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Singapore Dental Council

Format of QE

Learn about examination components, assessment methods, and testing format for dental registration.

Last updated 7 April 2025

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Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

The Qualifying Examination (QE) will take on a new format comprising three parts:

Part 1

Part 1 will consist of three sections, namely:

  • Medicine & Surgery, Pharmacology and Dental Materials

  • Physiology and Anatomy

  • Biochemistry, Pathology, Microbiology and Oral Biology

Part 2

Part 2 consists of an assessment of the competence of a dentist in simulating the preparation and restoration of a diseased tooth or teeth on a simulator in the

  • preparation of a Class II cavity, and the

  • preparation of a crown with fabrication of a provisional crown

Part 3

Part 3 comprises :

  1. the assessment of knowledge of the clinical dental disciplines expected of a new dental graduate through written essays, and

  2. an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) consisting of a circuit of assessment stations on clinical dentistry. The clinical dental disciplines comprise Prosthodontics, Endodontics, Operative Dentistry, Oral Surgery (including Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology), Periodontics, Paediatric Dentistry, Orthodontics, Preventive Dentistry and Dental Public Health.