MRCGP AKT

Passing the MRCGP AKT is necessary to successfully progress through General Practice training and achieve your goal of becoming a General Practitioner.

The AKT is a computer-based examination comprising mainly single best answer questions and extended matching questions. It tests the fundamental knowledge base required to work in general practice in the UK. It is a summative assessment of the knowledge base that underpins independent general practice in the United Kingdom within the context of the National Health Service.

The AKT is three hours and ten minutes long and comprises separate 200 questions. It is sat three times a year at 150 Pearson VUE professional testing centres across the UK. 80% of question items will be on clinical medicine, 10% on critical appraisal and evidence-based clinical practice and 10% on health informatics and administrative issues.

All questions address important issues relating to UK general practice and focus mainly on higher-order problem solving rather than just the simple recall of basic facts.

The 2019-20 AKT assessment dates are shown below (taken from the RCGP website):

If you want to pass the MRCGP AKT first time and with a high score why not sign up for our extensive online question bank of exam format questions?

MRCGP Exam Prep is the most comprehensive resource available for General Practitioners sitting the MRCGP examination. You can sign up here.

Our MRCGP AKT Online Course contains over 2200 ‘single best answer’ questions, over 1400 ‘extended matching’ questions and over 400 'free text' questions making a total of more than 4000 individual questions. Our questions banks have been developed using the updated RCGP curriculum and actual exam themes. The questions have been written using the most up-to-date guidelines and reflect recent changes in practice and current hot topics. Try our sample questions here.

In addition to the question banks, we also include over 120 'Key Topic Tutorials', which cover hot topics and recent common exam themes. Try our sample tutorial here.

All subscriptions also come with a free eBook copy of our Complete Revision Guide for the MRCGP exam.