Using only dental decks enough to pass?

[Longcatislong]

Flor NBDE part 1.
I'm mainly relying on dental decks. I have two weeks, studying 8-12 hrs a day. Is that sufficient?

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[THS]

Yeah, definitely. I studied maybe 2 hours a day for 2 weeks on a PDF version of Decks and did fine.

Go through all of it twice if you can and you'll be good.

 

[Screwtape]

Yup, that's a lot of studying for it.... You know its pass fail right?

 

[Longcatislong]

Yup, that's a lot of studying for it.... You know its pass fail right?

You think I'm studying too much? Idk. I feel like i've forgotten so much biochem and microbio content. We covered that over a year ago almost.

Well, I'm glad i'm on the right page w/ Decks.

Thanks guys.

 

[Screwtape]

You think I'm studying too much? Idk. I feel like i've forgotten so much biochem and microbio content. We covered that over a year ago almost.

Well, I'm glad i'm on the right page w/ Decks.

Thanks guys.

Id go through the decks twice and call it. However long that takes you. The pass rate for step 1 is like 95%, you'll be fine.

 

[LFA20]

Yeah, definitely. I studied maybe 2 hours a day for 2 weeks on a PDF version of Decks and did fine.

Go through all of it twice if you can and you'll be good.

is memorizing the tables about fungi/bacteria necessary?

 

[LFA20]

Yup, that's a lot of studying for it.... You know its pass fail right?

i thought 3 weeks were not enough lol. I have 2 weeks left and have studied about 8-10 hrs a day for the past 10 days... you think this is overkill? lol

 

[Screwtape]

i thought 3 weeks were not enough lol. I have 2 weeks left and have studied about 8-10 hrs a day for the past 10 days... you think this is overkill? lol

I suppose everyone is different, but I studied for about a week (8ish hour days) and I didn't think it was too bad. If you've done well in school, and studied a bit, you should be fine. If you struggled in school then this does not apply.

Source: passed first try

 

[LFA20]

I suppose everyone is different, but I studied for about a week (8ish hour days) and I didn't think it was too bad. If you've done well in school, and studied a bit, you should be fine. If you struggled in school then this does not apply.

Source: passed first try

good to hear! thanks! I did well in all of my didactic classes (A's and B+) so I guess I'll be fine.. lol

 

[Longcatislong]

I know it varies based on exam date and who takes it, but what is the minimum raw score needed to pass? 75% correct?

 

[LFA20]

I know it varies based on exam date and who takes it, but what is the minimum raw score needed to pass? 75% correct?

75% overall... NOT 75% raw. I heard its about 50-60% questions correct ( about 200-240 questions right)

 

[LaughingGas]

More than enough. Focus on H&N anatomy and dental anatomy, specially DA, since out of those 400 questions, 100 is from DA. There is so much you can study for the rest of materials and remember for the test. I can't find the correct resource, but I remember seeing somewhere that you did need to pass all 4 sections in order to pass. Not necessarily required getting 75% of questions right for each section to pass.

Edit: still can't find it but I found the 1998 score conversion.

 

[LFA20]

More than enough. Focus on H&N anatomy and dental anatomy, specially DA, since out of those 400 questions, 100 is from DA. There is so much you can study for the rest of materials and remember for the test. I can't find the correct resource, but I remember seeing somewhere that you did need to pass all 4 sections in order to pass. Not necessarily required getting 75% of questions right for each section to pass.

Edit: still can't find it but I found the 1998 score conversion.

i thought you if you do bad on one section and really good on another it can balance it out and still pass??

 

[LaughingGas]

@AVB2104 I mean even if you do "bad" based on 1998 conversion chart, you have to get only 46 questions right to "pass" for each biochem/physio and micro/path sections.
Bottom line is that whether you have to pass all 4 sections or pass the overall test, the cut off of 75 for standard score is not that high, and decks should be enough for the most part. And seems like you did pretty well on the didactics, so you should be in good shoes.

 

[LFA20]

@AVB2104 I mean even if you do "bad" based on 1998 conversion chart, you have to get only 46 questions right to "pass" for each biochem/physio and micro/path sections.
Bottom line is that whether you have to pass all 4 sections or pass the overall test, the cut off of 75 for standard score is not that high, and decks should be enough for the most part. And seems like you did pretty well on the didactics, so you should be in good shoes.

thanks for the insight. So would you say that getting 200 q's correct out of 400 would be a passing score?

 

[drtoothache87]

Anyone been to the nbde facebook page? That page confuses and scares me more than help. Most of the things there aren't even in the Decks.