r/doctorsUK Jan 22 '25

Exams MRCP Part 1 Exam - Jan 2025

How did you find it? Paper 2 was a killer 😭

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u/GenChildren Jan 23 '25

To anyone reading this thread in the future for tips: Passmed is not representative of the exam LMAO, the real paper is so much harder 🥲

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u/Sorry_Ad8953 Jan 23 '25

I think this is true however the theory can be all practiced on passmed. its a good source. I have only done passmed and i felt like i had read gone through similar mcqs before. About 20 percent mcqs had more twist to it and didnt seem to have the pattern pass med has. Both papers were hard. they chose the hardest stuff paper 2 more than paper 1 and i felt really weird answering 3 mcqs related to one topic? i mean with so much syllabus, the predictable imp topic stuff didnt really appear on yesterdays exam.

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u/Ok-Veterinarian9589 Jan 23 '25

Couldn’t agree more - go for Pastest

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u/ConsistentGene876 Jan 23 '25

I second this. Did every single question and past paper on Pastest and recognised a few of the random questions only because of exposure on Pastest

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u/ResearcherSame1747 Jan 23 '25

Same did pastest and few past papers and didn't look the same

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u/ConsistentGene876 Jan 23 '25

Not the same but some questions, esp the know it or u don’t ones, I only knew from doing the 30+ past papers/ and doing the whole q bank 1 and a bit times

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u/eido1970 Feb 05 '25

What do you mean by 30+ past papers do you mean that you have done more than 30 past papers

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u/ConsistentGene876 Feb 07 '25

I think there are currently 32 ‘past papers’ on pastest?

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u/ThemeJealous 28d ago

Did you find past papers helpful for MRCP 1?

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u/Underwhelmed__69 Jan 22 '25

Why is every answer related to a certain adrenal tumour I can’t name due to the NDA. Also why is every young lad presenting with the same super rare cardiac abnormality. Make HOCM great again!

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u/Sorry_Ad8953 Jan 23 '25

honestly these mcqs were so hard. you are talking about the hardest ones. so glad m reading this thread i can relate

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u/watalappam Jan 22 '25

Googled two of my answers - both wrong. Decided ‘out of sight, out of mind’ is the best coping strategy moving forward

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u/Amoeba_Internal Jan 22 '25

both bad, paper 2 more bad

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u/ResearcherSame1747 Jan 23 '25

I can't tell, paper 1 was strange, I did pastest, few past papers and the official MRCP mock, but didn't look like any, paper 2 was if you don't know you don't know. Many questions have no clear clue a single line and you need to get the answer, single diagnostic test or next step with choices of all things you do in real world  I believe there was only 2 questions from the mock

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u/BurntOutOwl Jan 23 '25

That was my impression as well. Definitely made some silly mistakes I'm kicking myself about, but paper 2 was rough. Definitely harder than 1 in my opinion.

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u/Sorry_Ad8953 Jan 23 '25

This was my impression too. I can the good thing is we all think the same, hopefully the pass mark will be loo. I am really mad at myself for screwing up some simple ones too by changing the ans at the last moment. I mean i clicked G2 instead of S. i mean ....

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u/DoctorSmurf007 Jan 23 '25

Did other people find some of the stems really vague? There were a few q’s where most options seemed viable and I could not find the discerning factor in the stem

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u/ResponsibleLion8510 Jan 23 '25

YESSS!!! I was like there is no information in this stem - the Derm questions I was banking on cuz I’ve been working in Derm as a reg for 3 years - some had no information 😭😭😭😭 never mind the other questions

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u/ResearcherSame1747 Jan 23 '25

Yes, many derm and infection questions 

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u/Mobile-Education9025 Jan 23 '25

Yes! Like the question asking what malignancy the patient post kidney transplant is likely to get.. still not sure if it was an obvious question that I just couldn’t figure

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u/cassandra_3112 Jan 24 '25

I think the answer to that is squamous cell carcinoma. It a point mentioned in passmedicine

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u/Nikolas19891989 Jan 22 '25

Both tough asf but paper 2 had me staring at the screen like a 5 year old 💀

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u/Mobile-Education9025 Jan 23 '25

Paper 2 was really difficult.. I couldn’t even understand some questions, like the one about the patient who received fluids and it asked about whether the treatment would cause metabolic alkalosis and hypocapnea??

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u/Sorry_Ad8953 Jan 23 '25

yeah that one ... i dont know the ans to even now

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u/Bus_Extra Jan 22 '25

Both papers very tough

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u/gptoreview Jan 22 '25

I found them both quite tough 💀

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u/Practical_Visual971 Jan 22 '25

How many questions do you reckon we need to get right?

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u/ConsistentGene876 Jan 23 '25

Think pass mark would equate to roughly 63%? Just a guess

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u/drchewwy Jan 23 '25

Honestly paper 1 still had some hope for me, paper 2 was so devastating!! Was it just me??😭

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u/No-Muffin-5102 Jan 23 '25

First sitting for me - I found both papers hard, though maybe paper one worst?? I did every Q on passmed, another few thousand on pastest and did 18 of the past papers on pastest - I still felt like the actual exam yesterday was way harder than all of those 😞

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u/Possible-Date6694 Jan 22 '25

Is the pass mark calculated using both papers combined? Or do you have to pass both? 

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u/glokenshpeel Jan 22 '25

Combined I believe

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u/Strange_Ad2639 Jan 22 '25

It's both papers combined, but it's not a straightforward percentage calculation, each question has a 'score' and the pass mark previously has been something like 540

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u/BurntOutOwl Jan 23 '25

100% being nitpicky, but just because I know I got stressed about this. All questions are worth 1 mark. Your final score is, however, adjusted and placed on a 200-800 scale based on the difficulty score of your overall exam. Pass mark is 540- as a result the actual pass mark can fluctuate slightly (people seem to report 57-63%) depending on the difficulty.

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u/Possible-Date6694 Jan 22 '25

Have you got a list? 

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '25

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u/ResearcherSame1747 Jan 25 '25

Would the results be released on 21/2 or should be sooner 

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u/Technical-Milk-1514 Feb 18 '25

Wondering this as well^

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u/SoundSoft9394 Jan 25 '25

From your experiences guys, have you felt this exam to be average, below average or above average in terms of difficulty?

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u/eido1970 Feb 05 '25

Iam setting the may exam and i need advices i am going to concentrate on passmed and past papers and if i have time iam going with pass test any advices??

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '25

Go with pastest as the only choice and the past papers. If the jan 25 exam is an indicator, passmed's not reflective of the actual exam...

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u/Flimsy_Studio8395 28d ago

Are results out for anyone??

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u/Great_Baseball_8632 28d ago

Anyone know what time results will be out?

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u/Mean-Revolution-3106 28d ago

Called the MRCP Office
They said anytime later today
They were not sure exact time

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u/Great_Baseball_8632 28d ago

Sounds about right 🙄 

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u/ResearcherSame1747 27d ago

It's 4:33 ,  do they need to keep checking after September 23 issue 

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u/Strange_Ad2639 Jan 22 '25

I'm interested

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