Timed circuits
What does your invitation say?
Starter circuit Free
Four stations, one from each core skill: ethics, communication, data and motivation.
4 stations · about 37 minutes
Season circuits: one a week
Ten full circuits to work through, one a week, across the interview season. Each has eight stations: ethics, data, a role play, insight into medicine, priorities or explaining, teamwork, the NHS, and a science or second ethics question. No station appears in two weeks.
Most stations give 2 minutes to read and 6 to answer, role plays 8 minutes, and panel questions 4 minutes with no reading. Or choose your medical school's published timing.
Week 1
Overheard in the lift · Takeaways and diabetes · You sent her the wrong way · What does a GP do all day? · Three things at once · When you were not in charge · Should the NHS pay for it? · Why do we shiver?
8 stations · about 70 minutesStart week 1Week 2
He does not want the operation · Check the dose · The video your aunt saw · A weakness you are working on · Why do I need this injection? · They took the credit · Whose job is obesity? · Registered to donate
8 stations · about 69 minutesStart week 2Week 3
Promise you won't tell · Above 90 per cent · While she was away · Why medicine? · Too much for one week · The pit crew · Winter in A&E · Does music help revision?
8 stations · about 74 minutesStart week 3Week 4
Just a quick photo · Did the falls clinic work? · Can you tell me how she is? · What an experience taught you · Tie a shoelace · The quiet newcomer · Doctors on strike · Her son will translate
8 stations · about 69 minutesStart week 4Week 5
The questions in the group chat · Halves the risk? · Three extra shifts · Feedback that changed you · One afternoon in a care home · The health fair budget · Well enough to leave · How many heartbeats?
8 stations · about 75 minutesStart week 5Week 6
A gift for your university fund · A positive screening test · I'm going home · When it went wrong · What does high blood pressure mean? · The group project that stalled · Years in good health · When a doctor objects
8 stations · about 65 minutesStart week 6Week 7
She is fifteen · Does the app work? · The tablets on the floor · How you learn best · Saturday at the food bank · Choose the project · From hospital to community · Two kidneys, one heart
8 stations · about 71 minutesStart week 7Week 8
The back of the queue? · The most dangerous hospital? · Late again · When you led · Explain your hobby · The team after a stroke · An AI deciding who is seen first · His sister should know
8 stations · about 61 minutesStart week 8Week 9
The smell of alcohol · The average wait · Ninety minutes late · Why not another health career? · Rank the qualities · A decision you disagreed with · Assisted dying and palliative care · Same germ, different illness
8 stations · about 66 minutesStart week 9Week 10
No blood, whatever happens · Cases more than doubled? · A friend who is falling behind · The hardest part · Describe the drawing · Lost at handover · Antibiotics for a cold · Still driving
8 stations · about 68 minutesStart week 10
Practise your format
MMI circuit
Seven stations across ethics, role play, data, priorities, teamwork, explaining and motivation, at each station's own timing.
7 stations · 15 different sets
Online or recorded MMI
Six stations answered to a camera, with no role-play actor. One minute to read and five to answer is our practice timing.
6 stations · 15 different sets
Panel interview
Five questions back to back, no reading time, four minutes each, with follow-ups that dig into what you say.
5 stations · 15 different sets
Group task and assessment day
Solo preparation for group assessments: practise contributions, listening and joint decisions. A live group is needed to observe group interaction.
5 stations · 15 different sets
Academic interview
Science and reasoning questions where the tutor keeps probing. Think aloud: they want to see how you reason.
4 stations · 10 different sets
Mixed circuits
Foundations circuit
Six stations across every family.
6 stations · about 55 minutes
Communication circuit
Four role plays: anger, worry, a mistake and misinformation.
4 stations · about 43 minutes
Reasoning circuit
Numbers, evidence and judgement under pressure.
4 stations · about 35 minutes
Full mock
Eight mixed stations at the usual timing, feedback at the end.
8 stations · about 73 minutes
Your school's timing
Find your medical school and practise at the timing it publishes.