Most repeated FCPS Part 1 biostatistics topics

The biostatistics and epidemiology topics that come up most often in FCPS Part 1 Paper 1, with a textbook chapter and practice questions for each.

1. 1
   Incidence and prevalenceEpidemiology
   Comes up very often
2. 2
   Screening testsEpidemiology
   Comes up very often
3. 3
   Mean, median and normal distributionBiostatistics
   Comes up very often
4. 4
   Hypothesis testingBiostatistics
   Comes up very often
5. 5
   Levels of preventionEpidemiology
   Comes up very often
6. 6
   Sampling and sample sizeBiostatistics
   Comes up very often
7. 7
   Epidemiological study designsEpidemiology
   Comes up very often
8. 8
   Bias and confoundingEpidemiology
   Comes up very often
9. 9
   Confidence intervalsBiostatistics
   Comes up very often
10. 10
    Types of dataBiostatistics
    Comes up very often
11. 11
    Validity and reliabilityBiostatistics
    Comes up often
12. 12
    Relative risk and odds ratioEpidemiology
    Comes up often

Ranked by how often each topic appears in the past-paper recalls we analysed (43,000+ remembered questions, copies removed). It tells you where marks have come from before, not what will be asked next time, so cover the whole syllabus. How we did the analysis.