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You must pass both parts of the Common Registration Assessment in the same sitting, with no compensation between them. A brilliant Part 2 will not rescue a failed Part 1, and the t...

The PANE became the PARA in September 2025, and it is now the gateway to GMC registration rather than a professional exam. The knowledge assessment still looks familiar, but the st...

The PARA knowledge assessment is 200 single best answer questions drawn from a content map of hundreds of conditions across every specialty. Revising the specialty you happen to be...

The PSA gives you full access to the exam-provided medicines reference throughout. That is not generosity, it is the point: your ability to find information fast under pressure is ...

The Prescribing Safety Assessment is 60 items worth 200 marks, and they are not worth the same. Eight prescribing items carry 80 of those marks. Candidates who spread their time ev...

The MRCEM SBA is 180 questions across two two-hour papers with an hour's break in the middle. That structure creates specific failure modes that no amount of extra content revision...

The MRCP Part 1 is not a speed exam. It is an endurance exam: six hours of testing across two three-hour papers on a single day. Candidates who only ever practise in twenty-questio...

The MRCP Part 1 blueprint does not weight specialties equally, and its single largest block is the one nobody owns: clinical sciences. Coverage, not enthusiasm, is what determines ...

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, ...

You sit the MSRA once, whatever you apply to. But the same score does different work in different specialties: in some it decides everything, in others it only opens the door. Buil...