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Intensive care questions are not about diseases. They are about failing organ systems, what supports them, and when to stop. Revise the organ failure rather than the diagnosis and ...

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 ...

Critical review is worth fifty marks and it is the most systematically learnable third of any psychiatry exam. It yields entirely to a method, applied identically to every study, a...

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 ...

Psychopharmacology is a quarter of Paper A and the domain candidates most dread. It collapses to something manageable once you stop learning drugs and start learning receptors, bec...

Half of Paper A is basic neurosciences and clinical psychopharmacology. Most candidates discover this after they have spent their revision on the psychology and the classification,...

The AKP gives you more information than you need, deliberately. Strong candidates fail these questions not by knowing too little but by reasoning too far, chasing a rare explanatio...

The AKP gives you two and a half hours for sixty questions, which sounds generous until you meet the stems. This is a paper of long, information-dense vignettes, sat twice in one d...

Paediatric pharmacology is not adult pharmacology at a lower dose. The child's liver, kidney, body composition and receptors all differ, and they differ by age. Revising the drugs ...