Pastest Vs.Onexamination Vs.Passmedicine

One big question ,while we study for MRCP always haunt us and that is which online subscription to follow .
Reasons are pretty clear ,first is having little time on the board and second (most obvious ) is limited financial sources! So what we can do when we have no idea and there is no consensus on what to use ?
Well I would like to put my thoughts and comparison between these three most important resources available at the moment .

Pros and cons:

Pastest- 

Pros:

it's a good online qbank and the strong feature of this qbank is previous MRCP qs(based on memory of test takers) and infact previous years questions forms a bulk of this qbank  .another feature if this qbank is, it's concise.you can use it as assessment tool(considering you have read OHCM very well)

Cons : if you are planning to do MRCP part1 with limited resources and time is constraint then PASTEST is not something which will fit in your plan.

Explanation are not elaborated ,and usually they explain why it's correct answer ,they usually neglect other wrong options(it's very important to know ,if wrong then why). But again it's not true for every question in pastest but for majority of qs.

OnExamination.com-

Pros and cons-

It's also a good qbank and  very important feature of this qbank is good explanations and I would infact rank it number two in terms of explanation ,they do explain why a wrong option is wrong and right is right,

Cons: it's quite expensive( minimum is around 80 pounds for a couple of month subscription ) but in terms of expense it's on par with pastest.

Passmedicine.com-

Pros and cons-

Here is present the most important online subscription for MRCP part 1, it's so powerful and accurate that you can pass your Part one solely on the basis of this qbank.

It has very lucid explanation ,though sometimes they go in excessive minute details but considering sooner or later you are gonna take your part 2 hence it's a good resource to build your foundations and master the art of NICE guidelines.

It's cheap as dirt ,something around 25 pounds for 4 weeks and you also get a beta version of MRCP 2 qbank which has around 450 qs at present (I did those questions and I could barely score 58%while on pastest I always score over 65% so that shows the quality of question.)

Another important feature of Passmedicine is a collection of notes (which is basically based on the explanation of question) in alphabetical order ,such as if you wana read about management of acute coronary syndrome you just type ACS management in search browser and it leads to the related page.this note section can be very helpful while you are revising .

The only drawback of Passmedicine is ,excessive concentration on guideline based question .i do undertsand MRCP ask many question based on NICE but still for part 1 they (MRCP)don't ask beyond 15 -20% of total questions  but as I said before ,this tactics will help you for part 2 exam because in part 2 it's all about data interpretation and guidelines).

In summary,considering price and effectiveness Passmedicine is a clear winner and Onexam and pastest are distant runner ups.