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Iraqi Board Review (IBR) — iraqiboardreview.com

Last updated: 2026-08-19

Please read this before you create an account. It is written to be understood on one reading. Where something is a limitation of the service rather than a legal formality, it is written as the limitation it is.

By creating an account or using IBR, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree with them, do not create an account.

1. What IBR is

IBR is a study service for doctors preparing for the Iraqi and Arab Board examinations. It has two parts:

The question bank. A searchable collection of multiple-choice questions with explanations, past-paper recalls, practice exams in the real format, study plans and performance analytics. The question bank is free. You need an account to use it, and nothing in it is sold to you.

The research desk. A paid service that helps a resident finish the graduation research project required for their board. You send your study and your data; we return the analysis, the tables and figures, a written thesis draft and a briefing so you can defend it. The current price is 150,000 IQD per project. Section 8 sets out the terms for this service specifically.

IBR is run by a small team. It is not a university, a hospital, a publisher, or any board or council. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of the Iraqi Board, the Arab Board, or any other examining body.

2. Who can use IBR

You may use IBR if you are a doctor, a resident, or a medical student preparing for a board examination, and you are able to enter into an agreement under Iraqi law.

The service is intended for individual study. It is not licensed for use by an institution, a course, or a commercial training programme without our written agreement.

3. Educational use only — and what that means medically

IBR is a study aid. It is not medical advice, and nothing in it should be used to treat a patient.

This is not a formality. Please read the rest of this section.

You remain fully responsible for every clinical decision you make. We accept no responsibility for any decision about a patient that is made on the basis of anything found on IBR.

If you find a question that is dangerously wrong, please tell us (Section 14). We would rather fix it than have it sit there.

4. About the questions, and how accurate they are

We would rather tell you where the bank is weak than let you discover it in the exam hall. The public pages of IBR state these limits, and so does this section.

Answer keys can be wrong. Much of the bank carries the answer key that was published with the source material it came from. Some of those published keys are wrong. Where our own reading of the textbook disagrees with a published key, the app shows a warning on that question, explains the disagreement, and leaves the published key in place rather than substituting a guess. Where a whole past paper shows signs that its keys were recovered unreliably, every question on that paper carries a warning saying so.

Some answer keys were derived by a model, not by a person. Those questions say so on screen, show a confidence score, and — below a threshold — say plainly that the question is not safe to learn from yet.

Some questions have no explanation. They are in the bank because the question and its answer are still worth practising. They show a visible "no explanation yet" panel rather than a blank space or an invented paragraph.

The text is machine-extracted and has not been fully proofread. In a bank this size, nobody has read every question. Expect the occasional layout artefact, and treat a strange-looking option as a possible extraction error rather than a trick.

Some exam weightings are derived, not official. Where a council does not publish a blueprint, the emphasis is derived from other material and is labelled as derived everywhere it appears.

Take the warnings seriously. When a question carries a warning that its key is disputed or unconfirmed, work the question from the medicine and trust your own reasoning. That advice is on the screen and it is meant literally.

We do not promise that the bank is complete, current, or free of errors, and we do not promise any particular examination result.

5. Your account

Give accurate information. Your name, email address, specialty and training level should be true. We use them to give you the right question bank, and — for the research desk — to know who we are working with.

One account per person. Do not create more than one account, and do not create an account for somebody else.

Your account is yours alone. Do not share your username and password, and do not let another person study on your account. If several people use one account, we may close it.

Keep your password safe. Passwords are stored so that we cannot read them. That protects you, and it also means we cannot recover a forgotten password for you.

Password reset by email is not switched on yet. The feature is built and is waiting on an email sender. Until it is on, if you lose your password, contact us (Section 14) and we will verify your identity by other means. If you signed in with Google, use Google to sign in again.

Your email address is not verified yet. We collect it and use it, but we have not confirmed that it belongs to you. Verification is built and switches on together with email sending. Do not treat an IBR account as proof of anyone's identity.

Tell us if something is wrong. If you believe someone else is using your account, contact us and we will end all of that account's active sessions.

6. What you may not do

The bank exists because a great deal of scattered material was gathered into one place. It stays free because it is not being resold. So:

We may suspend or close an account that does any of these, without refund of any fee already paid for work not yet started.

7. Fees, and what is free

The question bank is free. There is no subscription, no advertising, and nothing to buy in order to study.

The research desk is paid. Payment is arranged directly with us and settled off the platform. IBR does not process payments and takes no card, bank or payment details on the site. Nothing is charged to you automatically, and there is no recurring billing anywhere in the service.

We may change our prices. A change never applies to a project we have already accepted at an agreed price.

8. The research desk — terms for this service

This section applies in addition to the rest of these terms, and takes precedence where they differ.

8.1 What the service is

The research desk supports your own graduation research project. That support is: helping you choose or sharpen a research question; advising on study design; checking, cleaning and analysing the data you collected; producing tables and figures; drafting the written thesis in the format your council requires; and briefing you on what your own results actually show so that you can defend them.

The work is done by hand and read by a person before anything comes back to you. Nothing is generated and sent to you unread.

8.2 What the service is not

8.3 Academic integrity — read this before you buy

You are the author of your research project, and you remain responsible for it.

Every college, council and university has its own rules about what outside help a student may receive on a graduation project, how it must be acknowledged, and what must be the student's own work.

Those rules are yours to know and yours to follow. Before you send us anything, check what your institution permits, and if the position is not clear, ask your supervisor. If your institution requires assistance to be declared, you must declare it.

We provide analytical and writing support to you as the author. We do not represent that using this service satisfies the requirements of any institution, council, university or examining body, and we are not responsible for any academic decision taken about you or your project — including rejection, investigation or a finding of misconduct.

