Is this Anesthesiology mock exam really free?

Yes. All 25 questions, your score, the domain breakdown and the full worked answers are free, with no sign-up and no email required. The paid bank is a separate, much larger set of 466 questions.

Are these real Anesthesiology exam questions?

They are original questions written to the official Anesthesiology blueprint and drawn from our full bank - not leaked or recalled items, which would breach exam security and are frequently out of date. They match the real exam's format, difficulty and domain weighting.

What is the pass mark for the Anesthesiology exam?

60%, for DHA exam ANA5781. The authority reports only pass or fail - your actual score is never released to you, which is why a diagnostic like this is the only way to see where you stand.

Does passing this mock mean I will pass the real exam?

No, and we will not claim otherwise. 25 questions cannot predict a full-length paper. What it does reliably show is which blueprint domains you are currently weakest in.

How many attempts do I get at the real exam?

Three in total across all UAE authorities under the Unified Professional Qualification Requirements - not three per authority. Each attempt costs roughly AED 1,030.

What topics does the Anesthesiology exam cover?

The published blueprint splits into 13 domains covering 233 testable sub-topics: Basic Sciences: Anesthetic Pharmacology, Applied Physiology, Anatomy and Physics, Preoperative Assessment, Risk Stratification and Anesthesia for Co-Existing Disease, Airway Management, Conduct of General Anesthesia, Equipment, Monitoring and Fluid/Transfusion Management, Regional Anesthesia: Neuraxial and Peripheral Nerve Blocks, Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, Neuroanesthesia and Neurocritical Care, Obstetric Anesthesia, Pediatric and Neonatal Anesthesia, Trauma, Burns, Orthopedic and Organ-Based/Specialty Anesthesia, Critical Care Medicine and Resuscitation, Acute and Chronic Pain Medicine, Patient Safety, Complications, Quality, Professionalism and Ethics. The full weighting table is on this page.

How long is the Anesthesiology exam and how many questions?

~150. Duration: 3 hours. Question count, duration and pass mark vary by authority and must be confirmed against the current candidate bulletin.

Do I need to create an account to take this mock exam?

No. There is no sign-up, no email capture and no payment. The questions, your score, the domain breakdown and the full worked answers are all free, and nothing is held back behind a form.

Free Anesthesiology mock exam

25 real questions from our Anesthesiology bank, timed at the exam’s own pace, scored against the 60% pass mark. You will see exactly which of the 12 blueprint domains you are weakest in - free, no sign-up.

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Sit 25 real questions at real exam pace

These are 25 genuine questions taken from our Anesthesiology bank - one from each domain on the official blueprint. You get 72 seconds per question, which is exactly the pace of the real ANA5781 exam (30 minutes for 25). At the end you will see which domains you are weakest in, and the full worked reasoning for every question.

25: questions
30:00: time limit
60%: pass mark

A short diagnostic cannot predict whether you will pass - only the real exam does that. It will show you, honestly, where you currently stand.

What the real Anesthesiology licensing exam looks like

Anesthesiologys applying to practise in the UAE sit a computer-based multiple-choice examination - DHA exam code ANA5781, delivered through Prometric for DHA, MOHAP and SHA, and through Pearson VUE for DOH Abu Dhabi. The pass mark is 60%, and the result is reported to you as pass or fail only - your score is never released.

The paper is built to a published blueprint, which is why a domain-by-domain diagnostic is more useful than a raw percentage. Your questions above were drawn one per domain across Acute and Chronic Pain Medicine, Airway Management, Critical Care Medicine and Resuscitation, Regional Anesthesia: Neuraxial and Peripheral Nerve Blocks and 8 more - the same areas the real paper weights.

Before you can book the exam at all you need Dataflow primary source verification of your degree, licence and experience, which typically runs several weeks. Candidates routinely underestimate this and end up sitting the exam sooner after study than they planned. Check where you stand with our free eligibility checker or confirm whether your title even requires an exam using the Prometric exam checker.

You get three attempts in total across all UAE authorities - not three each - under the Unified Professional Qualification Requirements. At roughly AED 1,030 per attempt, plus the licensing delay each failure adds to your visa and start date, the cost of going in underprepared is not really the exam fee.

