OET Reading Part C Patient Safety

   OET Reading Part C  Patient Safety



 OET Reading Part C assesses your ability to understand the complex  texts on healthcare topics. The questions are designed to test your skills in understanding explicit and implicit meaning.


OET Reading Part C has 6 Different Types of Questions


Views and Opinion focused questions

1. Opinion

2. Attitude

3. Impressions/Details

4. Conclusion Drawn 

Lexical Question

5. Vocabulary

6. Reference


They include:

1. Gist type: Based on Topic Sentence

2. Synonym-based Questions 

3. Contrast-word based Questions

4. Paraphrase-based Questions

5. Elimination based Questions


How to do Part C

Step 1: Identify the keyword (kw) of the question

Step 2: Go to the Text and locate the kw and read that sentence of  the paragraph and understand it.

Step 3. Return to the Answer Choices (ac) and underline the keywords of ac in A,B,C,D.

Step 4. Check each ac against the text.

Step 5: Elimination to confirm the answer.



 Text C1: Patient Safety


Question 7. What point is made about the death of a female patient   called Mary ?


Method of Doing:

Step 1: Identify the keyword/s (kw) of the question.  

i. death of a female patient; ii. Mary

Step 2: Go to the first paragraph and locate the kws and read that sentence of  the paragraph and understand it.

Text: 

Paragraph 1. In a well-documented case in November 2004, a female patient called Mary was admitted to a hospital in Seattle , USA, to receive treatment for a brain aneurysm. What followed was a tragedy, made worse by the fact that it needn't have occurred at all. The patient was mistakenly injected with the antiseptic chlorhexidine. It happened, the hospital says, because of 'confusion over the three identical stainless steel bowls in the procedure room containing clear liquids - chlorhexidine, contrast dye and saline solution'. Doctors tried amputating one of Mary's legs to save her life, but the damage to her organs was too great: she died 19 days later.


Step 3. Return to the Answer Choices (ac) and underline the keywords of ac in A,B,C,D.


Question 7. What point is made about the death of a female patient   called Mary ?

A. It was entirely preventable

B. Nobody was willing to accept the blame.

C. Surgeons should have tried harder to save her life.

D. It is the type of incident which is becoming increasingly common.


 Step 4. Check each ac with the text:

A. It was entirely preventable:

Explanation: Text reads "... it needn't have occurred at all".

[ " needn't" = not necessarily

" have (to)" = strong obligation imposed by external factors.

At all = expressing firm opinion = entirely (Qtn)

Therefore, ac A " It was entirely preventable" is synonymous with the text "it needn't have occurred at all"

Question: 7 - A  

Step 5: Elimination

B. Nobody was willing to accept the blame.

Explanation: Not referred to in the Text

C. Surgeons should have tried harder to save her life.

Explanation: The statement in ac is wrong because the Text says: "Doctors tried amputating one of Mary's legs to save her life, but the damage to her organs was too great ......" 

D. It is the type of incident which is becoming increasingly common.

Explanation: No reference to it in the text.

Answer Choice A is right 

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