PLAB study plan builder
Enter your exam dates and how many hours you can study each week. We generate a dated week-by-week plan — focus areas, core tasks, question or station targets and rising score targets — paced to the time you actually have, and compressed automatically when the exam is close.
Your setup
This workload looks infeasible under our pacing assumptions: at least one week needs more hours than you planned. Add hours, lower the targets or choose a later sitting.
Your week-by-week plan
- PLAB 1 · Week 115 Nov 2026 – 21 Nov 2026
Blueprint, baseline and study system
Read GMC guidance, sit the official sample question set, set up an error log and review professionalism.
150 questions · target 55% accuracy · 15 h
- PLAB 1 · Week 222 Nov 2026 – 28 Nov 2026
Cardiorespiratory
Work the question bank by topic: ACS, heart failure, arrhythmias, asthma, COPD, pneumonia and emergencies.
350 questions · target 60% accuracy · 15 h
- PLAB 1 · Week 329 Nov 2026 – 5 Dec 2026
Gastrointestinal, renal and urology
Prioritise acute abdomen, GI bleeding, liver disease, AKI/CKD, electrolytes, UTI and obstruction.
350 questions · target 62% accuracy · 15 h
- PLAB 1 · Week 46 Dec 2026 – 12 Dec 2026
Endocrine, metabolic and haematology
Cover diabetes emergencies, thyroid and adrenal disease, anaemias, clotting and transfusion.
300 questions · target 64% accuracy · 15 h
- PLAB 1 · Week 513 Dec 2026 – 19 Dec 2026
Neurosciences, senses and skin
Cover stroke and TIA, seizures, headache red flags, eye and ENT emergencies and common dermatology.
300 questions · target 65% accuracy · 15 h
- PLAB 1 · Week 620 Dec 2026 – 26 Dec 2026
Musculoskeletal, rheumatology and trauma
Review fractures, back-pain red flags, septic arthritis, inflammatory disease and analgesia.
250 questions · target 66% accuracy · 15 h
- PLAB 1 · Week 727 Dec 2026 – 2 Jan 2027
Reproductive health
Cover obstetric emergencies, antenatal care, contraception, gynaecological bleeding and sexual health.
300 questions · target 68% accuracy · 15 h
- PLAB 1 · Week 83 Jan 2027 – 9 Jan 2027
Child and adolescent health
Cover the sick child, growth and development, safeguarding, neonatal problems and paediatric prescribing.
300 questions · target 69% accuracy · 15 h
- PLAB 1 · Week 910 Jan 2027 – 16 Jan 2027
Mental health, ethics and professionalism
Cover risk assessment, capacity, consent, confidentiality, duty of candour and safeguarding.
250 questions · target 70% accuracy · 15 h
- PLAB 1 · Week 1017 Jan 2027 – 23 Jan 2027
Mixed bank and weak areas
Complete mixed timed blocks, revisit the error log and close the gaps your subject tracker shows.
500 questions · target 72% accuracy · 15 h
- PLAB 1 · Week 1124 Jan 2027 – 30 Jan 2027
Full mocks and targeted repair
Complete at least two full timed mocks, review every error and repeat low-scoring topics.
500 questions · target 74% accuracy · 15 h
- PLAB 1 · Week 1231 Jan 2027 – 6 Feb 2027
Final consolidation
Short mixed blocks, high-yield error review, official guidance refresh and exam-day logistics.
300 questions · target 75% accuracy · 15 h
Your targets
- Weekly hours: 15
- PLAB 1 accuracy target: 75%
Weekly targets above build up to these. They are practice goals, not a prediction of your result.
Assumptions
- The standard plan is 12 weeks for PLAB 1 and 8 weeks for PLAB 2. Both are suggested structures, not GMC requirements.
- When your exam date leaves fewer weeks, consecutive topic weeks are merged so nothing on the blueprint is dropped — weekly targets rise instead.
- On the “Both” track, PLAB 2 preparation starts the day after your PLAB 1 exam date, or immediately after the PLAB 1 plan when no date is entered.
- Question and station targets are editorial pacing estimates; the PLAB 2 format (16 stations of 8 minutes) is from GMC guidance.
- Educational planning tool only. Verify clinical decisions against current GMC, NICE and BNF guidance, and never use or share recalled live exam content.