Changes in OET scores for NMC Regsitration

The Nursing and Midwifery Council UK has approved Occupation English Test (OET) writing score to “C+” for overseas nurses’ registration. The overseas nurses were supposed to score B in all modules of OET until now. As a part of the ongoing overseas nurses’ registration review, the NMC has lowered the score of writing score of IELTS to 6.5 from 7.0 in November 2018. Whereas, the overseas nurses had to Score B in all modules in OET. A lot of applicants who chose OET over IELTS were struggling to score B in writing by this difference in score consideration.

This change would be effective from 28 January 2020. The candidates who possess the results of OET taken after January 2018 (with in the last 2 years) will be eligible to start their registration in January 2020. This means, all overseas nurses who are applying with the new score criteria would have to wait until January 2020 to start their NMC application.

This new decision of the NMC will provide a great sigh of relief to the aspiring overseas nurses who are really anxious about their career, future and life in the UK.

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