(2024) OET Listening Part A – Test 1

Question

In this part of the test, you’ll hear two different extracts. In each extract, a health professional is talking to a patient.

For questions 1-24, complete the notes with information that you hear.

Now, look at the notes for extract one.

Extract 1: Questions 1-12

You hear a GP talking to a patient about her pregancy. For question 1 to 12, complete the following notes with a word or short phrases.

You have 30 seconds to look at the notes

Patient: Maria

Reason for Appointment: Routine pregnacy check at (1)……..

Medical History:
• Previously (2)….…. male child (8 years ago)
• No other pregnancies
• No history of (3)……..

Family History
• Type 2 diabetes
• First degree relative with condition (4)……..

Examination
• Pregnancy weight gain
• Urine dipstick test

Detected:
• (5)……… (high sugar level)
• No evidence of (6)……..
• At risk for (7)……..

Next Steps and possible treatment
• Requires (8)……..
• Self-monitoring of (9)……..
• dietary&insulin therapy
• potential effects on Baby & Mother Baby
• possibly (10)…….….than normal
• Increased chance of (11)……..
• future development of types 2 diabetes mother
• May get (12)……..
• diabetes may not a away after delivery

Extract 2: Question 13 to 24

You hear a GP talking to a woman about heavy menstrual bleeding. For question 13 to 24, complete the following notes with a word or short phrases.

You have 30 seconds to look at the notes

Patient: Mrs Peters
Reason for Appointment:
• Menorrhagia, heavy periods
• Interrupting her daily life
• Worried about absence from (13)………
Medical History:
• Menstruation began at (14)…….. (regular cycles)
• (15)…….. started 7 days prior
• No issues with (16) ……..
• No spotting
• Married over last 3 years (17).…… with one partner since
• No history of STI
• Stopped (18).….. (the pill) 6 months ago

• Normal result for last (19) …….. (2.5 years ago)
• No recent changes in health
• Not on any (20)…

Diagnosis:
• Likely condition: (21)……..
• Possible cause: (22)…….. (although unlikely due to patient’s age)

Investigations:
• Pregnancy test
• Blood tests(23)…….. to eliminate common causes

Suggested Treatment:
• Reason for suggestion: Patient is trying to conceive
• Treatment option: Tranexamic acid (because it is a treatment)(24) ……..

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