna be for two minutes. The examiner is just gonna be basically asking about you, questions about your background, but questions about the profession that you cho you chose. Um My questions were basically why did you choose medicine? Uh Do you like working in the hospital. Um How do you treat your patients? How do you like uh being a doctor, et cetera, et cetera. Just simple questions. These are recorded but it's not marked. Um And then next slide please. And the part that is gonna be marked is the role place. You'll have two role plays. Um Each role play will last from 4 to 5 minutes. Um You will have a preparation time fo uh from two minutes to three minutes um where you will be given the role play card um and will be asked to like prepare yourself on um on the given scenario um that you were going to be present in. Um So the three steps that you can um you should follow in this role play is, is first step, is initiating the conversation. Uh Second step is maintaining the conversation. Third step is concluding the conversation. This is the three aspects that you will require to follow through both the role play, uh Both the role plays um that is given to you. Um Next slide, please. So this is how the replay card is gonna look like they're gonna mention what setting you are in, if you're in a clinic, if you're in, in the hospital, in the emergency department, et cetera, and then on, um and then they will mention what the scenario is, who your patient is. The de the small details about your patient. Like if it's the first consultation or if it's, if you're um following up after like a month or so here, you can see that it's um a follow up after um an incident of M I um myocardial infraction and your patient is a 45 year old patient. Um Before starting the role play, you can ask your examiner if you are, see if it's not mentioned on, on your scenario. Um You can ask your examiner if it's the first time that you're seeing them or um this as a follow up consultation. So that in that way you can be more uh kind of like be more friendlier or, or like introduce yourself or get to know them uh again from like start to the end. Um And then on the ta task section, you will see uh bulletin points of the questions that you will need to cover in your consultation in the role play. Um I, what I do is I highlight the prompts uh for each bulletin point. For example, the first bulletin point, it's a is saying, find out the reason for visit. So find is the prompt of the question. And in the second one, for uh for example, um in the second uh bulletin point, um you can see that you need to reassure the patient that's, that's going to be a prompt. And in the third line, you can third line of the second bulletin point, you can see that um you need to emphasize the importance of exercise. So that's another prompt. So you just highlight the prompts quickly in the given in the given preparation time. So it's, it's easy for you to go through the points quick, quick uh with the patient. Um this patient, uh this role play is gonna be inactive between you and the examiner. Um So basically what you have been taught through med school um in your commu if you have a communication class, we had a communication class where we were taught to um do like uh we were taught how to communicate with the patient with like open questions, close questions, uh how to explain and how your body language and everything should be. So it's basically the same knowledge that you're applying here in this um exam. Um Next slide please. So there are two criterias that you will be assessed on. The first criteria is the linguistic criteria basically same as how o ET is um the correct um the points that they're gonna be um looking for is your grammar, your pronunciation, your fluency. Um And if you are able to like um move swiftly and like without uh any interruptions, without any difficulty in speech, you can uh kind of like how I start, like I say, uh uh uh you can do that. That's not a problem. But if you get stuck for in, in a place for longer time, that's gonna be looked a bit negatively. So just talk as slow as possible. You don't have to finish the whole role play. It's OK. They will stop you. It's the same as oa, if you cannot finish the conversation, that's fine. It's just they are testing if you are able to uh speak. Um Well, your pronunciation is good. Your fluency is good. You're using the current uh current grammar or not is they're just testing you on all of those. They're not testing you if you're finishing on time or not, um They're not testing you on your um accent uh either. So that's OK. Just take your time, just speak um slowly if that's gonna help you um from not being stuck. Um The next slide please. And then the second criteria is communication skills. So um they will see if you are building your relationship with the patient, you're providing a proper structure, like you're following the proper structure of this role play if you're gathering information that you need. And if you're giving the information, um So giving the information would be um explaining them um about um the treatment plan. For example, what we have seen earlier, like they said, to emphasize that exercise is important. So you have to give information about exercise. There will be topics like um to ha like explain uh how a bronchodilator like the inhaler is taken or how, why aspirin is needed. So those kind of tho those kind of like basic topics, um you will be asked to explain uh in your role play card. Uh So just look at the basic uh medical topics, the which is like asthma or heart attacks, which are the main two scenarios that pop out for these role plays. So just get yourself femor and give the information in most basic, simple words, don't um use high level medical language because this is the patient, a patient who might not have a fully developed um like full medical knowledge uh to comprehend big, big words that we use in our medical settings as doctors. So just give the information in simple words. Um and then gathering information um which we practice every day by history taking. So it's basically that um you're just using that next slide, please. Yeah, that's it for the speaking. Thank you, everyone for being patient and listening to all of us. Thank you guys for your patience as Jima said. Um So we're gonna quickly go through our Q and A because I know you guys are tired. Uh Please fill in your feedback forms. Um We've already got some really good feedback from the forms. We know that maybe the title Misled some of you. That was not our intention, but we did say this was a blueprint. Um not a Masterclass. Uh We do have TIPSS, so the slide will be provided and we've put our TIPSS on there. Um