Free ORE Part 1 mock test

A sample of the paper at the real pace

The mini-mock is 25 questions from Paper A and Paper B with the clock set at 54 seconds a question, 22 minutes 30 seconds in all. You can move freely between questions, flag any you want to come back to and review them before you submit. The result shows your score by subject and a chart of the time you spent on each question.

It is a sample of a paper. Each real paper has 200 questions in three hours, and the two papers are taken on consecutive days. Longer timed papers are part of the platform, described on the mock exams page, with plans on the pricing page.

The GDC and the provider do not publish the on-screen tools of the live exam, including whether questions can be flagged and reviewed. The provider's short familiarisation exercise, listed in the sources below, shows the exam system itself, and the provider states that it is not a mock examination.

Pace checkpoints

At 54 seconds a question, a 200-question paper reaches question 50 at 45 minutes, question 100 at 1 hour 30 minutes and question 150 at 2 hours 15 minutes. Each stem of an extended matching theme is one question worth one mark, so a theme counts as several questions against the clock. The pace chart in your result shows where the time went, whether on the first few questions, in a slow patch in the middle or in a rush at the end.

Reading the result

Each subject in the result rests on a few questions, so read it as a pointer to what to revise next, and read the rationale for every question you missed or flagged. The ORE pass mark is a normalised 50% on each paper and the raw score behind it is not published, so a mini-mock percentage cannot be read as a pass or a fail. Both papers must be passed at the same sitting, so timed practice needs to cover both.

Where timed papers fit

A short timed paper early on shows the pace before the content is complete. Full-length papers are most useful once you have covered every subject in both papers, when the result can still direct the final weeks. After each one, sort the wrong answers by cause: a gap in knowledge, a UK rule that differs from the way you practised, or time running out. The practice questions page is the place to work on a subject untimed, and the exam dates page counts the weeks to your sitting.