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Procedural questions are an interesting kettle of fish. Many people struggle with them. The reasons are varied - they haven't done the procedure before, or they often have done the procedure so much that it becomes second nature - stopping to then explain it can be tricky, let alone in a way...

College clinical examinations have a notorious reputation for being "random" and "not assessing things that matter". But why is this? 

Well, it comes down to what the "examiners" aka Colleges think is important vs what we think is important. We might feel that purely clinical medicine is...

Writing an exam question is a lot harder than it looks. They need to strike the right balance between not being too easy or too hard, and they also need to discriminate (aka be able to separate out candidates for the purposes of ranking). One of the techniques that MCQ writers sometimes use is...

There are lots of AMC MCQ examination preparation providers. Knowing which one to choose is key.

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...

The exam feedback reports are rich with tips and advice on how to not fail the AMC MCQ Exam. They are also very long, so here at PassAMC we have taken the liberty of summarising the most common pitfalls and and how to avoid them.

This is what to do:

• Read the case.
• Then read the...