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MRCS PART A – EXPERIENCE


DURATION OF STUDY – 3.5-4 months (with work ) 
Pattern of study 
Paper 1 ( Basic sciences ) 
Anatomy – Emrcs with NASA khan notes ( best part about these notes are he copied all the colourful pics from Snell’s anatomy along with emrcs theory ) . Make small pics for imagination of anatomical relationship .... A big chunk of questions are from anatomy , this needs to be done in a crystal clearway ..
Physiology – raftry with emrcs 
Pathology – raftry few topics and emrcs
Pharma and micro – emrcs 
I read raftry for physio complete twice , patho and micro once only 
Biostatistics – emrcs 
For basic sciences reading emrcs with its theory is more than enough with few references from text books to make the concepts clear 
Fawzia sheets for paper one is very very very important , somehow in every session of this examination RCS is putting almost 50-60% paper from these sheets ... Don’t leave them .... Read them at least three times ....
Paper 2 ... 
For paper 2 , Your surgical branch background can put a little impact on understanding the subject , as I passed my general surgery residency few months ago , read bailey and love with sabiston in details so I found the surgical part easy to cover 
Still what I noticed during my preparation was they are continuously sticking on basic Knowledge about subject which can be easily attained by reading question banks 
For surgical gastro and oncology – strictly emrcs and pastest question bank with reference from bailey and love if you are not understanding anything from there 
Skin and Hand and vascular – emrcs and pastest 
I found pastest more authentic and reliable and conceptual for paper 2 
Trauma and orthopedic – well this was a nightmare as I was from a general surgery background , I stick myself to emrcs tables , charts , PASTEST QUESTION AND ANSWERS WITH DETAILED EXPLANATION , 
Make notes and read them again and again 
I made flow charts about the fracture managements from emrcs theory and read them again and again 
In general for paper two I found pastest explanations are really good in making concepts 
I never read mastering mrcs for part two ... 
How was actual exam ? 
Paper one – bang on repeats from emrcs and fawzia and recalls ... 
Paper two – almost 70% paper was new , And conceptual 
PASTEST question bank was very helpful 
How many revisions needed ? 
I would say read emrcs 3-4 times , PASTEST ( only paper 2 ) – atleast 2 times , make notes and flow charts , fawzia sheets 2-3 times , recalls (pls do recalls , and check answers from authentic text or goggle as all the answers given in recalls are not correct ) , RCS question bank 
Join some good WhatsApp or FB group like Dr samreen .... She s so thorough with preparation of part A and she exactly knows what u need to pass in part A , follow her blindly ..! 
I use to do all her questions daily no matter what my duty and work schedule is ... And then the question I used to do wrong , I used to copy paste them and revise them ... 
Find some study partner , discuss things with him/her , make a group , discuss controversial questions , reading alone is boring for this exam. ......
Every one has different strategies , this was mine and it worked for me well with god’s grace I scored 88.14% in this exam in first attempt .... 
If I can do it , anyone can ...!! Believe in yourself and your strategy 
I thank Dr samreen for her selfless efforts in helping me and my fellow study partners !!
I wish all the aspiring candidates good luck ! Go for it !

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  1. VinajNovember 1, 2019 at 11:20 PM

    I like So much

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  2. UnknownDecember 12, 2019 at 2:00 AM

    Hi, where can we find fawzia sheets and recall? Thanks..

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  3. Ag Zaw HtetApril 12, 2020 at 10:10 PM

    I can't download all folder at once and can u help me how to download or please, can u upload with another storage such as pcloud.

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  4. UnknownSeptember 18, 2020 at 10:54 AM

    Excellent job sir , really appreciate great effort

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