Fellowship exams

Overview


Last revised: 30 Sep 2026

Fellowship exams

Overview



Figure 6:
Part E - Candidacy


The RACGP Fellowship exams assess your competency for unsupervised comprehensive general practice anywhere in Australia and is an FRACGP eligibility requirement.

The Applied Knowledge Test (AKT)

The AKT is designed to test the application of knowledge in the clinical context of Australian general practice. It comprises 150 multiple-choice questions. Refer to the AKT and KFP guide.

The Key Feature Problem (KFP)

The KFP is designed to assess clinical decision making and clinical reasoning in practice. It comprises 70 individual multi-selection questions. Refer to the AKT and KFP guide.

The Clinical Competency Exam (CCE)

The CCE is an online real-time assessment of the candidate by multiple examiners across nine clinical cases (four case discussions and five clinical encounters). Refer to the Candidate guidelines for the Clinical Competency Exam.

 

For more information about the Fellowship exams (candidacy, withdrawing from an exam, suspension of candidacy, etc), refer to the Fellowship exams handbook and the PEP SP Fellowship Exams Policy.

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