Practise urgent clinical decisions, investigation choices, prescribing, prevention, consent and procedural safety for the UK Medical School AKT, using focused cases and explained questions. These are independent learning materials, not official exam questions or a pass prediction.
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General Medical Council (GMC), regulator; UK medical schools, assessment providers, collaborating through the Medical Schools Council (MSC) · GMC MLA content map, published October 2025 and applicable from September 2026 onwards; the official landing page records a September 2026 terminology revision. Cross-checked against the MSC UK Medical School Applied Knowledge Test Student Handbook 2026/27. Verified on 2026-10-10. The workbook label maps to the AKT component of the MLA; its UK medical-school delivery is called the Medical School AKT (MS AKT). The assigned canonical slug is preserved.
This original 20-question sample covers selected topics across the outline. It does not reproduce official exam questions or cover every tested topic.
- Medical Licensing Assessment
- Applied knowledge test (AKT)
- MLA content map
- About the MLA content map
- MLA content map: applicable from September 2026 onwards
- PLAB and the MLA
- Preparing for the Applied Knowledge Test
- UK Medical School Applied Knowledge Test Student Handbook 2026/27
- Medical Schools Applied Knowledge Test Sampling Grid, October 2023
- Resuscitation Council UK: Special circumstances Guidelines 2025
- NHS: High blood pressure
- NHS: Pulmonary embolism
- NHS: Diagnosing a stroke
- NHS: Acute kidney injury
- NHS Ayrshire and Arran Medicines: Management of Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding
- NHS: Ectopic pregnancy symptoms
- NHS: Bronchiolitis
- NHS: High temperature in children
- NHS: Sudden confusion (delirium)
- NHS: Bipolar disorder
- NHS: Septic arthritis
- Newcastle Hospitals Laboratories: TSH, serum
- NHS: Coeliac disease diagnosis
- East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust: Understanding Glaucoma
- NHS: Back pain
- NHS Improvement: Initial placement checks for nasogastric and orogastric tubes
- MHRA: NGPod pH testing device, DSI/2026/009
- GMC: Circumstances that affect the decision-making process, part 3
- GMC: Personal beliefs and medical practice
- GMC: Being open and honest when things go wrong
- Cochrane Handbook: Chapter 15, Interpreting results and drawing conclusions
- Recommendations | Hypertension in adults: diagnosis and management | Guidance | NICE
- Recommendations | Acute kidney injury: prevention, detection and management | Guidance | NICE
- Recommendations | Venous thromboembolic diseases: diagnosis, management and thrombophilia testing | Guidance | NICE
- Recommendations | Bronchiolitis in children: diagnosis and management | Guidance | NICE
- Recommendations | Coeliac disease: recognition, assessment and management | Guidance | NICE
- Recommendations | Bipolar disorder: assessment and management | Guidance | NICE
- bronchiolitis-in-children-diagnosis-and-management-pdf-51048523717
- Recommendations | Stroke and transient ischaemic attack in over 16s: diagnosis and initial management | Guidance | NICE
- Valproate use in men: as a precaution, men and their partners should use effective contraception - GOV.UK
- ukpga_20050009_en.pdf
- Recommendations | Venous thromboembolic diseases: diagnosis, management and thrombophilia testing | Guidance | NICE
- Recommendations | Stroke and transient ischaemic attack in over 16s: diagnosis and initial management | Guidance | NICE
- Recommendations | Care of dying adults in the last days of life | Guidance | NICE
- Recommendations | Hearing loss in adults: assessment and management | Guidance | NICE
- Recommendations organised by site of cancer | Suspected cancer: recognition and referral | Guidance | NICE
- Recommendations | Neutropenic sepsis: prevention and management in people with cancer | Guidance | NICE
Medical Licensing Assessment (MLA) – Applied Knowledge Test (AKT)
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A 68-year-old vomits fresh blood. They are clammy, with a pulse of 126/min and blood pressure of 82/48 mmHg. Which immediate management approach is most appropriate?
Medical Licensing Assessment (MLA) – Applied Knowledge Test (AKT)
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Upper gastrointestinal bleeding
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