Higher Specialist Diploma
Clinical Chemistry
Examination - September 2021
Short Answer Questions
60 minutes
Attempt all four questions
Instructions to candidates
1. Record your candidate number and HSD discipline on the front sheet of the answer
booklet
2. Record your candidate number, the question number and the page number in the spaces
provided on the answer sheets
3. Begin each new answer on a new page
4. Each question is worth a total of 25 marks
HSD in Clin Chem - Sept 2021 Short Answer, Essay and Case Studies Papers FINAL EXAM PAPERS
, 1. Your laboratory receives an external quality assurance report for the ‘Serum Rhubarb’
test, for which two samples were processed:
Sample A:
Your result 4.6mg/L
n Mean SD CV
All method 198 3.3 0.3 9.1%
Your method 58 2.9 0.2 6.9%
Sample B:
Your result 2.9mg/L
n Mean SD CV
All method 198 5 0.3 6.0%
Your method 58 4.6 0.2 4.3%
HSD in Clin Chem - Sept 2021 Short Answer, Essay and Case Studies Papers FINAL EXAM PAPERS
Clinical Chemistry
Examination - September 2021
Short Answer Questions
60 minutes
Attempt all four questions
Instructions to candidates
1. Record your candidate number and HSD discipline on the front sheet of the answer
booklet
2. Record your candidate number, the question number and the page number in the spaces
provided on the answer sheets
3. Begin each new answer on a new page
4. Each question is worth a total of 25 marks
HSD in Clin Chem - Sept 2021 Short Answer, Essay and Case Studies Papers FINAL EXAM PAPERS
, 1. Your laboratory receives an external quality assurance report for the ‘Serum Rhubarb’
test, for which two samples were processed:
Sample A:
Your result 4.6mg/L
n Mean SD CV
All method 198 3.3 0.3 9.1%
Your method 58 2.9 0.2 6.9%
Sample B:
Your result 2.9mg/L
n Mean SD CV
All method 198 5 0.3 6.0%
Your method 58 4.6 0.2 4.3%
HSD in Clin Chem - Sept 2021 Short Answer, Essay and Case Studies Papers FINAL EXAM PAPERS
