Outcomes, scores and appeals Taking the MSRA

Your Multi-Specialty Recruitment Assessment (MSRA) outcome is final and cannot be reviewed, re-marked or disputed.

MSRA outcomes

All applicants will be notified of their results, and thus their performance/outcome, a short time after the conclusion of the testing window. The date by which you can expect your results is disclosed in the recruitment timeline for each round. 

The results will be published in your Oriel account against your GP ST1 application as interview scores. Detailed guidance on how to locate or view these scores is contained in the Oriel Applicant User Handbook.

Scoring scale

The MSRA scores awarded for GP applicants in each paper are normalised around a mean score of 250 with a standard deviation of 40. In addition, the scores for each paper are banded 1 to 4 where 1 indicates that the minimum acceptable standard has not been achieved. Applicants who achieve a band of 1 in either paper will be deemed unsuccessful and will not progress further with their application.

Maximum achievable score

Due to the normalisation of all MSRA scores, there is no maximum achievable score. For a given cohort of applicants, normalisation is dependent on the average performance of the cohort. It is therefore not considered meaningful to interpret the scores achieved in the MSRA with a maximum value.

Appealing the outcome

All applicants will receive feedback when they are notified of their outcome. The outcome is final and cannot be reviewed, re-marked or disputed. There is no appeals process.

Complaints procedure

All national recruitment offices use a nationally agreed process for handling complaints about recruitment. If you feel your application has not been managed correctly and have evidence of a failure in the process, you should explore this route. A copy of the national complaints policy and procedure, along with the complaint submission form can be located in the GPRNO Resource Bank.

MSRA score banding

Clinical Problem Solving (CPS) test

Standardised score range	Approx percentage scoring in this range	Score band	Score meaning
Below 170	4%	1	Very poor level of performance
171-185	4%
186-210	15%	2	Below average performance
211-230	16%
231-250	19%	3	Good level of performance
251-270	18%
271-290	15%
291-310	8%	4	Very good average performance
Above 310	1%

Professional Dilemmas (PD) test

Standardised score range	Approx percentage scoring in this range	Score band	Score meaning
Below 170	6%	1	Very poor level of performance
171-185	6%
186-210	18%	2	Below average performance
211-230	17%
231-250	16%	3	Good level of performance
251-270	15%
271-290	14%
291-310	6%	4	Very good average performance
Above 310	1%