The Common Registration Examination · 2026

The CRE arrives this year.
Walk in knowing exactly
what it will ask of you.

Meducative trains you for Stage 1 of the Medical and Dental Council's Common Registration Examination — both Paper 1 (Basic Sciences) and Paper 2 (Specialised Clinical Subjects). Start with the diagnostic test. Twenty questions. Twenty minutes. Free.

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CRE 2026 · BLUEPRINT
Stage 1 · Theory 200 MCQs · one day
Paper 1
Basic Sciences
100 MCQs · 2 hours
Meducative covers this
Paper 2
Specialised Clinical
100 MCQs · 2 hours
Meducative covers this
Stage 2 · OSCE 19 manned · 22 unmanned stations
Your clinical rotation prepares you for this.
3 sittings / year 5 attempts in 3 years GHS 2,000 per sitting
8,350+
Practice questions
31
Subjects
12
Systems
The exam, decoded

Read the CRE before you sit it.

The Medical and Dental Council has published the structure of the Common Registration Examination. Most candidates will sit it without ever reading the structure end to end. Here it is, plainly — and what Meducative does for each part.

Stage 1 · Theory · one day · 200 single-best-answer MCQs
Paper 1 100 MCQs · 2 hours

Basic Sciences

Anatomy · Physiology · Biochemistry · Pharmacology · Pathology · Microbiology · Immunology

Meducative for Paper 1

Every QBank question is tagged to Subject (basic sciences) and System. Build self-quizzes by subject, system, count and mode — timed, untimed, tutor.

Paper 2 100 MCQs · 2 hours

Specialised Clinical Subjects

Internal Medicine · Surgery · Obstetrics & Gynaecology · Paediatrics · Community Medicine

Meducative for Paper 2

The same QBank, filtered to clinical sciences and the five specialised disciplines. Scheduled mocks replicate the 100-MCQ, 2-hour cadence.

  • Interval30-minute break between papers
  • Pass mark50% average across both papers
Stage 2 · Clinical OSCE / OSPE
  • 22 unmanned image stations — 10 Community Health, 3 each in Internal Medicine, Surgery, Obs/Gyn, and Paediatrics.
  • 19 manned stations — 17 active plus 2 rest — 10 minutes each, two examiners working from a standardised checklist.
  • Assesses history taking, physical examination, diagnostic reasoning, investigations, prescribing, procedures, ethics and communication.
Meducative for Stage 2

Nothing. Your clinical rotation prepares you for OSCE — not a digital product. We will not pretend otherwise.

Attempts & logistics
Sittings
Three each year — Feb/Mar · Jun/Jul · Oct/Nov
First attempt
Within one year of graduation
Attempt cap
Maximum five attempts within three years post-graduation
Fee
GHS 2,000 per sitting (locally trained)
Comms
MDC candidate portal, your registered email, and phone
Venues
Vary by sitting — announced ahead of each window via the MDC portal
Sources: the MDC's notice on the commencement of the Common Registration Examination and the MDC Exams Guidelines. Always verify the latest at mdc.gov.gh.
The diagnostic test

Twenty questions. Twenty minutes.
Then you know where you stand.

The diagnostic samples both Paper 1 (Basic Sciences) and Paper 2 (Specialised Clinical Subjects). You finish with a projected readiness band, a paper-by-paper breakdown, the topics that are dragging you down, and a 7-day starter plan. Free. No card. No upsell.

Take the diagnostic test 20 min · No card required
20 Q
drawn from the same Subject & System taxonomy the CRE is built on
2 papers
a clean split between basic sciences and specialised clinical subjects
7 day plan
built from the topics your diagnostic flagged as weakest

Note: cohort percentile and the plan recommendation are calibrated against representative stub data while we wait for the first sitting's results to land. The caveat is shown on every report.

01
Answer twenty questions
Ten across basic sciences, ten across the specialised clinical subjects. Timed, twenty minutes.
02
See where the gaps are
Projected readiness band, Paper 1 vs Paper 2 breakdown, weakest topics.
03
Take your next step
A 7-day starter plan and a recommendation on which of the four tiers fits your sitting date.
The preparation loop

Three tools mapped to the exam. Drill, simulate, learn from your gaps.

01 · Question bank

Pattern recognition for Paper 1 and Paper 2.

