Built for the exam we had to pass ourselves.
MLA Prep is a focused, no-gimmicks platform for the UKMLA AKT — made by UK-qualified doctors and the engineers who sat beside them in the library.
Mission
Help every candidate walk into the AKT calm, prepared, and referenced. Nothing more, nothing less.
Story
Why we built it.
The UKMLA arrived in 2024/25 as the GMC's single, standardised entry to UK medical practice — one blueprint, two pathways, two sittings. UK finalists took the AKT inside their schools; IMGs sat PLAB 1 at test centres overseas. The content blueprint was the same. The prep landscape was not.
We built MLA Prep from the clinician's side of the desk. Every SBA is written and peer-reviewed by UK-qualified doctors, and every answer is referenced to NICE, the BNF, or the relevant royal college guideline — so a student who looks up an explanation can actually verify it against the source the GMC writes its questions from.
The best question bank is the one that tells you where an answer lives in the real guideline — not the one that asks you to trust a paragraph of uncited prose.
We run the app ourselves. No white-label content, no licensing middle-layer. The team making the pedagogical calls is the team that sat the exam; the team writing the questions is the team that reviews them. Small, opinionated, and accountable is the point.
What we believe
Three opinions we aren't going to drop.
- 01
Explanations beat tricks.
The short-cut-and-mnemonic prep industry is loud. It isn't what passes the AKT. A solid explanation — why this answer, why not the others — builds the reasoning that survives into foundation year. We write for the clinician you're about to become, not the candidate you are this week.
- 02
Spaced repetition beats volume.
Grinding 400 SBAs on a Saturday feels like productivity. It isn't. Twenty cards a day on an SM-2 schedule, every day, will put the same facts into long-term memory for a fraction of the hours. Our plan defaults to daily, because daily is what works.
- 03
Every answer must be referenced.
If we can't point to a NICE guideline, a BNF entry or a royal college statement, we won't publish the question. The AKT is written against published UK guidance; your prep has to live in the same evidence base. No uncited prose, no shortcut explanations.
Team
Who's behind it.
Built by a small team of clinicians and engineers in the UK. Advisory board details at launch.
Press & contact
Get in touch.
Press enquiries, partnerships and medical-school contacts: golukicoding@gmail.com.Your exam is closer than you think.
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