General Dental Council: Overseas Registration Examination Study Guide
ORE Part 1 – Format
Part 1 of the test comprises two, three-hour written papers, undertaken on a computer and is made up of Extended Matching Questions (EMQs) and Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) in the form of Single Best Answer questions (SBAs).
Extended matching questions (EMQs)
Extended matching questions are grouped into themes. Each theme has a heading that tells you what the questions are about.
Within each theme there are several numbered items. These are the questions and the problems you have to solve. There are examples in the next section.
We recommend that you begin by reading carefully the instruction that precedes the numbered items.
We recommend that you consider each of the numbered items and decide what you think the answer is. You should then look for that answer in the list of options above the items (each of which is identified by a letter of the alphabet). If you cannot find the answer you have thought of, you should look for the option which, in your opinion, is the best answer to the problem posed.
For each numbered item, you must choose ONE, and only one, of the options. You may feel that there are several possible answers to an item, but you must choose the best one from the option list. If you enter more than one answer on the answer sheet you will gain no mark for the question even though you may have given the right answer along with one or more wrong ones.
On occasions you may feel that more than one option offers a credible answer. In such circumstances the examiners are looking for the single answer that is generally accepted to accord with current best practice or clinical guidelines.
In each theme there are more options than items, so not all the options will be used as answers. This is why the instruction says that some options may not be used at all.
Alternatively a given option may provide the answer to more than one item. For example, for two different scenarios the most likely diagnosis
Part 1 of the test comprises two, three-hour written papers, undertaken on a computer and is made up of Extended Matching Questions (EMQs) and Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) in the form of Single Best Answer questions (SBAs).
Extended matching questions (EMQs)
Extended matching questions are grouped into themes. Each theme has a heading that tells you what the questions are about.
Within each theme there are several numbered items. These are the questions and the problems you have to solve. There are examples in the next section.
We recommend that you begin by reading carefully the instruction that precedes the numbered items.
We recommend that you consider each of the numbered items and decide what you think the answer is. You should then look for that answer in the list of options above the items (each of which is identified by a letter of the alphabet). If you cannot find the answer you have thought of, you should look for the option which, in your opinion, is the best answer to the problem posed.
For each numbered item, you must choose ONE, and only one, of the options. You may feel that there are several possible answers to an item, but you must choose the best one from the option list. If you enter more than one answer on the answer sheet you will gain no mark for the question even though you may have given the right answer along with one or more wrong ones.
On occasions you may feel that more than one option offers a credible answer. In such circumstances the examiners are looking for the single answer that is generally accepted to accord with current best practice or clinical guidelines.
In each theme there are more options than items, so not all the options will be used as answers. This is why the instruction says that some options may not be used at all.
Alternatively a given option may provide the answer to more than one item. For example, for two different scenarios the most likely diagnosis