After each exam round the RCGP publishes feedback about how candidates have done in the exam and gives advice about the broad issues where candidates have done not so well. They have recently published feedback for the October AKT. Click here to go to the RCGP website to read the whole document - its only two pages long and very interesting.
But if you want a brief summary then they gave advice about five specific items.
(1) Answer all the questions. They comment 'that candidates who answered all items performed considerably better than those who did not'. The RCGP says it does not want to encourage guessing in clinical practice but it is a valid examination technique to guess when you are not sure of the answer - you have nothing to lose.
(2) Candidates did not do well on ECG interpretation
(3) Candidates are still unfamiliar with normal childhood development and UK vaccination schedules.
(4) Candidates should revise the diagnostic criteria for diabetes.
(5) Candidates should revise about the safe prescribing of particularly dangerous drugs in practice e.g. methotrexate.
This advice is really good because in the past, issues that candidates have performed poorly on in one AKT get re tested in further AKTs - so this a heads up about what to revise.
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