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La maggior parte dei candidati studia le materie che preferisce e misura i progressi con una percentuale che mente. Ecco un sistema che parte dalla misurazione, corregge le debolez...

You can recognise the right answer among five options and still fail the short answer paper, because it does not ask you to recognise anything. It asks you to produce a prioritised...

Every Canadian residency programme teaches CanMEDS, and most trainees treat the six non-Expert roles as a portfolio exercise. They are examinable competencies, and the questions th...

The NDEB gives you a released question bank, a free self-assessment, a reference list and a statement of what a beginning Canadian dentist must know. Most candidates burn through a...

Your dental knowledge is not the problem. The AFK tests whether that knowledge matches Canadian standards, and a competent dentist trained elsewhere can be confidently, examinably ...

Most of your practice is standard vignettes with five options. The exam also contains item types your question bank barely uses, and one of them has a rule that will cost you point...

The USMLE builds every Step 2 CK question against two axes: the clinical science and the physician task. Almost every candidate studies one of them. The other one is where your err...

The ABIM publishes exactly how many questions come from each content area, and almost nobody uses it. Weighting your study hours to the blueprint rather than to your interests is t...

The DCH shares its written paper with the MRCPCH, which is useful to know: you are sitting the same Foundation of Practice exam as the paediatric trainees. What differs is the pers...

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...

A third of Paper B is critical review, and it is not psychiatry. It is research methods, and it fails for entirely different reasons from the clinical two-thirds. Revising them as ...