CCFP SAMP: Why There's No Official Pass Rate (and What That Means for You)

Unlike some of the other exams on this list, the CFPC doesn't publish a specific pass rate for the SAMP component — the College only reports whether an individual candidate passed both the written (SAMP) and oral (SOO) components, not a public statistic for the cohort. The overall CCFP certification examination is generally cited in the 65–80% range, but that figure covers both components together, not SAMP alone.

The passing mark itself is set using a "reference group" of first-time Canadian family medicine residency graduates — the CFPC doesn't disclose what percentile or raw score that translates to.

Format-wise, the written component is four hours of computer-based short-answer management problems (SAMPs), and starting with the 2026 exam, up to 25% of cases may appear as MCQ or short-menu format rather than pure short-answer — a real, recent change worth knowing about if you're preparing from older material.

Study takeaway: without a public benchmark score to aim for, the more useful preparation target is broad case coverage across evolving clinical scenarios, since the exam is explicitly testing management decisions as a case unfolds, not recall of isolated facts.