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How to prepare for MRCP Ireland Clinical Written ?

Congratulations on Passing Part 1, 

Let me tell you, there are a lot of people who have given multiple attempts at this exam, and very few pass it.  So you are someone who has done something impossible, This is especially noteworthy for people who are in the non-training posts as they have to struggle to get where they are. 

Now comes the Journey for part 2

As in my previous blog post, Part 2 isn't something different from Part 1 RCPI made the part 2 exam focus on clinical rather than basic. 

So how do i prepare for part 2?

Honestly, the preparation is not much different but I would definitely advise you to do more question banks than in part one. I would say if you have the budget to subscribe to all 3 question banks that is 

Onexamination

Pastest

and Passmedicine

Then by all means do them, I had to struggle a bit for part 2, I had failed by a very narrow margin in my attempts until I realized I just needed to do more questions. And I did, I kept doing questions after questions. There were days I did more than 300 questions a day.

By doing questions, what I mean is do them and read their description and keep doing it until the concepts sink in. Each time you do the same question you would notice that you would understand a different aspect of the reasoning of that particular question.


Final is the Clinical part which I will post shortly

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