Who we are.
A small team of UK GPs who built the revision platform we wished existed when we sat the exam — affordable, up‑to‑date, exam‑relevant, and written by people who’ve actually been through it.
Success in the SCA hinges on preparation and practice — consulting with patients, simulating the real thing, and getting honest feedback. That’s the entire premise of what we’ve built.
The best way to prepare for a consultation exam is to consult. Everything else is scaffolding around that.— SCA Revision team
From CSA Revision to SCA Revision.
When we were revising for our own exam, we noticed a gap. The textbooks were outdated. The online resources were expensive. So we built the resource we wished existed — and a few thousand passes later, here we are.
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2019 · THE BEGINNING
CSA Revision is born.
During our own revision period, the best materials were outdated books and prohibitively expensive online courses. So we built our own — affordable, up‑to‑date, and exam‑relevant. Over four years CSA Revision helped more than 2,000 candidates pass their exams.
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JULY 2020 · THE PIVOT
COVID changed everything.
The RCGP discontinued the CSA exam and introduced the RCA as a temporary measure. Our case-based resource was suddenly redundant, and we closed CSA Revision. We took the lessons with us.
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2023 · THE RETURN
SCA Revision launches.
The RCGP brought back a case-based exam with role-playing actors — the SCA. A renewed, case-based revision tool was needed, and we already knew exactly how to build it. We didn’t just rebuild — we set out to make the finest SCA revision resource available anywhere.
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TODAY
9,000+ trainees later.
360+ written cases. 350+ AI patients. 70+ filmed consultations. AI marking aligned to the three SCA domains. All used by GP trainees across the UK, every day, to walk into the exam ready.
Cases & videos, written for the exam you’ll actually sit.
SCA Revision is meticulously crafted by General Practitioners who have triumphed in the MRCGP Final Exam. Our primary objective is to guide others towards passing the SCA. Preparation and practice are the cornerstones of success in any exam — and our platform is dedicated to helping you in both.
Every case is designed for role-play, with materials for the doctor, the patient and the examiner. Every case ships with a marking scheme aligned to the RCGP’s reference proforma, plus management advice and explanations written in plain English — no unnecessary jargon.
We didn’t plug into someone else’s AI.
We built our own.
The AI patients and AI marking on SCA Revision aren’t off‑the‑shelf chatbots with a medical prompt taped on. We’ve built our AI stack from the ground up — because we wanted full control over cost, accuracy and the consultation feel.
Built from scratch
Our own orchestration, our own voice pipeline, our own prompts and our own evaluation harness. No third-party patient-bot product, no white-labelled wrappers.
Costs you can actually afford
Building it ourselves means we control every part of the unit economics. The result: AI patient consultations from £1.20 — cheaper than any equivalent we’ve seen.
Fine-tuned for the SCA
Every patient script, every marking domain, every behaviour is tuned for the MRCGP SCA specifically — not a generic OSCE bot retro-fitted for UK general practice.
Realistic voice consultations
Voices from ElevenLabs, Cartesia and Inworld, layered into our own pipeline. 70+ patient voices spanning accent, age and presentation. You speak, they speak — no buttons.
RCGP-style AI marking
Recordings get marked against the three SCA domains — data gathering, clinical management, relating — with feedback you can actually argue with. Not vibes-based scoring.
Iterated weekly
Because the stack is ours, we ship improvements every week — tuning patient behaviour, marker calibration, voice quality, latency, you name it. Nothing is frozen.
Practise in small groups. Meet regularly.
When preparing for the SCA, we recommend revising in small groups and meeting often. Every case we’ve written resembles situations you’ll face in the exam — with separate materials for the Doctor, the Patient and the Examiner, a marking scheme, and the key learning points written up.
Agree ground rules up front. Give each other permission to opt out of a case if needed — nobody role-plays a bereavement consultation cold without warning.
Take a beat before the case to step into the role, and another after to step out. The shift matters more than people think, especially on the heavier scenarios.
How you give feedback decides whether the group works. Pendleton’s model and ALOBA (agenda-led outcome-based analysis) are the two most-used frameworks — each has strengths and trade‑offs.
No study partner? Our AI patients let you do a realistic voice consultation any time — same cases, same marking, on your own schedule.
Affordable. Realistic. Trusted.
We started SCA Revision because revision shouldn’t cost more than the exam itself. That principle hasn’t changed in six years.
Every case, marking scheme and management note is written by GPs who have passed the exam and now train, supervise and examine registrars.
Content is checked against current UK guidelines (NICE, CKS, BNF, RCGP, RCOG, BASHH, FSRH) and updated as guidance changes.
We’ll never claim our cases are the exam. They aren’t. They’re the closest realistic practice we can build — and that’s the whole job.
Practise like it’s the real thing.
Join 9,000+ GP trainees using SCA Revision — the platform built for the exam, by the people who’ve sat it.