Approaching the AMC MCQ exams after a failed attempt

If we had a $1 coin for every time, we hear about a brilliant registrar failing their exams without reason, we would almost never need to work again. The story is chillingly similar each time: brilliant in every sense, a knowledgeable and outstanding doctor, loved by their patients and academically astute in their workplace-based assessments, yet they fail. And fail again. And worse still, their supervisors are none the wiser as to how to help.

You see no matter how well you might know your stuff; exams can never be an entirely fully realistic real-world scenario – in the academic world this is called the utility of the examination.

So, what is the missing gap between utility and real world? The answer is simple – examination technique. Whilst for some doctors this will be intuitive, for many they find the rules opaque – and almost akin to a game of guessing what’s in the examiner’s head.

We are different at PassAMC. We know how stressful the exams are, and as parents and senior doctors ourselves we know how busy life is. Created by a Current AMC Examiner, PassAMC provides a bespoke examination technique and preparation resource through a highly digital interface for GP registrars and trainees wishing to sit the AMC MCQ examination.

At PassAMC, we understand that simply knowing medicine is often not enough to pass high stakes medical exams. We also understand that candidates often need to guess what's in the examiners' heads, and that so many candidates fail repeatedly through a lack of knowledge of the examination game, rather than through a lack of preparation.

So, here is what you do:

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