Prepare to perform in your UK CT1 Anaesthetics and ACCS interview

Two ways to rehearse: spoken practice on the real UK CT1 Anaesthetics and ACCS questions, marked as you answer, and an AI interviewer that runs the full panel on video.

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Two ways to practise

Rehearse every day. Then sit the full panel.

Spoken practice

Your daily rehearsal

  • Voice to voice on the real UK CT1 Anaesthetics and ACCS questions, one topic at a time
  • The panel listens, probes the way the real one does, then moves on
  • Every answer marked as you finish: a score, what worked and what would lift it
  • Reading time on the clinical scenario before the panel starts, as on the day
  • 5-minute sessions that fit around clinical work

120 to 300 minutes a month, depending on plan

AI interviewer

Your dress rehearsal

  • A video avatar panel runs the whole interview, face to face
  • Fifteen minutes, timed like the real thing, across the topics panels cover
  • Each question asked by the panel member who would ask it on the day
  • A full debrief afterwards: an overall mark, every answer, and what to practise next

1, 2 or 4 full mock interviews a month, depending on plan · try it free for one minute

Core anaesthetics is the gateway to the specialty.

Fifty minutes decide it. Preparation is the only variable you control.

The candidate knows exactly how to manage the acute scenario and opens with the treatment. The panel is not marking the treatment. It is marking whether you went to see the patient, assessed, treated as you went, escalated with a clear request and said what you would reflect on.

The content is fine. The structure is poor, so the answer is poor.

STRUCTURE

BUILT AROUND HOW CANDIDATES ARE ACTUALLY ASSESSED

Every question the panel asks has a structure it is marking against, and that structure is the thing most candidates have never been told.

Each topic has its own framework, its own mark, and its own line on your readiness score — so you can see exactly which of the 9 you still need to work on.

Timed interview stations

What the interview looks like

  • Two online stations of fifteen minutes with two assessors each, about fifty minutes in total

  • Clinical judgement: an acute scenario given five minutes before the station, at FY2 level, with escalation and reflection scored

  • General interview: your training, commitment to anaesthetics or ACCS, teamwork and leadership, and the NHS as it affects the specialty

  • Scored on judgement, reflection, working under pressure, professional behaviour, communication, teamwork and commitment

SESSION FEEDBACK

FEEDBACK THAT TELLS YOU EXACTLY WHAT TO DO NEXT

When a topic ends, you don't get a vague score. You get a structured debrief aligned to the panel's own marking scheme for UK CT1 Anaesthetics and ACCS interviews — with frameworks and model answer guidance built in, and a countdown to your interview date sitting above it.

Marked while you answer

A score out of 10, what worked and what would have lifted it — on screen as you finish each answer, not in an email a week later.

Question by question, kept

Every answer in the debrief carries its own mark and its own 'what would have made this stronger', saved to your account so you can come back to it.

Framework-led coaching

Specific suggestions like STARR for leadership answers, with the full guide and model answer guidance a click away.

One readiness score

Your latest mark on every topic, averaged into a single number with a trend line — and a 'practise next' that points at the topic holding it down.

SMARTER NEXT STEPS

FROM FEEDBACK TO FOCUSED PRACTICE

Your weakest answers drive the recommendations. We suggest the right framework for each category, link you to the prep guide, and send you straight to targeted questions in the question bank.

Monthly interview prep plans

Each monthly plan includes spoken practice minutes and full 15-minute video mock interviews.

Prices in

Entry

/ month

One interview a few weeks out. Enough spoken practice to cover every topic twice, and one full video panel interview to rehearse the day.

  • 120 min spoken practiceabout 24 marked topics
  • 1 full video mock interviewa full panel, 15 minutes each

Best for invite week

Drill

/ month

Interview week. Daily spoken practice, and two video panel interviews to get used to answering under time.

  • 250 min spoken practiceabout 50 marked topics
  • 2 full video mock interviewsa full panel, 15 minutes each

Intensive

/ month

Several interviews, or a lot riding on one. The most spoken time, and four video panel interviews to run the whole thing before each.

  • 300 min spoken practiceabout 60 marked topics
  • 4 full video mock interviewsa full panel, 15 minutes each

EVERY PLAN INCLUDES

  • Real panel questions for your interview, asked word for word
  • Live marking against named frameworks, with model answers
  • Readiness score, practise-next and interview countdown
  • Every debrief kept on your account
  • 15 grace minutes — never cut off mid-answer

Not sure which? Start with the free one.

THE OUTCOME

ENTER YOUR INTERVIEW PREPARED TO COMPETE

By the time you sit your real interview, you will have:

  • Answered real UK CT1 Anaesthetics and ACCS questions out loud, under time, and been marked on every one
  • Used the right framework for each topic, and seen where it slipped
  • Watched a readiness score move as your weakest topics came up
  • Run the full panel — the order, the probes, the pressure — before it counted

You won't be wondering how you'll perform.
You will know.

Who writes this

We sit on recruitment panels at every level and we see the same mistakes from CT1 to consultant.

The questions here come from the published station formats and scoring domains for this programme and from what candidates report being asked, and the marking follows the recruiters' own domains.

Questions candidates ask

Other interviews in the United Kingdom

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