This plan is for final-year UK medical students and Foundation doctors who have Geeky Medics and want a disciplined route through the Prescribing Safety Assessment (PSA) rather than an aimless grind. It assigns one job to each feature, starts from a blueprint-stratified baseline, and ends on measurable exit criteria. The principal limitation to design around: Geeky Medics is a fixed bank, so it teaches and drills well but cannot, by itself, prove your knowledge transfers to unseen, timed items.
What Geeky Medics offers for the PSA right now
Vendor-reported unless attributed to the exam body; last checked 19 July 2026.
| Feature | What we found (vendor-reported, 19 July 2026) |
|---|---|
| Question bank | 600+ human-written questions across all eight PSA question types |
| Mocks | Three timed mock papers with speciality breakdowns |
| Notes | 350+ concise topic summaries; topic snippets beside explanations |
| Videos | Recorded PSA teaching webinars |
| AI / adaptive | None advertised — a fixed bank, not an adaptive product |
| Analytics | Performance tracking; filtering by speciality and question category |
| Prescription interface | Writing task designed to match the official on-screen format |
| Price / access | Not published on the pages we reviewed — verify on the Geeky Medics product page |
The PSA blueprint and official practice papers
The PSA, delivered by BPS Assessment for the British Pharmacological Society with the Medical Schools Council, is 60 items in two hours, marked out of 80, and sat by final-year students and some F1s; a pass lasts two years. Its eight question types — Prescribing, Prescription Review, Planning Management, Providing Information, Calculation Skills, Adverse Drug Reactions, Drug Monitoring and Data Interpretation — run across seven clinical domains (Medicine, Surgery, Elderly Care, Paediatrics, Psychiatry, Obstetrics & Gynaecology and General Practice). The pass mark is set by Modified Angoff each diet. Prescribing and Prescription Review carry the most marks, so weight your effort by marks, not by question count. The official prescribing practice papers are your calibration standard; because they are finite, a bank supplies the extra volume — check the current blueprint on the official PSA site rather than a third-party summary.
One job per feature
Four features that all feel like studying can quietly become four versions of the same passive activity. Prevent that by naming a single job for each:
| Feature | Its one job | Not its job |
|---|---|---|
| Analytics dashboard | Diagnosis — find the weak question types and specialities | Measuring readiness (it tracks your practice, not the exam) |
| Notes and webinars | Teaching — close a specific named gap | Default reading when you are unsure what to do |
| Question bank | Retrieval — drill identified weaknesses | Endless first-pass volume for its own sake |
| Three mocks | Simulation — timed measurement near the exam | Content delivery in week one |
| Unseen items (external) | Transfer measurement — prove it stuck | Casual practice |
If a study session is not doing one of these named jobs, stop and re-point it.
Start with a blueprint-stratified baseline
Do not follow the platform's default order. Begin with a short, deliberately stratified sample — a handful of items from each of the eight question types — and record accuracy by type. This baseline chooses your modules for you: it tells you, on evidence, whether your problem is Calculation Skills, Drug Monitoring, Data Interpretation or something else, rather than letting you default to the Prescribing items you already find comfortable. Twenty to thirty minutes spent here saves days of misdirected drilling.
Build the weekly sequence: learn, test, retest, integrate
Run the same loop each week, aimed only at what the baseline flagged:
- Learn the gap. Read only the notes for the specific weak type, or watch one targeted webinar. No broad re-reading.
- Test it. 30–50 bank questions in that type, tutor mode, constructing full prescriptions where relevant.
- Retest later. Re-drill the same concept two or three days on, using different items where possible.
- Integrate. Fold the recovered type into a mixed, timed block so it has to survive alongside everything else.
The order matters: learn narrow, test immediately, space the retest, then integrate. Skipping the integration step is why some candidates ace single-topic sets and still stumble on a mixed paper.
Protect the unseen questions and full mocks
Your three mocks and any still-unseen items are assessment assets, not study fodder. Spend a mock and it can never again give you a clean, unseen, timed reading. Ration them: one early, to set a realistic baseline for pacing and marks; the others held for the final fortnight, one per week, reviewed by error type. If you find yourself opening a mock because you are bored of drilling, close it — that is the moment the plan is trying to prevent.
Set switch criteria between features
Decide in advance what moves you between features, based on observed errors rather than mood:
- Notes → Q-bank once you can state the corrected rule in a sentence. Understanding is not the finish line; retrieval is.
- Q-bank → mixed block once a single-type set is consistently above your target and no longer teaching you anything.
- Q-bank → official practice paper when your errors are about pacing and stamina rather than knowledge.
- Any feature → SmPC/eMC the moment an explanation and your memory disagree on a dose, interval or interaction — verify against the primary source.
Exit criteria
You are ready to stop building and start finishing when all of the following hold, and not merely when the bank is "complete":
- Coverage — you have drilled all eight question types and all seven domains, not just the comfortable ones.
- Stable first-attempt performance — your accuracy on unseen items has plateaued at an acceptable level across several sittings, not just risen on re-seen items.
- Pacing — you can finish 60 marks-dense items inside two hours with time to check calculations.
