PLAB 1 — on the board in full, the Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board test, part 1, now meeting the requirements for the Medical Licensing Assessment (MLA) Applied Knowledge Test — does not ask what you memorised. It asks what you would do next for this patient, in this system, right now — 180 single-best-answer questions in three hours, built on the GMC's MLA content map. Myndaq walks that content map with you like a round: bay by bay, decision by decision.
PLAB 1 is a written multiple-choice examination of 180 single-best-answer questions, answered within three hours. Each question opens with a short clinical scenario and asks for one best next step — the choice a safe Foundation-level doctor would make.
The GMC is explicit about what the paper tests: your ability to apply your knowledge to the care of patients, rather than how well you can remember and recite facts. That is why a stem gives you a person and a situation, and why the correct option is a decision rather than a definition.
PLAB 1 questions are based on the MLA content map, and the paper meets the requirements for the Medical Licensing Assessment's Applied Knowledge Test. Myndaq's course is laid out against that same map — 20 chapters and 42 modules — so no area of it is the one you never got to.
PLAB is the GMC's route for international medical graduates. Evidence of your knowledge of English — most commonly IELTS or OET — comes first; PLAB 1 is the written paper; PLAB 2 is the objective structured clinical examination; GMC registration follows. Check the current requirements with the GMC before you book anything.
Most doctors show this with IELTS or the medicine version of OET before the GMC allows them to sit PLAB. Myndaq has full courses for both.
180 single-best-answer questions in three hours, based on the MLA content map. This is the paper this course is built for.
An objective structured clinical examination taken in the UK, where the same decisions are made face to face.
The end of the route — and the start of the job. Timing rules and evidence windows are set by the GMC, so confirm them there.
A short scenario, five options, one best next step — and an explanation that names the decision rule, not just the letter. You commit, you find out, and you learn the boundary between the option you chose and the one the GMC would expect.
The Myndaq AI Tutor sees the exact scenario on your screen. Ask why one investigation comes before another, what the UK pathway expects here, or how the safest option differs from the most thorough one. It asks you the next question rather than handing over the answer — which is how the reasoning sticks past the exam.
Ask about the exact stem you are on — the pathway, the priority, the option you nearly picked.
Single-best-answer scenarios written for UK practice — the shape of the paper, not a fact quiz.
The map areas you avoid become the practice you get — quietly, without you building a plan.
Browser-based on any device, in whatever time zone you are preparing from.
Sign in with Google — no card, no setup, the whole content map in front of you.
Short scenario sets in the real format, with the tutor whenever a decision does not sit right.
Let the analytics choose tomorrow's round, and keep going until no area of the map is cold.
The six questions every PLAB 1 candidate asks first.
180 multiple-choice questions, all single best answer, to be answered within three hours. That is about a minute a question, which is why pace is part of the preparation.
PLAB 1 meets the requirements for the Medical Licensing Assessment's Applied Knowledge Test, and its questions are based on the MLA content map. In practice, preparing for the AKT and preparing for PLAB 1 is the same work.
Evidence of your knowledge of English is part of the route, and most doctors provide it with IELTS or the medicine version of OET before sitting PLAB. The GMC sets the accepted evidence and the scores — confirm the current rules there. Myndaq has full IELTS and OET courses if you need them.
PLAB 2, an objective structured clinical examination taken in the UK, and then GMC registration with a licence to practise. PLAB 1 is the written half of a two-part test.
Applied knowledge: your ability to apply what you know to the care of patients, rather than how well you can remember and recite facts. Expect a scenario and a decision, not a definition.
20 chapters and 42 modules laid out against the MLA content map, each module a focused practice surface with the AI tutor attached and your weakest areas feeding the next session. The whole round is walkable today — no bay is still being made up.
Start free — no card needed. Explore the course and chat with the AI tutor, then see plans on the welcome page.
See plans on the welcome page →The content map, the real question shape, and a tutor on the round with you.