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Chapter 28 - Examination failure

from Section 9 - Miscellaneous topics

By
Andrew Port  and
Paul A. Banaszkiewicz
Edited by
Paul A. Banaszkiewicz  and
Deiary F. Kader
Andrew Port
Affiliation:
James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK
Paul A. Banaszkiewicz
Affiliation:
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, UK
Paul A. Banaszkiewicz
Affiliation:
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead
Deiary F. Kader
Affiliation:
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead
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Summary

By the law of averages some candidates will inevitably fail.

Introduction

The one fact that links all trainees in an orthopaedic training programme is that we are all good at passing exams! It is self-selection of the highest order and none who present for this level of exam, 12 years or so after leaving school, would have achieved this level if this were not so.

The FRCS (Tr & Orth) is not a competitive examination in that a pass percentage rate is not set. It is a competency-based exam and so the pass rate will vary from examination to examination depending on the standard achieved. In recent years, the rate has varied from between 56% and 72%, with an average pass rate in 2009 of 65%.

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Postgraduate Orthopaedics
The Candidate's Guide to the FRCS (Tr and Orth) Examination
 , pp. 592 - 594
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2012

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