MRCGP AKT Exam – High Yield Topics from the May 2013 AKT Exam
Dr Mahibur Rahman
After each MRCGP AKT examination, the examiners release a report highlighting key information from the last exam. This includes pass marks and rates, and also key topics – both those that were answered well, and those that GP trainees performed poorly on. These topics are frequently 
examined again in the next few sittings of the AKT exam, so it is worth ensuring that you have a good understanding of them.
As some of you may be starting your revision for the October 2013 MRCGP AKT Exam, we thought it would be helpful to look at the high yield topics from the latest examiners’ report.
Key facts from the May 2013 MRCGP AKT exam:
The top score was 97%
The mean score was 72.74%
The lowest score was 38%
The pass mark was 68%
The pass rate was 71.4%
Scores by domain:
Clinical medicine – 72.6%
Evidence interpretation – 76.0%
Organisational – 70.4%
High Yield Topics
The AKT summary report after each AKT exam usually highlights topics that were either not answered well by many candidates, or that although were tackled well, were important enough to be mentioned by the examiners. This is usually a clue that these topics will be retested in the next few sittings of the exam.
The examiners’ report from this diet of the MRCGP AKT exam highlighted the following key topics:
- Management of hypertension
- Fitness to work certification (sick notes)
- Drug interactions
- Skin lesions – recognising common and serious conditions
- Screening programmes
- Drug monitoring – blood tests
- Enteral feeding – including complications
- Emergency contraception
- Diabetes – diagnosis, management, interpreting diabetic blood results
The MRCGP AKT is a comprehensive examination, so it is important that you cover the entire curriculum. Remember that 80% of the marks are related to applying knowledge relating to clinical medicine in general practice, 10% to evidence interpretation and 10% to the organisational domain.
Emedica Alumni can get a £20 discount off the Emedica MRCGP AKT course by entering this code when booking: alumnimrcgp
Further reading:
Complete May 2013 AKT Summary report
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