Core Revision
Free MSRA taster · no card · near-miss marking
Twenty original MSRA questions, marked on the exam’s near-miss principle
Ten Professional Dilemmas items — five ranking, five choose-three — and ten Clinical Problem Solving questions, drawn from the Core Revision bank. You see the reasoning after every item and a marked report at the end. The first five are open to anyone; a free account unlocks the rest and keeps your report.
Ranking, scored per position
In our model, each of the five options earns 4, 3, 2, 1 or 0 marks by how far it sits from the keyed position, following the near-miss principle NHS England describes. A near-miss still scores.
Choose-three, exactly three
Pick the three most appropriate of eight. In our model, each one you get earns four marks; there is no negative marking anywhere in the MSRA.
CPS, one mark each
Single best answer at Foundation level — diagnosis, investigation, management, emergencies and prescribing.
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Your taster report
How you did — and what it does and doesn’t mean
Read this before you read the numbers
The MSRA has no pass mark. Each paper is standardised and reported as a number in the low hundreds, then grouped into four bands, and every programme uses that rank differently. Twenty items cannot place you in a band — but the shape of your result is informative: most candidates score higher on PD than on CPS, and the marks candidates leave behind on PD are usually in the ranking items, where the proximity scoring rewards getting the top and bottom options right even when the middle is uncertain.
| Band | Score | GP Round 1, 2026 — cumulative share of candidates (CPS / PD) |
|---|---|---|
| Band 1 | below 186 | 4% / 7% |
| Band 2 | 186–230 | 20% / 43% |
| Band 3 | 231–290 | 76% / 96% |
| Band 4 | 291 and above | 100% / 100% |
Source: NHS England GP recruitment, 2026 Round 1 scoring. Some specialties publish floors (psychiatry 186 per paper; radiology and nuclear medicine above 201 per component in 2026).
Item by item
The full bank has 2,200+ questions like these — with both papers timed, marked and explained
1,700+ Clinical Problem Solving questions across every area of the NHS England blueprint, 500 Professional Dilemmas items in both formats, the exam-day simulation (136 items, 170 minutes, PD first with a break between papers), the mock builder, Core Compass and the honest score report. No auto-renewal. If your MSRA score doesn’t get you an interview or an offer in your first-choice specialty, we extend your access free to the next sitting (terms 4.4).
Core Revision is independent and not affiliated with NHS England, the MSRA team or the RCGP. Questions and explanations are for exam revision, not for the care of individual patients.