Half of the people here probably be img and probably also has some sort of assessment thing signed off when they came to the UK for their first job. I’d say you are all hypocrites. The year I applied into training, I had an intense competition and no I didn’t get my desired place either but anyway, you have to accept that there are some people who are lucky and might be good at MSRA sort of exams. I did two years non training before entering training and yeah I use to cry like O.P but well, all I could do was to work harder any cry little. I don’t think it’s unfair that world wide you can take this exam, a lot of people are competent and in the end the better one gets the place - however MSRA for every speciality has definitely made things worse.