About Our OET Writing Correction Service
Since 2014, our team of Dr Mariam (PhD in English) and our trained OET/IELTS writing team has corrected over 11,000 writing tasks for healthcare professionals worldwide. Every correction is aligned to the official assessment criteria developed by Cambridge Boxhill Language Assessment Trust.
Dr. Mariam — Lead OET & IELTS Examiner
Dr. Mariam is the senior teacher and reviewer behind the guidance on this site. An English Professor with a PhD, she has been teaching English for over 20 years — including 15 years specialising in IELTS Writing and more than a decade specialising in OET Writing. She originally trained and taught in the United Kingdom and is now based in Alexandria, Egypt.
She has personally helped several thousand healthcare professionals — nurses, doctors, pharmacists, dentists, and allied health practitioners — reach Grade B and beyond. Her corrections and study guidance follow the official Cambridge Boxhill Language Assessment criteria for OET and the British Council band descriptors for IELTS.
- PhD in English · 20+ years teaching
- 15 years specialising in IELTS Writing across Academic and General Training modules
- 10+ years specialising in OET Writing across all 12 OET professions
- Several thousand students helped to reach their target score
- Trained and taught in the UK; currently based in Alexandria, Egypt
What You Can Expect
Writing corrections that fit your life and goals.
11,000+
OET & IELTS letters corrected
97%
of students improve after 3+ corrections
4.9/5
average rating from 1,900+ reviews
10+
years of OET assessment experience
What is OET and Why Does Writing Matter?
The Occupational English Test (OET) is an international English language test designed specifically for healthcare professionals. Developed in partnership with Cambridge Boxhill Language Assessment Trust, OET assesses language proficiency in real healthcare communication scenarios. The writing sub-test requires candidates to produce a clinical letter — typically a referral, discharge, or transfer letter — in 40 minutes.
OET is recognised by healthcare regulators in the United Kingdom (NMC, GMC, GPhC), Australia (AHPRA, Nursing and Midwifery Board), New Zealand (Medical Council, Nursing Council), Ireland (NMBI, Medical Council), Singapore, Dubai, and Ukraine. Grade B (a score of 350 out of 500) is the minimum requirement for most healthcare registration pathways.
Writing is consistently the most challenging sub-test for candidates because it requires not just English proficiency, but clinical communication competence. According to our analysis of 11,000+ corrected letters, the most common reason for scoring below Grade B is weak content selection and unclear purpose — not poor grammar.
"After reviewing thousands of OET letters, I can say that the difference between Grade C and Grade B is rarely about grammar. It is about whether the candidate can select the right information, write for the right reader, and structure a letter that a real clinician would find useful. That is what our corrections focus on."
Our Approach
Every correction is performed by a certified teacher — not AI or automated grammar software. Our correctors are trained on the official OET assessment criteria (in place since August 2018) and provide feedback across all six areas: Purpose, Content, Conciseness & Clarity, Genre & Style, Organisation & Layout, and Language.
We also provide IELTS writing corrections for candidates preparing for academic and general training modules. Both OET and IELTS corrections follow the same standard: detailed, criterion-referenced feedback from qualified human assessors.