Pastest

Pastest Ltd.

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About this app

Use the Pastest app to study for your medical exams anytime, anywhere.

Pastest has many decades of experience and expertise in providing test prep materials that enable medical students and doctors to achieve exam success.

The Pastest app is designed with your convenience in mind, so whether you’re commuting to work or have a spare 10 minutes between class, the Pastest app will help you to fit your prep around a busy schedule.

In order to use the app, an active Pastest subscription is required (written exams only).

Here’s a long list of why the Pastest app is so great:

QUESTIONS

Full range of accurate question types – in terms of style, content and functionality – for all UK medical exams we provide resources for

Comprehensive sessions filters, including specialty, question type, difficulty, familiarity, images and keyword search

Create a fully customised session of up to 100 questions, against the clock if required

Show clues to highlight the most pertinent parts of the vignette

Submit feedback on questions to be reviewed and responded to by our experts

Practice using timed tests, mock exams and past papers (where applicable)

Great ability to review questions in recently completed and earlier sessions

MEDIA

Full library of bite-sized videos and podcasts to deepen your understanding of key concepts

Play at double speed for quick review and queue up for longer, seamless study sessions

ENHANCED FUNCTIONALITY

Strengthen your knowledge with our unique Expanded Explanations - an extensive library of searchable, topic-based content

Customise the order in which explanations are displayed

Download questions and media to access offline

Improved bookmarking of content and note-taking

A streamlined navigation allowing for quick resumption of sessions in progress and session review

More detailed and accurate performance data

Ratings and reviews

Unfortunately not as slick as rival apps such as passmedicine. Great questions and laptop app. Mobile version is pretty poor - consistently logs you out, especially during periods of intermittent internet connection. Would be massively improved by max 1x daily login if possible. I have found myself logging in about 10-20 times a day at some point.

Terrible. It did work okay at first but now, if you manage to get a question session completed, when you submit it, it just keeps freezing in a state of "loading" rather than give you your score. I keep on having to restart the app to try and get it out of this cycle of constant "loading" but it doesn't seem to work. I even re downloaded the app - didn't fix the issue. I don't know if it's because it's close to exam time or not, but given how expensive pastest is, I expect better!

* update: since the last update, the app stopped working almost completely - it doesn't load and it's unreliable (resets the test). I can't use it to study anymore. The app is not working properly, it gives errors constantly or it takes ages to load, it cannot be used offline reliably as it resets the questions or logs me off. Images don't load either. They could try to improve it considering how expensive their subscription is.

What’s new

Bug fix for incorrect number of questions reported as being answered in a session.