Frequently asked questions

Dentoscore is an independent online revision app for the UK Overseas Registration Exam (ORE) Part 1, with original practice questions, timed mock papers and flashcards, each answer explained with its source named. It brings these and the revision notes into one place, so you are not juggling several.

No. Dentoscore is not affiliated with, endorsed by, approved by or associated with the General Dental Council, or with any body that sets, administers or accredits the Overseas Registration Examination. Where we refer to the examination, we do so only to describe what our material is for. This is set out in section 2 of our terms.

Dentists who qualified outside the UK and are sitting the ORE in order to register with the General Dental Council. It assumes you already have a dental degree — it is revision, not a course.

From the GDC, always. The official syllabus, format, fees, dates and eligibility rules are theirs, they change, and only their version counts. Nothing here replaces reading it yourself.

The Overseas Registration Examination is the General Dental Council's exam for dentists whose dental qualification is not recognised for registration in the UK. It has two parts, and once you have passed both you can apply to join the GDC register. See the GDC's ORE page.

Two computer-based papers, sat in person on consecutive days. Each paper has 200 questions and lasts 3 hours, and the questions are single best answer (SBA) and extended matching (EMQ). Paper A covers dental science and human disease; Paper B covers clinical dentistry, including law, ethics and health and safety. You must pass both papers in the same sitting to pass Part 1. Sources: the GDC's Part 1 page and the exam specification.

Part 2 is a practical assessment of clinical skills, held in person over several days. It has four parts: an OSCE, a diagnosis and treatment planning exercise, dental manikin exercises and a medical emergencies assessment. You can take Part 2 once you have passed Part 1. See the GDC's Part 2 page.

In person, at venues in London. The GDC lists the current venues on its Part 1 page, and the exam provider tells you which one you have been allocated.

In the GDC's words, most applicants whose primary qualification as a dentist was not gained in the UK or EEA will need to pass it. The GDC's About the ORE page explains who it applies to.

Through the GDC: you set up an online account and apply, you are added to the ORE candidate list, and you then log in to see the sittings available and book a place. The steps are on the GDC's How to apply page. Dentoscore has nothing to do with applying or booking.

The GDC lists an application processing fee of £115, £485 for Part 1 and £6,967 for Part 2 (checked 13 October 2026). The current fees, and the refund and withdrawal policies, are on the GDC's About the ORE and Part 1 pages.

The GDC publishes the dates on its Part 1 and booking dates pages. On 15 October 2026 the GDC listed Part 1 sittings on 2–3 February 2027 and 6–7 April 2027.

The GDC allows up to four attempts at each part, and you need to pass Part 2 within five years of first attempting Part 1. There is no time limit for applying to register once you have passed both parts. See the GDC's About the ORE page.

The GDC aims to email Part 1 results within 30 working days of the exam, and its pages say a breakdown of your score by topic follows about 21 working days later. After the August 2026 sitting, candidates told us the result and the breakdown came together in one email from the UCL ORE team, 28 working days after the exam. See the GDC's results page and our pass mark and results guide.

We write it, working to the published Part 1 blueprint so the spread of topics matches what the exam covers. Where an answer depends on UK guidance, the explanation names the guidance it came from — SDCEP, the BNF and Dental Practitioners' Formulary, NICE, GDC standards, Resuscitation Council UK and others — so you can follow the source rather than take our word for it.

No, and nobody can. Whether you pass depends on a great deal that is outside our control. Nothing on this site is a promise, a prediction or an assurance of a result, and any score you see here is feedback on your revision — not an official mark and not a forecast.

No. It is study material, not professional or clinical advice. It must not be relied on for the treatment or care of any patient, and it is not a substitute for the official syllabus, current guidance, or your own professional judgement. Guidance changes, and ours can lag behind it — so check the current official source, which is exactly why the explanations carry links to it.

Please tell us — this is the most useful message we get. Email support@dentoscore.co.uk with the topic and roughly what the question said, and we will check it against the source. If it is wrong we would rather fix it than defend it.

3,300+ questions in the question bank and 1,200 in the mock papers, flashcards drawn from the same bank, 30 in-depth topic notes, a UK-guidance crib sheet and a study planner. Every question is explained rather than just marked, and every mock gives you a topic-by-topic breakdown afterwards.

Yes. There are 150 free questions, five for each of the 30 topics, open to everyone with no account. Each one is worked the same five ways as inside the app, with its source named. A free account adds 150 more, so you have 300 free questions in the app, with your scores saved. No card needed.

A study session is as long as you choose and gives you feedback on each question as you go, so you learn while you answer. A mock is a full timed paper under exam conditions, marked only at the end. Use study sessions to build knowledge and mocks to test it under pressure.

In between sits timed exam mode: questions from the bank against the same clock, marked only at the end. The Base plan includes a taste of it — one fixed set of 50 questions — and the Mock and Complete plans open it on the whole bank, with your own mix and any length.

