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I took the NEW NBDE part 1 on Friday 16th 2007 and this is what I can tell you:
1. There is no need to worry about the new format. As all the questions are mixed, there is less strain on your brain whilst you are staring at the computer under surveillance!!
2.Read the dental decks, and you WILL need additional texts and wikipedia!! Especially for biochemistry and understand how the metabolic systems work including enzymes, there is no need to learn every enzyme, just know the MAIN important ones. Understand pathology too in terms of medications, treatments and etiologies for COMMON diseases, this is where the testlets come into full effect. Do the clinical vignettes!! In 2006-2007 decks.
3.Exams, Exams, Exams! Do all of them, I would recommend doing the whole lot that ASDA offers, the newer pilot exam is more like the new format, and there were a handful of questions from the early 1983 papers!
4.Exams, Exams, Exams! Keep doing them and find out why you are getting questions wrong and what you need to read up, in the end it will all add up somehow. There were very many repeats from old papers.
5.Read the question properly in the exam because after doing the practice tests you get very accustomed to just circling the response you remembered from before. They DO change the question and keep the same order of responses.
6.There were some questions in the test that you will not get or just think wtf?? But its not that many hopefully, depends on how much you read around on the topic that you are weak on, but do remember you cant know everything or can you!!??!
7.Total time spent was 2 months and I am a practicing dentist, so study time was difficult. I hope for the best.
I wish everybody the very best in all their endeavors, these forums have been very helpful to me.
1. There is no need to worry about the new format. As all the questions are mixed, there is less strain on your brain whilst you are staring at the computer under surveillance!!
2.Read the dental decks, and you WILL need additional texts and wikipedia!! Especially for biochemistry and understand how the metabolic systems work including enzymes, there is no need to learn every enzyme, just know the MAIN important ones. Understand pathology too in terms of medications, treatments and etiologies for COMMON diseases, this is where the testlets come into full effect. Do the clinical vignettes!! In 2006-2007 decks.
3.Exams, Exams, Exams! Do all of them, I would recommend doing the whole lot that ASDA offers, the newer pilot exam is more like the new format, and there were a handful of questions from the early 1983 papers!
4.Exams, Exams, Exams! Keep doing them and find out why you are getting questions wrong and what you need to read up, in the end it will all add up somehow. There were very many repeats from old papers.
5.Read the question properly in the exam because after doing the practice tests you get very accustomed to just circling the response you remembered from before. They DO change the question and keep the same order of responses.
6.There were some questions in the test that you will not get or just think wtf?? But its not that many hopefully, depends on how much you read around on the topic that you are weak on, but do remember you cant know everything or can you!!??!
7.Total time spent was 2 months and I am a practicing dentist, so study time was difficult. I hope for the best.
I wish everybody the very best in all their endeavors, these forums have been very helpful to me.
