MD and DNB Psychiatry · Ten-Mark Theory Questions
Weave 100
The hundred most probable ten-mark questions per paper, solved as answer maps.
MD Psychiatry theory. DNB revision fits too. One page per question: the mark split, a skeleton you can write from, the content that earns the marks, and what an examiner ticks.
Every file is free to download. There is no login, no payment and no email gate, now or later, and there never will be.
Every one of the four hundred was actually asked.
PAPER I
Brain, Mind and Method
The basic sciences
Neuroanatomy to biostatistics, each one asked the way a ten-mark question asks it.
PAPER II
Psychoses, Mood and the Adult Disorders
Adult clinical psychiatry
Every adult syndrome, from how it presents to what earns the marks.
PAPER III
Child, Forensic and Special Populations
Child, forensic, law and emergencies
The specialities, the statutes and the emergencies, on one page each.
PAPER IV
Brain, Drugs and the Community
Organic psychiatry, pharmacology and the community
The medical interface, the drugs and the public-health paper, mapped.
THE COMPLETE SET
All Four Papers in One Book
Papers I to IV, one file
Four hundred answer maps, one download, one index.
How the hundred were picked
Counted, weighted, then drawn
One ledger holds 78 sittings of postgraduate psychiatry theory papers, collected from 8 examining boards. A sitting sets all four papers at once, so it is the same 78 standing behind every part of this work.
From that ledger, 54 areas across the four papers were weighted, and 400 questions were drawn in proportion, 100 per paper.
- TN Dr. MGR Medical University35 sittings
- RGUHS15 sittings
- DNB10 sittings
- KUHS9 sittings
- KNRUHS3 sittings
- MUHS2 sittings
- NTRUHS2 sittings
- WBUHS2 sittings
- 1Count the sittingsSeventy-eight sittings of theory papers across eight boards, each one dated and scored for how well the paper itself is evidenced.
- 2Weight each sittingA sitting counts less the older it is, on a six-year half-life, and less again where the paper survives only as a mirror or a transcription.
- 3Score each area, board by boardTwo measures per board: how widely it examines an area, and how much of its marks land there. The two are averaged into one verdict.
- 4Pool the boardsThe seven university boards are combined in proportion to how far each is trusted, then set against the DNB anchor at seventy to thirty.
- 5Turn weight into slotsEvery area takes at least two questions, the remainder is shared out largest first, and no area takes more than twenty. That is the hundred.
A frequency count is a strong prior, not a prophecy.
Nothing here is a made-up question. All 400 were set by a board: the weighting files record at least 100 observed questions standing behind each paper of 100 slots, so every slot is filled from what was actually asked rather than from what might be. What is estimated is the weighting, which is to say the shape of the paper, never the questions themselves.
On paper
Print it, bind it, carry it
Paper survives a six-month revision the way a screen never does, and an answer map is built to be read flat, one page at a time. A single paper is 144 to 150 pages; the complete set is 558.
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The do-it-yourself way
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- A4, printed at 100 percent. No fit-to-page, no booklet mode.
- Duplex, both sides, flipped on the long edge.
- A single paper takes one 14 mm coil on its own.
- The complete set wants perfect binding, about a 30 mm spine. If the shop will not perfect-bind it, split it into two volumes at pages 1 to 272 and 273 to 558.
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Question stems are reproduced from past theory papers of the named university and national examining boards. The boards are named so that the count can be checked. Naming a board is not a claim of endorsement by it, and none of these books is endorsed, approved or reviewed by any examining body.
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Compiled by Dr. Wilfred Dsouza and Dr. Niharika Reddy for Weave, Centre for Integrative Psychiatry.
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