Answers, including the awkward ones

It is built to be, and that is the whole point of it. 6,357 questions written to the exam's own pattern with worked explanations, timed mocks in the real format, and a revision guide covering every subject in the published syllabus in writing. You should not need to buy textbooks or pay for a taught course on top of it — everything is explained where you meet it, in plain English, so a gap gets closed the moment it shows up. What no course can do is sit the paper for you; the result still comes down to the hours you put in.

They are built to follow the paper as closely as we can make them: the same single best answer format, the same balance across the syllabus, the same style and length of stem, and the same habit of turning on one discriminating detail. Each is mapped to a subject and a topic so the bank covers the syllabus in proportion rather than piling up in whichever areas are easiest to write, and each has been rewritten in clear British English so the wording never becomes the difficulty. Every question has then been checked against current UK guidance — the answer key included, because a question carrying an answer that guidance has since moved on from is worse than no question at all. The explanations are where the work went: why the right answer is right, and why each of the others is wrong. That is what makes 6,357 questions a course rather than a quiz.

Clinical content is checked against named UK sources — the BDA, SDCEP, the BNF and BNFC, Delivering Better Oral Health, Resuscitation Council UK, NICE, HTM 01-05 and IRR17 — and perishable figures are dated. Where guidance changed recently and older revision material still teaches the old version, the guide says so explicitly instead of quietly presenting the new one.

Yes. Paper B carries a substantial block of it and it is the part candidates most often under-prepare. Radiation protection under IRR17 and IR(ME)R, decontamination under HTM 01-05, consent, confidentiality and the GDC's standards are all in the guide and in the bank.

Yes, on every question. That is where most of the learning is — knowing why the answer you chose was wrong is more useful than being told the right one.

Yes, and it is more than a sample. There is a free 100-question mock exam drawn from Paper A and Paper B subjects, sat the way the real thing is sat — nothing marked until you submit. At the end you get your mark, whether you cleared our 50% line, and a breakdown of the subjects and topics costing you marks, with a worked explanation on every question. A section of the revision guide comes with it. No card, no account.

Two sections written for the end of your preparation rather than the middle of it. The Two-Week Final Revision is twelve blocks across the last fourteen days, one a day, in the order the subjects are best revised — each one condensed to the facts that carry marks, with a highlighted box of what must be memorised and a summary short enough to recite. The 72 Hours Before the Exam is the final pass and is almost entirely visual: colour codes, classification charts, index scores and labelling, drawn as diagrams rather than described, because that is the material that is either recalled instantly or lost. Neither one teaches you the subject. They are what you do after the teaching, when everything has been covered once and nothing feels secure.

Yes, and this is the part most people do not realise is on offer. As well as the free 100-question mock exam, you can have the complete course unlocked for three hours — all 6,357 questions, the timed mocks and the entire revision guide, with no card asked for. We email you a link and the clock starts when you click it, so you can pick a moment when you have a clear evening. Three hours is long enough to work through a subject properly and decide for yourself.

Three years from the day your account is opened. Most candidates buy about three months out, which is roughly how long a working dentist needs to get through the bank properly.

Your access is set up automatically the instant your payment succeeds, and an email with a link to choose your password arrives straight away — usually within a minute or two.

Fourteen days from your account opening, no reason needed, money back the way you paid and usually the same day you ask. That is the full statutory cancellation period and we do not ask you to sign any of it away. Because you can unlock the whole course for three hours before you spend anything, nobody should be buying blind in the first place. Outside the fourteen days, ask anyway — if something has gone wrong at our end or your circumstances have changed, we will look at it rather than point at a rule. And if the material is faulty or not as described, that is a separate right under the Consumer Rights Act 2015 with no time limit on it at all.

Write to us. Extending an account costs us nothing and exam dates move for reasons that are not your fault.

Yes. Everyone who buys is invited into the WhatsApp study group. Candidates use it to compare how they are preparing and to talk about the exam itself, and a mentor answers the questions the written explanations do not settle. Joining is optional, and bear in mind that a WhatsApp group shows your number to the other members.

No. There is one course per exam at £199 and everything is in it — the question bank and the written revision guide together, the timed mocks, the weakness report, your notes and bookmarks, and a place in the study group. There is no cheaper tier with pieces missing and no dearer one with extras, because a bank without a guide sends you looking things up elsewhere and a guide without a bank never tells you whether it went in.

Prices are in pounds. The payment page handles the conversion, and your bank may add its own fee for a foreign transaction — that fee is theirs, not ours.

Both are included in the £199 — there is nothing further to buy — but neither opens automatically. Send your exam booking confirmation to the admin team on WhatsApp and we open both for your sitting and set your exam date, which is also what turns on your daily pacing and your progress tracker. Accounts pause automatically two days after the exam they were opened for.

No, and it would not work even if it were allowed. The portal builds your weak-areas report from the questions you have answered, so two people answering into one account produce an average of two candidates — a picture of neither of you, sending you both to revise the wrong subjects. Passing the login on after your exam is worse again: the account carries the previous candidate's history, so the new one is told they are strong in subjects they have never opened. Each account signs in on one device at a time and every page carries a quiet watermark tied to it.

Yes, and your progress follows you. One account signs in on one device at a time, so you can move from phone to laptop freely, but the account cannot be shared between two people.

Partly. Material you have already opened is cached in your browser and keeps working on a poor connection. Signing in, and reaching material for the first time, needs a connection.

The weakness report measures it from the questions you have actually answered, worst first, by subject and by topic, with a practise button on every row. It is not a self-rating.

Yes, against any topic and any question, and they all collect in one place you can work through later.

Yes, as often as you like, and your results are kept so you can see the trend rather than one score.

Yes, and people do. If something about the portal would make it easier to work with — a different way to filter, something the report does not show you, a keyboard shortcut — write to us and say so. We will tell you honestly whether it is feasible and when, and quite a lot of what is in there now started as somebody's message. It is a small enough operation that a good suggestion can be in the product the same week.

Tell us. Corrections are the most useful message we get and they are made quickly. If you can say which question or topic and what the correct position is, better still.

No, and the site is built on that assumption. Every question is explained — the right answer and each wrong one — so a question you get wrong teaches you something rather than just costing a point. The guide is written in short sections with the doses, classifications and thresholds in tables. And the study group means self-study does not have to mean working it out alone.

Once your exam date is set — we set it from the booking confirmation you send us — the hub works out how many questions a day it takes to finish the bank in time, and tells you whether you are keeping up. The weakness report then tells you where to spend the time, measured from the questions you have actually answered rather than from how you feel about a subject.

That is the normal case for this exam, and the writing is pitched accordingly — plain sentences, no padding, and technical terms explained the first time they appear. If a topic still is not clear, that is worth telling us; it usually means the topic needs rewriting rather than that you need to read it again.

That depends on you, and anyone who gives you a number is guessing. What we can say is that 6,357 questions is a lot to get through around a clinical job, that most candidates buy about three months out, and that the hub will tell you honestly whether the pace you are keeping will finish it.

No. We are independent of the General Dental Council, the Royal Colleges and every examining body. We do not see the papers and we have no relationship with the examiners.

No, and nobody honestly can. Anyone offering you that is selling something.

The written stage of both registration routes is finished: ORE Part 1 and LDS Part 1 are both on sale. ORE Part 2, LDS Parts 2 and 3 and the MFDS are in preparation and will be announced here first.

It is cheaper since the May 2026 ORE fee change — roughly £4,550 against about £7,600 — but it is three parts rather than two and the new Part 2 format is unproven. We have written the comparison up in the guides section, with the figures sourced, and we have no reason to push you either way.