Selection of medical students in the UK is still largely based on prior academic achievement, although doubts have been expressed as to whether performance in earlier life is predictive of outcomes later in medical school or post-graduate education. This
Most of those in the 1990 cohort took MRCP(UK) before 2002, and so the Part 1 and Part 2 marks are on the old system. Marks on Part 1 are comparable across the old and the new systems, and therefore Part 1 marks apply for whenever the candidate took the examination. Almost no candi...