Free Psychiatry mock exam
25 real questions from our Psychiatry bank, timed at the exam’s own pace, scored against the 60% pass mark. You will see exactly which of the 13 blueprint domains you are weakest in - free, no sign-up.
Sit 25 real questions at real exam pace
These are 25 genuine questions taken from our Psychiatry bank - one from each domain on the official blueprint. You get 72 seconds per question, which is exactly the pace of the real PSY5961 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 Psychiatry licensing exam looks like
Psychiatrys applying to practise in the UAE sit a computer-based multiple-choice examination - DHA exam code PSY5961, 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 Consultation-Liaison (Psychosomatic) Psychiatry, Somatic Symptom & Neurocognitive Disorders, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Psychopharmacology & Somatic Therapies (ECT and Neuromodulation), Depressive, Bipolar & Related Disorders and 9 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 Psychiatry exam: the full blueprint
The published blueprint splits into 13 domains and 235 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.
- Foundations: Neuroscience, Basic Psychology, Psychiatric Assessment & Classification~13%18 topics
est.; SCFHS Final blueprint gives 11% for Basic Sciences/Essential Topics plus 5% for Patient Evaluation/Descriptive Psychopathology
- Schizophrenia Spectrum & Other Psychotic Disorders~7%18 topics
est.; SCFHS Final blueprint 5%, DHA Exam Coverage names this domain explicitly
- Depressive, Bipolar & Related Disorders~8%18 topics
est.; SCFHS Final blueprint 5%, DHA Exam Coverage names this domain explicitly; commonly over-represented in licensure papers
- Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive & Related, Trauma- and Stressor-Related & Dissociative Disorders~8%18 topics
est.; SCFHS Final blueprint 5%, DHA Exam Coverage groups these together explicitly
- Personality, Impulse-Control, Feeding & Eating, Sleep-Wake, Sexual & Reproductive Psychiatry~6%18 topics
est.; SCFHS Final blueprint gives 5% to personality/trauma/dissociative, 5% to sleep-wake, 5% to sexuality/gender/reproductive; DHA names Personality Disorders explicitly
- Substance-Related & Addictive Disorders~9%18 topics
est.; SCFHS blueprint 10% in BOTH Part One and Final, DHA Exam Coverage names it explicitly - a high-yield domain
- Psychopharmacology & Somatic Therapies (ECT and Neuromodulation)~11%18 topics
est.; SCFHS Final blueprint 17% for Therapeutic Interventions shared with psychotherapy; DHA lists 'Basic Psychopharmacology / Physical Therapy (ECT and others)' explicitly
- Psychotherapy & Psychosocial Interventions~6%18 topics
est.; part of SCFHS 'Therapeutic Interventions' 17%; DHA lists 'Psychotherapy / Psychosocial Interventions' explicitly
- Consultation-Liaison (Psychosomatic) Psychiatry, Somatic Symptom & Neurocognitive Disorders~9%18 topics
est.; SCFHS Final blueprint 12% combined with geriatric; DHA lists 'Psychosomatic Medicine (Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry) / Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders' explicitly
- Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Neurodevelopmental Disorders~9%18 topics
est.; SCFHS blueprint 10%, DHA Exam Coverage lists 'Child and Adolescent Psychiatry' explicitly
- Geriatric, Public/Community & Cross-Cultural Psychiatry~5%18 topics
est.; SCFHS pairs geriatric with C-L psychiatry; DHA Exam Coverage lists 'Public Psychiatry / Geriatric Psychiatry' explicitly
- Emergency Psychiatry, Risk Assessment & Crisis Management~5%18 topics
est.; SCFHS blueprint 5% in both Part One and Final; DHA Exam Coverage lists 'Emergency Psychiatry' explicitly
- Forensic Psychiatry, Mental Health Law, Ethics, Professionalism & Patient Safety~4%19 topics
est.; SCFHS notes ethics, professionalism and patient safety are embedded across domains; DHA Exam Coverage lists 'Forensic Psychiatry' and 'Patient Safety & Professionalism and Ethics' as separate explicit bullets, and this is the ORAL exam's graded third pillar
- Questions
- ~150 (DHA Specialist Psychiatry = 150 VERIFIED; QCHP specialty paper = 150; MOHAP = 150; OMSB written ~100; DOH ~100-150 unverified). DHA Consultant Psychiatry has NO MCQ paper - it is an oral assessment of not less than 5 clinical scenarios.
