Page 1 of 1: MRCS MCQ 1 in April 2004

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Hello, I took the MCQ 1 in April 2004 and I hope these information would be helpful for future candidates.

There were 90 questions. Most of them have 5 stems. 7 questions had 4 stems and about 6 questions had 6 or 7 stems. I counted a total of 451 stems.

There is enough time to answer all the questions because you don't have to ponder whether to leave blank since there is no negative marking.

The topics that are featured prominently are Anatomy , Physiology and Pathology . A few questions are on Microbiology and pharmocology. But most questions concentrate on neoplasia and trauma.

Some questions I remembered:

neonatal Physiology

Physiology changes in pyloric stenosis

acetylcholine

subclavian steal syndrome

glioma

pleomorphic adenoma

pharyngeal pouch

nephrotoxic drugs

superior mediastinal Anatomy

appendix

risk factors for oesophageal carcinoma,

adverse prognosis in breast carcinoma

adverse prognosis in lymphoma

healing of fractures (more of Pathology of bone healing)

metabolic and hormonal changes in major trauma

Staphylococcus epidermidis

organisms in sputum

compression of common peroneal nerve

absorption in colon

bright red stool in a child

These are the books that I used

Anatomy : 1. Grant 2. Netter's Atlas

Physiology : Ganong

Pathology : Chandrasoma's Conscise Pathology

Pharmacology : Katzung

My advice is to do a lot of MCQ's while studying and to understand why some answers are true and false rather than just memorizing the stems hoping the same stems would come out. Some questions require thinking but none of them are there to deceive you. Reproduce some Anatomy drawings will help you to memorize the pathway of important nerves and arteries: phrenic nerve, vagus nerve, femoral artery, first rib and etc

There is very few questions on perioperative management. No questions on diathermy or preoperative investigations or post operative complication.

Another thing that I realized while doing MCQ's is that for questions with more than 5 stems, I had a tendency to only transfer the answers for the first 5 stems and 'forget' to mark the answers for stem 6 and 7. So I would advice you to print out some answer sheets and practise transferring answers and see if you transfer all the T's and F's correctly and completely.

I hope the above information is useful. I am crossing my fingers hoping that I will pass.

Guest · Credits: 78294 My Scrapbook My Reading List 262569 Books

Hello
Respected friend!
Thak you so very much for such an informative post on the forum.It is indeed a great help,especially for the new comers. It seems that on MRCS forum ,except one or two ppl no one is interested in posting the FEEDBACK or Qs they came across during their exam.Anyway so yuor such a reply is a real help.I thank you once again.

plz can u suggest is Ganong is good as some ppl say BRS is good for the prep too.So its all so confusing.......... :?
Thanking you in advance!

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i would suggest u to go for gannong as it is more comprehensive and well prepared book..BRS would not be sufficient i belive as Physiology questions were hard enough and too much..
take care

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thank you so much for your reply

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