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hello, everybody, i'm new here, nice to see you all. 🙂 🙂 I have practiced dentistry for 3 years and my speciality is implantology. I hold a master's degree in dentistry and wish to practice in the states. 😳 I need some information about the process, please allow me to ask the following silly questions:

1. How long dose it normally take to prepare for Part I? i have not taken NBDE, do i still stand any chance to apply for next year's (i mean to enter dental school in 2007) DMD program? Can i take the computer based test anytime in the year ?
2. Do i have to be in the states to apply for dental school?
3. Can anybody give me a list of reference books needed for preparing NBDE part I?
4. Dose working experiences add weight to my application? or, the addmition committee prefer candidates who are practicing dentists or those without working experience in dentistry?
5. My paper-based tofel score is 647, but AWE is only 4, dose this meet the requirment of dental school?

THANK YOU VERY MUCH, WISH YOU ALL THE BEST! 🙂 🙂

 

[sp78]

Hi,

Please take out some time and look through the sdn previous threads and you will find answers to almost all your questions.

www.ada.org/prof/ed/testing/natboard/content.asp


Thia will give the exam dates and format.

Hope this helps.

 

[will-be-fine]

hi, i checked the ADA websites, but got no sepecific information with regarding to my quesions, could anybody please give a brief answer to these questions? many thanks! 🙂 🙂

Besides, is a second freign language other than english valuable in application?( English and German are the 2 foreign languages i speak)

 

[rahmed]

hello, everybody.....please allow me to ask the following silly questions:

1. How long dose it normally take to prepare for Part I? i have not taken NBDE, do i still stand any chance to apply for next year's (i mean to enter dental school in 2007) DMD program? Can i take the computer based test anytime in the year ?
2. Do i have to be in the states to apply for dental school?
3. Can anybody give me a list of reference books needed for preparing NBDE part I?
4. Dose working experiences add weight to my application? or, the addmition committee prefer candidates who are practicing dentists or those without working experience in dentistry?
5. My paper-based tofel score is 647, but AWE is only 4, dose this meet the requirment of dental school?.......

1. Depends on you. 2-6 months. Yes if you pass NBDE I by August 2006. Yes
2. No and yes. You can send applications from outside US but you have to be in US for attending interviews.
3. A list of reference books are in ADA.org website.
4. Yes. Working experience requirement varies from school to school but having experience will not go against applicant!
5. Please check with individual school website for TOEFL requirement, as it varies once again.

I hope now you have got the brief response you were looking for.

Good luck,
rahmed

 

[will-be-fine]

thank you very much for the reply, can you give me a rough idea about the second foreign language? is it useful or not in application? thank you again!

 

[rahmed]

thank you very much for the reply, can you give me a rough idea about the second foreign language? is it useful or not in application? thank you again!

Not really, unless it is Spanish.

 

[BDS-DMD]

My paper-based tofel score is 647

Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought the max score of TOEFL is 600.

 

[fido!]

that is not true!!the max.score for pbt is 677!

http://ftp.ets.org/pub/toefl/989551.pdf

look for page 36

My paper-based tofel score is 647

Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought the max score of TOEFL is 600.

 

[fido!]

"but AWE is only 4, dose this meet the requirment of dental school?'

what is 'AWE'?

 

[BDS-DMD]

Thanks for letting me know. I did not know anything about the PBT at all.

 

[fido!]

you are most welcome!

Thanks for letting me know. I did not know anything about the PBT at all.