- Non-MCQ competence — you can construct a correct prescription and navigate a medicines reference at speed, not only pick a best answer.
Miss any one of these and you have a specific, named job left — which is more useful than a vague sense of "more revision".
Worked example: a seven-day plan
Geeky Medics does teaching and drilling; iatroX supplies the fresh, unseen, timed measurement. No proprietary-algorithm claims — this is sequencing.
- Day 1 — Baseline. Blueprint-stratified 30-item iatroX block across all eight types. Record accuracy by type.
- Day 2 — Learn. Geeky Medics notes/webinar for your two weakest types only.
- Day 3 — Drill. 40–50 Geeky Medics items in those types, writing full prescriptions.
- Day 4 — Numeracy. A dedicated set on Calculation Skills and Drug Monitoring; verify doses against the SmPC/eMC.
- Day 5 — Retest transfer. Fresh, unseen iatroX block on the same types; compare with Day 1.
- Day 6 — Simulate. One Geeky Medics mock under strict two-hour timing; review by error type.
- Day 7 — Integrate. Mixed timed block; log residual misconceptions with review dates.
The pivot is Day 5 — measuring on unseen items, which a single fixed bank cannot do for you.
Three mistakes this plan is designed to stop
Following the default order instead of letting a baseline choose your modules — comfortable topics crowd out the numeric ones. Spending the mocks as content early, leaving no clean measurement near the exam. Reading your bank percentage as your exam score — familiarity inflates it; transfer on unseen items is the real signal, as set out in Your Q-Bank Percentage Is Not Your Exam Score.
Continue, supplement, switch or stop
- Continue if you have unattempted question types and your unseen scores are still climbing.
- Supplement once you have completed a full pass and your only remaining data is re-attempting seen items — add an unseen, timed source.
- Switch primary bank only for measurable reasons: repeated errors against current guidance, or an interface that blocks blueprint-stratified practice.
- Stop a feature when it no longer changes your unseen performance — re-reading the same summary a fourth time is sunk-cost studying.
Bottom line
Geeky Medics is a capable engine for a structured PSA plan: analytics to diagnose, notes and webinars to teach, a broad bank to drill, a real prescription interface, and three mocks to simulate. Run it as a loop — baseline first, learn narrow, test, space the retest, integrate — protect the mocks, and finish on measurable exit criteria. Add a small volume of official practice papers for calibration and an unseen source for transfer, and the one thing a fixed bank cannot do for you is covered.
Frequently asked questions
Is Geeky Medics enough for the PSA on its own? For many organised final-year students it is enough to reach a solid standard, because it covers all eight question types, includes a genuine prescription interface, and provides three timed mocks. The gap is structural: once you have worked through the bank, re-attempting seen items measures memory, not readiness, so most candidates add official practice papers for calibration and an unseen source for measurement. Confirm the current price and licence length on the Geeky Medics product page, as these were not published on the pages we reviewed on 19 July 2026.
Which PSA component does Geeky Medics not reproduce well? The two least reproducible are sustained two-hour time pressure and realistic at-speed navigation of the exam's on-screen medicines reference. The bank teaches the content and its interface handles the writing task, but only the three mocks give the full timed experience, and no third-party product perfectly mirrors the exam's reference. Practise looking up doses and interactions quickly against the SmPC/eMC rather than from memory.
How many Geeky Medics questions should I complete per day for the PSA? There is no official figure and quantity is not the goal. For most candidates, 30–50 items a day in tutor mode, tied to a weakness identified by your baseline and reviewed properly, is more valuable than a larger number of half-remembered questions. Weight the effort towards Calculation Skills, Drug Monitoring and Data Interpretation, which are easy to under-drill.
When should I stop using Geeky Medics and move to mixed mocks? Move to mixed, timed practice once you have covered all eight question types, your unseen first-attempt accuracy has stabilised, and your pacing is on track — usually the final one to two weeks. Do not wait for bank completion; finishing the bank is not a readiness signal, and mixed papers train the integration that single-topic sets do not.
How should I combine Geeky Medics with iatroX without duplicating practice? Assign one job to each. Use Geeky Medics for diagnosis, teaching and drilling; use iatroX for fresh, unseen, timed blocks that measure transfer. Never re-answer a Geeky Medics item inside iatroX or the reverse — the second source is valuable precisely because its questions are new. Learn on one, be measured by the other: the two-Q-bank rule.
Editorial notes and references
Written by Dr Kolawole Tytler, NHS GP and founder of iatroX. Last checked 19 July 2026. Question and mock counts, features and any pricing are vendor-reported and change without notice; verify current details on the Geeky Medics product page before purchase. Disclosure: iatroX operates a competing question bank, and its role here is confined to a job Geeky Medics does not claim — unseen, timed transfer measurement rather than teaching content. Corrections are welcome via the feedback route on iatrox.com.
References: Prescribing Safety Assessment official site (prescribingsafetyassessment.ac.uk); BPS Assessment (bpsassessment.com); UK Foundation Programme PSA guidance (foundationprogramme.nhs.uk); Geeky Medics PSA question bank (geekymedics.com/psa-question-bank); iatroX PSA bank (iatrox.com/psa); the two-Q-bank rule (iatrox.com).