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Radiopaedia playlists and Radiology Cafe

Community-built playlists on Radiopaedia are the closest free thing to case-viewing practice: real imaging, curated into 2B-style sets by people who have sat the exam. Radiology Cafe adds free reference and exam-oriented material. For sheer volume of cases through your eyes, this is the best free resource there is.

The RCR's own pages

The exam's owner publishes the two most underused free documents in 2B prep: the scoring system (what is actually marked) and the examiners' reports (what candidates actually lose marks on, sitting after sitting - we digest every published report in examiners' reports, digested). Both cost nothing and come from the source.

Our free tier

Tungsten People opens 15 Neuro diagnoses in full, as complete scored cases, plus 15 spoken viva cases to try out loud. You also get the readiness dashboard, a study plan counted back from your exam date, the Telegram study group, and the free live case sessions with our radiologist. No card needed. It is the real engine on real cases, not a cut-down demo.

What case volume trains, and what it cannot

Viewing cases trains recognition, and recognition matters: you cannot answer a case you have not seen the pattern for. If your budget is zero, playlists plus the RCR's own material is a real plan, not a compromise to be embarrassed about.

But recognition is only the first mark. Since the June 2025 reform, every viva case is scored on five domains, and most of them pay for what happens after you name the finding: the next diagnostic step, the management with its safety step, the communication, the dangerous mimic you rule out before closing. The examiners' reports repeat it sitting after sitting: marks are lost after the finding is named.

That part does not live in case volume. It lives in the structure of a full-mark answer, learned once and applied to every case you see - which is exactly what the free cases here are for.

A zero-budget revision recipe

1. Map the marking first. Read the marking scheme guide once, so you know what the five domains sound like. Free, thirty minutes.
2. Learn the answer shape on the 15 free cases. Each one is built as the scored answer: recognition, next step, management and safety, communication, killer mimic. The shape is the transferable part.
3. Apply that shape to playlist volume. For every Radiopaedia case you view, force the full five-part answer, not just the diagnosis. The same case now trains five domains instead of one.
4. Say answers out loud. Use the 15 spoken viva cases, the free live case sessions, or a partner from the study group. The viva is a spoken exam; silent revision does not train the domain that is marked.
5. Calibrate against the examiners. Skim the report digest and check your answers against the recurring complaints: characterised finding, specific management, committed conclusion.

When the free tier stops being enough, you will know exactly why: you want the same scored-answer structure on every diagnosis, not fifteen. That is what the paid tier is, and the upgrade decision can wait until the free cases have earned it.