How we count

Every number NurseDrill prints, defined once: what the site holds, and your own numbers on your progress.

What the site holds

Questions: 3,353 questions you can practise. Every question placed under a topic counts: the free banks (898 not also in the full bank), the full bank (1,848) and the recalled previous-year questions (607). A question in both a free bank and the full bank counts once (376 such pairs). The total on the subjects page is its rows added up.
A subject or a topic: The questions placed under it, by the same rule. A topic’s subtopic rows add up to the topic: the questions tagged to no subtopic have a row of their own, “Not under a subtopic”. A topic drill serves exactly that many.
Previous years: 607 recalled questions in 16 sets from 6 exams, 2014–2026. They are inside the question total, under their topics.
Drills, notes and mocks: 50 drug calculations, 160 clinical scenarios and 84 image items in the drills (drug calculations are a drill of their own, outside the question total); 739 notes; 24 mock tests.
Named sources: 3,245 of 3,353 questions name their source. A question names its source when its citation names a work in the sources library. The other 108 questions cite a subject or a heading, not a work, and show their citation as written.

The works themselves, with every question that cites each chapter: the sources library. How questions are checked: methodology.

Your numbers

Your own numbers only, computed on this device from your synced records. No one else’s numbers appear anywhere in NurseDrill: no cut-offs, ranks, averages or comparisons.

Cards due: Cards whose review time has come. A card you mark Easy 2 times in a row graduates and is no longer due.
Cards today: What today asks of the due cards: up to 40 reviews a day (set 20 to 100 in Settings), misses first, then the most overdue, and up to 10 new exam facts. A card marked Again comes back in ten minutes, inside today’s queue.
Answers: Each scored answer counts once: a question answered twice is two answers, and a skipped one is none. A week’s answers and the trend come from the answer log; practice answers leave out timed mocks, whose answers count with their attempt. Your all-time figure counts topic drills, a subject’s mixed sessions, the daily quiz and timed mocks.
Accuracy: Right ÷ answered. Skipped questions are left out. Always shown with the number of answers it rests on (“64 % · 1,190 answers”).
Questions done: Each question you have answered, counted once however often you answer it: drills, past papers, mixed sessions, the daily quiz, mocks and the question bank. Flashcards and exam facts are cards, not questions. Counted from the day this device began counting them: questions answered before that day count when your cards, notebook, logs, mocks or saved drills still held them.
Active days: A day, India time, with a question answered or a minute of practice in it. A day counts once however much you did.
Timed attempts: A mock submitted on its clock, with a score — the recall papers run as mocks included. Prelims, Mains and each paper show parts of the same attempts, never a second count.
When a score appears: A topic gets a score at 5 answers; a week, and your all-time figure, at 10 answers; an answer format (clinical scenarios, drug calculations, image items) at 10. Before that you see how far you are, e.g. “Answer 2 more to see your accuracy”.
Weak · building · solid: Under 50 % · 50 to 74 % · 75 % and above. The same three words on every page of your progress.
Week and day: A week runs Monday to Sunday, India time. Days turn at midnight IST, wherever you are.
Streak: Consecutive days with a finished session; a finished timed mock is one. A day missed in the last 7 can be done late once a week; that repairs the streak. If the streak lapses it shows 0 and starts again with your next session; your best is kept. The number is counted from your days, so every device and page shows the same one.
Coverage: Topics with 5 or more answers, out of 121. “Started” means 1 to 4 answers.
High-yield: A topic the syllabus marks Must know (Asked often included), or that was asked in 5 or more past papers. A topic takes the priority most of its syllabus rows carry. The priority reads Must know, Should know or Good to know; Asked often is a must-know topic recalled in 8 or more past paper-sittings.
Mock score and targets: A mock score is the net under that paper’s own marking. Trends compare papers of the same pattern only. The dashed line on a mock chart is the score target you set for that paper; on an accuracy chart it is your readiness target. Where you moved a target the line steps on that day, so an attempt stands against the target it was made under. Readiness is your accuracy against the target you set, and nothing more.
Sure or guessing: From your taps before the answer shows, in practice and the daily quiz. The grid prints its percentages at 20 tagged answers; a topic’s split at 5.
Cleared: A miss is cleared once you answer that question right 2 times since; it then leaves the notebook’s waiting list. Mistakes & confidence counts the misses cleared in the period you chose.
Minutes and sittings: A sitting is one run of questions, cards or notes on one device. Its minutes are the time between your taps; a gap of more than 5 minutes counts as 5. A timed paper counts the time on its own clock, once it is submitted. The minutes chart draws at 3 days with a sitting; the time of day (India time) at 10 sittings.
Reading time: The time a note is in front of you, between a scroll, a tap or a page turned and the next, by the same rule as a sitting; a note looked at for under 5 seconds is not counted. “Opened again” is a note opened more than 30 minutes after you last left it.
Retention: Of the cards that were due, the share you remembered: the answer was right, or, on a flip card, any grade but Again. A card seen again minutes after Again is left out, and so are the daily quiz and timed mocks, which send only misses to the deck. Printed at 20 such reviews; one gap at 5.
A card that came back: A graduated card you meet again and do not get Easy returns to the deck. “Slipping topics” counts those by topic, once 5 graduated cards have been met again.
Type and difficulty: On Syllabus & topics, a filter by question type or difficulty recounts every score from the logged answers of that kind: the same answers a topic’s score counts: a topic drill’s, a mixed session’s and the daily quiz’s, each under the topic its question sits in. A topic still needs 5 of them for a score.

What is kept, and for how long

answers: Weekly figures and the trend are drawn from the answer log (below): 13 weeks. Older weeks are not drawn, and the chart says so. Your all-time figure counts topic drills, mixed sessions, the daily quiz and timed mocks.
sure tags: Your last 2,000 Sure / Guessing taps, from practice and the daily quiz. Timed mocks have no tap, so they are not in these numbers.
mocks: The newest 10 attempts per paper, with every answer, section and timing.
topics: Per topic: answers, right, last practised. This week’s count is kept for the current week only.
days: Per day, the minutes and the items of your finished sessions, cards included: they make the day active and keep the streak, and are never counted as questions. The minutes on Habits come from the sittings log below.
readiness: Weekly snapshots for 26 weeks.
daily quiz: Today’s quiz in full; past days you re-take, up to 14.
the logs: Every answer (its type, difficulty and seconds), every sitting, every card review and every note you read, for 13 weeks; at most 1,200 answers a week. They begin with your first session after the site started keeping them: minutes, the time of day, retention, slipping topics, reading time and the type and difficulty filters count from that day, and nothing before it is filled in.
targets: Your last 200 changes to a score target or your readiness target, each with its day. A change made before the site began keeping them is not drawn.