The direct answer: one complete simulation is available to try without payment, and the word complete deserves to be taken literally, this is not a shortened demonstration built to showcase the product, it is a genuine full attempt at a real case.
What is available without payment
The full interaction itself, responsive voice or text depending on the track, exactly as a subscribed candidate would experience it. Results scored against the examination-specific domains that particular track marks. The complete transcript of the encounter, available for your own review. And Tutor access where applicable, letting you experience the remediation step of the learning loop directly, not only the simulation itself.
Why the free attempt is complete, and why that matters
This is a deliberate design choice rather than an accident of generosity: the whole point of offering one complete simulation rather than a truncated preview is letting you judge the entire learning loop, perform, inspect the transcript, receive domain-level feedback, work with the Tutor, before committing to a subscription. A shortened demo would only let you evaluate the interaction itself; a complete attempt lets you evaluate whether the feedback is genuinely useful and whether the Tutor follow-up genuinely helps, the parts of the product that actually determine whether it will improve your preparation over a full cycle of use.
What the subscription unlocks
Unlimited simulation access across all eighteen examination tracks, rather than the single free attempt. Full mock circuits, the sequential, multi-station practice this cluster's dedicated coverage treats as a genuinely different and valuable format from isolated case practice. The complete Q-bank spanning more than forty examinations. Ongoing Tutor access, not limited to follow-up on the one free case. Study planning tools. And CPD functions, for candidates and clinicians who need to document and reflect on their learning as part of professional development.
Monthly versus annual access
Monthly access suits a candidate wanting to trial the full subscription experience for a defined, shorter period, or preparing for an examination on a compressed timeline where a full annual commitment does not make sense. Annual access suits a candidate with a longer preparation horizon, or one likely to use the platform across more than one examination over the coming year, where the annual rate represents meaningfully better value than paying monthly across the same period.
Does one subscription cover more than one examination?
Yes, and this is arguably the platform's strongest value argument: the same all-access subscription spans every one of the eighteen simulation tracks alongside the full Q-bank, meaning a candidate moving from one examination to the next, PLAB to a Royal College exam, an undergraduate exam into postgraduate assessment, is not paying separately for each new stage, the same subscription simply continues covering whatever comes next.
How to start
The most direct route is trying the free complete simulation on whichever examination is immediately relevant to you, experiencing the full loop before deciding whether to subscribe. From there, the relevant examination page links directly to both the simulation selector and the subscription options, so moving from a single free attempt into full access, where that makes sense for your preparation, requires no separate search or signup process.
Frequently asked questions
Does the free simulation expire or need to be used within a set time?
Confirm the current specific terms directly at the point of starting, since access windows and any time limits are exactly the kind of detail that can be updated, and the core commitment described in this article, that the free attempt is a complete simulation rather than a shortened demo, is the stable design principle regardless of specific current terms.
Can I try the free simulation on more than one examination track before deciding?
The free offer is generally structured around one complete attempt; confirm current specifics directly, since the exact structure of a free-access offer is a commercial detail worth checking at the time you actually go to use it rather than assumed from this article alone.
Is the subscription price the same regardless of how many examination tracks I use?
Yes: the all-access subscription is priced as one plan covering every track and the full Q-bank together, rather than scaled by how many individual examinations or features a given candidate actually uses.
Why not just offer every feature free indefinitely?
Because clinician review, continuous improvement and the underlying infrastructure this cluster's dedicated methodology and improvement articles describe carry a genuine ongoing cost, and the free complete simulation exists specifically to let you judge that quality directly before deciding whether the subscription is worth it for your own preparation, rather than asking you to commit on trust alone.