The MSRA explained
The Multi-Specialty Recruitment Assessment (MSRA) is a computer-based assessment used in recruitment to a number of UK specialty training programmes. It has two papers, taken in one sitting of 170 minutes, and the two papers count equally.
| Professional Dilemmas | Clinical Problem Solving | |
|---|---|---|
| Time | 95 minutes | 75 minutes |
| Items | 50 scenarios | 86 items |
| Formats | About half ranking, about half choose three | About half extended matching, about half single best answer |
| Tests | Professional attributes, not clinical knowledge | Clinical knowledge at the level of the Foundation Programme |
| Negative marking | None | None |
| More | Professional Dilemmas → | Clinical Problem Solving → |
What this bank does
- Clinical Problem Solving single best answer questions with five to eight options, and extended matching sets, across the twelve clinical areas.
- Professional Dilemmas ranking questions, marked by how close your order is to the key, and choose-three questions.
- Timed papers at the real exam's pace, in Learn mode (the explanation after each question) or Exam mode (at the end).
- An explanation for every answer that names its sources.
How a raw score becomes a recruitment score, and the scores each specialty looks for, are set by the recruiting bodies each year. This site does not predict them.
Source: NHS England, What's in the MSRA. Where anything here differs from NHS England's current pages, NHS England is right.
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