Licensure & education
Content, testing and progress tracking rarely live in the same product.
The software problem this industry has
Candidates end up juggling a PDF, a question bank and somebody's spreadsheet. The operator can see who logged in, and cannot see who is actually getting better — which is the only number that matters, because it's the one that predicts whether they pass and whether they renew.
Three tools, no signal.
Why generic tools fail it
An LMS models a course. Licensure prep is an exam, and an exam is a different object: item banks with real difficulty weighting, scoring that behaves like the actual test, review flows that surface what a candidate keeps getting wrong, and analytics an operator can price against.
Bolting that onto a course platform is usually more work than building it properly.
Where it hurts
- Candidates juggle a PDF, a question bank and a spreadsheet.
- Practice tests don't match the real exam's length, timing or blocks.
- Operators can see logins, not who's actually improving.
- Content lives in documents, so every correction is a re-publish.
What we'd build first
- Item banks tagged by domain and difficulty
- Mocks that behave like the real exam, timer included
- Progress analytics a student, and a program, can act on
- A review workflow so every question is checked before it's served
What we've built here
Crack the NBCE Boards is a study and testing platform for the chiropractic board exams — study material, practice questions and full-length timed mocks for Parts I, II and III and the Physiotherapy elective, in one browser product that works on a phone.
Mocks follow the real exam: 255 questions for Parts I and II, and 130 for Part III including its diagnostic-imaging block, each timed the way the NBCE runs it.