Short answer: DHA lists twelve content areas for General Practice: 150 questions in three hours, pass score 60 percent, no weights. A six-week plan can cover two areas a week, with timed sets from week two and a full mock in week five. The split is ours, because DHA publishes none.
How do you plan six weeks for the DHA GP exam?
Start from DHA’s list. The General Practice entry (code GEN5331) names twelve areas and gives no weights, so a plan has no official basis for spending more time on any one. This plan therefore gives each area a slot, then uses your own practice results to decide where to add time. It suits a doctor who already practises and has about ten hours a week. Meddex is independent and is not connected to the Dubai Health Authority (DHA) or Prometric.
Key facts and where they come from
From DHA’s CBT Guideline, cover reads “Updated - Sep 2026”, read 15 and 16 October 2026, and the PQR, read 16 October 2026.
- General Practice: 150 questions, 3 hours including registration time, pass score 60 percent.
- Twelve areas, no weights: Chronic Diseases; Acute and Common Medical Problems; Common Pediatric Problems; Women Health; Emergency Problems; Common Surgical Problems; Common Psychiatric Problems; Common Eye and ENT Problems; Common Derma Problems; Basic Epidemiology and EBM Concepts; Family Medicine Concepts; Screening and Periodic Health Examination.
- Specialist physician pass scores run from 55 to 70 percent by title, so the General Practice figure is not a rule for other titles.
- Qualification: MBBS or equivalent, one year of internship and two years of clinical experience after it. Source: PQR table 5.
The six weeks
This is our plan, not DHA’s. Shift it around your rota.
- Week 1: a baseline of 50 mixed questions, no looking up. Then Basic Epidemiology and EBM Concepts, and Screening and Periodic Health Examination, which overlap and are good warm-up topics. See screening and periodic health examination.
- Week 2: Chronic Diseases, then Acute and Common Medical Problems. First timed set of 40 questions in 60 minutes.
- Week 3: Emergency Problems, then Common Surgical Problems. Review every missed question the same day.
- Week 4: Women Health and Common Pediatric Problems, then Common Psychiatric Problems.
- Week 5: Common Eye and ENT Problems, Common Derma Problems, then Family Medicine Concepts. Take a full 150-question timed mock at the end of the week.
- Week 6: repair the weakest three areas from the mock, one more timed mixed set, then a light final two days. Our last 7 days plan covers the end.
How to use practice in each week
Use tutor mode at the start of each area, then timed mode once you have covered it. Keep an error log: one line for each missed question with the rule you will remember. The guide to building an error log shows a format. For the pace, 72 seconds a question is the upper limit on 150 questions in 180 minutes, and less in practice because registration time comes out of the three hours.
If you have less than six weeks
Drop depth before breadth: keep all twelve areas but shorten each slot, and keep the mock. If you have more, use the DHA subject map for physicians and the study plan for working doctors to add depth to chronic disease and emergencies. For general advice, see DHA exam for GPs and family medicine doctors.
What does one week look like?
About ten hours is a realistic target for a working doctor. This pattern is ours.
- Two weekday sessions of 60 to 90 minutes: one new area in tutor mode and one timed set of 40 questions.
- One weekend block of two to three hours: a timed mixed set, then a full review of every miss and flag.
- Ten to fifteen minutes a day of flashcards on the rules in your error log. See how to write good medical flashcards.
- One full rest day, and one early night before any mock.
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