Build a self-quiz by subject, system, count and mode. Timed mode rehearses the real CRE cadence — about a minute per question. Untimed mode unhurries recall. Tutor mode shows the rationale on every step. Every question carries an explanation written by the importing admin.

  • Tagged to Subject (basic / clinical sciences) and System (cardio, renal, GI, …)
  • Three modes — timed, untimed, tutor
  • Rationale on every question, not just the wrong ones
02 · Scheduled mocks

A hundred questions. Two hours. The real cadence.

Scheduled mocks replicate the CRE structure: a 100-MCQ sitting at a two-hour ceiling, single-best-answer, with the navigator and the flag-and-return rhythm you'll be working under on exam day. Admins schedule the sittings; candidates self-enrol.

  • 100-MCQ / 2-hour structure matches Paper 1 and Paper 2
  • Self-enrolment — show up to as many as you can
  • Auto-graded; results feed the analytics
03 · Performance analytics

Know what's slipping. Before you sit again.

Every quiz, every mock, every flagged question gets logged. The analytics page rolls them up by subject and by system, so the weak topics surface across attempts — not just within one. No vanity metrics, no streaks, no leaderboards.

  • Projected CRE readiness band, refreshed after every attempt
  • Subject- and system-level mastery, not just an overall score
  • Carries between attempts — every sitting builds on the last
Who Meducative is for

Three audiences. One exam.

01

Final-year medical and dental students

Preparing for the first sitting after graduation. Use the diagnostic now to see what your final year still needs to close.

Start with the diagnostic test
02

Recent graduates inside the one-year window

You have twelve months from graduation to make your first attempt. Use them deliberately, not anxiously.

Take the diagnostic test
03

Candidates returning for a re-sit

Five attempts, three years. Work backwards from the gaps your last sitting exposed — the analytics carry over between attempts on the platform.

Pick up where you left off
How every question is made

Written and vetted by Ghanaian medical professionals.

Library, diagnostic, and mock — every question on Meducative is drafted by a practicing physician or clinical lecturer and reviewed by senior faculty before a single student sees it.

01

Authored

Drafted by practicing Ghanaian physicians and clinical lecturers in their own area of expertise — pathology, internal medicine, surgery, paediatrics, OB-GYN, and the rest of the CRE blueprint.

02

Peer-reviewed

Every question is reviewed by a second senior clinician or faculty member for accuracy, clinical relevance, and clarity before it ever reaches a student.

03

MDCG-aligned

Each item is mapped to the Medical and Dental Council's Common Registration Exam blueprint — tagged by subject, system, and cognitive level — so practice mirrors the real paper.

04

Updated

Library, diagnostic, and mock questions are refreshed each sitting based on candidate performance, reviewer feedback, and any updates to the MDCG syllabus.

Every question is checked for
  • Clinical accuracy
  • Vignette plausibility
  • Distractor quality
  • MDCG syllabus alignment
Pricing

Four ways to pay for it. Pick the runway that fits your CRE timeline.

Pay once per training cycle. No monthly subscriptions, no trials, no hidden tiers. Institutional pricing for medical schools is on the schools page.

Exam Ready
₵2,500 for one focused month

If your CRE is weeks away, this is the final-push option.

Get Exam Ready
  • Full QBank, tagged to Paper 1 and Paper 2
  • Self-quizzes — timed, untimed, and tutor modes
  • 1 mock at the real 100-MCQ / 2-hour cadence
  • AI tutoring partner — ask follow-ups on any question
  • Projected CRE readiness band, refreshed each attempt
  • 30 days of access
MOST POPULAR
Cycle Ready
₵4,000 for 3 months

One full CRE prep cycle, end to end.

Get Cycle Ready
  • Everything in Exam Ready
  • 3 mocks spread across your 90-day window
  • 90 days of access — one complete prep cycle
  • Room to revisit weak topics between mocks
  • AI tutor builds a clearer picture of your blind spots
Mastery Ready
₵5,500 for 6 months

Six months to build real depth, not just review.

Get Mastery Ready
  • Everything in Cycle Ready
  • 6 mocks paced across the half-year
  • 180 days of access — covers two CRE sittings if needed
  • Time to master full systems, not just skim them
  • AI tutor tracks your progress across the longer runway
Career Ready
₵6,500 for the full year

Foundations through finals — a full training year.

