The Finals Revision Book (2nd edition) provides the key facts you need for the UK Medical Licensing Assessment (MLA) exam, and acts as an ideal foundation on which to build your revision. It saves you the trouble of piecing together bits of information from a long list of resources, figuring out what to learn and knowing where to start.
An ideal finals preparation strategy would be to pair this book with the Finals Revision Flashcards, covering both with multiple repetitions until you are very confident in all the content. At that point, you should have no trouble with the MLA exam.
The notes, videos and podcasts at zerotofinals.com, and the more detailed Zero to Finals books, provide additional explanations and nuance wherever you need a more in-depth explanation of a topic. Add in the MCQs, Revision Tracking Tool and Fact Trainer Tool at members.zerotofinals.com, and you'll have everything you need to do exceptionally well in your exams.
A common question I get is, "Will this book be enough for my exams?" The short answer is yes, but you need to know and understand the content really well. Worrying about whether a particular resource is "enough" often results in students moving from one resource to another, getting stuck on a single topic, and endlessly diving into more and more detail out of fear that some obscure detail "might come up".
You are much more likely to fail by spending all your time and energy searching for "everything you need to know" on part of the curriculum, while failing to learn the fundamentals in other parts of the curriculum. This book provides a strong baseline of knowledge across all specialties. Only once you have the broad baseline knowledge contained within this book (enough to answer the majority of exam questions and pass comfortably) would I suggest worrying about the obscure details.
In most areas of life, success depends more on mastering the fundamentals than on jumping to the advanced details. This book, along with the Finals Revision Flashcards, helps you achieve this for your finals revision.
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- Author: Dr Thomas Watchman
- Length: 164 pages
- Format: A4, ring-bound, full colour, illustrated
- Published: 2025