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The Key Feature Problem exam used to be 26 cases answered in free text, with an elaborate set of rules about undercoding and stacking answers. From the 2025.2 sitting it is 70 mult...

The Final's two written papers become one. The College's reason is candid: the multiple choice and constructed response papers were testing similar things in different formats. Wha...

A question bank trains you to recognise a correct answer among five. The Final FRCA also asks you to construct one on paper and to speak one aloud under questioning. Those are thre...

From July 2027 the Primary FRCA has two components instead of three. The written paper is essentially a rename. The clinical side is a genuine restructure, and if you hold a partia...

Three sciences, one paper, and almost every candidate is strong in two of them. The physics and clinical measurement is the one that gets postponed, and it is the one that decides ...

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...