Almost every student who ever intend to apply for a Skilled Job Migration visa often have to face the choice whether to take OET, IELTS or CCL.

Now to help you with a better and informed decision, we will provide some explanation about each test and its suitability for you before you spend money for each test.

PTE:

IELTS: This test aims to test your four skills in English competency: Reading, Speaking, Writing and Listening. To gain 10 points for Migration and summon enough 60 points to express your interest for Point-based Skill Migration Visa (subclass 189,190 and 489), IELTS Band 7 or OET B is often required.

For students who have a very high proficiency with English grammar or majoring in English at your university level, Band 7 in writing is an achievable target. However, for students majoring in Engineering, Economics or any non-linguistic fields, Band 7 in Writing is sometimes very hard to achieve, especially when most of your lecturers during university study just focus on yourexpertise knowledge rather than fixing your mistake in English language.

There are many grammatical and syntactical mistakes in students’ writing which stay with a student during their university study without ever being corrected by their lecturers. These mistakes will prevent them from achieving their band 7. Therefore, it is recommended that you should have a proper English teacher to fix your essay or help you with your grammar before you attempt any IELTS Test. Without about 10-20 hours for intensively reviewing English grammar, there is no chance for a student to move their Writing band from IELTS.

So if your requirement is Band 7 in all 4 skills, you need to improve your grammar before you can hope for Band 7 writing. There will be no luck that can happen overnight for Writing if you aim for Band 7 if you take at least 3 attempts and your writing is always 6. You need to identify your fields of weakness and improve this with a structured Writing course of at least 45 hours.

If your writing skill is weak and you don’t feel confident of that, or if you only constantly get Band 6 for your IELTS writing and there is only 2 weeks left for you to cram any Grammar knowledge, then you better try CCL Interpreting Level 2 as they may require less attention on English Grammar, but more on your eloquence and Speaking skill in both languages.

CCL: This is the test for candidates who want to can gain 5 points for your Point-based Skill Migration Visa (subclass 189,190 and 489). The test not only aims at your interpreting skill but also test your confidence and the endurance required in an interpreter through a test of almost 30 minutes. Most topics involve community-related issues such as medicine, patient-doctor conversation, immigration, legal context or banking.

If you do not have high level of proficiency in English Writing, and have not beenn successful in many attempts to gain Band 8 in IELTS Writing, but your speaking skill both in your native language and English language are quite advanced, you are recommended to try CCL Test.

CCL is very suitable for students who are confident in public speaking, calm, can handle high level of stress and have good memory and good use of vocabulary in both languages.

If your public speaking skill, note-taking skill and your confidence are not your strength, we don’t recommend you to try this test. It is important to understand that CCL is not only a test of your language competency, but more than that, it is a test to show you have ability to interpret for your community, so if you don’t show the calmness and ability to handle stress and unexpected situation in the test, it is very unlikely that you can pass the test however excellent your language skill is.

If your English proficiency is too low (under Band 6) you will never pass CCL Test at the first attempt and may need about 40-60 hours of very attentive study just to improve your language proficiency alone.

OET: This testis an international English language test that assesses the language and communication skills of healthcare professionals who want to register and practise in an English-speaking environment. There are 12 professions that can use this test to register and pass their assessment before applying for their Skilled Nominated Visa in Australia.

The test can help students to achieve 10 Points for your Skilled Job Immigration application if Students can score B, not C.

The candidates are not only required to have a good language proficiency, but also communication skill to handle difficult situations and/or conflict in case studies at hospitals or clinics. Therefore, apart from good command of English, knowledge of real working environments in Australian medical https://antibioticspro.com institutions is also very important to pass the test. Doing many OET Practice tests again and again will not simply help, but candidate also need to detect and improve their current problems in their English grammar to obtain the required mark (B for OET).

As long as students can detect their field of problems (grammar, or lack of reading skill, poor writing skill or nervousness in speaking), and willing to spend quality time to fix these issues, they will be able to achieve the desired band within 100-200 hours of training and self-study.

So think carefully before you choose your test, and devote time to improve your proficiency. Everything is possible with a correct strategy, enough time or preparation and determination, so try your best to get what you deserve!

Dr Na Pham (Linguistics) – Director of Sydney Language Solutions,

www.sydneylanguagesolutions.com.au

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