Results
Please note the following information:
- Examination results will be emailed within 4 weeks of the date of the Specialty Certificate Examination. Please do not telephone the colleges regarding your results during this period as this will delay the process further.
- Results cannot be collected from the Royal Colleges of Physicians or given over the telephone or by fax.
Results are available online through your My MRCP(UK) account 4 weeks after the exam. To view your result log in to your My MRCP(UK) account and go to the Exam History section. When the results are available online an announcement will be posted on the Latest News section of the website.
Pass result
The qualification for candidates who pass the Specialty Certificate Examination will be a 'Certificate in [Specialty]' with no explicit postnominal or title. Trainees with MRCP(UK) who pass the Specialty Certificate Examination in their specialty and who are recommended for a CCT are granted the postnominal MRCP(UK) (Specialty).
Fail
A candidate not achieving a pass mark will be deemed to have failed the examination.
Feedback
Your results notification will include a breakdown of your performance according to the sections of the curriculum in which knowledge was tested.
Review
Results are released when the Chairman of the Specialty Certificate Examining Board is satisfied that the Specialty Certificate Examination has been conducted appropriately and in accordance with the procedures of the Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the UK and the Specialist Societies.
Pass rates
Pass rates for the most recent sittings of the Specialty Certificate Examinations are available below:
|
Acute Medicine |
2012/1 |
86.40 |
67.60 |
|
Dermatology |
2012/1 |
93.75 |
87.90 |
|
Endocrinology and Diabetes |
2012/1 |
95.20 |
66.40 |
|
Gastroenterology |
2013/1 |
89.20 |
66.90 |
|
Geriatric Medicine |
2013/1 |
81.00 |
78.60 |
|
Infectious Diseases |
2012/1 |
100 |
66.67 |
|
Medical Oncology |
2012/1 |
93.30 |
74.65 |
|
Nephrology |
2013/1 |
88.70 |
63.90 |
|
Neurology |
2012/1 |
95.20 |
79.25 |
|
Palliative Medicine |
2012/1 |
84.00 |
75.41 |
|
Respiratory Medicine |
2012/1 |
81.50 |
67.95 |
Please note that Specialty Certificate Examinations only become a compulsory component of the assessment for CCT for all UK trainees whose specialist training began in or after August 2007. These figures are composed of candidates who entered for the exam voluntarily, and therefore should not be taken as representative of the likely performance of all trainees. Similarly the number of candidates who chose to enter for the Specialty Certificate Examinations varied significantly between Specialties.
The 2012 Report on MRCP(UK) and Specialty Certificate Examination Pass Rates by Ethnicity and Gender is available to download:
MRCP(UK) and Specialty Certificate Examinations Pass Rates by Gender and Ethnicity – 2012