What Does DHA Officially Say About the GP Exam?

The current DHA Healthcare Professional Licensing Assessment Guideline lists the General Practice Computer Based Test as:

What Subjects Should You Include in Your DHA GP Study Plan?

DHA currently publishes a list of General Practice content areas rather than a percentage-weighted blueprint.

Your preparation should therefore provide reasonable coverage across the full official scope rather than assuming that one specialty represents a fixed percentage of the examination.

For a detailed breakdown, read: DHA GP Exam Topics 2026: Official Syllabus & High-Yield Areas .

Which DHA GP Study Plan Should You Choose?

Before Week 1: Take a Baseline Assessment

Before committing to a schedule, establish your starting point.

Use a mixed set of clinical MCQs or an appropriate diagnostic assessment and record:

• Topics where you are consistently strong
• Topics where you repeatedly miss common diagnoses
• Investigation-selection errors
• Management-sequencing errors
• Emergency and red-flag errors
• Preventive-care and screening gaps
• Questions lost because of reading or interpretation errors
• Timing or concentration problems

The 4-Week DHA GP Study Plan

The four-week plan is intentionally intensive. It works best when your general medical foundation is already reasonably strong.

The 8-Week DHA GP Study Plan

Eight weeks provides more room to combine content review with clinical question practice without compressing the entire syllabus into a few days.

The 12-Week DHA GP Study Plan

A twelve-week plan gives more time for knowledge repair before intensive exam simulation.

How Many MCQs Should You Do Per Day?

DHA does not publish a required number of practice questions, and there is no evidence-based universal target such as “you must complete 4,000 MCQs before the exam.”

Your useful question volume depends on how carefully you review each block.

As an ExamCure practical starting point:

The Correct Way to Review an MCQ

Do not only ask, “What was the correct answer?”

For every important mistake, ask:

1. What was the clinical problem?
2. What clue should have changed my decision?
3. Did I miss the diagnosis or the management step?
4. Was the question asking for diagnosis, investigation, treatment or next step?
5. Why was my chosen distractor wrong?
6. Could this same error recur in a different clinical scenario?

Build an Error Log

Your error log should be short enough that you actually revisit it.

When Should You Start DHA GP Mock Tests?

Do not use all of your full-length mocks at the beginning of preparation.

Early in the plan, topic-based and mixed shorter blocks are often more useful because you are still repairing knowledge.

Introduce longer timed sessions when:

• You have covered most of the official GP content areas.
• Your knowledge gaps are becoming more focused rather than global.
• You can sustain concentration through longer question sets.
• You need to test pacing and endurance.

During the final phase, use full-length 150-question simulation where your mock platform supports the current DHA GP format.

How Many Full-Length Mock Exams Should You Take?

DHA does not prescribe a number.

For most candidates, the important question is not whether you completed three mocks, five mocks or ten mocks. The important question is whether each simulation led to useful correction.

A practical approach is to complete enough timed simulations to assess:

• Pacing
• Concentration
• Performance across mixed subjects
• Repeated weak domains
• Careless errors
• Decision-making under time pressure

A Practical Daily DHA GP Study Routine

How to Divide Study Time Across Subjects

Do not allocate “70% to major subjects” on the assumption that DHA officially gives those subjects 70% of the GP exam.

DHA currently does not publish percentage weights for the General Practice content areas.

Instead, use three inputs:

1. Official coverage: make sure every DHA GP content area appears somewhere in your plan.
2. Your baseline: give more revision time to subjects where you repeatedly make clinically important mistakes.
3. Clinical breadth: avoid becoming highly competent in one subject while ignoring other areas of General Practice.

How to Know Whether Your Preparation Is Improving

Avoid using only total MCQs completed as your KPI.

Better indicators include:

• Are repeated errors decreasing?
• Can you identify the task in the question faster?
• Are you more consistent in mixed-topic blocks?
• Are your weak domains becoming narrower?
• Can you explain why the distractors are wrong?
• Can you complete longer timed sessions without losing accuracy?
• Are you making fewer patient-safety and management-sequence errors?

What to Do in the Final 7 Days

The final week should generally become more selective.

• Review the error log.
• Revisit persistent weak topics.
• Review common emergencies and red flags.
• Review preventive-care and screening decisions.
• Use mixed clinical questions.
• Complete final timed practice early enough to review it properly.
• Avoid starting large new textbooks or completely new resources.
• Confirm your Prometric appointment instructions and identification requirements.
• Protect sleep during the final days.

What to Do the Day Before the Exam

The day before the assessment should not become an attempt to relearn General Practice.

Keep revision selective:

• Your own recurring errors
• Important red flags
• Common first-line decisions
• Emergency stabilization principles
• Frequently confused screening concepts

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