Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeons — FCPS Surgery
Asia-Pacific · BD · $99, the same everywhere
How this examination works
The Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeons rebuilt the Part I format in January 2024: three separate papers became a single four-hour paper in one day, with a hundred and fifty questions worth two marks each and a 70% pass mark — 210 out of 300. The final Part II combines a written paper with OSPE, clinical, oral and practical components. One rule changes the strategy for anyone who fails: scoring grade fifteen or above in the Part II written keeps that written valid for the next two sittings of the clinical part, so it does not have to be resat in full.
Who can sit it
The final Part II requires three years of advanced training in the subject. Before training starts the candidate must enrol with the BCPS as a trainee: training only counts if done at a college-recognised institution and after that enrolment.
Checked against the body itself on 1 September 2026. Procedures change; if this no longer matches what you were asked for, write and tell us.
The structure above is taken from the examining body. What we have not done yet is transcribe its published syllabus domain by domain, which is what lets us show a coverage table instead of asking you to take our word for it.
5,000
active questions
20
topics with questions
No weighted breakdown for this examination, and why
Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeons does not publish a general surgery syllabus we have been able to obtain, so this page shows no domains and no percentages. Anywhere you see a weighted breakdown for this exam, ask which document it came from. Where an authority does publish one, we transcribe it with the page number and link the original.
Common questions about this examination
What is the FCPS Bangladesh examination like?
The Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeons rebuilt the Part I format in January 2024: three separate papers became a single four-hour paper in one day, with a hundred and fifty questions worth two marks each and a 70% pass mark — 210 out of 300. The final Part II combines a written paper with OSPE, clinical, oral and practical components. One rule changes the strategy for anyone who fails: scoring grade fifteen or above in the Part II written keeps that written valid for the next two sittings of the clinical part, so it does not have to be resat in full.
Who can sit the FCPS Bangladesh?
The final Part II requires three years of advanced training in the subject. Before training starts the candidate must enrol with the BCPS as a trainee: training only counts if done at a college-recognised institution and after that enrolment.
Is there a question bank for the FCPS Bangladesh?
This one. 5,000 single-best-answer questions across the whole of general surgery, each with the reasoning for every option rather than only the correct one, written by a consultant surgical oncologist. It is written to the discipline, not transcribed from the FCPS Bangladesh blueprint — general surgery is general surgery wherever it is examined, and we say plainly which boards we have mapped and which we have not.
What level are the questions for the FCPS Bangladesh?
2,051 of the 5,000 — 41% — sit at the hardest of three levels: trial results, guideline nuance and the cases that split examiners, which is the level an exit examination like the FCPS Bangladesh is decided at. Fifty questions are free with an account, so you can judge the level before paying.
How do I practise the FCPS Bangladesh oral component?
With the oral simulator, included in a subscription. Six stations as an examination sets them; you choose the station and the examiner chooses the case from more than a hundred scenarios built on this bank. It presses when an answer is vague and marks by domain — reasoning, guidelines, decision-making and communication.
What does preparation for the FCPS Bangladesh cost?
One payment of $99 for 180 days, the same from wherever you pay — there is no country pricing. It covers the whole bank, the oral simulator and the timed mock papers. Nothing renews and no card is kept on file afterwards. Fifty questions are free with an account, so you can judge the level before paying.
Every answer above is taken from the examining body’s own published document, not from our reading of it.
Other examinations in Asia-Pacific
- MHKICBSC Parts 1 and 2 — Membership (Hong Kong and Singapore) — Hong Kong Inter-Collegiate Board of Surgical Colleges
- Philippine Board of Surgery — Diplomate — Philippine Board of Surgery / Philippine Society of General Surgeons
- Postgraduate Institute of Medicine — MD Surgery (Sri Lanka) — Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo
- College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan — FCPS General Surgery — College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan
- Royal College of Surgeons of Thailand — Board of Surgery — Royal College of Surgeons of Thailand
- DNB General Surgery (India) — National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences
Price for this board
One price, the same from every country. What you see is what you are charged, and nothing renews.
$99 · 180 days of full access
This examination has a viva or clinical component, and the access includes the oral simulator: an examiner that presents a case, listens to what you actually say and questions you back. It marks on the four competence domains the Saudi Commission publishes — the only oral rubric for general surgery published in full — which are the same competencies every one of these boards is testing.