NMC CBT practice questions

The NMC publishes how many of the 100 clinical questions come from each of the seven platforms and the two annexes, and how many of the 15 numeracy questions come from each calculation type. We hold the bank to those numbers.

It matters because the weighting is uneven. Being an accountable professional is worth nearly twice as much as coordinating care. Practise from an evenly spread bank and you will spend your time in the wrong places.

Every question is tied to one of the 103 proficiency statements in Future nurse, which is what the CBT is written against, plus the items in Annexe A and Annexe B.

So when something is not going in, you find out which statement it was rather than that you are "weak on medicines management". A named statement is something you can go and read.

Part B is spread across three levels of thinking, and the NMC sets how much of each. Two thirds of it asks you to apply something, work it out or judge between options rather than remember a fact.

38

Remember and understand

32

Apply and analyse

30

Evaluate and create

Our explanations are written for that. They work through why the right answer is right and why the near-miss is not, because on the day you will be choosing between two options that both look reasonable.

Two formats, because the CBT only has two. Part A gives you a box to type a number into, with a unit where the question asks for one, and a calculator on screen. Part B gives you four options and asks for the most correct.

We have not padded the bank with formats the CBT does not use. Drag-and-drop, extended matching and the rest are good exercises for other exams and a distraction for this one.

A generated mock leaves out every question you have already seen, in practice or in an earlier mock, and fills the official quotas from what is left. Each paper also draws from a wide spread of proficiency statements rather than circling the same handful, which is how the NMC describes its own selection.