Failing the AKT costs £470 plus months of additional preparation. Before starting resit revision, diagnose why you failed — because "doing more questions" without changing your approach is unlikely to produce a different result.
Step 1: Analyse Your RCGP Feedback
The RCGP provides domain-level and topic-area feedback. Identify whether you were below standard in clinical medicine, evidence-based practice, or organisational management — and which specific topic areas within those domains.
Step 2: Classify Your Failure Pattern
Pattern A: Broad clinical knowledge gaps. You scored poorly across multiple clinical specialties. Root cause: insufficient question exposure, or questions done without learning from wrong answers. Fix: systematic Q-bank reset with active learning — Passmedicine or Pastest as primary bank, every wrong answer verified against CKS/BNF, iatroX adaptive quiz daily for targeted weak-area drilling.
Pattern B: Domain neglect. You scored well in clinical medicine but poorly in EBP and/or organisational domains. Root cause: you revised clinical questions and ignored the 20% that covers statistics, audit, contracts, and governance. Fix: dedicated EBP and organisational revision blocks. Source specific materials for these domains — Emedica's admin/stats resources, RCGP organisational content, Ask iatroX for specific queries on NHS governance frameworks.
Pattern C: Exam technique. You did not finish the exam, you changed correct answers under pressure, or you misread question stems. Root cause: insufficient timed mock exam practice. Fix: weekly full-length timed mocks (160 questions, 2h40m), exam strategy coaching (Arora or Emedica).
Step 3: Change Something
Do not just restart the same Q-bank from question 1. Change your approach: if you used Passmedicine alone, add Pastest for explanation depth. If you revised passively (reading questions without verifying answers), add active verification via CKS/BNF. If you never took timed mocks, start. If you never used adaptive tools, add iatroX.
The principle: identify what was missing from your first-attempt strategy, and add it.
Step 4: Attempt Management
Maximum attempts: 4 or 6 depending on training start date. Plan your resit timing to allow genuine improvement — rushing to the next diet without changing your approach wastes an attempt.
Where iatroX Fits
iatroX's adaptive engine is specifically designed to identify and resurface weak topics — exactly what a resit candidate needs. Free to start immediately, so you can redirect budget to additional resources for your weakest domains.