Last updated 10 September 2026
An independent revision aid for candidates preparing for Part 1 of the Overseas Registration Examination. It brings the things you would otherwise juggle across several places into one: a question bank, full timed mock papers, flashcards, and study notes.
No. Vertex Revision 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.
Our questions are not real exam questions. They are written by us as practice material to the ORE Part 1 blueprint. They are not past examination papers, and they are not reproductions or recollections of real examination questions. If you find a site selling you the actual exam, that is a different and much more serious matter than revision.
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 cites 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 [email protected] 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.
2,200+ questions across the question bank and four 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.
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.
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.
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.
Like the real thing: one full paper is 200 exam-style questions in 3 hours. There are two full mocks — Mock 1 and Mock 2 — each with a Paper A and a Paper B, so four papers and 800 questions to practise on, with more on the way.
50% is the pass mark for a paper, and to pass a full mock you need to reach 50% in both Paper A and Paper B — one strong paper does not carry a weak one. Afterwards you get a topic-by-topic breakdown showing where the marks went.
It is the pass mark we apply to our papers, so that practising here feels like the real constraint. It is our figure for our material — the GDC sets and publishes the standard for the actual examination, and only their version counts.
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.
Sign-ups are not open yet. Vertex Revision is still being finished, and access is invitation-only while that is true. If you would like to be told when it opens, email [email protected] and we will come back to you. We would rather say that plainly than take registrations for something you cannot use yet.
Nothing is chargeable today, and there is no checkout. When paid access opens, the price, what each plan includes, how it renews, and your cancellation and refund rights will all be written down and shown to you before you are asked to pay for anything. We are not going to publish a price we might change.
While access is invitation-only, an account existing is not the same as an account being switched on. If you were expecting access and do not have it, email [email protected] from the address you registered with.
Yes. Your display name is editable from the home screen, and you can reset your password from the sign-in screen using Forgot password — that sends a link to your email address.
There is a Delete account button on the home screen, next to Sign out. You 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.
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.
Only if you agree to it. Nothing analytical loads until you accept it on the cookie notice — refusing means the analytics never runs at all, rather than running quietly. If your browser sends a "do not track" or "global privacy control" signal, we treat that as a refusal and do not even show you the notice.
Cookie settings in the footer of the app 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.
In Ireland, inside the European Economic Area, which the UK recognises as providing adequate protection. Section 11 of the privacy policy covers this.
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We aim to reply within five working days. Please do not email passwords, card details, or anything about a real patient.
Please tell us and we will try. We would rather hear about a barrier than assume there isn't one — if something is hard to read, hard to reach by keyboard, or does not work with the assistive technology you use, email [email protected] and describe what happened. We are not claiming a formal accessibility standard, because this app has not yet been independently tested against one, and we would rather say so than claim a badge we have not earned.
They do. This page exists to explain things in plain language, not to change them — if it ever disagrees with the terms of use or the privacy policy, those documents are the ones that count, and we would like to know about the contradiction so we can correct it.