Our system
Pass your exams. Get the job you want. Be a great psychiatrist.
You sit the exams. We give you the plan: the questions to answer next, your mistakes brought back on schedule, and CASC stations a friend can mark from a link.
The problem
The syllabus is vast. Your time is not.
Too much to cover
Paper A and Paper B span hundreds of syllabus points, and you revise around a full rota.
No way to tell if you are ready
A count of questions answered cannot show what you have missed. CASC practice with a friend rarely tells you which skills let you down.
Months you should not lose
A good doctor should not lose months to an exam. That time belongs to your patients, your training and your life.
How we help
You bring the hours. We make them count.
We are doctors too. We know how hard it is to revise after a long shift and still not know whether you have done enough. So we built a system that plans your revision, brings back your mistakes and gets your CASC stations marked.
- 5,000questions per paper, each explained
- 426syllabus points, each with its own queue
- 137CASC stations in nine types
- 7 → 21days between reviews of a mistake
Built on how memory works
Recall beats rereading
The testing effect: pulling an answer from memory strengthens it more than reading it again. You learn by answering, and every question comes with an explanation.
Gaps beat cramming
The spacing effect: memory lasts longer when you return to a point after a gap. A question you get wrong comes back a week later.
Mixing beats blocks
Interleaving: switching between topics teaches you to tell them apart, as the exam asks you to. Your questions move across the syllabus instead of staying on one topic.
Practice testing and spaced practice were the two techniques rated most useful in a major review of learning research (Dunlosky et al., 2013).
The plan
Your plan in three steps
Create a free account
You start with the first 250 questions of each paper, the whole textbook and every CASC station.
Practise with a plan
The bank chooses your questions in the exam’s proportions and brings back the ones you got wrong. Friends play the patient and mark your CASC stations.
Know where you stand
Sit a 150-mark paper in the Exam Centre. Read every CASC sheet, competency by competency, and work on what it shows.
Paper A and Paper B
Every syllabus point, in the exam’s proportions
We map the bank to 210 fine syllabus points in Paper A and 216 in Paper B. Each has its own queue, best questions first. You cover the breadth early and build depth with every explanation.
How we choose your next question
An area of the syllabus
Areas that carry more exam marks come up more often. Neuroscience and psychopharmacology are each a quarter of Paper A; research methods and critical review are a third of Paper B.
The next syllabus point in that area
Points take equal turns, one after another, so your coverage keeps growing.
The next question in its queue
The best question on that point you have not answered.
With full access, choose the whole syllabus or selected parent topics; a free account gets the first 250 questions of each paper, in a fixed order. Your dashboard shows how much of each topic you have covered and how often you got it right first time. Answering a question on a point is a start, not proof you have mastered it.
Questions, exam weights and textbooks follow the 2027 syllabus. Our weights split the 150 marks within the College’s published range for each domain, checked October 2026.
Spaced reviews
Your mistakes come back on schedule
Tutor mode opens on All: reviews that are due come first, longest overdue first. New questions follow.
- DAY 0
A mistake
Review scheduled
7 days → - DAY 7
Correct
One successful review
21 days later → - DAY 28
Correct again
Review complete
Wrong at a review? It starts again with a review in 7 days. Two correct reviews complete it.
Away for a while? Reviews wait until you practise their topic. The next gap starts on the day you answer, and getting a question right early does not skip its review.
Why can All feel different? Reviews follow your mistakes, so a session can lean towards your weaker areas. The new questions after them keep the exam’s balance.
One bank, three ways to practise
Choose how you practise
Tutor mode
Feedback and an explanation after each answer.
- All: due reviews first, then new questions.
- Unseen: questions you have not answered.
- Incorrect / Flagged: go back over your own list.
Exam mode
Your topics, your length. Unseen questions only.
- No reviews and no repeats.
- Answers and explanations when you submit the session.
Exam Centre
A 150-mark paper across the whole syllabus, in the exam’s proportions. Unseen questions only.
- No repeats. If an area runs short, other unseen questions take its place.
- Marks and explanations when you submit the paper.
