Practise urgent clinical decisions, selected continuing care, prevention, consent, prescribing and procedural safety for PLAB, with 60 focused concepts, explained questions and active-recall cards. These are independent learning materials, not official exam questions or a pass prediction.
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General Medical Council (GMC) · Verified on 2026-10-10. The generic workbook label 'General Medical Council (GMC) Registration Exams (UK)' is mapped to the GMC's Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board (PLAB) test, comprising PLAB 1 and PLAB 2. GMC confirms that PLAB retains its name and meets the MLA AKT and CPSA requirements respectively. Governing outline: MLA content map, published October 2025, last updated September 2026, applicable to assessments from September 2026 onwards. Assigned slug preserved.
This original 20-question sample covers selected topics across the outline. It does not reproduce official exam questions or cover every tested topic.
- Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board
- PLAB and the MLA
- MLA content map
- MLA content map — September 2026 update
- About the MLA content map
- MLA content map — earlier October 2025 publication
- How will you be tested?
- Outcomes for graduates — Practical skills and procedures
- Heart attack
- Pulmonary embolism
- Symptoms of a stroke
- Acute kidney injury
- Ectopic pregnancy
- Bronchiolitis
- Delirium (sudden confusion) — Overview
- How to prevent delirium and help your recovery
- Same Day Emergency Clinic — Cauda Equina Syndrome
- Glaucoma
- Diabetic ketoacidosis
- Vomiting blood
- Resuscitation Council UK — First Aid Guidelines 2025
- Decision making and consent
- Decision making and consent — Circumstances that affect the decision-making process, part 3
- Using and disclosing patient information for direct care
- Being open and honest with patients when things go wrong
- Deciding if it is safe to prescribe
- Managing the risk of needlestick or sharps injuries
- Needlestick or sharps injuries — Overview
- Cochrane Handbook, Chapter 15 — Interpreting results and drawing conclusions
- Self-harm — Assessment and treatments
- Special circumstances Guidelines | Resuscitation Council UK
- Emergency%20Treatment%20of%20Anaphylaxis%20May%202021_0.pdf
- JBDS%2002%20DKA%20Guideline%20with%20qr%20code.pdf
- Recommendations | Acute kidney injury: prevention, detection and management | Guidance | NICE
- Recommendations | Recent-onset chest pain of suspected cardiac origin: assessment and diagnosis | Guidance | NICE
- Ectopic pregnancy - Diagnosis - NHS
- Recommendations | Venous thromboembolic diseases: diagnosis, management and thrombophilia testing | Guidance | NICE
- Recommendations | Bronchiolitis in children: diagnosis and management | Guidance | NICE
- Recommendations | Self-harm: assessment, management and preventing recurrence | Guidance | NICE
- ECG-policy.pdf
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Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board (PLAB) test
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A 59-year-old had 25 minutes of chest pressure with sweating four hours ago. He is now pain-free, haemodynamically stable and has no signs of heart failure. A resting 12-lead ECG is normal. ACS remains suspected. According to NICE initial referral guidance, which disposition is most appropriate?
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