The RACGP has scrapped plans for a computerised Key Feature Problem exam with just two weeks to spare, announcing it will stick with a paper exam after identifying a software glitch. 

Hundreds of GP registrars were preparing to sit the exam on 4 February at exam halls across the country when the RACGP told them it was reverting to pen and paper. 

It would have been the first computerised Key Feature Problem (KFP) exam since the college’s disastrous attempt at an online at-home exam in 2020, which was abandoned after a major IT meltdown.

The college successfully ran a computer-based Applied Knowledge Test (AKT) exam last year and was forging ahead with a computer-based KFP after the software passed a test run last October.