- Duration
- 3 hours (DHA Specialist Psychiatry = 3 hrs VERIFIED, inclusive of registration and process introduction; QCHP = 3 hrs; MOHAP = 3 hrs; NHRA = 3 hrs seating / 2.5 hrs testing; OMSB written = 2 hrs 30 min). Oral route: 20-30 minutes minimum, extendable (DHA); SCFHS consultant interview reported as 2 x 30 min sessions.
- Pass mark
- 65% (DHA Specialist Psychiatry PSY5961 - VERIFIED from the May 2026 CBT Guideline; note this differs from the 70% used for some other DHA specialty papers); 65% (QCHP specialty papers, OMSB written); 60% (MOHAP, NHRA physicians); 60-70% (DOH, unverified). For reference the SCFHS Saudi Board Psychiatry Final written exam uses 70% with a compensatory floor of 65%, and Part One uses 65% with a floor of 60%.
Single-best-answer MCQs, clinical-vignette dominant, computer-delivered, no negative marking; papers typically embed up to 10% unscored pretest/calibration items (explicitly stated in the SCFHS psychiatry blueprints). DHA exam code for Specialist Psychiatry is PSY5961, fee USD 280. Delivery: DHA / MOHAP / QCHP / NHRA / SCFHS via Prometric; DOH Abu Dhabi via Pearson VUE; OMSB via Pearson Professional Assessments (previously Prometric) plus an in-person viva in Muscat. DHA releases PASS/FAIL only in Sheryan and does not share the numeric score. An Eligibility ID must be generated by the authority (Sheryan for DHA, the NHRA online system for Bahrain, Mumaris+ for SCFHS) before booking, and DataFlow primary source verification is mandatory for QCHP from 01 Jan 2026. Attempts: DHA three; MOHAP three; NHRA four consecutive within three years. DHA's published reference list for Specialist Psychiatry is Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry (latest edition), the New Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry (Gelder, Andreasen, Lopez-Ibor, Geddes), Essentials of Patient Safety (SCHS) and the SCFHS Professionalism and Ethics Handbook for Residents - write items to DSM-5-TR nomenclature and to those references. Domain weights below are anchored to the official SCFHS Saudi Board Psychiatry Final Examination blueprint and the DHA Exam Coverage bullets.
A worked Psychiatry 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.
Consultation-Liaison (Psychosomatic) Psychiatry, Somatic Symptom & Neurocognitive Disorders
A delirious postoperative patient with fluctuating cognition is refusing an urgently needed blood transfusion at 2 a.m. He had agreed to it four hours earlier when lucid. Which is the most appropriate action?
- AAccept the refusal as a valid advance decision
- BDocument that he lacks capacity at this moment because of delirium and, where the intervention is urgent and life-saving, proceed in his best interests, taking account of his previously expressed wishesCorrect
- CWait until the delirium resolves regardless of the urgency
- DSedate him covertly and record that consent was obtained
Why: Capacity is time-specific and can fluctuate, so a refusal made during an episode of impaired attention and awareness is not a capacitous decision, and for an urgent life-saving intervention the clinician acts in the patient's best interests while giving weight to his previously stated wishes. A refusal made without capacity cannot constitute a valid advance decision. Waiting could be fatal, and covert sedation with falsified documentation is both unlawful and a serious professional breach.
Source: UK Mental Capacity Act 2005 and Code of Practice; Appelbaum, New England Journal of Medicine (2007)
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.