The battle to overcome this obstacle became a two or more year epic that took over my life. I transformed from green and inexperienced¶ to complete expert in everything to do with the MRCP short cases as viewed from the point of view of the candidate. I experienced every manifestation of disaster (and eventually triumph) recorded by others in Volume 2, Section F. By the time of the third attempt, I was so knowledgeable that I was out of tune with the examiner on a neurology case simply because I was thinking so widely on the case concerned.