Dental registration
The written route onto a dental register
The Arch builds one complete course per written examination — the question bank, the full revision guide and the feedback mocks together, with a daily plan worked out from your exam date.
Two kinds of examination: the licensing papers that put a dentist on a register, and the postgraduate diplomas taken after one. Each is named below with the state it is actually in, and none is sold before it is finished.
Licensing exams
Get on a register, and practise
The written papers that stand between a dental degree and the right to work. Each register is its own course and its own account.
United Kingdom
The two written papers onto the GDC register, each with the question bank, the full revision guide and the feedback mocks.
- —ORE Part 1
- —LDS Part 1
Ireland
The Dental Council of Ireland examination — the written route onto the Irish register, examined in short-answer papers, not multiple choice.
- —Part 1 written — the bank and the guide
- —Its own course, its own sign-in
Australia
The Australian Dental Council examination. Nothing to buy yet — it will be named here the day it opens.
- —The ADC written examination
- —Its own course, its own sign-in
ORE or LDS seat? Don’t worry, and don’t pay twice. Start with the ORE. If you later move to the LDS pathway, we transfer your course free of charge. Every UK course comes with 24/7 WhatsApp mentor support, and free feedback mocks run twice a week.
Postgraduate diplomas
Already registered? Lift the qualification
Not a route onto any register — what a dentist takes after one. Sat wherever you are, and each one its own course with its own sign-in.
More diplomas will be named here as they are written. Each is named for the college that awards it, and none appears before it is finished.
What a course is
The same three things, whichever paper you sit
Not a question bank with notes bolted on, and not notes with a quiz at the end.
Read the topic
The full revision guide, written out subject by subject. The books, already summarised, so you never have to open one.
Answer what tests it
The question bank for that same topic, with a written explanation on every answer — not only the one you picked.
Follow the daily plan
Worked out from your exam date, and it tells you each day whether you are keeping up. There is nothing else you are supposed to be doing.
Pre-launch feedback
In the words of the candidates who tested it
Before any of this went on sale, we gave it to candidates sitting ORE Part 1 and LDS Part 1 and asked them to be blunt about it. Six of the fifty who wrote back, word for word, published with their permission.
ORE Part 1
I mostly followed the daily plan on the portal after entering my exam date. It stopped me from jumping between different resources. By the final few weeks I knew exactly which subjects were costing me marks and I focused on those.
LDS Part 1
For me, the value was not just the number of questions. It was the explanation after them. Sometimes I answered correctly but realised my reasoning was completely wrong. Those were probably the most useful questions.
ORE Part 1
Before this I had too many PDFs and notes saved everywhere. The biggest benefit was the structure. I stopped wasting time deciding what to study and simply followed what was left on the portal.
LDS Part 1
I liked that I could study from my phone. Most of my revision happened on the train and during lunch breaks. Those small sessions added up much more than I expected.
ORE Part 1
The timed mock showed me that knowledge was not my only problem. I was spending too long on difficult questions. After practising under proper timing I became much better at moving on and coming back later.
LDS Part 1
LDS Part 1 preparation can become overwhelming because everyone keeps recommending another book, another lecture or another question bank. What helped me most was simplifying everything. I followed a structured plan, practised consistently, reviewed my mistakes and gradually became much more confident.