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Both stations of the national Core Surgical Training interview, with model answers, spoken practice marked by AI and progress tracked to the day of your interview.
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Core Surgery Interview Questions
Core Surgery Interview offers online interview preparation featuring our popular core surgery interview questions bank of CST interview questions that you can use to prepare for your core surgical interview together with videos and CV analysis.
Comprehensive answers accompany every question and quick-look overview lectures cover the key aspects of each core surgery interview station. All questions are uniquely designed and selected to prepare you for Core Surgical Training Interviews. Registration also includes bespoke core surgery CV analysis, monthly core surgery cases and support right up to the core surgical training interviews.
Our MSRA question bank is included in the question bank. This is included in the price and is worth £40 in itself offering excellent value.
What’s included
| Feature | What you get |
|---|---|
| 250 Unique Questions | 250 questions across 31 scenarios — 177 Clinical, 39 Management and 34 Portfolio. |
| Comprehensive answers and frameworks | Every question carries a model answer, with a framework for structuring what you say rather than a paragraph to memorise. |
| Navigate questions using the Dashboard | One dashboard groups every station, shows what you have completed and drops you back where you left off. |
| Questions use case-based format | Questions are written as interview scenarios rather than flashcards, so you rehearse the answer you will actually give. |
| Answer out loud, marked by AI | Speak your answer as you would at interview; it is transcribed and scored against the station's own domains. |
| Advanced question marker and tracker | Mark each question complete or to revisit; per-station progress bars show where the gaps are. |
| One price. Right up to the interviews | One payment, no subscription. Access runs to the end of the 2027 interview window. |
Voice AI
Answer out loud and get marked on the real station domains
Interviews are spoken, so practising in your head is practising the wrong thing. Every question in the bank has an Answer out loud button: speak your answer as you would at interview and the AI transcribes it and marks it.
Feedback is scored against the domains the panel actually uses — Probity and professional integrity, and awareness of safety and ethics, Judgement under pressure and prioritisation, Communication, Clinical skills and knowledge — with a percentage, what you did well, and what to fix next time.
- Unlimited spoken attempts on every question
- Scored per domain, not one overall guess
- A full transcript of what you said, so you can see the padding and repetition
- Every attempt kept, so you can compare your scores over time
- Speech is transcribed on your device — the audio itself is never uploaded
Progress analytics
See exactly which station is behind
The dashboard tracks every question you complete and breaks your progress down by station rather than giving you one meaningless total.
A countdown to the interview sits alongside it, so the gap between where you are and the date you sit is never a surprise.
- Overall completion plus a bar for each of the 3 stations
- Continue preparing picks up the next unanswered question
- Countdown to the 2027 interview window
What’s Inside The Question Bank
- 177 questions
- Clinical scenarios
- Comprehensive explanations
- 39 questions
- Practice scenarios
- Transcripts and breakdowns
- 34 questions
- Example answers and frameworks
Everything Included In Your Registration
Core Surgery Interview offers online interview preparation featuring our popular core surgery interview questions bank of CST interview questions that you can use to prepare for your core surgical interview together with videos and CV analysis.
250 Questions, Evidence and Summaries: Every question carries a model answer written for the mark scheme the panel uses, with the reasoning shown rather than a script to learn.
- Portfolio station: Questions mapped to the evidence domains, with the index-sheet requirement that scores zero when it is missing.
- Management and clinical station: One management and two clinical scenarios per station, five minutes each, in the format the interview actually runs.
- Question tracker: Mark each question complete or to revisit, and pick up where you left off.
Portable, Responsive Design and a Question Tracker
The question bank works equally well on a phone between lists, a tablet or a home computer, and the tracker remembers where you stopped.
GET A CORE SURGERY JOB GUARANTEED!
We’ve coached the highest scoring successful candidates at Core Surgery Interviews every year for the past 5 years.
We’re so confident that our question banks and courses are the best we GUARANTEE that you’ll get a job.
If you don’t we’ll work with you until you do. You’ll get access to all the preparation materials for the following year FREE of charge and we’ll personally work with you to analyse what went wrong and give you the best chance of success.
All we ask is you sign-up to the question bank and complete all of the questions and videos and attend a mock interview course. This gives the full CST Interview preparation experience.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does registration cost?
The Core Surgery Interview Questions Bank costs £97, reduced from £145, for access up to the next interview date. It includes personalised CV analysis (one per user), the question banks, support emails and monthly email cases.
Can I register for longer access?
Yes — please get in touch via the contact form and we can arrange extended access.
Is my payment secure?
Yes. Payments are processed securely by Stripe with 2048-bit SSL encryption, accepting all major cards including AMEX.
What happens after I buy access?
You’ll be redirected to a success page and can sign in immediately with your email to start practising and change your password.
I have purchased access but haven’t received my login details or an email
Please check your junk/spam folder first, then contact us within 72 hours and we’ll sort it straight away.
What terms and conditions am I bound by when purchasing access
Access is for single person personal use only. All core surgery interview questions are unique and designed for personal use — copying or distributing access or the questions is strictly prohibited. Our full terms and conditions apply.
I have successfully gained a core surgical training number. Can I get involved with the website?
Yes — we’re always looking for successful candidates to write for us and help review questions. Get in touch via the contact form and tell us about your interview.
I wasn’t successful what do I need to do to activate the Core Surgery Guarantee?
Email us your score, feedback and station breakdown. You must have completed all of the question bank questions and videos and attended a mock interview course.
Payment is safe and secure via Stripe — no payment details are held online by us, and data is sent securely via 2048-bit SSL encryption.
Purchasing access to the Question Bank is for single-person personal use only. All questions are unique and designed for personal use only; copying and distributing access or the questions is strictly prohibited.
What our members say
We have coached the highest scoring successful candidates at core surgery interviews every year. Here is what they say about the question bank.
“The core surgery questions bank was worth every penny. It is much cheaper than most courses and covered everything that came up in the CST interviews. The work that went into it is amazing.”