Practise focused assessment, urgent treatment, practical skills and patient-centred decisions through clinical cases and ethical reasoning. These are independent learning materials, not official exam questions or a pass prediction.
Read the PLAB 2: Clinical Decisions and Professional Skills study guide and official exam sourcesExam outline and official sources
General Medical Council (GMC) · GMC MLA content map, published October 2025, updated September 2026, applicable from September 2026 onward; current PLAB 2 candidate guide consulted on 2026-10-10. The workbook label maps to the GMC's PLAB 2 examination; OSCE describes its assessment format. PLAB 2 remains its current name and meets MLA Clinical and Professional Skills Assessment requirements.
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
- What is the PLAB 2 exam?
- How will you be tested?
- Understanding your results
- What resources should you use to prepare for PLAB 2?
- PLAB and the MLA
- MLA content map
- MLA content map — September 2026 update
- NG127: Suspected neurological conditions — recommendations for adults
- CG95: Recent-onset chest pain of suspected cardiac origin — recommendations
- NG136: Hypertension in adults — recommendations
- NG225: Self-harm — recommendations
- NG225: Self-harm — guideline PDF
- CG103: Delirium — recommendations
- Ectopic pregnancy — symptoms
- Dehydration
- Symptoms of a stroke
- Sudden confusion (delirium)
- Asthma
- Adult basic life support Guidelines 2025
- Special circumstances Guidelines 2025
- Mental capacity
- Personal beliefs and medical practice
- The dialogue leading to a decision — part 1
- The dialogue leading to a decision — part 2
- Circumstances that affect the decision-making process — part 2
- Using and disclosing patient information for direct care
- Being open and honest with patients when things go wrong
- Intimate examinations and chaperones
- Keeping up to date and ensuring safe prescribing
- suspected-neurological-conditions-recognition-and-referral-pdf-66141663923653
- Recommendations | Hypertension in adults: diagnosis and management | Guidance | NICE
- Recommendations | Self-harm: assessment, management and preventing recurrence | Guidance | NICE
- Recommendations | Diarrhoea and vomiting caused by gastroenteritis in under 5s: diagnosis and management | Guidance | NICE
- Recommendations | Asthma: diagnosis, monitoring and chronic asthma management (BTS, NICE, SIGN) | Guidance | NICE
- ukpga_20050009_en.pdf
- Recommendations for adults aged over 16 | Suspected neurological conditions: recognition and referral | Guidance | NICE
- algorithm-a-objective-tests-for-diagnosing-asthma-in-adults-and-young-people-aged-over-16-years-with-a-history-suggesting-asthma-bts-nice-sign-pdf-13556516365
- Seven Steps to Good Inhaler Technique :: George Eliot Hospital
- Emergency%20Treatment%20of%20Anaphylaxis%20May%202021_0.pdf
- Combination use of medicines from different classes of renin-angiotensin system blocking agents: risk of hyperkalaemia, hypotension, and impaired renal function—new warnings - GOV.UK
Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board test: PLAB 2
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An older adult reports dizziness on standing. Blood pressure is 150/86 mmHg lying down and 126/74 mmHg after standing for one minute. Which interpretation is most appropriate?
Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board test: PLAB 2
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