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• 01 Jun, 2024

The MRCPUK Part 2 written examination is available to physicians undergoing training who successfully completed the MRCPUK Part 1 assessment. It extends upon the knowledge evaluated in Part 1. It examines acquiring diverse medical knowledge, skills, and conduct outlined in the UK Specialty Training Curriculum for Core Medical Training and the Curriculum for Internal Medicine.

Since 2018, the exam format has been revised to include two three-hour papers, each containing 100 questions. This examination evaluates your capacity to apply

clinical comprehension, make clinical decisions, and take charge of various aspects, including

• Prioritizing diagnostic or problem lists,
• Planning investigations,
• Choosing immediate management strategies,
• Selecting long-term management plans and
• Assessing prognosis.

MRCP UK Part 2 Exam deadlines

The home-based online exam is only available to UK-based candidates and international candidates. From the 2023/4 diet moved to online, centre-based exams

The below table consists of the MRCP part 2 application deadline, Exam and Result dates for each slot for the year.

MRCP Part 2 Exam Centres in India

The MRCP Part 2 online Exam was conducted at 6 Indian centres, the highest among all countries.

• Chennai
• Hyderabad
• Kolkata
• Kerala
• Mumbai
• New Delhi

MRCP Part 2 Test Fee

The MRCP Part 2 fee is £616 for International Students against the MRCP test price for UK Students, which is £460. For Indian students, the MRCP cost in INR is approx. 65,000.

MRCP Part 2 Exam format

The questions are usually clinical scenario-based may require investigations and images such as pathology slides, clinical photographs, , inheritance trees X-rays, CT Scans, ECGs, and MRI. Below are the key points of the MRCP part 2 Exam

• Two papers are conducted in one day.
• The duration of each paper is 3 hours.
• 100 MCQs in each paper; you need to answer the best of five.
• The four other options will be closely related to the most correct option.
• MCQs consist of images.
• Computer-based, administered by Surpass
• +1 Mark is awarded for each correct answer and zero for the wrong answer.

Speciality-wise distribution of the MRCP Part 2 Exam

The composition of the MRCP Part 2 papers is as follows