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506 free practice questions shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.

Practise theseOne at a time, in a random order, with the explanation after each.

A 32-year-old woman develops widespread urticaria, lip swelling and wheeze within 15 minutes of eating a satay dish at a restaurant. On arrival of paramedics he…

Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · common

An 84-year-old woman who lives alone is found to have a 2.5 cm breast mass, and core biopsy shows invasive carcinoma. The surgeon has recommended wide local exc…

Ethics and Professional Practice · Pre-internship · common

A 34-year-old schoolteacher presents with three weeks of cough. Her illness began with a runny nose and mild sore throat, after which she developed bouts of sev…

Infectious Diseases · Clinical rotations · common

A 24-year-old man presents with four days of fever, a runny nose, red watery eyes and a dry cough, ten days after returning from Bali. This morning a blotchy re…

Ethics and Professional Practice · Pre-internship · common

A 61-year-old man returns to discuss the result of a bowel cancer screening kit he completed through the national program, which detected blood in one of two sa…

Gastroenterology and Hepatology · Clinical rotations · common

A 24-year-old university student commenced sertraline 50 mg daily three weeks ago for a depressive episode. His flatmates bring him to the emergency department…

Psychiatry and Mental Health · Clinical rotations · common

A 46-year-old woman with bipolar disorder has been stable on lithium carbonate for five years. She presents with two days of nausea, vomiting and unsteadiness o…

Psychiatry and Mental Health · Clinical rotations · common

A 17-year-old girl is admitted for nutritional rehabilitation. She weighs 39 kg with a height of 168 cm, having lost 15 kg over six months through severe dietar…

Psychiatry and Mental Health · Clinical rotations · common

A 45-year-old man is brought to the emergency department after taking 20 paracetamol tablets following an argument. He is medically cleared and a psychiatric as…

Psychiatry and Mental Health · Clinical rotations · common

A 28-year-old man with schizophrenia that failed to respond to two previous antipsychotics has been taking clozapine for four months with good effect. He presen…

Psychiatry and Mental Health · Clinical rotations · common

A 34-year-old woman taking sertraline 100 mg daily for depression presents with two hours of agitation and profuse sweating. Two days earlier her general practi…

Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · common

A 74-year-old man is brought to his general practitioner by his daughter, who is worried about his memory over the past three months. He has stopped attending h…

Geriatrics and Palliative Care · Clinical rotations · common

A 52-year-old man is admitted to hospital after a fall at home and is managed with analgesia and bed rest. Thirty-six hours after admission he becomes restless…

Psychiatry and Mental Health · Clinical rotations · common

A 51-year-old woman presents with eight months of frequent hot flushes and drenching night sweats that wake her four to five times each night and are affecting…

Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Clinical rotations · common

A 31-year-old primigravida at 33 weeks gestation reports one week of intense generalised itching that is worst at night and most severe over her palms and the s…

Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Clinical rotations · common

A 26-year-old primigravida presents at 11 weeks gestation by dates with two weeks of persistent vomiting and one day of light vaginal bleeding. Her blood pressu…

Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Clinical rotations · common

A 28-year-old primigravida gives birth vaginally at 38 weeks gestation. During labour she was commenced on oral labetalol for blood pressure readings of 160/108…

Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Clinical rotations · common

A 29-year-old woman, gravida 2 para 1, is in spontaneous labour at 39 weeks gestation. One hour after her cervix was 5 cm dilated, the membranes rupture spontan…

Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Clinical rotations · common

A 34-year-old woman, gravida 3 para 2, presents at 34 weeks gestation with two hours of constant severe abdominal pain and a small amount of dark red vaginal bl…

Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Clinical rotations · common

A 34-year-old woman attends her general practitioner eight weeks after the vaginal birth of her first child. Her pregnancy was complicated by gestational diabet…

Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Clinical rotations · common