ERPM Exam Sri Lanka: Part I and Part II Pass Checker

The Examination for Registration to Practise Medicine is the licensing examination a Sri Lankan who graduated in medicine overseas must pass before registering, interning and practising at home. It exists under the Medical Ordinance (Cap. 105) and is run by the Sri Lanka Medical Council. This page applies the Council's Revised ERPM Guideline 2025, reference SLMC/OR/01/12 (10), which is effective from the first ERPM examination held in March/April 2027. Its headline change is that the seven clinical subjects are now assessed subject by subject rather than as a single whole.

Part I, the theory papers

Part I is three multiple-choice papers over three days, mixing True/False and Single Best Answer questions. Section 11(c) caps a True/False question at 5 marks and Section 12(c) caps a Single Best Answer at 3, so the Section 2 question counts multiply out to subject totals the guideline itself never prints:

• Medicine: 25 x 5 + 25 x 3 = 200 marks
• Paediatrics: 25 x 5 + 25 x 3 = 200 marks
• Surgery: 25 x 5 + 25 x 3 = 200 marks
• Obstetrics and Gynaecology: 25 x 5 + 25 x 3 = 200 marks
• Psychiatry: 20 x 5 + 15 x 3 = 145 marks
• Community Medicine: 20 x 5 + 15 x 3 = 145 marks
• Forensic Medicine: 20 x 5 + 15 x 3 = 145 marks
• Aggregate = 1,235 marks

Passing needs both halves of Section 15: an overall of 50% or more, and 45% or more in every subject, each rounded to one decimal place per Section 14(a). One honest gap remains. Section 13(f) says paper totals "shall be converted to the allocated percentage" but the allocated percentages are not published anywhere, so the overall has to be derived. The checker computes both defensible readings, a mark-weighted mean over the 1,235-mark aggregate and a plain mean of the seven percentages, and says so when the two land on opposite sides of 50%. If your results sheet prints an official overall, entering it overrides both.

Part I re-sit scope, in the order the clauses apply

Order matters here, and it is where candidates misread their own sheets. Section 16(c) is tested first: any subject under 25% means re-sitting all seven, "irrespective of the overall mark obtained". Then Section 16(b): an overall under 50% also means all seven, whatever the individual marks. Only then does Section 16(a) apply, and it is the forgiving one: with a passing overall, you re-sit nothing but the subjects you scored 44% or less in, at the next immediately available examination.

Part II, the OSCE

Part II is an Objective Structured Clinical Examination of 20 stations, of which 2 are rest stations, leaving 18 assessed at 10 minutes and 100 marks each. Section 26(a) prints the subject totals outright, 300 each for Medicine, Paediatrics, Surgery and Obstetrics and Gynaecology and 200 each for Psychiatry, Community Medicine and Forensic Medicine, totalling 1,800, so nothing needs deriving. Section 28 requires 900 marks of 1,800 and 50% of each subject's own station total. The branches mirror Part I with a higher floor: Section 29(c) first, for any subject under 30%, then Section 29(b) for a failing overall, then Section 29(a) for the failed subjects' stations alone.

Attempts and carry-over

Section 17 allows 5 consecutive attempts after the first, so 6 sittings in all, and Section 30(a) adds a 3-year ceiling to Part II. Sittings missed for a reason the Council accepts are excluded from the count, but skipping the next available examination without one is counted as an attempt. On transition, Section 1 D and F guarantee that every component already passed is recognised, mapped and credited, so nobody restarts. Candidates who failed Parts A&D or B&C under the 2010 guideline also keep the Section 1 G exemption from the Community Medicine, Forensic Medicine and Psychiatry OSCE stations, which the checker applies by dropping those subjects from the Part II aggregate.

• SLMC: Revised ERPM Guideline 2025, reference SLMC/OR/01/12 (10) (PDF, 17 pages)
• SLMC Registrar: clarification notice on the New ERPM Guideline 2025, with the published pass rates (PDF)
• SLMC: ERPM Examination Format 2021, the old Parts A, B, C and D (PDF)
• SLMC: education and examinations hub

All four sources were fetched and cross-checked on 2026-10-03. Every pass mark, floor, re-sit branch and attempt limit on this page is quoted from the guideline and labelled with its clause. The two figures this page derives rather than quotes, the Part I subject mark totals and the Part I overall percentage, are marked as derived wherever they appear. This is an interpretation of a published document, not an official SLMC result or legal advice. Where a verdict matters, confirm it with the SLMC Examination Unit.