May 2025 PLAB & UKMLA Exam Update: Latest Questions, New Topics, and Platform Highlights
The May 2025 PLAB 1 exam, guided by the MLA content map, challenged candidates with high‑yield clinical cases and nuanced ethical scenarios – a trend that underscores the need for comprehensive preparation. MedRevisions has once again responded swiftly, incorporating these latest exam insights into our PLAB question bank and UKMLA preparation resources so you can stay ahead. (New to MedRevisions? Try our free PLAB 1 questions to experience our question bank!) Feel free to take a demo to access our updated Study Notes.
What's New in the May 2025 Exam?
High-Yield Clinical Scenarios: The exam featured intricate, case-based questions requiring multidisciplinary knowledge and integrated reasoning. Candidates had to synthesise information from various specialities to resolve challenging real-life cases, reflecting the PLAB’s shift toward applied clinical problem-solving.
Tricky Question Styles: Many questions offered closely related answer options designed to test comprehensive understanding and attention to detail. This meant candidates often grappled with subtle differences between answer choices – a deliberate tactic to ensure deep mastery of core concepts.
Ethical and Legal Dilemmas: Several questions involved professional ethics and UK medical law, such as applying general GMC guidance or the Mental Capacity Act, in clinical contexts. These scenarios tested not only medical knowledge but also candidates’ judgement and familiarity with guidelines, underscoring the importance of ethics in the PLAB 1/UKMLA exams.
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Newly Added Questions and Topics
In response to the May 2025 PLAB 1 exam, we’ve enriched our PLAB question bank and notes with new questions and explanations covering the latest tested topics. Our team has meticulously crafted questions on the following areas from the exam:
Cardiology: Statins
Contraception: Contraceptive choices for young people
Endocrinology: Hypothyroidism
ENT: Oesophageal candidiasis
Ethics & Law: General GMC guidance, Mental Capacity Act
Gynaecology: Endometrial cancer
Nephrology: Hyperkalaemia
Neurology: Epilepsy
Obstetrics: Hypertension in pregnancy, Placental abruption
Oncology: Palliative care prescribing
Orthopaedics: Lower back pain
Paediatrics: Hearing testing in children
Psychiatry: Antipsychotics, Atypical antipsychotics, Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD), Panic disorder
Surgery: Nerve lesions during surgery
Each new question comes with detailed explanations and references, ensuring you understand not just the correct answer but why it’s correct – and why the other options are not. These additions keep our question bank fully aligned with what you’ll face in the PLAB 1 and UKMLA exams.
Study Essential Mode for PLAB/UKMLA exam: Efficient and Targeted Revision
Our updated Study Essential Mode lets you prepare efficiently by focusing on the highest-yield material first. This specialised mode filters our question bank to ~1800+ essential exam-style questions with accompanying explanations and updated notes, so you can cover all core PLAB 1/UKMLA topics in a fraction of the time. Once you’ve mastered these fundamental concepts, you can reinforce your knowledge by tackling the remaining 3000+ questions in our bank to ensure thorough coverage.
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UKMLA & PLAB Exams: Perfectly Tailored Exam Notes
Our continuously updated study notes are the ultimate revision tool – perfect for quick reviews or in-depth study sessions. Here’s what makes MedRevisions’ notes stand out:
Constantly Updated: We reflect the latest NHS, NICE, and SIGN guidelines (and the evolving MLA content map) in our notes, ensuring you’re always studying the most current information. (In fact, we rolled out a major notes refresh in early 2025 to align with new guidelines across multiple subjects.)
Integrated Learning Approach: Topics aren’t siloed. We group related conditions and concepts together to foster integrated understanding and prevent common mix-ups.
High-Yield Highlights: Crucial facts and “must-know” points are clearly highlighted, so you can quickly identify what’s most important for the exam. This helps streamline your revision and maximise retention.
Common Confusions Clarified: Our notes call out and clarify frequently confused topics, ensuring you avoid typical pitfalls that can cost marks.
MCQ Tips & Examples: We’ve woven in practical exam tips and example questions throughout the notes. These show you how concepts can be tested and teach you strategies to decode tricky PLAB or UKMLA questions effectively.
Differential Diagnoses Simplified: Similar conditions are compared side-by-side with key differentiators and tailored MCQ advice. This strengthens your clinical reasoning skills – so you’ll confidently tackle questions that require telling lookalike conditions apart.
With MedRevisions notes, you get comprehensive, updated PLAB notes that make studying more efficient and effective. Every update we make is about one thing: helping you succeed on exam day.
Why Choose MedRevisions for PLAB and UKMLA?
When it comes to PLAB 1 and UKMLA prep, MedRevisions offers an unparalleled suite of UKMLA preparation resources to boost your confidence:
Realistic Exam Simulation: Our question bank closely mirrors recent PLAB/UKMLA exam styles and difficulty, so you’ll go into the exam feeling prepared and familiar with the question formats.
Always Updated: Content is continuously aligned with the latest MLA content map and UK medical guidelines (we update promptly after each exam and guideline change). This means you’re always revising with relevant, up-to-date material.
Proven Success: We have a consistent track record of helping candidates excel in the PLAB and UKMLA exams on their first attempt – your success is our success.
5000+ Exam-Style Questions: Gain access to a vast PLAB question bank with over 5000 exam-like MCQs, including all the latest May 2025 additions. Each question comes with detailed explanations for every option, helping you learn from your mistakes.
30+ Full Mock Exams: Practice under exam conditions with our extensive set of mock exams. You can reset and retake mocks for free, and each attempt provides a new set of questions, giving you virtually endless practice.
Study Essential Mode: A specialised feature for targeted, high-yield learning. Focus on the ~1800 most essential questions to solidify core topics, then tackle the remaining questions to ensure complete coverage. This mode helps you avoid feeling overwhelmed while still covering everything important.
Tailored Study Notes: Comprehensive notes that cover all key PLAB 1/UKMLA topics with clear explanations and highlights. They’re designed to complement the questions and reinforce your knowledge, making your revision as efficient as possible.
Spaced Repetition Learning: Use our built-in spaced repetition tools to reinforce long-term memory of crucial facts. This science-backed technique ensures you retain what you learn and can recall it quickly during the exam.
Together, these features provide a one-stop solution for your PLAB/UKMLA preparation – from learning content to practicing exam questions – all updated to the latest standards.
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