OET Speaking practice for nurses. You speak, the patient answers out loud — and doesn't simply agree with you. Afterwards: a band estimate across the nine criteria, and the exact moments worth hearing again.
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Why this exists
Reading and Listening you can do with a book at 11pm after a shift. Speaking needs somebody on the other side of the conversation — and a tutor costs more than most nurses can spend twice a week, and is never free when your shift is.
So most candidates walk into the exam having practised the one interactive sub-test the least. That is the whole problem, and it is the only problem WardTalk is trying to solve.
I know I'm not fluent enough. What I don't know is where I lose it — which sentence, which second. The sentence behind every design decision here
How a session runs
A ward scenario with a setting, three tasks and a patient. Three minutes on the clock, the way the exam gives them to you — or skip it if you're ready.
Hold to talk, let go, and the patient answers out loud. They have their own worry and they don't simply agree with you — which is the part a script can't do.
A band estimate across the nine criteria, a sentence of reasoning behind each one, and the specific moments — with the audio — worth hearing again.
What's different
The silences and the "um"s come from arithmetic over the word timings in your own recording — not from asking a model how long you paused for. Ask a model that question and it invents a number, and a different one each time. So when the app says four point two seconds, it means four point two seconds.
1:18·4.2s silence· measured, not estimatedEvery other tool covers a dozen professions and advertises thousands of scenarios. You'll do maybe forty sessions before your exam; the rest were never for you anyway. Twenty cards, each written by hand, each one sounding like a ward you've actually worked on.
You're preparing for one date, not subscribing to a habit. So the main plan runs until your exam and then stops on its own — and it's priced for a nurse's salary in the country they're actually in, not a London one.
The band you get here is an estimate, worked out from the publicly published OET criteria. It is not an official score, it cannot promise you one, and WardTalk is not affiliated with OET or CBLA in any way.
What it can do is tell you where you're losing marks while there's still time to fix it — and show you the working, so you can disagree with it.
Launching December 2026
Testing starts in November. Nurses with an exam date in the next few months go first — that's when the feedback is worth most.