NBCE - Part 2 – NMS Questions With Verified
Solutions 2025\2026 A+ Grade
Olfactory Nerve
- accurate answers-CNI (sensory)
Smell
One nostril at a time.
Anosmia
- accurate answers-Lost sense of smell.
Parosmia
- accurate answers-Distorted sense of smell.
Optic Nerve
- accurate answers-CNII (sensory)
Vision
Snellen Chart for visual acuity.
Visual fields (peripheral vision).
Direct/Indirect Light (consensual) Reflex - afferent
Accommodation - afferent
Accommodation
- accurate answers-Eyes converge, pupils constrict, lens convexity.
Oculomotor Nerve
- accurate answers-CNIII (motor)
SO4-LR6-R3
Levator Palpebrae
Inferior Oblique
Superior Rectus
Medial Rectus
Inferior Rectus
Parasympathetic: Ciliary muscles (lens shape) & constrictor papillae.
Direct/Indirect Light (consensual) Reflex - efferent
Accommodation - efferent
Strabismus
Ptosis
,Strabismus
- accurate answers-Deviation of one or both eyes.
Ptosis
- accurate answers-Eyelids droop due to weakness or paralysis of levator
palpebrae.
Trochlear Nerve
- accurate answers-CNIV (motor)
SO4-LR6-R3
Superior Oblique
Look down and in.
Trigeminal Nerve
- accurate answers-CNV (sensory & motor)
V1-3
Corneal Reflex
Oculocardiac Reflex
General sensation to the anterior 2/3 of the tongue.
Muscles of mastication - TIME (V3)
Tic Douloureaux
Corneal Reflex
- accurate answers-CNV - afferent
CNVII - efferent
Touch cornea with cotton wisp, both eyes blink or tearing is normal.
Oculocardiac Reflex
- accurate answers-CNV - afferent
CNX - efferent
Press on eye (stimulating the parasympathetics) and the heart rate decreases
by 10 BPM.
Muscles of Mastication
- accurate answers-CNV(3)
Temporalis
Internal Pterygoids
External Pterygoids
Massetter
, Tic Douloureaux
- accurate answers-AKA: Trigeminal Neuralgia
CNV
Extreme, sporadic, sudden burning or shock-like face pain.
Lasts a few seconds to as long as 2 minutes per episode.
Lightening like, excruciating pain, repetitive, occuring several times a day.
Typically felt on one side of the jaw or cheek.
Abducens Nerve
- accurate answers-CNVI (motor)
SO4-LR6-R3
Lateral Rectus
Moves the eye laterally.
Facail Nerve
- accurate answers-CNVII (motor & sensory)
Taste to anterior two-thirds of tongue (sweet, sour, salty).
Muscles of facial expression.
Bell's Palsy
Bell's Palsy
- accurate answers-CNVII - LMNL
Unilateral facial paralysis.
Caused by trauma, virus, or immune mediated response.
Initial pain behind the ipsilateral ear, twitching, weakness or paralysis,
drooping eyelid and corner of the mouth, drooling, dry eye, & impairment of
taste.
Not a permanent condition.
Vestibulocochlear Nerve
- accurate answers-CNVIII (sensory)
Vestibular:Balance
- Mittelemeyer
- Barany Caloric Test
- Romberg's
Cochlear:Hearing
- Weber
- Rinne
Solutions 2025\2026 A+ Grade
Olfactory Nerve
- accurate answers-CNI (sensory)
Smell
One nostril at a time.
Anosmia
- accurate answers-Lost sense of smell.
Parosmia
- accurate answers-Distorted sense of smell.
Optic Nerve
- accurate answers-CNII (sensory)
Vision
Snellen Chart for visual acuity.
Visual fields (peripheral vision).
Direct/Indirect Light (consensual) Reflex - afferent
Accommodation - afferent
Accommodation
- accurate answers-Eyes converge, pupils constrict, lens convexity.
Oculomotor Nerve
- accurate answers-CNIII (motor)
SO4-LR6-R3
Levator Palpebrae
Inferior Oblique
Superior Rectus
Medial Rectus
Inferior Rectus
Parasympathetic: Ciliary muscles (lens shape) & constrictor papillae.
Direct/Indirect Light (consensual) Reflex - efferent
Accommodation - efferent
Strabismus
Ptosis
,Strabismus
- accurate answers-Deviation of one or both eyes.
Ptosis
- accurate answers-Eyelids droop due to weakness or paralysis of levator
palpebrae.
Trochlear Nerve
- accurate answers-CNIV (motor)
SO4-LR6-R3
Superior Oblique
Look down and in.
Trigeminal Nerve
- accurate answers-CNV (sensory & motor)
V1-3
Corneal Reflex
Oculocardiac Reflex
General sensation to the anterior 2/3 of the tongue.
Muscles of mastication - TIME (V3)
Tic Douloureaux
Corneal Reflex
- accurate answers-CNV - afferent
CNVII - efferent
Touch cornea with cotton wisp, both eyes blink or tearing is normal.
Oculocardiac Reflex
- accurate answers-CNV - afferent
CNX - efferent
Press on eye (stimulating the parasympathetics) and the heart rate decreases
by 10 BPM.
Muscles of Mastication
- accurate answers-CNV(3)
Temporalis
Internal Pterygoids
External Pterygoids
Massetter
, Tic Douloureaux
- accurate answers-AKA: Trigeminal Neuralgia
CNV
Extreme, sporadic, sudden burning or shock-like face pain.
Lasts a few seconds to as long as 2 minutes per episode.
Lightening like, excruciating pain, repetitive, occuring several times a day.
Typically felt on one side of the jaw or cheek.
Abducens Nerve
- accurate answers-CNVI (motor)
SO4-LR6-R3
Lateral Rectus
Moves the eye laterally.
Facail Nerve
- accurate answers-CNVII (motor & sensory)
Taste to anterior two-thirds of tongue (sweet, sour, salty).
Muscles of facial expression.
Bell's Palsy
Bell's Palsy
- accurate answers-CNVII - LMNL
Unilateral facial paralysis.
Caused by trauma, virus, or immune mediated response.
Initial pain behind the ipsilateral ear, twitching, weakness or paralysis,
drooping eyelid and corner of the mouth, drooling, dry eye, & impairment of
taste.
Not a permanent condition.
Vestibulocochlear Nerve
- accurate answers-CNVIII (sensory)
Vestibular:Balance
- Mittelemeyer
- Barany Caloric Test
- Romberg's
Cochlear:Hearing
- Weber
- Rinne