Gamification
Gamification at the heart of this question bank
We have unlockable avatars based on your progress and a daily streak, all making this a more enjoyable experience.
Unlockable avatars
Ten snakes to collect in each paper. Your progress unlocks them, and any one you have unlocked can be your avatar.
A daily streak
Answer at least one question a day to keep your streak going. Its flame changes colour as the run grows.
Try the question bank free. The first 250 questions of each paper come with an account.
Start with 500 free questionsCASC
Practise the CASC with friends
137 stations in nine types, written for CT3s. Every station is free with an account.
- History taking
- Mental state examination
- Risk assessment
- Physical examination
- Cognitive examination
- Capacity assessment
- Explanation and discussion with patient or carer
- Management discussion with colleagues
- Difficult conversations
Three seats
Candidate
Reads the task, and only the task.
Actor
Plays the patient from the role-player brief. A friend can open it with no account.
Examiner
Keeps time and marks you, and can play the patient too when there are only two of you.
The examiner’s sheet
Send a link. Anyone can mark you.
Copy the link from the station and send it, in the Teams chat or anywhere else. Your examiner opens it with no account and marks you on a sheet modelled on the College’s marksheets.
- Date, session, circuit and station fill themselves in.
- A timer counts down the station.
- Three to five competencies written for the station, each rated from very poor to excellent, with what to look for.
- An overall judgement, from severe fail to excellent pass. Borderline pass and above is a pass.
- Areas of concern to tick, and comments for you.
Your examiner also gets the debrief, the communication skills, the ICD-11 criteria and the station’s chapter of our CASC textbook. None of it needs an account.
A marked sheet, under Marks
Example- Date
- 10 October 2026
- Session
- PM
- Circuit
- History taking
- Station
- HIST-000
Competencies
1.Takes a clear history of the presenting problem
History takingVery poorExcellent✓Good2.Elicits and weighs the risk to self
Risk assessmentVery poorExcellent✓Poor3.Explains the next steps in plain words
CommunicationVery poorExcellent✓Adequate
Overall judgement
Areas of concern
- 4Risk assessment missing or too thin
- 10Did not listen, or missed or ignored cues
Comments
SamA clear timeline. Ask about plans and means before you reassure.
Your marks
Find your weak spots
Passed or not passed
Every sheet comes back Passed or Not passed. Your latest mark on a station is its result.
Every sheet, kept
Under Marks: your rating on every competency, the areas of concern ticked and your examiner’s comments.
Progress by station type
Your CASC dashboard counts the stations marked and passed in each of the nine types, so you can see which types need work.
The debrief, afterwards
Once the station is over, read the debrief at the bottom of your page: what separates a pass, the expected approach and the traps.
Preparing for CASC
A guide to the day, the marking and how to prepare, from Dr Raj Joshi, ST6, one of our founders.
Find a partner
No one to practise with? Your CASC dashboard links our WhatsApp practice group.
Try one station. Every CASC station is free with an account.
Practise a CASC stationWhy it matters
A resit costs months. Passing moves you on.
A resit
- Another sitting, months later.
- More revision in the meantime.
- An application for higher training that may have to wait.
Passing
Pass your exams.
Paper A, Paper B and the CASC behind you.
Get the job you want.
Apply for higher training with the exams done. Our free ST4 calculator and interview guide help with the next step.
Be a great psychiatrist.
Keep what you learned: the evidence, the reasoning and the conversations you practised out loud.
Start free
An account is free, and nothing expires. Full access to a paper unlocks the rest when you want it.
Important
This is a revision aid, not a source of clinical knowledge. Everything here is written to help candidates prepare for the MRCPsych examinations. It is condensed, simplified and shaped around what the exams ask, which is not the same as what safe practice requires.
Do not use it to make clinical decisions. It must not guide the diagnosis, treatment or care of any patient. For that, use current national guidance, your local protocols, the summary of product characteristics for any medicine, and senior clinical advice. Content here may be out of date, and is not a substitute for any of those.
MRC is independent. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the Royal College of Psychiatrists. “MRCPsych” is used only to identify the examinations this material is written for. Using previously examined themes.