You confirm to us that:

If any of that is untrue, we may stop work at any point.

8.4 What you send us

You send us the details of your study and your data file. What we ask for on the form is what we need in order to work: the design, the setting, the period, the population, the ethics approval, your deadline, and what each column of your spreadsheet means.

Your data file may contain patient information, and that carries a duty. Before you upload anything, remove patient identifiers — names, hospital and file numbers, dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers, and anything else that would identify a patient or a facility. We do not need identifiers to analyse anything. This obligation is yours, it is set out in more detail in our Privacy Policy, and it applies whether or not you can technically upload the file.

Files are limited to 25 MB each.

8.5 Accepting a project, and the delivery promise

Sending a submission does not oblige us to take it. Every project is explicitly accepted or declined by a person.

When we accept, we promise to deliver within 7 days. The seven days run from the day we accept, or the day your usable data reaches us, whichever is later. If you submit without data, no clock has started.

Capacity is finite and deadlines are real. If we cannot deliver in seven days, we will say so and agree a different date in writing at the point of acceptance — not afterwards. If you do not accept the alternative date, we will decline and nothing is owed.

We may decline a project — for example because the data is unusable, the deadline is impossible, the queue is full, or the request is one we will not do under Section 8.2. We tell you why. We do not decline silently.

We may also stop work on an accepted project if you go silent when we need an answer from you, if what you told us turns out to be untrue, or on any ground in Section 8.3.

8.6 Revisions

After delivery, we will correct our own errors and complete anything we agreed to do and did not, free of charge, for 14 days from delivery. Tell us in the message thread on your project.

Changes that are not corrections — a new research question, a different dataset, an analysis we did not agree to do, a rewrite for a different council's format, or work your supervisor asks for that goes beyond what was agreed — are new work and are quoted separately.

8.7 Payment

The fee is agreed with you before work starts and paid directly to us. If we decline your project, nothing is payable. If we accept it and then stop work through no fault of yours, you pay only for what has been delivered.

Refunds after delivery are at our discretion, and we will look at any complaint made in good faith.

9. Content, copyright, and requests to remove material

9.1 The question bank

The bank is compiled from published board-review literature — question books, review banks and past-paper material used to prepare for these examinations — together with explanations, structure, tagging and software written by us.

It is assembled and provided for the personal examination preparation of the individual account holder, and for no other purpose. That is the whole basis on which it is offered: personal study, no redistribution, no resale, no bulk copying (Section 6).

Where the underlying material carries a right held by somebody else, that right stays with them. Nothing here transfers ownership of anything to you, and using IBR gives you no licence beyond your own personal study.

9.2 Material you send us

The resource-request form lets you upload a book, a past paper or a deck you already have, so that we can process it and add it to the bank rather than go looking for a copy.

If you upload something, you are confirming two things: that you are entitled to share that file with us, and that you understand it may be processed into the question bank and made available to other users studying the same specialty.

We do not publish your file as you sent it, and we do not attribute it to you. What is added is the question material worked out of it, in the same shape as everything else in the bank.

If you are not sure whether you may share it, do not upload it — name it in the request instead and let us find it. Section 9.3 applies to anything that reaches us this way exactly as it applies to everything else: if a rights holder objects, we take it down.

9.3 If you hold rights in material you believe is here

We would rather hear from you than not. If you are an author, publisher or rights holder and you believe material of yours is on IBR in a way you object to, write to us at the address in Section 14 with enough detail to find it — what the material is, where you saw it, and the right you hold.

We will review it, and we will remove or restrict material where the claim is made out. We aim to acknowledge within 7 days. We would rather resolve this directly and quickly than argue about it.

The same applies if you believe a figure, image or diagram on IBR is yours.

9.3 What you write on IBR

Your notes, your answers, your submissions and your messages remain yours. You give us permission to store and process them so that we can run the service for you — and, for the research desk, so that we can do the work you asked for. Nothing you write is published, and nothing you write is shown to another user.

10. The service itself

IBR is provided as it is. We do not promise that it will always be available, that it will be free of faults, or that content or your data will never be lost. We keep backups, but you should keep your own copy of anything that matters to you — particularly your research data.

To the extent Iraqi law allows, we are not responsible for indirect losses: examination results, academic outcomes, lost time, or lost opportunity. Where we are responsible, our responsibility is limited to the amount you have actually paid us for the service concerned in the previous twelve months. Nothing here limits responsibility that cannot lawfully be limited.

11. Ending your use of IBR

You may stop at any time. You can ask us to delete your account and we will — see the Privacy Policy for how, and for what happens to your data.

We may suspend or close an account that breaches these terms, that is used to copy or redistribute the bank, or that is used in a way that risks other users' data. Where it is fair to do so we will tell you why and give you a chance to put it right.

If we close your account while a research project is in progress, we will complete the project or refund it, unless the closure is because of Section 8.2 or 8.3.

12. Changes to these terms

We may change these terms — for example when the service changes, or when something here proves unclear.

If a change is significant, we will show a notice in the app before it takes effect, and the date at the top of this page will change. A change never applies retrospectively to a research project we have already accepted.

Continuing to use IBR after a change means you accept it. If you do not, stop using the service and ask us to close your account.

13. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Iraq, and the courts of Iraq have jurisdiction over any dispute arising from them.

If any part of these terms is found to be unenforceable, the rest stays in force.

Before going to court, please write to us. Most things are faster to fix than to argue about.

14. Contact

Write to us at: support@iraqiboardreview.com

Use the same address for a question about these terms, a wrong or dangerous question in the bank, a rights-holder request under Section 9.3, an account or password problem, or anything about your research project.

IBR — Iraqi Board Review. For the primary exam, the final exam, and the research project you have to submit to graduate.