MedRevisions vs Pastest for UKMLA AKT: Decision Guide

About Pastest

• Pastest is one of the longest-established UK medical-education question banks. Many UK medical students encounter Pastest products from earlier years of medical school onwards, so the brand is widely familiar.
• Pastest publishes products specifically for UK medical exams, including UKMLA-aligned content. The exact product names, included features, and pricing are documented on pastest.com and we recommend you check the current details there before making a decision.
• Pastest is owned by Hodder Education, a long-established educational publisher — that ownership structure tends to mean stable, well-resourced infrastructure and editorial process.
• Many candidates choose Pastest because they used it during earlier-year exams (such as core science assessments or finals revision in some schools) and the platform is already familiar to them.
• Pastest is a credible, well-reviewed option. The decision between Pastest and MedRevisions is not 'which is better' — it's 'which fits my specific priorities, study style, and prior experience'.

What MedRevisions offers

• MedRevisions is built and maintained by the medical team that has served PLAB candidates since 2019 — over 30,000 doctors have prepared with us. That same exam-question editorial discipline is now applied to UKMLA AKT content end-to-end.
• Every question, expert note, and personalised revision note is mapped to the 2026 MLA Content Map specialty and presentation. This means you can audit your coverage per topic on your dashboard rather than estimate it from memory.
• Every management-decision explanation cites the specific UK guideline it follows — NICE / BNF / CKS / SIGN / Resus Council UK / GMC Good Medical Practice — so you learn the source of truth, not just the answer. Quantitative claims (doses, cut-offs, thresholds) must carry a citation; where no reliable source exists, the note writes 'per standard UK practice' rather than fabricating one.
• After every mock, MedRevisions generates a personalised post-mortem revision note covering every question you got wrong (plus every question you got right but took more than twice the pacing target). Each post-mortem is grouped by specialty, includes the cognitive trap that caught you, the edge case where the distractor is actually correct, and one to three twist variants the examiners use on the same concept.
• Mock debrief includes timing analytics: per-question pacing, distribution by specialty, decision-error pattern detection (diagnosis vs management-order), and a recommended next practice block based on your performance. Most banks give you a score; we give you a debrief.
• All explanation content is reviewed by our medical editorial team. Personalised notes use Live Google Search grounding against current UK guidelines, with a 'Report inaccuracy' button on every post-mortem card that routes to manual editorial review.

How to decide between the two

• If you've already used Pastest extensively through earlier years of med school and you're comfortable with the platform, sticking with what you know is rational. Switching banks mid-prep without a clear reason loses time.
• If your priority is one consolidated platform for finals + UKMLA AKT and you've never had a strong primary bank yet, sample free questions on both Pastest and MedRevisions. Pick the one whose explanation depth and writing style you read fastest without losing comprehension.
• If you want every question tagged to the 2026 MLA Content Map and every management explanation cited to its source guideline, sample our free questions and check that those features are visible on every stem — and do the equivalent check on Pastest's free trial, since their feature set may already cover this too.
• If post-mock revision is where you currently lose the most time (re-reading explanations passively, not knowing what to focus on next), the structured post-mortem note + mock debrief is the workflow MedRevisions is specifically designed around. Sit one free mock with us and judge for yourself.
• Verify both platforms' current pricing, included mocks, refund terms, and trial availability on their respective official sites (pastest.com and our pricing page) before committing — these details are the source of truth, not any marketing description.
• Once you've chosen, commit. Switching question banks more than once during prep loses more time than any feature gap you'll save.