Student currently enrolled in school taking NBDE Part I

[Shreya986]

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I am currently finishing up with my third year dental program and will graduate in 2013 and am planning on taking the NBDE Part-I in December 2011. I had two questions:

1. How long before the test can I register? Are there any constraints that I cannot register 3-4 months before the exam date? Also, how difficult is it to get a specific date?
2. Do I just need to send the Certificate of Eligibility form to JCNDE and then get my DENTPIN and apply for the test on Prometric? If so, when am I supposed to send my transcripts to ECE and request an application form to get them certified?

Any suggestions please?

 

[riseup]

I am currently finishing up with my third year dental program and will graduate in 2013 and am planning on taking the NBDE Part-I in December 2011. I had two questions:

1. How long before the test can I register? Are there any constraints that I cannot register 3-4 months before the exam date? Also, how difficult is it to get a specific date?
2. Do I just need to send the Certificate of Eligibility form to JCNDE and then get my DENTPIN and apply for the test on Prometric? If so, when am I supposed to send my transcripts to ECE and request an application form to get them certified?

Any suggestions please?

Get transcripts from ur school asap. Send them to ECE for a general evaluation. When you receive ur ECE report, make sure you have sent one copy to ADA. Send a certificate of eligibility signed by your dean to ADA. Register for Dentpin. Submit the part 1 electronic application and pay the fees (You should take the test within 1 year from the time you pay NBDE fees). Once you receive Eligibility letter from ADA, schedule your exam at prometric.com. You will get ur desired dates if you schedule your exam 3-4 months prior.

 

[Shreya986]

Thank you for your reply. In the NBDE Part I guide, it is mentioned that currently enrolled students have to just send a Certification of Eligibility form to ADA (Page No: 3 in this document). Can you please look at it once?

As I mentioned in my original post, I am entering my fourth year and my third year results are not yet out so even if I do get my transcripts, I can get them for my first two years. Is that ok?

 

[Shreya986]

Anyone? 🙁

 

[asd1234]

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[Shreya986]

Thank you for the information. I just wasn't sure if ECE would require me to get them re-approved after I graduate because then, I would have to send all my transcripts anyways. In any case, I will send them the transcripts as you suggested.

 

[alin1390]

Thank you for the information. I just wasn't sure if ECE would require me to get them re-approved after I graduate because then, I would have to send all my transcripts anyways. In any case, I will send them the transcripts as you suggested.

I took NBDE last year when I was still a student at non-accredited dental school. All I had to do was get my dean to sign the certificate of eligibility and send that in. I didn't have to go through ECE.

 

[Shreya986]

Oh Great! Just what I wanted to hear. If you don't mind me asking, does a non-accredited school automatically mean non-accredited dental program? I am not sure which country you are from but in India, I must assume both my dental school and dental program are non-accredited.

 

[begottedBDS]

If I am not wrong you have plans to take the exams in december 2011. I would strongly advice you to postpone the test in 2012 due to the change of the reporting scores. If you do not know yet.... from 2012 onwards they are only reporting pass or fail and no scores. so if you take it in december they will report your score.. so if you are 100% confident of scoring above 90 then go ahead ..otherwise follow my advice.

 

[Shreya986]

Yes. I was thinking of the same but one big disadvantage of the new system is that if we are given only Pass/Not Pass, then when applying to schools, they will look at my undergraduate performance and give it more weightage. When they convert my undergraduate percentage to GPA, then I will be losing an edge over other candidates. I will try to give it my best shot and see how much I will score in the mock tests first.