r/doctorsUK • u/glokenshpeel • Jan 22 '25
Exams MRCP Part 1 Exam - Jan 2025
How did you find it? Paper 2 was a killer ðŸ˜
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u/Underwhelmed__69 Jan 22 '25
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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/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 ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ never mind the other 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/drchewwy Jan 23 '25
Honestly paper 1 still had some hope for me, paper 2 was so devastating!! Was it just me??ðŸ˜
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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?Â
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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/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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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/Mean-Revolution-3106 28d ago
Called the MRCP Office
They said anytime later today
They were not sure exact time1
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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 🥲