Feb 2026 CBSE
Started by Valderrama98wc
I’m with ya man. Hoping for a one and done💪
So is anyone else taking this test? What’s everyone doing this last week?
Not even sure what else to do at this point besides just reviewing NBMEs and protecting sleep tbh
rypatel201
New Member
Lots of NBME review I quit Anki a couple of weeks ago. Just hoping that quitting anki won't bite me in the a**.
I’m debating quitting anki this last week so I can do 2 or 3 more nbmes. I just worry that’ll backfire if I don’t do well and end up with 2 weeks of reviews I have to get through somehow.
rypatel201
New Member
There's a delay anki cards add-on that allows you to postpone all your reviews x amount of days. So if you take a 7 day break it moves all of your unsuspended card due dates back 7 days (including the ones that aren't due on any of those days you are pushing it back). Hope that makes sense lol. Heres the link.
No way!!! This is huge man! Thank you so much!
Good luck tomorrow guys!
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How’d everyone feel?
I think it was fair, more on the difficult side. There were too many questions where I narrowed it down and guessed from there. I wasn’t expecting that many risk factors and ethical questions tho
Yeah there were way more risk factor questions than I expected
Yea feels like I got bodied. Like you said, narrowed it down to 2 answers and just guessed on most of them. It felt like it was it more lower yield topics, but idk. Feel like all my easy points weren’t there in biostats, psych and biochem. Those sections boost me up usually.
Yea same 67 haha. Felt like im in the 50s tho on that one. Will definitely need to change things up these next 5 months.
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First 10 questions had me wondering what I just got myself into lol. I think it got better later on but it was definitely the hardest out of any of the recent NBMEs or Free 120.
Sometimes deaf people have really bad luck
rypatel201
New Member
Yea but you had to buy the extra premium limited time access copy of first aid to know that one 🤣
How would they know if you remembered all the CYP enzymes and what they correspond to then?!?!
This question was hella annoying 🤣
Just reschedule call the main ALS interpreter I guess
richieincognito
New Member
At least they spiced up our valentines day with that anus pic 🤣
I had to waste my valentines getting wanded at prometric I’m retaking anything below an 85
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Retaking anything below an 85 is ridiculous lol. People get in with low 60s
Is the curve for the specific form based on med students or the dental round?
The only reason we use the CBSE is because dental boards went P/F. The whole point is having a graded standardized test to compare applicants.
Didn't feel like the questions reflected the style of questions or content on NBMEs. If you're gonna ask us about bosentan MOA on 5/8 of your last practice exams then don't expect us to recite CYP450 enzymes on game day. Extreme example but the idea still holds
They did ask about Bosentan though right 🤣
I wish man lol. Maybe we got some different Q's
Ur thinking buspirone
Yea I think it was buspirone
July test results came out Friday morning ~10.
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You shouldn't retake anything over a 70.
70?? We ain’t retaking anything over 65 lmaoooo
Suit yourself, fam. I’d just argue having a score that starts with a “7” will open more doors. Mid-to-high 60s isn’t bad though. You’ll get in somewhere.
Wouldn’t this depend on your rank? If your class rank is really good maybe you can squeeze by with mid 60s, bad ranks might need 75+ right?
Not necessarily. CBSE has always been king, especially for 6-year programs. I think you have a better chance of matching with a high CBSE + average class rank than you do with an average CBSE + high class rank. That's not to say you can't get by with a score in the mid 60s. I just don't think it's crazy to retake a 65 to maximize your chances.
I mean I get what you’re saying. I just don’t understand what’s changed since the old scoring system from just a few years ago. I feel like an old 70 was what people were shooting for to be considered competitive, which is a 63 EPC these days. Now all I read is that it’s still a 70, but a 70 EPC to be competitive, which was a 75 back then. Idk, I guess scores have gone up but who knows.
If I'm not mistaken, I remember 75 being the new benchmark right before the scoring system changed. But yeah, averages have gone up for sure. I had one of the attendings at my dental school recommend I retake the CBSE after scoring in the low 70s EPC lmao. I decided against it but I noticed the vast majority of the applicants I interviewed with scored in the 70s, many even in the 80s. It's insane, man.
It was also inflated because of Covid which is right around when the new scoring system came out
maxfaxxscalpel
Full Member
When are we expecting results?
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