So we do have tips for you as you right now on the stage on the slide, you can see the resources that we used um for the Ielts and later on on the slides as well. The O et I'm sure they've provided their resources. Um Just to answer a few of your questions because we do have a few before we go. Um which is better owing to your ielts. That is completely up to you personally. For me, Ielts is better because like Jemima, like Jemima said, at the start of the Ielts talk, if you're used to a G CSE or um your sat in England, then the Ielts is similar to that. And I'm very used to that. I did quite well at that not to brag. But so I knew that that style of um that style of questioning would be better for me than to do discharge forms that we weren't taught in my medical school. So I wasn't about to attempt it. And also I also had to factor in money and the O ET was just too expensive for me to do immediately. And then if I failed it to pay again that amount of money, so taking like what you think you're very good at, in terms of writing and if you think you're better at medical knowledge, then do the O ET. But if you think you're OK with generalized um English exams that Ielts might be for, you also factor in um the money aspect and also factor in if there is a place near you to do the O ET or to do the Ielts. So for us, luckily we had an Ielts Center in Sophia, but I know that some people, um, will have to travel, I know a couple of people travel to Romania to do. Um either the IE LT or the O ET. So also distance and location. You have to factor what happens if you don't pass your, um the first time redo it, that's what happens. How soon can you retake as soon as you can pay redo it? Um So someone said, when should you do the test? I personally think for people who go to P pla our, our um end of year is in February. I personally think that you should do it before sometime during your sixth year per, preferably during the least busiest of your stars rotation. That would be the ideal time for you. But this um the Ielts and I believe the ot last for two years. So you could do it in your fifth year pass and then um hold onto it and apply for the licensing and when you graduate, it would still be there, um you can do it anytime you can do it anytime, anytime you can do it is up to you. It lasts for two years. Um Regarding to the Ot Ielts exam is don't update. Yeah. Um The speakers in the last talk, the speaker said we might have to do it honestly. That has not been, that has not been, um, clarified yet and that's something you'd have to ask the GMC. Um, whether or not they're willing to that. So, yeah, you'd have to, you can email the GMC and ask them if they're scrapping the ielts and the O ET but so far that has not been confirmed at all. Um Yeah, so yeah, double check and call the GMC. Um, If there are no other questions, let me just wrap this up because I feel like we've held on to you for a long time. As I said again, please fill in the um feedback forms and also please follow us on Instagram. Um We do have more events coming up which you and check out on which we'll be posting on our Instagram page. We also do have previous events that we've done that might be useful to you such as immigrating to um Switzerland, Ireland the UK. Um We've got some surgical skills talk and our next talk is going to be um one of our future talks is going to be about how you can improve your clinical skills during your med school years with the little resources. Um So, thank you so much guys. Um Have a good evening and thank you for sorry about the OE. Oh, another question. Would you recommend any online course for OE? Um the recommendation that I gave to Jima was the E two. learning and it's like you can access a lot of their material on their website and there's a lot of content on youtube. Please do make sure that they are verified um companies that cover it. So um E two and O ET themselves are the best resources to use. Yeah. Um your O et uh account also should um give you some sample papers that you can try out and even E two when you sign up for a free trial account, they sh they will give you sample papers to practice. Um And E two also provides um classes or resources for you to get better at all. Right. Uh Thank you, everyone. Please do fill in the feedback forms. They're really helpful for us to know what we should do better and what we should do next. Um We thank you for your time. Um A resource for Ielts that I used and that was really helpful for me is Ielts Advantage. Um They have a youtube channel, they have a website. I would take a look and watch as many videos and read as many articles as you can. Um Also with Ielts, I would say um ensure that the resources you're using are made by people who are Ielts examiners. There are a lot of Ielts teachers online, but it's i it's the best idea to make sure that the people you're listening to have actually examined Ielts papers before. Um So, yeah, I'd say Ielts. Advantage is really helpful also for writing, I'd say for Ielts, if you're able to, if you're financial situation allows you to, I'd say get your work marked. It's advantage to have, uh, um, they have a, they have a package where you can get some, um, essays marked just because it's good to know what your level is. Um, and the people who mark them again are Ielts examiners. Um, so how much is it for the Ielts? The Ielts was about 480 LEV. I believe so. Like 50 sorry, 450 LEV. I think so around 500 LEV or so. Um But yeah, thank you very much pounds. That's about 100 and it was less than 200 lbs. And for some reason when I did mine, I saw that, um, the prices are not exactly the same. So when you go to the British Council website, um, do check the prices tend to be the same everywhere when they, when they are converted to pounds. But for some reason, one of mine was cheaper. So I went for the cheaper one. It was only cheaper by a few pounds but cheaper is cheaper. Um Also something I'd like to point out before we leave. II like to providers when I put up the poll question for the, listen, I saw that people were already answering it before the question had e the answer to the question had even been asked and I would recommend you not to do that. Don't rely on what you think your knowledge is on the subject, but listen to the audio and let the audio play before you answer because you some, if you got it right. But what if it wasn't an egg that was being broken? So, um, yeah, just make sure you pay attention and read the questions. How long are both ielts and ot valid for two years? Two years from the day you pass it. All right. I think maybe we can now um say goodbye to you. Thank you guys so much for joining us. Have a good day or have a good night.