Real exam stations.
One examiner.
Say it out loud.
Viva Station runs spoken practice vivas for anaesthesia exam candidates — an AI examiner that asks, listens, drills your answers, and marks you to the standard. Built by a consultant anaesthetist who sat where you're sitting.
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The bottleneck isn't knowledge. It's reps.
You can read for months and still be undone by eight minutes of being asked. Practice vivas with consultants are the gold standard — and they're scarce, hard to schedule, and carry the quiet cost of stumbling in front of someone you work with. Most candidates get a handful of real mocks before the day. The exam expects fluency that takes dozens.
Viva Station removes the ceiling: a full station takes one tap, runs any hour you're free, and nobody is watching. Keep your in-person mocks — then multiply them.
Don't save this for the end
Being questioned out loud is one of the fastest ways to find out what you actually know — it's easy to feel confident about a topic until someone asks you to explain it. Viva practice usually gets saved for the end of preparation, once the textbook work is done, because a real examiner's time is too scarce to spend on content you haven't learned yet.
Nobody's time is being wasted here. Run a station on a topic the moment you've read it — even before an SAQ or MCQ bank — and let getting questioned show you the gaps while there's still time to close them, not just confirm them.
How a station runs
Read the stem
Two minutes with the question paper — a fresh clinical scenario, generated for your station alone.
Face the examiner
A spoken viva at real exam length and register. One question at a time. Follow-ups that drill exactly where you're vague. No praise, no teaching — just like the room.
Get marked properly
Pass, borderline or fail — with domain-by-domain comments that quote what you actually said, and the specific gaps to work on next.
Details that matter because you've sat there
Every mechanic below exists because a real examiner does it.
Real timing
20-minute Primary stations, 15-minute Fellowship vivas, 2 minutes reading — or set your own length.
Examiner temperaments
Sticklers, brisk movers, patient probers, poker faces. You never know who you'll draw — just like the real day.
Critical points
Every station has its must-pass knowledge. Miss it, and the examiner circles back the way real examiners fight to get you over the line.
Two examiners
Mixed Primary stations hand you between two voices, mid-station, with an abrupt change of domain.
The ritual
Candidate number, “have you read and understood the question?”, and a clock only the examiner can see.
Back-to-back sets
Run stations consecutively with marks withheld to the end — the way the real exam day actually feels.
And it remembers what you'd rather forget
Every station feeds your dashboard: coverage across the whole syllabus, mastery that fades honestly when you neglect a topic, a revisit queue built from your failures and blind spots, and a pace line that tells you — in stations, not percentages — whether you're on track for your exam date.
Built by someone who used this method to pass
Viva Station is designed by a consultant anaesthetist (FANZCA) who prepared for his own exams by pairing daily in-person mocks with high-volume AI viva practice — and found the volume changed everything: faster fluency, and a far smaller mental barrier to being assessed. The examiner's conduct in this app — the drilling, the temperaments, what a critical point is, when an examiner circles back — is his examiner knowledge, encoded.
It's also honest about what it is: an AI can misstate facts with confidence, so verify anything load-bearing against current references — and keep your human mocks. How it works and how to use it well.
Your next station is ninety seconds away.
Your first 2 stations are free. Email sign-in, no password, no card — just you and the examiner.
Begin your first station