About Exam Consult

Exam Consult from Elsevier is a powerful examination preparation and simulation tool.

It offers comprehensive coverage of your curriculum at precisely the level you need; gives you the flexibility to study your way, the tools to accurately track your progress against past performance and your peers and carefully selected supporting content from leading textbooks for every answer, to aid further study and address any areas of weakness.

Exam Consult is a resource you can trust.

Superior quality questions

Our question writers are experienced authors who are in close touch with questions asked throughout the undergraduate curriculum and at finals. Each question has undergone a rigorous review process before being accepted. Our Expert Panel has reviewed every question for quality assurance.

  • Questions are closely matched to your curriculum, covering all topics.
  • Questions follow clinical vignette format followed by single best answer or extended matching question.

Study your way

Exam Consult provides an unrivaled level of flexibility with exam creation. You are able to tailor exams by:

  • System
  • Discipline
  • Keyword
  • New questions
  • Previously incorrect
  • All questions
  • You can take an exam in 'test' or 'practice' mode.

Track my progress

Exam Consult helps you to track your progress to tailor your learning.

In 'Test' mode, Exam Consult:

  • Compares your performance with your peers' by providing the percentage of Exam Consult users who also got a question correct (data are collected and collated daily)
  • Provides results for the test as a percentage; details of the numbers of questions answered correctly, incorrectly or omitted; includes the average time taken for each question
  • Provides a more detailed breakdown of your performance by specialty, system and competence.


In 'Practice' mode:

  • You can review all questions answered, with links to full answer rationales and targeted additional text.


Once you have taken a few tests you can also review your cumulative scores in one of four ways:

  • Previous Tests – view all previously taken tests with summaries of your scores.
  • Cumulative Results – view your overall results for each test, or review a test question by question. Further analysis and breakdown of your results are given for each specialty, system and competence.
  • Compare your Results to Others – gives you a summary of your scores and a percentile ranking allowing you to compare your performance with other Exam Consult users.
  • Results over Time – plots your scores for each test taken (even if incomplete) against the date taken, so you can check your improvement as you progress.

Targeted learning

All questions have short rationales for why an answer is right or wrong. However, only Exam Consult offers further extended explanations called 'targeted learning' selected from Elsevier's most trusted sources which include: Kumar and Clark, Davidson's, the Crash Course Series and Gray's Anatomy for Students.

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