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Past Diploma written and Part 1 written examination papers for each specialty are available below. Please note that only the last three years are available.

Clinical Biochemistry
 
Clinical Cytogenetics

Clinical Embryology

Diploma in Dermatopathology

Diploma in Forensic Pathology

Haematology

Haematology (clinical scientists)

Histocompatibility & Immunogenetics

Immunology

Immunology (Paper 2: Medical Candidates)

Immunology (Paper 2: Non Medical Candidates)

Molecular Genetics

Oral Pathology

Toxicology (Biochemical Toxicology)

Toxicology

Toxicology 2008 and Toxicology 2005-2006 and Toxicology 1992-2003

Toxicology (Histopathology and Comparative Pathology)

Toxicology (Systematic Toxicology)

Toxicology (Toxicologic Pathology)

Veterinary Pathology (Paper 1)

Veterinary Pathology (birds)

Veterinary Pathology (Lab Animals)

Veterinary Pathology (Large domestic animals)

Veterinary Pathology (Small Domestic Animals)

Sample examination papers for some specialties and for some components are available below

Clinical Biochemistry

Part 1 SAQs

Part 1 SAQs specimen questions

Part 1 SAQs specimen questions with answers

Part 2 Oral - All Candidates

Part 2 Oral Medical Candidates

Part 2 Oral Non-medical Candidates

OSPE Questions

Clinical Embryology

Haematology

Part 1 (new format) Sample Questions

Histopathology:

Part 1 Multiple Choice Question (MCQ) samples


Part 1 Extended Matching Question (EMQ) samples

Immunology OSPE sample examination

Immunology OSPE sample examination

Medical Microbiology/Virology

Part 1 Multiple Choice Question (MCQ) samples

Part 1 Extended Matching Question (EMQ) samples

Medical Microbiology Part 2 (New Style)
(The Medical Microbiology new style Part 2 examination papers from Autumn 2004 and Spring 2005 are available here as sample papers. Please note that no further past papers will be available.)

Medical microbiology Part 2 - Journal article evaluation questions
As part of the new Part 2 FRCPath, there will be questions on journal article evaluation. Candidates will be given a choice of primary journal articles to read and answer questions on. Some examples of questions are given here.

Journal article evaluation questions

Examples of Short Answer Questions

Veterinary Clinical Pathology

Part 1 (new format) sample questions

 

Veterinary Pathology

Sample Part 1 written papers