Table 1 Supportive quotes for theme 1 ‘the technique of passing the exam’

Yeah. No. I’m just trying to phrase it in a way that makes sense. I think the way multiple choice questions are set up, you have to utilise all the information that’s given to you. And if you’re given a piece of information, you can’t disregard it as not important. So with all of those and considering them as important factors, then I would be leaning towards the IGA.’

‘Well, I mean personally for me I have like two different modes. So I have an exam mode, like an assessment mode, and a clinical mode. So if I were taking it as a – like an assessment, I would see the gender information and I would think is the question trying to get me to think about a certain diagnosis’

‘I also had the genetic and I think I did put down gluten-free diet, but I think it was because of the fact that these were multiple choice questions. In this context I felt like – because it was mentioned, that that’s what I needed – that I had to understand that this was coeliac disease.’

‘Yeah. And I think it’s something that most medical students are aware of is that there is a big distinction between how you would do something on the wards and how you would do it in an exam, and giving people different stems’