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No - and you should be wary of any site claiming otherwise. Every question here is original, written to mirror the style, difficulty, and judgment the real General Surgery exam tests. Each one comes with a plain-language explanation of why the right answer is right and the others aren't.

The General Surgery exam spans 25 domains: Abdominal (17% of the exam); Alimentary Tract (19% of the exam); Anesthesia (3% of the exam); Breast (9% of the exam); Endocrine (3% of the exam); Ethics and Patient Outcomes (3% of the exam); Fluid Electrolytes and Acid Base (1% of the exam); Gynecology (2% of the exam); Head and Neck (1% of the exam); Immunology (1% of the exam); Infectious Disease (1% of the exam); Nutrition, Metabolism (2% of the exam); Oncology (2% of the exam); Osteopathic Principles and Practice (2% of the exam); Pediatric Surgery (3% of the exam); Pharmacology (2% of the exam); Pre-operative Evaluation and Peri-operative Care (3% of the exam); Skin and Soft Tissue (4% of the exam); Surgical Critical Care (3% of the exam); Thermal Injury (1% of the exam); Thoracic (3% of the exam); Transplant (1% of the exam); Trauma (8% of the exam); Urology (2% of the exam); Vascular (4% of the exam). Every practice question on this site is tagged to one of these domains.

The domains are not weighted equally on the exam. By share of the marks: Alimentary Tract 19%; Abdominal 17%; Breast 9%; Trauma 8%; Skin and Soft Tissue 4%; Vascular 4%; Anesthesia 3%; Endocrine 3%; Ethics and Patient Outcomes 3%; Pediatric Surgery 3%; Pre-operative Evaluation and Peri-operative Care 3%; Surgical Critical Care 3%; Thoracic 3%; Gynecology 2%; Nutrition, Metabolism 2%; Oncology 2%; Osteopathic Principles and Practice 2%; Pharmacology 2%; Urology 2%; Fluid Electrolytes and Acid Base 1%; Head and Neck 1%; Immunology 1%; Infectious Disease 1%; Thermal Injury 1%; Transplant 1%.

The General Surgery exam has 200 questions and is completed in 4 hours 30 minutes. Our timed practice mirrors that length and pacing, so exam day feels familiar.

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