Reasoning GP · Examiner marking

The real SCA domains

The Hot Seat scorecard trains behaviours. This tool marks the way the exam actually marks: every case graded 0–3 in each of three named domains, with Clinical Management weighted ×1.5 — 10.5 marks per case, 126 across the diet. Use it to self-mark any recorded attempt — and to find out which domain is losing you the exam.

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10.5
Per case
Each domain is graded Clear Fail (0) · Fail (1) · Pass (2) · Clear Pass (3) — but Clinical Management & Medical Complexity is weighted ×1.5 (worth 4.5), so a case carries up to 10.5 marks.
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Across 12 cases
Your diet total is the sum over twelve cases, out of 126. There is no fixed pass mark — it is set per sitting by borderline regression, recently landing around the high-70s/126.
No rescue
Domains don't compensate
A beautiful history cannot rescue an absent management plan. Candidates who fail usually fail one domain repeatedly — find yours here.

The grade descriptors

What each grade sounds like, domain by domain

Written the way examiners actually decide: not a checklist, but a judgement about the quality of what they watched. The amber strip under each domain names the patterns that most often pull internationally-trained graduates down a grade.

Mark an attempt

Use after any Hot Seat run, recording playback, or peer role-play
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Grade all three domains to see the case verdict.

Your attempts

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Trend reading: average each domain over your last attempts. Anything averaging below 2.0 is the domain to train — go back to the matching Hot Seat feedback sections (time map & cues for Data Gathering and Relating; word-pictures and protocols for Management). The "last 12" total simulates a full diet out of 126 against an indicative pass mark of ~79 (the real pass mark is set fresh each sitting by borderline regression, and the exact domain weighting is determined per diet — examiners themselves mark blind to it).