Ready to book your PLAB test?
If you’ve read our guides and meet the requirements, you're ready to book your test. To book PLAB 1, you'll need to set up a GMC Online account. To book PLAB 2, log in to GMC Online.
Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board
The Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board test, or the PLAB test, helps us to make sure doctors who qualified abroad have the right knowledge and skills to practise medicine in the UK. There are two parts to the PLAB test.
Your guide to the PLAB tests
Learn more about each part of tests you'll need to take, before booking your test below
PLAB examiners
Find out what it's like to be a PLAB examiner and how you go about becoming one.
PLAB test blueprint
Download the PLAB blueprint, which sets out the knowledge, skills and behaviours expected of candidates.
Information for employers
Find out how we assess international doctors and what the PLAB test involves
