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For resitters
The SCA marks how you consult. That is a skill, and skills are coachable.
Read this first. Not passing a diet happens to strong, capable doctors, and it is not a verdict on the GP you are going to be. The SCA is not testing whether you know enough. It is testing how you run twelve minutes, and that can be practised in a way that pure revision cannot.
Your results letter comes with feedback statements. They are developmental notes the examiner picks after marking, so they point at a theme rather than a moment, and that is the gap people get stuck in. Knowing your theme was information gathering does not tell you which question, in which consultation. One consultation here shows you the actual moment.
What actually happens
You speak to a patient, out loud, for twelve minutes
Not multiple choice and not reading. A real spoken consultation with an AI patient, on the clock, from a bank of over 200 cases written by UK GPs. Take fifteen minutes instead if you need the neurodiversity accommodation, at no extra cost.
You get marked against the three RCGP domains
Data gathering and diagnosis, clinical management, and relating to others, each graded and broken down criterion by criterion. Then a spoken debrief, so you can hear the feedback the way you would hear it from a trainer rather than read it off a screen.
You see the line behind every judgement
Beside each criterion sits the line from your own consultation that it refers to, taken from the transcript rather than summarised. When a criterion was never covered it says so plainly, instead of guessing. Speech recognition is not perfect, so if a line looks wrong it is the transcription, not a judgement about how you speak.
Then you ask the examiner about it, as much as you like
A coaching chat opens on that consultation once it is marked. Ask why a criterion went the way it did, or what you should have said instead. It is included, with no limit.
GP-reviewed cases, spread across the RCGP clinical experience groups.
RCGP domains marked, with a criterion-level breakdown under each.
Consultations on every new account, so you can judge it before paying.
When you are closer, sit a circuit
Pacing across twelve stations is a different skill from pacing inside one. A mock runs six stations or more, back to back, drawn from the whole case bank and spread across the blueprint, and it avoids cases you have already practised. One credit a station, so a full circuit starts at six pounds and you do not need a subscription for it.
Sat it twice or more?
Then cost should not be the thing standing in your way. Send us your result letters and a person reviews them, usually within 48 hours. If approved, you take a full month free of GPAtlas Premium, AceTheSCA or AKT Compass, then 30% off for the next 12 months if you carry on. Your documents are deleted as soon as a decision is made, whichever way it goes.
Being straight with you
- GPAtlas is not affiliated with or endorsed by the RCGP, and this is not the exam. Our marking is a careful approximation of the three RCGP domains. It does not predict your result, and nobody can promise you a pass.
- This is practice, not a medical device and not clinical advice. It sits alongside your educational supervisor and your training programme rather than replacing them, and they are worth talking to about a resit.
- Your consultations stay in your account. Ask us to delete any attempt at any time, and they go when you close your account.
- If this has knocked you harder than the exam itself, that is worth taking seriously. Your own GP, and NHS Practitioner Health, which is free and confidential for doctors, are both there for exactly this.
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Twelve minutes, and it costs nothing to find out.