MCA Oral Reports: The Pros & Cons

You’re about to start revising for your first MCA Oral Exam and you keep hearing about oral reports. You’re going to be busy enough, so why should you care about these reports? What even are they?

What’s an MCA Oral Report? 

An oral report is the candidate’s recollection of what they were asked in their exam. They are normally fairly short documents that will detail the questions that the candidate remembers being asked and may sometimes include what they think the right answer was. 

Who writes MCA Oral Reports? 

Oral reports are written by the candidate themselves. They may be written immediately afterwards or sometimes a few days or weeks later.

Why and how should I use MCA Oral Reports? 

Oral reports are incredibly helpful for candidates because they help us to calibrate what’s on the syllabus versus what tends to get asked more in the exam. 

There’s a caveat though; we need to be very careful with them because they are only a partial recollection of what was asked so they’re inevitably biased and from the candidate’s point of view. It’s a mistake to think that everything on the report is correct or accurate, especially if the candidate gives their answers.

There’s much more guidance on how to revise properly, plan your studies and make best use of both the syllabus and the oral reports in other blog articles.

Where can I get MCA Oral Reports?

It’s always been really important for us at Whitehorse to make resources available openly and free to everybody. For this reason, you can find and download all of our engineering and deck oral reports from our Facebook groups. We also offer a bunch of free guidance on planning your revision.

Just remember, you are not alone and we’re always just one call away to support you in whatever way you need with our comprehensive Path to Pass System. It combines up-to-date eLearning resources, friendly small-group sessions and flexible private sessions for both Deck and Engine candidates.