Five board exams. One platform.
Crack the NBCE Boards is a study and testing platform for chiropractic students: study material, practice questions and full-length timed mocks for Parts I, II, III, IV and the Physiotherapy elective. Built as a browser product, sold one part at a time.
- Client
- Crack the NBCE Boards
- Industry
- Licensure & education
- Audience
- Chiropractic students
- Surfaces
- Web · Mobile web
- Our role
- Design and build
Study, practice, sit the mock — in that order.
Board prep fails on sequencing, not content. Students buy a question bank, grind it cold, learn the answers rather than the material, then discover on exam day that the real thing is timed in domain blocks with no feedback. The platform had to teach the order as well as hold the content.
So the product is built as one route per part. Study materials come first and are marked as such. Practice unlocks the same question pool with filters and explanations after every answer. The mock is deliberately last, and behaves like the exam: full blocks, timed, silent until it scores you.
Commercially it is priced the way students actually sit the exams — one part at a time, as a one-time purchase. No subscription to forget about, no tier chart to read.
Every written part, plus the practical.
Parts I, II and III carry the full engine — study library, practice questions and timed mocks. Part IV is a performance exam taken in person, so it ships as study and review material only and says so on the card. Physiotherapy sits alongside as the elective it is. Being explicit about what a part does and doesn't include is what stops a refund conversation later.
- Parts I and II: 255 questions each across six domains
- Part III: 130 questions — multiple choice, extended cases and a diagnostic-imaging block
- Part IV: preparation material only — no exam engine
- Physiotherapy: the elective, for states that require it
Built for the way the exam actually runs.
The marketing page shows the product rather than describing it — a subject tree, a live question card, a timed block with an elapsed clock. Everything on that page maps to something a paying student opens, which is the only kind of landing page worth building for a platform this technical.
One part, three doors, in a fixed order.
Open a part and the hierarchy is unambiguous. Study materials are flagged recommended first and count what you've opened. Practice is marked recommended after studying. The mock is marked recommended after three practice sessions and shows it has not been attempted. Guidance sits in the interface instead of in an onboarding email nobody reads.
- Study materials: topics grouped by subject and domain, progress tracked
- Practice: everything, by subject or by topic, with difficulty filters
- Mock: full blocks, timed, no feedback until the score
- Breadcrumbs back to the dashboard from anywhere in a part
Studied on a phone between classes.
Students revise in gaps, not at desks, so every route works at 390 wide with a persistent tab bar for dashboard, parts, history and account. Same content, same session engine — no separate app to install and no half-built mobile version to maintain.
Part overview, handheld Practice setup, handheld Study library, handheld
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