Read the instructions for ninety seconds, then spend eight minutes with a simulated patient, relative or nurse who knows things the card does not say — the red flag, the real worry, the reason they will not take the tablets. Then see the station marked on the GMC's three domains, with our estimate of whether it would pass.
Your first station is free: 8minutes with the patient, then the examiner's marks. You need an account, not a card.
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Chest pain at rest this morning
An FY2 doctor in general practice.
Mr Kevin Doyle, 54, has booked a routine appointment about "indigestion". He has had episodes of tightness in his chest over the last three weeks. He is not in pain at the moment. There is no ECG machine available in the surgery today.
A station from the practice set. The patient has three things they will only say if you ask.
From the GMC's PLAB 2 guide. The practice runs one station at a time, the same way.
The communication-heavy stations, across the settings the exam uses: history taking with red flags, explaining a diagnosis or a result, breaking bad news, consent, an angry patient, a nurse on the phone, an acute reaction on the ward, a medication error, a sick child with a parent, early pregnancy, confused and falling older patients, a colleague who is unsafe, teaching, mental state, safeguarding and end of life. Written to current UK practice and NICE guidance.
The GMC's three domains, each marked out of 4 on our own scale, then our estimate for the station — likely pass, borderline or likely fail — with the GMC's feedback areas you lost marks in, the moments that decided it and the one thing to change next time. A missed red flag, an unsafe plan or a breach of confidentiality holds a station back however warm the rest was, as it does in the exam.
Practice, not a GMC result, and not medical advice.MockLive is not affiliated with or endorsed by the General Medical Council. The marks are an AI examiner's reading of what you said, and the clinical content is exam practice written to UK guidance, not clinical guidance. Pronunciation and accent are never marked.
Each station is marked by an examiner on three domains: data gathering, technical and assessment skills; clinical management skills; and interpersonal skills. The examiner does not decide your pass: each station's pass mark is set after the sitting by borderline regression, and you must pass both the overall score and a minimum number of stations set for that sitting. Here each domain is marked out of 4 on our own scale (the GMC does not publish its scale), and the station result is our estimate from those marks: likely pass, borderline or likely fail. You also see which of the GMC's ten feedback areas you lost marks in.
Eight minutes, with a minute and a half before it to move to the next room and read the instructions. The exam has sixteen stations and at least two rest stations, about three hours in all. On the day you confirm your name and GMC number at the start of each station. Practice stations here run one at a time the same way: the instructions for ninety seconds, then eight minutes with the patient.
No. MockLive is not affiliated with the GMC. The marks are an AI examiner's reading of what you said against the three domains, to show you what to fix — not a GMC mark, and not medical advice.
Not hands-on: this is voice practice, so examination technique and practical skills (cannulas, CPR, using instruments) are not marked here and you should practise them in person. Where a station needs an examination you say what you would examine and the findings are read to you, and only your reasoning and communication are marked. The stations here are the communication-heavy ones.
Any station you choose: 8 minutes with the patient, then the three domains and our estimate of whether it would pass.
40 stations, every one marked on the three domains, to use within 120 days. Nothing renews.
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