Questions about FRCS Orth Section 1

It is Section 1 of the Intercollegiate Specialty Examination in Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery, set by the Joint Committee on Intercollegiate Examinations (JCIE): a written examination of two papers, each of 120 single best answer questions in 2 hours 15 minutes. Candidates often call it Part 1. This platform is built specifically to prepare for it, with every question mapped to the JCIE syllabus blueprint.

Trauma and orthopaedic registrars, fellows and international trainees preparing for Section 1. It suits both long-game revision across a rotation and intensive final-run-in practice.

Before each answer you rate your confidence. We combine confidence with whether you were correct to place every question in a mastery quadrant, then derive a composite exam-readiness score. The exact logic is transparent and explained inside the app on the analytics page.

It distinguishes four states: mastery (confident and correct), underconfidence (correct but unsure), knowledge gaps (unsure and wrong) and dangerous misconceptions (confident but wrong). The last category is the most important to find and fix before the exam.

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Yes. Every answer, mock exam, bookmark, Daily Five streak and setting is saved to your account the moment it happens. If your connection drops mid-session, answers are kept on the device and sent as soon as you're back online.

A free account opens a sample of questions drawn from across the syllabus, the Daily Five drill, core analytics and a preview of the notes library as it is published — enough to judge the quality before you pay. No card is needed.

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Questions are original items written to the structure of the JCIE sample questions — lean clinical vignettes with same-category distractors and one planted discriminator — against current UK guidance (BOAST, NICE) and standard texts (Miller's Review of Orthopaedics, Rockwood and Green, Campbell's Operative Orthopaedics, Ramachandran's Basic Orthopaedic Sciences), and every explanation ends with its reference. No orthopaedic surgeon has reviewed the content yet: specialist review is pending, and we will publish which sections have had it rather than claiming sign-off. See our editorial standards.

No. The questions and notes are written for revision in the FRCS style and have not been through a formal standard-setting process. Always confirm against current evidence and guidelines.