Yes. Sessions save as you go and can be resumed, and finished sessions are kept so you can review them. Your progress is tied to your account, so it follows you between your phone and your computer. Your home page tracks your study-bank accuracy and how much of the bank you have covered, and the Mock papers page keeps every mock attempt with your best and latest scores.

Yes — it is built for a phone as much as a laptop, and most people revise on both. You can also add it to your home screen so it opens like an app: on an iPhone use Share, then Add to Home Screen; on Android your browser will offer to install it.

Choose a bank (UK guidance, core knowledge or both), narrow it by Paper A or B, topic and difficulty if you want to, then pick a length and start. In study mode you see the answer and the full explanation after every question; flag anything you want to come back to. Your results screen shows how you did topic by topic, and you can redo just the ones you got wrong.

They are built from the same bank — every single-answer and multiple-answer study question, 3,200+ cards. Type a keyword or choose topics and difficulty, and rate each card as you go; decks save, so you can pick one up again later.

Set your exam date and plan the weeks you have: a month calendar, weekly progress rings and sessions you set yourself. It also has ready-made study plans that fill your planner for you. The 12-week essentials plan is free; Base, Mock and Complete add an 8-week intensive and a 16-week steady plan. You can save a plan's sessions to Google, Apple or Outlook Calendar. The plans are a guide to organise your revision; they do not guarantee a pass. The countdown on the home screen uses your exam date.

Like the real thing: one full paper is 200 exam-style questions in 3 hours. There are three full mocks, each with a Paper A and a Paper B, so six papers and 1,200 questions to practise on.

Each paper is marked against our 55% practice mark, and to reach it on a full mock you need 55% in both Paper A and Paper B — one strong paper does not carry a weak one. Aim for 60% or more to give yourself a margin. Afterwards you get a topic-by-topic breakdown showing where the marks went.

No. It is our own practice mark, set a little above recent real minimums so that practising here is a fair test. The real pass mark is set for each paper through standard setting and is not announced in advance; in August 2026 the minimum to pass was 50.5% on Paper A and 54.3% on Paper B. See our guide to the ORE Part 1 pass mark.

You can save and leave, and resume the paper later. The timer is part of the exercise, so treat a saved mock as a paper you interrupted rather than a fresh start.

There are 150 free questions by topic open to everyone, 150 more with a free account (300 in all, no card needed), and three paid plans: Base £49, Mock £69 and Complete £89. Plans run for six months to start. Once you are a customer you can add three to six months whenever you like, and you can move up a plan at any time and pay the difference between the plans for the days you have left (at least £5). All prices include VAT. Full details are on the pricing page.

Payments are handled by Stripe. The seller of record is Link, LLC, a Stripe company, which appears as Onelink at the checkout and on your receipt. Your bank statement will show ONELINK* DENTOSCORE (some banks show LINK.COM* DENTOSCORE), and your receipt is sent to you by Onelink. We never receive or store your card number.

Your access starts the moment you pay, so the usual 14-day cooling-off right does not apply — you confirm that at checkout. If something is faulty or not as described, we will put it right or refund you. Full details are in section 8 of the terms.

First check that you confirmed your email address: if you did not, choose Send a new confirmation link on the sign-in screen. If it still does not work, email support@dentoscore.co.uk from the address you registered with.

Your name and password, yes: in Your profile (the menu at the top right), Account for your display name and Password for your password. If you have forgotten your password, use Forgot password on the sign-in screen — that sends a link to your email address, and asks for your code as well if two-step sign-in is on.

To change your sign-in email, go to Your profile → Account → Change email, type the new address twice and your current password, and press Request change. We email your current address to confirm you asked, then make the change and email both addresses when it is done. You are then signed out on every device, so you sign in again with the new email and your usual password. You can cancel a request in Your profile until it is done.

Open Your profile (the menu at the top right) and choose Delete account. You enter your password and type the word DELETE to confirm, and it removes your account and the progress attached to it straight away. It is not reversible, and we cannot get it back for you afterwards. If the deletion cannot be completed for any reason, the app tells you that nothing was removed rather than claiming success — see section 9 of our privacy policy.

It adds a second step when you sign in: a 6-digit code from an authenticator app on your phone, such as Google Authenticator, Microsoft Authenticator or 1Password. Even if someone learns your password, they cannot get in without your phone. It is optional — turn it on in Your profile → Two-step sign-in. If you lose access to your authenticator app, email support@dentoscore.co.uk from the address you sign in with.

Up to two at once — for example your phone and your laptop. Signing in on a third signs out the one you used least recently, and your progress is kept whichever device you use.

Your account details and the revision data that makes the app work — your answers, scores, flags and saved sessions. The full list, why we hold each part, how long we keep it and your rights over it are in the privacy policy.

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Cookie settings in the footer of any page reopens the notice, and you can switch analytics off there as easily as you switched it on. There is a full list of what is stored, and what each item is for, in section 4 of the privacy policy.

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