[M Clayton]

It would definitely appear to vary between medical schools, but I don't think you're likely to find a med school that has anything like the structured revision that some students encounter at A Level.

At Durham, past papers weren't available and there was no timetabled revision. Christmas exams took place the first week back after the Christmas holidays and Summer exams were approx 6 weeks after the Easter break. There was teaching in the intervening period and no reading/revision week before the start of exams. We had the weekend to "revise".

I think this emphasis the need to keep up with the learning as you go along - medicine isn't a subject you can cram the night before the exam.