title: Pass the Royal College examinations. MCQ technique.
abstract: Trainee doctors can fail Royal College exams as a result of poor multiple choice question technique. On a negatively marked exam it is possible for candidate to know a subject well, answer 72% of the questions correctly, and yet still only obtain a mark of 44%. As a result, even some very good clinicians fail these exams.
authors.affiliation: St James's University Hospital, Leeds.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Trigwell
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Yeomans
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D002568:Certification; D002983:Clinical Competence; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000379:methods*; D005194:Family Practice / Q000193:education; D013502:General Surgery / Q000193:education; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D010820:Physicians; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education; D006113:United Kingdom