What is on the Anesthesiology exam: the full blueprint

The published blueprint splits into 13 domains and 233 testable sub-topics. The diagnostic above samples across all of them, which is why its breakdown maps onto the structure the real paper is built from.

Basic Sciences: Anesthetic Pharmacology, Applied Physiology, Anatomy and Physics~9%18 topics
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Preoperative Assessment, Risk Stratification and Anesthesia for Co-Existing Disease~9%19 topics
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Airway Management~10%18 topics
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Conduct of General Anesthesia, Equipment, Monitoring and Fluid/Transfusion Management~8%18 topics
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Regional Anesthesia: Neuraxial and Peripheral Nerve Blocks~8%18 topics
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Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Anesthesia~8%18 topics
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Neuroanesthesia and Neurocritical Care~6%16 topics
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Obstetric Anesthesia~7%18 topics
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Pediatric and Neonatal Anesthesia~7%17 topics
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Trauma, Burns, Orthopedic and Organ-Based/Specialty Anesthesia~10%19 topics
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Critical Care Medicine and Resuscitation~8%19 topics
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Acute and Chronic Pain Medicine~5%16 topics
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Patient Safety, Complications, Quality, Professionalism and Ethics~5%19 topics
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Questions: ~150
Duration: 3 hours
Pass mark: 65%

DHA Specialist Anesthesia verified: 150 MCQs, 3 hours (inclusive of registration and introduction), code ANA5781, pass score 65%, delivered by Prometric; result reported only as Pass/Fail in Sheryan, score not released. NHRA: 3 hr seating / 2.5 hr actual, pass 60%. OMSB: commonly 100 single-best-answer MCQs in 2.5 hrs plus a viva in Muscat, ~65% written threshold. DOH: Pearson VUE delivery, typically 150 MCQs / 3 hrs, pass mark commonly cited at 60%. SCFHS/QCHP Prometric anesthesia papers are typically 150 MCQs / 3 hrs with a 60% pass. Question format is single-best-answer with 4 options across GCC Prometric/Pearson papers. ORAL route (DHA/SCFHS/MOHAP/OMSB): minimum 5 clinical scenarios, 20-30 minutes (extendable), virtual or in-country panel, unanimous pass/fail, ethics and communication explicitly graded. DHA references cited for anesthesia: Morgan & Mikhail's Clinical Anesthesiology, Stoelting's Anesthesia and Co-Existing Disease, Barash Clinical Anesthesia, Miller's Anesthesia, Chung & Lam Essentials of Anesthesiology, Marino's The ICU Book, and SCHS Essentials of Patient Safety.

A worked Anesthesiology exam question

Every question in the diagnostic and in the paid bank is written to this standard: a clinical stem, four plausible options and the reasoning for the answer, with its source.

Acute and Chronic Pain Medicine

In a pain clinic you screen a patient using the DN4 questionnaire, which combines 7 interview items with 3 clinical examination items. Which statement about its use is correct?

AA score of 1 or more out of 10 confirms neuropathic pain
BIt replaces clinical examination and quantitative sensory testing entirely
CA score of 4 or more out of 10 indicates that the pain is likely to be neuropathicCorrect
DIt is designed to grade the severity rather than the character of pain

Why: The DN4 has a cut-off of 4 out of 10, above which neuropathic pain is likely, with good sensitivity and specificity for screening. A threshold of 1 would misclassify almost all patients as neuropathic. Screening tools such as DN4 and LANSS support but never replace history, examination and confirmation of a lesion or disease of the somatosensory system. They discriminate the character of pain, not its intensity, for which an NRS or VAS is used.

Source: Bouhassira D et al. Comparison of pain syndromes associated with nervous or somatic lesions and development of a new neuropathic pain diagnostic questionnaire (DN4). Pain 2005

How to use this diagnostic properly

1Sit it cold, once. Do not look anything up. A diagnostic you help yourself through tells you nothing. The number you get is only useful if it is honest.
2Read every rationale - especially the ones you got right. Getting a question right by elimination is not the same as knowing it. The worked reasoning is free above, whether or not you buy anything.
3Work weakest domain first. The breakdown orders your domains worst-first for exactly this reason. Studying what you are already good at feels productive and moves nothing.
4Re-sit under full exam conditions later. The real paper is far longer than this and stamina matters. Full-length timed papers are what the paid bank is for.