PLAB vs MLA

PLAB 2
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PLAB MLA
Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board Medical Licensing Assessment
Content map: PDF, Excel
PLAB part 1 AKT - Applied Knowledge Test
Till 23-05-2024 08-08-2024 onwards
PLAB part 2 CPSA - Clinical and Professional Skills Assessment
Till 16-05-2024 17-05-2024 onwards

Summary points of “What will happen to PLAB in 2024?”

  • For PLAB 1, all tests sat on or after 8 August 2024 will be based on the MLA content map.
  • For PLAB 2, all tests sat on or after 17 May 2024 will be based on the MLA content map.
  • Candidates will notice very little difference.
  • This transition will not affect candidates’ preparations for, or experience of, taking the test.
  • Criteria unchanged, who are currently eligible to take the test, will continue to be eligible in the future.
  • The standard of the test, and the types of questions and stations currently used, won’t change.
  • Candidates’ experience on the test day will be unchanged.
  • No further changes are expected at this stage.
  • The eligibility criteria, English language requirements, standard of the test, resit policies, experience on the day and validity periods, won’t change during this process.
  • PLAB test will keep its current name for now, plan to modernise the name at a later date.
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Anyone knows what’s the difference in plab 2 and MLA study material
As I heard from 17th may 2024
Plab 2 will be converting to MLA

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So far from there notices on there website, it’s seems their is no bigger change.

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Does anybody know what are the changes in MLA and will it affect us?

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Officially they are changing it but my gut says they won’t chnage it too much because already plab passing scores for part 1is arround 70% and arround 50-55% for plab 2 according to GMC yearly statics…so they wont reduce that even below that…apparently they may change a bit topics but not too much than that i think

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