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NEBDN 2025 exam Dental Nursing Nov

Hi all, I was just wondering how everyone feels for the Friday exam. I am starting to worry as previous comments stated that the exam is not easy and most topics were not in the exam or half related to nurses.

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Reply 1

Im anxious too ... you are not alone

Reply 2

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by Fern-520
Im anxious too ... you are not alone

I honestly feel I have revised. But, people have put so many different thoughts of the last exam. Good luck to you!

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by Lauren030920
I honestly feel I have revised. But, people have put so many different thoughts of the last exam. Good luck to you!

As someone who fails last exams I guarantee there is some questions way too complicated for the course which claims can be done in one year... fir instance law stuff is something we learn in not a very good way as (I don't know you all But on my experience) we are way too busy learning the clinical stuff and then Dr and registered nurses do this things so quick that you not able to process the information...
I think we should have a few exams with themes that will be on the exams so we would know better what to study and by saying this we would focus on the area for the exams but instead we have to know all in a short period ...

what I mean is while we learn /we work (I full time)/ we study/ we write ROE (and it is a lot)/ and if dentists and registered nurses are willing to help fantastic if not you will be for a long period depending only on you for things you are just starting learning

They could do a exams for each entire pers concluded or again do a maybe 3 exams after we finish roe and tell us what will be e.g.: exams 1 : laws/ exams 2 clinical and so on.

Most of the registered nurses (my experience)didnt know how to help I had a colleague (student) knew more than the registered staff... perhaps because they study everything in one go then after passed forgot everything?

Let me know your thoughts and if you agreed

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by Fern-520
As someone who fails last exams I guarantee there is some questions way too complicated for the course which claims can be done in one year... fir instance law stuff is something we learn in not a very good way as (I don't know you all But on my experience) we are way too busy learning the clinical stuff and then Dr and registered nurses do this things so quick that you not able to process the information...
I think we should have a few exams with themes that will be on the exams so we would know better what to study and by saying this we would focus on the area for the exams but instead we have to know all in a short period ...
what I mean is while we learn /we work (I full time)/ we study/ we write ROE (and it is a lot)/ and if dentists and registered nurses are willing to help fantastic if not you will be for a long period depending only on you for things you are just starting learning
They could do a exams for each entire pers concluded or again do a maybe 3 exams after we finish roe and tell us what will be e.g.: exams 1 : laws/ exams 2 clinical and so on.
Most of the registered nurses (my experience)didnt know how to help I had a colleague (student) knew more than the registered staff... perhaps because they study everything in one go then after passed forgot everything?
Let me know your thoughts and if you agreed

Hi how are you feeling now about it tomorrow?

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by Lauren030920
Hi how are you feeling now about it tomorrow?

Im okay I'm trying to not think too much as this is not good and affect my sleep too. I don't know if you are aware of but the students scores in order to pass is based on the student who scored higher, so if the student who scored higher is 100% ( I hope will be me 😁) the pressure is higher for the rest of the students if the student who score most scored 60% then the next one to pass can score even 50%...

Good luck for me and for you darling

Reply 6

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by Fern-520
Im okay I'm trying to not think too much as this is not good and affect my sleep too. I don't know if you are aware of but the students scores in order to pass is based on the student who scored higher, so if the student who scored higher is 100% ( I hope will be me 😁) the pressure is higher for the rest of the students if the student who score most scored 60% then the next one to pass can score even 50%...
Good luck for me and for you darling
Good luck! How do you know that?

Reply 7

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by Lauren030920
Good luck! How do you know that?

My colleague tutor from her school told her

Reply 8

Wow that was frightening

Reply 9

That was awful :frown:

Reply 10

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by Ges21
That was awful :frown:
Okay so it was not just me thankfully. Hopefully we have done okay I hope.

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by Lauren030920
Wow that was frightening

Some questions made me sweat

Reply 12

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by Ges21
That was awful :frown:

I agree ... do you think you did well?? Me i'm not so sure anymore

Reply 13

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by Fern-520
I agree ... do you think you did well?? Me i'm not so sure anymore


I’m not so sure myself either but hope we answered enough questions correctly to pass 🤞🏾

Reply 14

Sat the NEBDN Diploma in Dental Nursing exam today, and honestly, I’m feeling pretty deflated. None of the material we were given, or anything that came up in the mocks or prep sessions, was actually on the paper. It felt completely different to what we’d been told to expect.
I came out of it really confused and a bit frustrated almost like we were set up to fail. I revised so hard using all the recommended resources, but it didn’t seem to help at all. Just wondering if anyone else felt the same or if it was just me?

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by DrNs20
Sat the NEBDN Diploma in Dental Nursing exam today, and honestly, I’m feeling pretty deflated. None of the material we were given, or anything that came up in the mocks or prep sessions, was actually on the paper. It felt completely different to what we’d been told to expect.
I came out of it really confused and a bit frustrated almost like we were set up to fail. I revised so hard using all the recommended resources, but it didn’t seem to help at all. Just wondering if anyone else felt the same or if it was just me?
Yeah, I thought exactly the same to be honest but hopefully with all that have felt the same way we could possibly pass? I revised all topics etc and in depth and felt defeated too.

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by DrNs20
Sat the NEBDN Diploma in Dental Nursing exam today, and honestly, I’m feeling pretty deflated. None of the material we were given, or anything that came up in the mocks or prep sessions, was actually on the paper. It felt completely different to what we’d been told to expect.
I came out of it really confused and a bit frustrated almost like we were set up to fail. I revised so hard using all the recommended resources, but it didn’t seem to help at all. Just wondering if anyone else felt the same or if it was just me?

I agree with you ... and again as a person who fail before, I think they do in purpose so students failing means we have to pay again until pass... my dentist (which is about to retire) told me that back in the days, if someone wants to became a dental nurse they just come in the clinic and start to work and learn ( he said apparently those nurses were better as they work and learn and the dentist would be referring those trainees to the GDC once the dentist thought they were ready to receive their certificate, the organisation saw that there was a opportunity to charge anyone who wants that qualification so they created schools, back then without a school pressure all they had to do is : have a good willing to learn in their pace and be patient with the process as it is a lot of information to learn, unlike the dental nurses school selling for us that we will became a dental nurse in just one year and yet under the pressure to write ROE /study/ pass still worrying as we dont earn much as trainee but expected to pay enrollment tuitions / exams).

Therefore yes it does look like they set up us to fail because if we do fail we have to keeping paying and it's not cheap 😪😪

Reply 17

Does anyone know why we have to wait such a long time for our results to come back? It is making me anxious

Reply 18

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by Ges21
Does anyone know why we have to wait such a long time for our results to come back? It is making me anxious

As far as I know results are based on the students who scored most, from that punctuation nebdn will decide the pass scores for instance if the best student scored 100% the following ones in order to pass needs to score at least 65%...and so on... therefore takes time to find out who scored most and who will pass... if the best student scored 65% of the questions so the following ones will need at least a percentage bellow...which means that percentage bellow wouldn't be accepted if the best student scored 100%.

So 1st they need to find out who score best then from that score create a criteria of percentage of pass for the following students which scored less
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Reply 19

Anybody getting anxious for next week?

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