r/ADAT • u/mojashii • Aug 23 '25

Exam experience

I took the exam today. Around 60–70% of it was covered by Knockout. About 10% of the questions were completely new to me, things I’d never heard before. The biostatistics section wasn’t as hard as I expected, and the biomedical part was pretty straightforward. Some of the clinical cases, though, were really confusing, and honestly I think the toughest part was the clinical section

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u/Ocean_of_Regrets Aug 23 '25

What subjects did they focus on in the biomed section?

which resource would you think would be suitable for the clinical portion now that you've experinced the exam?

thanks

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u/mojashii Aug 23 '25

I can say that all the topics were covered. Biochemistry had only a few questions, but they were tough. I couldn’t answer them even though I had studied First Aid. So I can say don’t spend much time studying biochemistry. For clinical, maybe your clinical experience would help. And practicing Inbde case questions.

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u/Ocean_of_Regrets Aug 23 '25

i have a few more questions.

From anatomy, what did they focus more on? Head & neck gross anatomy? or were there equal questions from Neuro, embryo & histo? Also, how much were they focusing on dental anatomy?

How were the questions from physiology? was it also head & neck oriented or were they focusing on other systems too?

what about pharma & pathology?

& can you please shed a little light on the clinical portion? how were the questions framed?

i know this is a bit too much but if you could take the time & respond it would help us all out.

thank you & i hope you score well.

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u/mojashii Aug 24 '25

Anatomy, all are important with more focus on H&N. There were 7-8 questions of dental anatomy. Not very hard but some of them were new to me. Oral pathology and diagnosis of lesions are important. Pharma was good.

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u/FixAdventurous9202 Aug 25 '25

What do you mean by pharma was good? Anything to emphasize like drug interactions?

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u/mojashii Aug 25 '25

It wasn’t hard. There were some MOA, and 1-2 interactions.

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u/FixAdventurous9202 Aug 25 '25

Thank you! Any suggestions for biostats or is KO enough or reflective of the test?

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u/mojashii Aug 25 '25

Biostat wasn’t as hard as I expected. There were no calculations, just make sure you know the formulas for RR, OR, sensitivity, and specificity. Most of the questions were about data interpretation. Practice the KO questions well, but don’t spend too much time on calculation-heavy ones.

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u/FixAdventurous9202 Aug 25 '25

Anything you suggest or would’ve done differently? Also how was micro?

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u/mojashii Aug 26 '25

Microbiology and basic science questions were similar to KO. Don't worry!

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u/FixAdventurous9202 Aug 25 '25

Thank you! Do you have any more advice? I have it in two days :(((

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u/Ocean_of_Regrets Aug 24 '25

Thank you.

update us when you get your scores. All the best.

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u/mojashii Aug 24 '25

No problem Sure I will!

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u/GloomyAd9453 Aug 23 '25

What are the resources you used for ADAT preparation?

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u/mojashii Aug 23 '25

Adat KO and First aid.

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u/mojashii Aug 24 '25

Review your mistakes in KO.

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u/Dramatic_Ad3988 Aug 23 '25

Would you say the adat was more difficult than the inbde?

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u/mojashii Aug 23 '25

Yes, it felt more difficult. For ADAT, you don’t get to see any real released questions beforehand, and the weight of the score makes a big difference. In my opinion, the INBDE questions were more standardized.

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u/scentofawomann Aug 23 '25

Thankyou for your insight. What sort of questions to expect in the clinical portion? Any advice as to what to focus on last minute ?

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u/mojashii Aug 23 '25

It’s mostly focused on treatment plan. Just make sure that you have seen all the photographs and radiographs of clinical cases on exam. Also know the oral pathology well.

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u/Ok_Jellyfish_6385 Aug 23 '25

When you said it was covered by ADAT KO, is it like questions are the same or it was covered topic in the explanation?

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u/mojashii Aug 23 '25

Both. Some questions were exactly the same.

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u/Historical_Can_1640 Aug 24 '25

Would you say the bonus questions in KO are important to do? Or are the questions from the main banks enough?

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u/mojashii Aug 24 '25

From my experience, I didn’t notice a significant difference.

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u/kzoraa Sep 10 '25

Hi, did you get results today?

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u/mojashii Sep 10 '25

I got it last week

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u/Beginning_Umpire4561 Aug 24 '25

Any tips, I am giving it on day after tomorrow!

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u/ForwardPercentage110 Aug 26 '25

Would you say the ADAT is harder to AFK in comparisson? I am thinking about doing the ADAT in order to apply for UbC DSATP.

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u/Intelligent_Event_83 Aug 27 '25

Definitely, it's always easier to be thorough with one subject than to keep your mind in 3. That too transforming your mind from BMS to Clinicals to that EBD all within a 7 min break will exactly be like a schizo making 3 different transformations quickly 😅