Check your eligibility
Vocational Training Pathway – Examination Eligibility
General Practice Experience Pathway – Exam Eligibility
Practice Experience Program – Specialist Stream Partially Comparable Exam Eligibility
Remember, from 1 January 2022 GPE pathway candidates need to have completed the Practice Experience Program – Standard Stream before sitting exams. Check the General Practice Experience Pathway Exam Eligibility Policy for details.
Enrolment dates
The 2022.1 AKT and KFP will be a paper-based exam delivered in exam venues. For more information, please read through the current FAQs.
2022.1
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AKT and KFP
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Open
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Close
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9:00 am (AEST) on Wednesday 8 September 2021
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Midnight (AEDT) on Sunday 10 October 2021
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2021.2
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Clinical Exam
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Open
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Close
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1:00pm (AEST) on Monday 9 August 2021
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9:00am (AEST) on Monday 6 September 2021
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Important: Make sure you record the correct date in your calendar as late enrolments cannot be accepted. We always recommend enrolling early to avoid missing out.
My candidacy
All candidates who enrol in a Fellowship exam after 1 January 2019 have three years to complete their candidacy. If you have enrolled in an exam since 2019.1, you can track your journey to Fellowship in the ‘My candidacy portal’.
Special arrangements are available to the following groups of candidates:
- All candidates eligible to sit the RCE or Clinical Competency Exam (CCE) in 2020 or 2021 will be granted an additional semester in their candidacy. Candidates can sit one or more exams in this semester or use the time to prepare for a later exam.
- All candidates who were enrolled in the 2020.2 AKT and/or KFP as at 9 am on Friday 9 October 2020 will be granted an additional semester in their candidacy. Candidates can sit one or more exams in this semester or use the time to prepare for a later exam.
Candidates may be eligible for more than one of these special arrangements. Eligible candidates may have a maximum of eight semesters in which they can enrol in exams over four years (plus approved suspensions and leave).
Access My candidacy portal
Exam dates
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AKT
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KFP
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Clinical Exam
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2021.2
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10 July 2021
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9 July 2021
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Day one: Saturday and Sunday
6-7 November 2021
Day two: Saturday and Sunday
13-14 November 2021
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2022.1
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5 February 2022
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4 February 2022
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Important things to know about the clinical exams:
- The CCE is delivered across two consecutive weekends. Candidates will be allocated one exam session in the first weekend, and one session in the second weekend.
Exam fees
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AKT |
KFP |
Clinical Exam |
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2021.1
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$2330
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$2330
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$4770 + $1095 for optional final day
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2021.2
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$2330
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$2330
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$4770
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2022.1
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$2330
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$2330
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Payment is made online at the time of enrolment via credit card.
Financial hardship
Candidates are encouraged to enrol into an examination as soon as possible after enrolments open, and to not wait until the end of the enrolment period. Any candidate experiencing financial hardship may make a request for an alternative payment arrangement by submitting an Application for Special Consideration for Financial Hardship via email to examinations@racgp.org.au
Please see the RACGP Assessments and Examinations Candidate Handbook for further details.