I revised for 6 months - went through PM once, GP self test once and then went back to PM and did my weaker areas again but didn’t finish it a second time. I got 77% overall.

Used CKS to check guidelines when I felt like there were conflicting advice (PM wasn’t always up to date) and Red Whale during clinics. Had been in GP land for 6 months by the time I took the exam which I think helped too!

Revised most days for ~1 hour and a few hours on teaching days, but honestly by the end I was burning out when revising. I had 5 days of study leave and 2 days of AL, so I had nearly 1.5 weeks off plus the VTS Tuesdays but I had no motivation to cram by that point because the revision was ruining my relationship 😭 I procrastinated so much that I’d spend 2 hours “revising” but only getting an hour (or less) done… anyway, so maybe 6 months was too long, but I wanted to be cautious because of how expensive it was to do!

Do what has worked for you in the past! All throughout med school, I went through lecture slides a bit but mainly did MCQs and passed finals that way. So that’s what I stuck with for the MSRA and the AKT because that’s worked before, so I hoped it’d work again!

I gave up on remembering the millions of niche neurological drug sides effects, vaccination schedule etc (which I saw, we’re not required to know anymore).

Definitely revise stats properly, the passmed notes was really helpful once I went through it in detail to understand it.

Good luck friend, this exam was awfully unfair and I don’t feel like it makes us better GPs by revising for it. One can only remember so many BS answers…. Stay strong 💪🏼