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Everyone drills theory. Almost nobody rehearses the practical — sixty seconds in front of a slide, a bone or a film you have never seen, a name to write, two reasons to give, and an examiner waiting. This is where you practise that, with a senior talking you through every specimen.
Nine benches, one for each station of the real exam. 9 open now, with 382 specimens and 730 viva questions. The rest are being built.
The slide under the microscope
Real teaching slides photographed down a student microscope. Identify each one the way you will have to on the day, then survive the viva.
Focus the field, then name what you see
50 specimens · 68 photographed fields · 250 viva questions
Open the histology benchThe bone in your hands
Identify the bone, call the side, point out the landmarks and answer for the attachments — in the order an examiner asks for them.
Side determination against a 10-second clock
10 bones · 71 landmarks · 50 viva questions
Open the osteology benchThe film on the viewing box
Learn to read a radiograph in a fixed order instead of guessing at the obvious thing first.
The answer stays locked until you have read it systematically
8 films · 33 landmarks · 40 viva questions
Open the radiology benchThe development question
What happened, what moved, what fused, what disappeared, what remains — and what goes wrong when a step fails.
Scrub the weeks forwards, then work an anomaly backwards
7 stories · 41 developmental steps · 35 viva questions
Open the embryology benchThe skin pencil
Stop memorising lines. Place each point on a landmark you can actually feel, and the line draws itself.
Tap the landmarks in order and score your own line
4 structures · 11 palpable landmarks · 20 viva questions
Open the surface marking benchThe timed table
Slide, bone, film, prosection — mixed, one minute each, exactly like the real circuit.
See · Orient · Identify · Connect · Answer
109 stations · 5 benches drawn from · 0 viva questions
Open the spotters benchThe table with the examiner behind it
Four levels of question, one trap you were going to fall into, and coaching on what not to say.
The questions escalate when you answer and ease when you stall
67 subjects · 335 graded questions · 335 viva questions
Open the viva benchThe night before
The high-yield list, ticked off honestly, ending in one number you can trust.
One readiness figure, and the weakest bench named
115 things to be able to do · 6 benches covered · 0 viva questions
Open the must-know benchThe whole circuit
Timed stations, a bell, a real marking scheme and no going back. Then a score sheet you can print.
The full OSPE, rehearsed before it counts
12 stations · 28 marks · 0 viva questions
Open the mock practical bench01
Look
Architecture first. One layer or many? Solid or hollow?
02
Recognise
Two or three decisive features. Never colour alone.
03
Confirm
Rule out the look-alike with one discriminator.
04
Viva
One sentence, then stop. Let the examiner lead.