futuredentist632
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Hi everyone,
I passed the INBDE a few months ago and I wanted to discuss what resources helped me. I took my exam on 8/10-8/11 and got my results about 10 days after. I studied for around 6 weeks while attending school/clinic as a traditional DDS student. I used booster primarily for content review and questions and followed up with more questions from bootcamp to solidify my knowledge towards the end. Overall, I felt like booster was very representative of the exam and I had several questions show up that were the exact same as practice questions.
As for resources, I used:
Booster schedule to have a general idea of when I should finish content review/practice questions. I didn’t follow the schedule super closely but used it as more of a general guideline to keep me on track Booster study notes. I went through these 2x, once in the beginning of my prep to familiarize myself with the concepts and once the week before to memorize any info I did not already know. Practice questions. I went through these multiple times. I went through them once initially right after reviewing the notes and then again closer to the exam. I read through all the answer choices, even on questions I got correct to make sure I didn’t miss any information. I also flagged all questions that I wasn’t 100% sure about so I could review them later. I mostly reviewed booster practice questions although I did some bootcamp questions as well. I did not finish the bootcamp questions but I felt that the content was very similar to the booster questions. I think focusing on one resource would be more than enough for preparation.
Mock exam. I took the mock exam about a week before my actual exam and scored very high pass on both days. I felt fairly confident at this point but I still reviewed all the questions on the mock and the answers. I focused on the topics I got wrong and went back to the study notes to review.
On average I would say I studied around 3 hours a day on weekdays and a little bit more on weekends. The day before the exam, I did some light review of notes but no intense studying. I also reviewed a bit between day 1 and 2 which helped because some of the same topics showed up on the second day. Overall, I would say the exam is very doable and 6 weeks was a good amount of time to study as a traditional DDS student. I would say I had seen 95%+ of the material at least once during dental school. Good luck to everyone taking the exam and feel free to reach out! 🙂
I passed the INBDE a few months ago and I wanted to discuss what resources helped me. I took my exam on 8/10-8/11 and got my results about 10 days after. I studied for around 6 weeks while attending school/clinic as a traditional DDS student. I used booster primarily for content review and questions and followed up with more questions from bootcamp to solidify my knowledge towards the end. Overall, I felt like booster was very representative of the exam and I had several questions show up that were the exact same as practice questions.
As for resources, I used:
Booster schedule to have a general idea of when I should finish content review/practice questions. I didn’t follow the schedule super closely but used it as more of a general guideline to keep me on track Booster study notes. I went through these 2x, once in the beginning of my prep to familiarize myself with the concepts and once the week before to memorize any info I did not already know. Practice questions. I went through these multiple times. I went through them once initially right after reviewing the notes and then again closer to the exam. I read through all the answer choices, even on questions I got correct to make sure I didn’t miss any information. I also flagged all questions that I wasn’t 100% sure about so I could review them later. I mostly reviewed booster practice questions although I did some bootcamp questions as well. I did not finish the bootcamp questions but I felt that the content was very similar to the booster questions. I think focusing on one resource would be more than enough for preparation.
Mock exam. I took the mock exam about a week before my actual exam and scored very high pass on both days. I felt fairly confident at this point but I still reviewed all the questions on the mock and the answers. I focused on the topics I got wrong and went back to the study notes to review.
On average I would say I studied around 3 hours a day on weekdays and a little bit more on weekends. The day before the exam, I did some light review of notes but no intense studying. I also reviewed a bit between day 1 and 2 which helped because some of the same topics showed up on the second day. Overall, I would say the exam is very doable and 6 weeks was a good amount of time to study as a traditional DDS student. I would say I had seen 95%+ of the material at least once during dental school. Good luck to everyone taking the exam and feel free to reach out! 🙂
