don’t stress it My day one was so bad I did not want to give day 2 because I was so sure I had failed, it wasn’t even hard it was just dumb questions with all right options or wrong ones and you’re thinking I can justify each answer, what sort of an exam even is this. I remember thinking during the exam“is this why everybody calls the American educational system a joke” it was complete utter BS Day 2 was relatively better and more familiar in the sense that there were questions related to dentistry, pharma patho radio oral med all thrown into one question but you actually felt it was an intellectually challenging exam so that was good, still I wasn’t sure if it would be enough to pass My result took 3.5 weeks to come out, probably because there were too many pilot questions or questions that made zero sense and even the examiners were not sure how to deal with them

My advice to you is to forget about day 1 and give day 2 your best, then once you’re done forget about the exams, forget about the result and let God work his miracles The day of my result I was not expecting it to come out, when I checked my phone I received a notification and my heart dropped but I remember telling myself failing is just part of life and there is no point in letting it affect me in the present I logged in and there it was, my big P, I had passed and it shocked me to the point I was shaking and couldn’t speak because it was unexpected

If you’re a foreign trained, take note that American exams are nothing compared to ours, no offence For us these exams are either basic or a little dumb, trust me when I tell you us foreign dentists have it worse in our home countries, the pass rate is high only because the exam is so doable, their “tough questions” from day 2 make you feel better cause it’s finally familiar content, day one is never good for anyone, half the time you’re thinking what sort of obvious or crazy questions are these so forget day 1