Australian GP candidates furious after tech failures cause crucial online exams to be cancelled

Royal Australian College of General Practitioners admits malfunction was so bad no candidate could finish exams, which cost nearly $5,000 and require months of study

More than 1,400 aspiring GPs around Australia have had their career paths thrown into chaos by technical faults that forced the cancellation and rescheduling of key exams.

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, the body that administers the exams, has acknowledged the technology used to allow general practice registrars to sit the exams remotely using their own computers - a Covid-19 measure - suffered such a serious malfunction that not one of the 1,436 candidates was able to complete the first of the two exams on Friday.