Ace the Exam was originally created when the authors were sitting their own Generic Surgical Sciences Exam (GSSE) exams. We looked for quality resources to help prepare, and realised there were none! So once the exam was out the way, we set about creating the best possible online question bank for the GSSE. This grew, and we realised that other postgraduate exams in Australasia, like the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine (ACEM) and Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) exams also lacked dedicated practice question banks. We also used our experience of the Australian exam system to provide a bank for doctors sitting the Australian Medical Council (AMC) exam, and one of the author's orthopaedic interest to develop our Nail Ortho bank.
Ace the Exam provides accurate simulated questions to replicate your exam as closely as possible, with focused explanations to aid recall and direct further study. We know you'll love the resource, whatever exam you are sitting. And because medicine is always changing, we do to! The resource is always evolving and growing, thanks to your feedback and our team of editors.
How to use this resource
There is no substitute for practice questions when preparing for a multiple-choice question exam. It is impossible to focus the mind adequately to fully memorise all the required material, particularly that not encountered or utilised on a daily basis in clinical practice.
The breadth of material to learn is what makes these multi-choice exams challenging – and indeed, sometimes questions come up which require relatively detailed knowledge of a very niche topic. These are impossible to predict, and invariably no amount of trawling through the recommended textbooks is going to help you remember these specific facts. This is where practice questions come in.
Practice questions force you to focus your mind on a particular topic. They test your knowledge of the subject, but there is also an intrinsic technique to answering multiple-choice questions. After dedicated practice you will recognise patterns and understand what the question is looking for. Moreover, you may remember niche facts that are sufficient to answer a question correctly, even if recall of the topic overall is limited. Ultimately this exam, like all others, involves an element of game-playing. Focused preparation will always usurp broad, unfocused reading around a topic.