- Verbal Reasoning
- Eleven passages of text, each with four questions, in 22 minutes. Questions ask whether a statement is true, false or cannot be told from the passage, or which of four statements the passage supports. No prior knowledge is used; the difficulty is the half-minute available per question. One mark each.
- Decision Making
- Thirty-five questions in 37 minutes on logical puzzles, syllogisms, interpreting information, recognising assumptions, Venn diagrams and probabilistic reasoning. Some questions offer four options; others present five statements to be answered yes or no, worth two marks if all are right and one if partly. A calculator is available.
- Quantitative Reasoning
- Thirty-six questions in 26 minutes, most referring to charts, tables and graphs of data. The mathematics is at school level — percentages, ratios, rates, averages, unit conversion — and the difficulty is reading the data quickly and choosing the calculation. One mark each; an on-screen calculator is provided.
- Situational Judgement
- Sixty-nine questions in 26 minutes on scenarios involving students, clinicians and patients. Each asks how appropriate a response is, or how important a consideration is, on a four-point scale, with full marks for matching the expert panel and partial marks for a near answer. Reported as a band from 1 to 4 rather than a score.
