PLAB 2 Mock — Circuit A
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Chest Pain History
Breaking Bad News
Abdominal Exam
Paediatric Wheeze
Mental Health Risk
Drug Chart Review
How it works
Experience the full exam circuit from start to finish.
Choose your format
PLAB 2 (16 stations + 2 rest, 8 min each) or MLA OSCE (12 stations, 10 min each). The circuit matches your target exam exactly.
Station by station
Move through the circuit with reading time, active consultation, and rest periods — just like the real thing.
Timed pressure
A countdown timer mirrors the real exam. When time's up, the station ends. No extensions, no pausing.
Full results
Pass/fail determination with per-station scores, domain averages, and targeted recommendations for improvement.
Why mock exams are the most important thing you'll do
There is an enormous difference between practising individual OSCE stations and sitting a full circuit under timed conditions. When you practise a single station, you're fresh, focused, and operating at peak cognitive capacity. You can take your time reading the brief, gather your thoughts, and deliver a polished consultation. That's great for learning the content — but it's nothing like exam day. A mock exam forces you to string 12 or 16 stations together consecutively, with no breaks to recharge, no chance to dwell on a station that went badly, and no opportunity to look anything up. It's the only way to truly rehearse the exam experience.
Stamina is the hidden variable that nobody talks about until they've experienced it. Doing 12 to 16 stations back-to-back is mentally exhausting in a way that's genuinely hard to anticipate. By station 8 or 9, your brain is slower. Your openings start to feel mechanical. You forget to ask about drug allergies. You rush the safety netting because you can feel the clock running out and you just want the station to be over. This fatigue is completely normal — every candidate experiences it — but if the first time you encounter it is on exam day, you're in trouble. Mock exams build your exam endurance so that when the real day comes, you've already trained your brain to perform under sustained pressure.
Time management is another skill that only reveals itself under full-circuit conditions. Eight minutes feels generous when you're doing station 1. By station 12, the same eight minutes feels impossibly short. Your pacing changes as you tire, and without practice, most candidates either rush through the final stations or run out of time entirely. Mock exams teach you to calibrate your internal clock — to know instinctively when you're at the halfway mark, when to start wrapping up, and when to move to your closing statement. This sense of timing is a trainable skill, but it requires the sustained pressure of a full circuit to develop.
There's also a powerful psychological benefit to having sat a complete mock before the real exam. Exam anxiety is driven largely by uncertainty — not knowing what the day will feel like, how the stations transition, whether you'll be able to keep going after a bad station. Once you've completed a full mock, you've demystified the process. You know exactly how the circuit flows, how the rest periods feel, and what it's like to walk into station 14 after a disaster in station 13. That familiarity transforms anxiety into confidence, and confidence translates directly into better performance.
The most effective strategy is to use mock exams at three points in your revision. First, do an early mock as a diagnostic — don't study for it, just see where you stand. This gives you an honest baseline and identifies your weakest areas. Then spend several weeks doing targeted practice on those weak areas using individual stations and clinical skills guides. Finally, do two or three full mocks in the final fortnight before your exam. These final mocks should simulate exam day as closely as possible: start at the same time, wear what you'll wear, and don't pause. If you're consistently passing these final mocks, you can walk into the real exam knowing you're ready.
What the mock exam includes
Exam format matching
Exact circuit structure for PLAB 2 (16 stations + 2 rest, 8 min) and MLA OSCE (12 stations, 10 min) — station count, timing, and rest periods.
Station reading time
A dedicated reading period before each station where you review the candidate brief, just like the real exam.
Active consultation timer
A visible countdown during each station that mirrors the real exam clock. No pausing, no extensions.
Rest periods between stations
Short rest periods between stations replicate the real exam flow and give your brain a moment to reset.
Station brief display
Each station begins with a candidate brief — patient details, presenting complaint, and your task — formatted exactly like exam day.
Real-time voice AI patients
Every station features an AI patient that speaks and responds naturally. No text boxes — actual spoken conversation.
Pass/fail determination
After the full circuit, your overall result is calculated using domain-weighted scoring that mirrors the actual exam standard.
Per-station breakdown
See your score for every individual station with domain-level detail — so you know exactly which stations cost you marks.
Domain averages
Aggregate scores across Data Gathering, Clinical Management, and Interpersonal Skills show where you're strongest and weakest.
Frequently asked questions
A PLAB 2 mock takes approximately 2 hours and 40 minutes — 16 clinical stations plus 2 rest stations at 8 minutes each, plus reading time and rest periods between stations. An MLA OSCE mock takes roughly 2 hours and 20 minutes with 12 stations at 10 minutes each. These timings mirror the real exam, so you should set aside a full block of uninterrupted time. We'd recommend treating it like the real thing: clear your schedule, silence your phone, and commit to the full circuit.
No — and that's intentional. The whole point of a mock exam is to simulate real exam conditions, and you can't pause the real thing. If you pause between stations, you lose the fatigue effect that makes mocks so valuable for building stamina. If you genuinely need to stop, you can abandon the mock and start a new one later, but the interrupted mock won't generate a valid overall result since the conditions have been compromised.
Your performance is scored across the three OSCE domains — Data Gathering, Clinical Management, and Interpersonal Skills — for each station. These domain scores are weighted and combined to produce a per-station result, and your overall mock result is determined by your aggregate performance across all stations. The passing threshold is calibrated to reflect the standard expected at the actual exam, so a pass on a mock is a meaningful indicator of readiness.
We recommend at least three. Start with an early diagnostic mock about 6-8 weeks before your exam — don't study specifically for it, just see where you stand. Use the results to guide your targeted revision over the following weeks. Then do two to three full mocks in the final two weeks before the exam. These final mocks should simulate exam conditions as closely as possible. If you're consistently passing, you're ready. If you're borderline, the per-station breakdowns will show you exactly what to focus on in your remaining time.
Yes. After completing the full mock and reviewing your overall results, you can drill down into any individual station to see the full transcript, domain-level scores, and specific feedback. This is where the real learning happens — you'll see exactly which questions earned marks, which were missed, and what the examiner was looking for. Many students find it helpful to redo their weakest 2-3 stations as individual practice sessions after reviewing the feedback.
The station content comes from the same pool of 1,800+ scenarios, but the experience is fundamentally different. Individual practice lets you attempt a single station in isolation — great for learning and refining your approach. Mock exams assemble a full circuit of varied stations and add the pressure of continuous timed performance. You'll encounter a mix of station types (history taking, counselling, acute, ethics) just like the real exam, and the fatigue factor means your performance on station 14 is very different from station 1.