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Sixteen marks of the AKT test certification, regulation, confidentiality, complaints and NHS structure. It is the most finite, most learnable content in the paper, and candidates c...

After every AKT sitting the RCGP publishes a report saying exactly where candidates underperformed. It is the closest thing to an official revision guide that exists, it is free, a...

The AKT is 80 per cent clinical, 10 per cent evidence-based practice and 10 per cent organisational. That last 20 per cent is 32 marks, it is the most learnable part of the paper, ...

An honest map of where Australian doctors go online: news and community platforms, the distinctive HealthPathways local-guidance system, national college resources, locum agencies,...

The names are almost identical, but FourteenFish and Fourteen Fisherman are different things. One is the ePortfolio platform you use throughout GP training; the other is an indepen...

No, the RACGP AKT is not computer-adaptive. The Australian GP Applied Knowledge Test is a linear, fixed-form multiple-choice exam. What the format is, how the standard is set, and ...

The MSRA is a strong predictor of MRCGP exam performance, which makes your MSRA result a useful early-warning signal, not a verdict. What prediction does and does not mean, why a l...

The RCGP publishes feedback after every AKT sitting, and the same domains recur cohort after cohort: neurology, data interpretation, prescribing in older adults, ophthalmology, and...

Pass marks move between sittings, and that is a feature, not a flaw. The main methods used to set medical exam standards, Angoff, statistical equating, scaled scores, cohort normal...

International medical graduates pass UK postgraduate exams at lower rates than UK graduates. The data on the MRCGP attainment gap, what the research says about its structural cause...

For international medical graduates working in the NHS who are looking at Australia, the AMC CAT is the Standard Pathway exam. The pathway steps, the exam format, the specific trap...

No, the MRCGP AKT is a linear, fixed-form exam, not computer-adaptive, even though it is now IRT-scored. The AKT format, how Item Response Theory and Angoff set the standard, and h...