Get Career Ready
  • Everything in Mastery Ready
  • 12 mocks — one a month, every month
  • 365 days of access — start from the foundations
  • Best price per month of any tier (₵542/mo)
  • Spans every CRE sitting in the year
Questions

What the CRE asks, and what we do about it.

Still unsure? Email support@meducative.com and a member of the team will reply within a day.

The CRE is the Medical and Dental Council's standardised licensing examination for newly-qualifying medical and dental practitioners in Ghana. It takes off this year. Candidates have one year from graduation to make a first attempt and a maximum of five attempts within three years post-graduation. The fee for locally trained candidates is GHS 2,000 per sitting.
Three sittings each calendar year, during February/March, June/July, and October/November. The MDC announces the exact dates and venues — venues can vary — ahead of each sitting through the candidate portal, your registered email, and your registered phone.
Paper 1 is Basic Sciences — anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pharmacology, pathology, microbiology, immunology — 100 MCQs in two hours. Paper 2 is Specialised Clinical Subjects — Internal Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Paediatrics, Community Medicine — another 100 MCQs in two hours, with a 30-minute break between papers. The pass mark is a 50% average across both.
Stage 1 — both Paper 1 and Paper 2. The QBank is tagged to Subject (basic / clinical sciences) and System (cardiovascular, renal, and so on), which is the same axis the CRE is built on. You drill by subject, sit timed mocks at the real cadence, and watch the analytics surface what is still slipping. Honest scoping: Stage 2 is the OSCE, which is the work of your clinical rotation — not a digital product.
Practicing Ghanaian physicians and specialists, research scientists, subject experts across the CRE blueprint, and data scientists. Clinicians author and peer-review every question in their own field — pathology, internal medicine, surgery, paediatrics, OB-GYN, and the rest — before it reaches you. Subject experts map each item to the Medical and Dental Council blueprint; the data scientists build the diagnostic, the analytics, and the readiness scoring that show you where you actually stand. This is built by people who have sat these exams and who teach the people sitting them next — not a question dump assembled overnight.
Twenty questions, twenty minutes, free, no card. You get a projected readiness band, a Paper 1 versus Paper 2 breakdown, your weakest topics, and a 7-day starter plan. The cohort percentile and plan recommendation are calibrated against representative stub data while we wait for the first sitting's results to roll in — that caveat is shown on the report.
Every self-quiz runs in one of three modes. Timed puts you under the exam clock. Untimed drops the timer so you can think a question all the way through. Tutor mode reveals the correct answer and the full rationale the moment you commit to an option — you learn on the spot instead of waiting for a results page. Lean on tutor mode early while you're building understanding, then move to timed as the sitting approaches and you need to rehearse under pressure.
No — and that's deliberate. Your self-quizzes are drawn from the practice library you drill against day to day, so you'll meet some of those questions more than once as you learn. Scheduled mocks pull from a separate, expert-curated set kept out of that library entirely — so when you sit one, you're facing questions you haven't seen, under the real 100-MCQ, two-hour cadence. A self-quiz is for learning; a mock is a clean readiness check, the only honest way to know how you'd perform when the questions aren't ones you've already memorised. Every item, mock or practice, is authored by physicians and peer-reviewed — the mock set is simply held back on purpose.
Nothing to install. Meducative runs in your browser, so you can sign in from a phone, tablet, or laptop and carry on where you left off. We do strongly recommend a laptop or tablet for serious work — the larger screen makes long vignettes, the question navigator, and full-length mocks far easier to work through, and it's closer to the conditions you'll sit the real exam under. A phone is fine for a quick drill on the go; for mocks and longer sessions, reach for the bigger screen.
No. OSCE is a 19-manned-station, 10-minute-per-station clinical examination with two examiners working from a standardised checklist. It is rehearsed by spending hours on a ward, not on a website. Saying otherwise would be dishonest.
Four tiers, all unlocking the same product — Exam Ready (1 month) through Career Ready (12 months); see the pricing section for what each includes. Pay by card or mobile money through Paystack, or by a direct bank or MoMo transfer if you'd rather, then tap Confirm payment. We verify it by hand — usually within a few hours on work days — and switch your access on. The diagnostic test is always free.
Where you stand · twenty minutes

The exam is months away.
Find out where you stand tonight.

The diagnostic test is twenty questions in twenty minutes. It samples both papers. It is free and it costs you nothing to find out.

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