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261 Flash Cards
Visual Guide, 92 pages
269 Exam Terms
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How this packet is made

  • One topic per page
  • With illustrations, not text
  • Matches the 2026 stations
  • On your phone or print

Follows the NMC CBT and OSCE outline.

What this packet includes

  • 92Pages
  • 10Chapters
  • 261Flash Cards
  • 269Exam Terms

Here's what the pages look like

199 pages across 3 PDFs
The NEWS2 chart
The dose formula
Fine bore NG tube
The Code's four themes
Breathing and target saturations
Drug round, step by step
IV rates in mL per hour
Blood glucose
SBAR
Critical appraisal steps

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Questions?

Is it one payment or a subscription?
  • One payment of £19.99
  • No subscription
Does it cover the CBT as well as the OSCE?
  • Yes, both
  • CBT numeracy and the clinical questions
  • All 10 OSCE stations, including the two silent ones
Is it a video course?
  • No videos at all
  • Illustrated pages, cards and terms
  • Go at your own pace
Which exam is it for?
  • The NMC Test of Competence for the adult field: the CBT and the OSCE
  • Covers the stations in use from 26 October 2026
  • Mental health, children's and midwifery are not covered
Is it an official exam guide?
  • No, we're an independent study aid
  • We're not affiliated with the Nursing and Midwifery Council or any test centre
  • It covers the CBT and all 10 OSCE stations
How do I get it?
  • Instant access right after you pay
  • Also emailed to you
  • High resolution PDFs you keep and can print
Can I print it?
  • Yes, print any page for your own studying
  • The Flash Cards also come as a print and cut file

Everything in the packet

  • NMC OSCE & CBT Visual Guide, 92 illustrated pages
  • 261 Flash Cards
  • 269 Exam Terms

Launch price£19.99

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37% DON'T PASS both parts of the NMC CBT, early 2026

Does this sound like you?

  • Too many materialsVideos, PDFs, group chats. It's hard to tell what to study first.
  • Vague care plansYou know the goal. Marks go when action and timing aren't specific.
  • One slip costs a stationSkip one safety check and the whole station can fail.
  • The criteria are all textYou learn by seeing, and the marking criteria are walls of words.

If any of these sound familiar, you're in the right place.

Reading it twice doesn't make it stick

Your care plan says "encourage fluids". The criteria want it specific. How specific is specific enough?

APIE: Planning & Implementation, page 46. Tap to see it full size.

Write: offer 150 mL every hour from 08:00 to 20:00.

The toughest topics

  • Specific care plans
  • Drug and drip rate sums
  • Small steps in skills stations
  • The silent stations

Skills stations, step by step, page 63. Tap to see it full size.

How the NMC OSCE breaks down

10stations
  • Linked APIE stations 40%
  • Skills stations 40%
  • Silent stations 20%
Ten stations. 4 follow one patient from assessment to evaluation, and our packet covers all ten plus the CBT.
From thisLooking down at a desk covered in thick stacks of printed text heavy notes, highlighter and sticky notes
  • Walls of text
  • You re-read and re-read
To this
  • One topic per page
  • Illustrated, so you can see it

Every topic in the guide

87 topic pages in 10 chapters, plus 3 Last look pages. Tap a chapter to see what's on each page.

How the test workspages 3 to 86 pages
  1. 3CBT vs OSCE
  2. 4The 10 station map
  3. 5Timeline from CBT to OSCE
  4. 6Resits & fees
  5. 7Marking & red flags
  6. 8Exam day
CBT numeracypages 9 to 1810 pages
  1. 9Units & conversions
  2. 10The dose formula
  3. 11Tablets
  4. 12Liquids
  5. 13Injections
  6. 14Intravenous rates in mL per hour
  7. 15Drip rates
  8. 16Fluid balance chart
  9. 17Rounding traps
  10. 18Mixed practice
CBT clinical platformspages 19 to 268 pages
  1. 19Being an accountable professional
  2. 20Promoting health
  3. 21Assessing needs & planning care
  4. 22Providing & evaluating care
  5. 23Leading & managing
  6. 24Improving safety
  7. 25Coordinating care
  8. 26Annexes A & B
A to E & NEWS2pages 27 to 3610 pages
  1. 27Airway
  2. 28Breathing
  3. 29Circulation
  4. 30Disability
  5. 31Exposure
  6. 32NEWS2 chart
  7. 33Escalation
  8. 34SBAR
  9. 35Sepsis
  10. 36Pain scales
APIE: Assessmentpages 37 to 448 pages
  1. 37Introductions
  2. 38Consent
  3. 39Observations
  4. 40Waterlow
  5. 41MUST
  6. 42Falls risk
  7. 43History taking
  8. 44Documentation
APIE: Planning & Implementationpages 45 to 528 pages
  1. 45SMART goals
  2. 46Anatomy of a care plan
  3. 47Reading the medication chart
  4. 48Drug round step by step
  5. 49Controlled drugs
  6. 50Allergies
  7. 51Intravenous fluids
  8. 52Communication
APIE: Evaluationpages 53 to 553 pages
  1. 53SBAR handover
  2. 54Discharge
  3. 55Was the goal met?
Skills stations, step by steppages 56 to 7520 pages
  1. 56Hand hygiene & protective equipment in every station
  2. 57Aseptic non touch technique
  3. 58Intramuscular injection
  4. 59Subcutaneous injection
  5. 60Wound assessment
  6. 61Catheter specimen
  7. 62Removing a urinary catheter
  8. 63Fine bore nasogastric tube insertion
  9. 64Oxygen therapy
  10. 65Pressure area assessment
  11. 66Peak flow
  12. 67Anti embolism stockings
  13. 68Pre operative check
  14. 69Blood glucose
  15. 70Midstream urine & urinalysis
  16. 71Inhaled medication
  17. 72Intravenous flush & phlebitis score
  18. 73Giving a suppository
  19. 74Bowel assessment
  20. 75Oral care plan
Silent stationspages 76 to 8712 pages
  1. 76The Code's four themes
  2. 77Duty of candour
  3. 78Confidentiality & data
  4. 79Raising concerns
  5. 80Safeguarding adults
  6. 81The deteriorating patient
  7. 82Staffing
  8. 83Critical appraisal steps
  9. 84The evidence pyramid
  10. 85Reading an abstract
  11. 862026 evidence based practice topics
  12. 87Answer template
Last weekpages 88 to 892 pages
  1. 88Top traps
  2. 89Last week plan
Last lookpages 90 to 923 summaries
  1. 90Test basics to CBT platforms
  2. 91A to E to Evaluation
  3. 92Skills, silent stations, last week

Covers the adult field: the CBT and all 10 OSCE stations in use from 26 October 2026. Mental health, children's and midwifery are not covered.

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Exam Terms269 terms£15Included
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Is this for you?

A nurse in her thirties at her kitchen table at night, reading her phone next to a notebook of dose sums and a fob watch

Your CBT is coming up

Numeracy and the clinical questions, one page each, on your phone.

A male nurse in a navy tunic with a fob watch, reading his phone on a break in a UK hospital staff room, a mug of tea beside him

Your OSCE date is booked

Every station in order, one page at a time, on a ward break.

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You're resitting a station

Try a different way in. Every station shown, not only told.