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The PLAB 1 Core 10
Ten focused minutes of questions a day — the daily anchor that keeps your neural pathways warm, holds back the forgetting curve, and makes sure you never re-learn the same topic twice. On your busiest day, this is the one thing worth doing.
Aligned to the GMC PLAB 1 blueprint · ten single-best-answer questions a day.
Small, smart, and it remembers
Weighted to your week
If your PLAB 1 Core Calendar is set up, today’s questions lean towards the areas that week of your plan covers — so the Core 10 reinforces the plan instead of pulling against it. Everything comes from the 1,500-question PLAB 1 bank, across the ten areas your PLAB 1 score is reported against.
It never forgets a miss
Get one wrong and it doesn’t disappear. It comes back later the same session, and again on future days, until you’ve answered it correctly twice. No topic slips through the cracks.
Targets your weak spots
Areas where your answers score lowest (once you have answered five or more), and anything you’ve rated Shaky or Getting there on the content map or the Core Compass, get extra airtime. Or choose one of the ten areas from the menu to focus on it.
Consistency beats intensity
On the days when a full study block feels impossible, the Core 10 is your save point. Ten minutes keeps the door open — it’s far easier to keep a habit warm than to restart a cold one. Done is better than perfect, and a short session you actually finish beats a long one you keep putting off.
Liked this? It’s how every Core Tool works.
The same calm, pattern-first approach runs through Core Tools and Core Concepts.
Explore Core ToolsWritten by practising UK GPs — Dr Victoria Hammond and Dr David Palethorpe. Education only — always confirm against current guidance. Core Revision is an independent revision resource.