Do you just waste time if you fail board licensing exam like WREB?

[Harry747]

I was wondering what happens if you fail the WREB exam. Passing rate isn't 100% so definitely there are some students who fail the exam. Sometimes it's not your day and your pt gets rejected or you mess up something whatever the reason is I have seen good students failing and some average passing it. In short I just want to know what you can do if you failed that exam. Obviously you can't work as a dentist. To be on a safer side is it in our benefit if we apply for a residency in advance so we can start it just after graduation and later retake the exam if we had to?
Waiting for your opinions. Thanks.

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[ubdental]

I was wondering what happens if you fail the WREB exam. Passing rate isn't 100% so definitely there are some students who fail the exam. Sometimes it's not your day and your pt gets rejected or you mess up something whatever the reason is I have seen good students failing and some average passing it. In short I just want to know what you can do if you failed that exam. Obviously you can't work as a dentist. To be on a safer side is it in our benefit if we apply for a residency in advance so we can start it just after graduation and later retake the exam if we had to?
Waiting for your opinions. Thanks.

It is best to take the exam upon graduating dental school. If you are one of the few who do not pass, you will be given a chance to remediate whatever area you were deficient in. Prepare well for the exam, have faith in yourself and go for it. You'll pass!

 

[Quattro DMD]

I was wondering what happens if you fail the WREB exam. Passing rate isn't 100% so definitely there are some students who fail the exam. Sometimes it's not your day and your pt gets rejected or you mess up something whatever the reason is I have seen good students failing and some average passing it. In short I just want to know what you can do if you failed that exam. Obviously you can't work as a dentist. To be on a safer side is it in our benefit if we apply for a residency in advance so we can start it just after graduation and later retake the exam if we had to?
Waiting for your opinions. Thanks.

If you fail 2 or less portions of the exam you can retake just those portions but if you fail 3 or more sections you have to repeat the entire thing. We took our exam so close to graduation (1 week before) that if you failed a part you would need to go to LA to take the next one in August. In which case you would be killing time for 2 1/2 months.....that is unless you did residency.

 

[Harry747]

If you fail 2 or less portions of the exam you can retake just those portions but if you fail 3 or more sections you have to repeat the entire thing. We took our exam so close to graduation (1 week before) that if you failed a part you would need to go to LA to take the next one in August. In which case you would be killing time for 2 1/2 months.....that is unless you did residency.

@Quattro DMD That's what I wanted to know. @Ubdental,I am not saying that I want to avoid the license exam. But as you all know applications for residency start way before we give our license exam. Thanks to both of you.

 

[Kidzteeth]

Just know that some residencies do require you to be licensed in that state while other residencies don't require you to be licensed at all