Pre-Reg Shortcuts is the brand most foundation trainee pharmacists encounter first. Founded by Marvin and Umar — both qualified pharmacists with experience training over 200 trainees per year — the platform offers comprehensive preparation for the GPhC Common Registration Assessment through courses, a question bank, live online study sessions, mock papers, and a foundation pharmacist training programme.
The calculations course is particularly popular — covering all 12 GPhC framework topics over 5 weeks with timed webinar sessions. Questions are done under timed conditions (3 minutes per question) from the start, building exam-condition familiarity early. The team has presented at Kingston, Cardiff, Leicester, Brighton, King's College London, Sunderland, Manchester, and international pharmacy schools.
The strength is the course-led, community-driven model — live teaching, personality-led instruction, and a cohort feel that self-directed Q-banks cannot replicate. The limitation is that the platform does not offer adaptive or spaced repetition technology — question delivery is static rather than performance-targeted.
Pre-Reg Shortcuts covers both Part 1 (calculations) and Part 2 (clinical/pharmacy practice) of the CRA, with all content aligned to the GPhC framework.
Where iatroX Fits
Pre-Reg Shortcuts provides structured courses and teaching. iatroX provides adaptive, self-paced GPhC revision with spaced repetition — the daily drilling layer that reinforces course content. Use Pre-Reg Shortcuts for structured learning, iatroX for free adaptive daily practice.