Know the exam before you prepare for it.

Use the exam selector to choose your assessment, then select Read essential guide, or browse the guide cards and use Read guide. The cards distinguish assessments such as RACGP AKT, KFP and CCE/StAMPS, RACP written and clinical examinations, AMC examinations and PESCI, so you can start with the task you are actually preparing to perform.

The selector also labels ACRRM MCQ, ICFRACGP and NZ GP destinations as product overviews. For a guide destination, the preparation information and package links are separate: read about the assessment, then use the relevant Explore packages link to look at preparation options.

The guides cover examination format, reasoning, common traps and preparation strategy. They are organised around the assessment task and the reasoning it rewards, rather than assuming that all medical examinations test knowledge in the same way. Each guide also addresses common failure patterns and a preparation method suited to the task.

The descriptions make those differences concrete: AKT focuses on reading the decision and choosing the best answer, KFP on prioritising and selecting precisely, and RACP EMQs on shared options, independent stems and pattern recognition. Clinical and interview guides instead emphasise skills such as synthesising findings, defending a plan or anchoring an answer to the role and supervision.

They involve different ways of demonstrating clinical reasoning. Written-exam descriptions focus on selecting and prioritising: AKT calls for a best answer, KFP for precise selection, and RACP EMQs for interpreting independent stems against shared options. Knowing the medicine is different from selecting, structuring or saying the answer at examination pace.

Clinical resources address skills such as observing accurately, synthesising clearly and defending a plan, while the PESCI guide centres answers on the role, setting and supervision. The CCE/StAMPS description also notes that the clinical foundations may be shared while the examiner conversation differs. Choose the guide for the assessment you are sitting, rather than treating the formats as interchangeable.

No. Read essential guide or Read guide opens assessment and preparation information; Explore packages is the separate route to preparation options.

The CCE/StAMPS card offers both RACGP and ACRRM package links, while the RACP cards link to RACP packages. Some selector destinations are labelled as product overviews rather than guides, so check the destination label when choosing your assessment.

Use retrieval practice: recall the decision before reading its explanation, rather than only rereading the guide. Also return to difficult patterns after enough time has passed for retrieval to feel effortful. Together, these prompts move preparation towards retrieving and applying knowledge instead of relying on recognition alone.

Make the practice resemble the decision demands of the assessment. Work with the ambiguity, timing and option density described for the exam, and use each question to rehearse why one action outranks another. The aim is to make knowledge retrievable when a stem, station or examiner changes the pressure.

Use the PassGP AI Virtual Tutor to unpack a difficult distinction, generate a related scenario and test whether you can apply the principle again. That makes it a way to interrogate the reasoning in a guide, rather than simply reading an explanation and moving on.