DHA exam format and pass mark by title.

How to read this table

Find your title in the table for your profession. Each row shows the number of questions, the stated time and the pass score exactly as DHA prints them in its CBT Guideline. The code is the one DHA gives that title.

The time is the stated length of the whole exam appointment. DHA says the duration includes the registration, the process introduction and the exam content, so the time you have for answering is shorter than the hours shown. DHA does not say how long registration and the introduction take.

The pass score is a percentage of the questions. DHA also says it may activate or deactivate a specialty assessment, and change the assessment content, the exam format or the pass score, without updating the guideline. Read every figure as the position on the date we checked it.

A title that is not in the guideline is assessed by an oral assessment instead, for example certain consultant titles for physicians and dentists. This page does not cover the oral assessment.

The five categories at a glance

The table shows, for each category in the guideline, how many titles it lists and the range of questions, time and pass score across them. Allied health includes the 3 pharmacist titles, because DHA files them there.

Nurses and midwives

Registered Nurse and Assistant Nurse are each 150 questions in 3 hours at 50 percent. Registered Midwife is also 50 percent, but it is a separate exam with its own content. The Assistant Midwife (In-active) title is listed at 45 percent, the lowest pass score in the guideline.

Physicians

General Practice is 150 questions in 3 hours at 60 percent. The guideline lists 37 specialist titles with pass scores from 55 to 70 percent, and 6 consultant titles, all at 70 percent with 100 questions. Specialist Hematopathology also has 100 questions, and Laser Hair Reduction is a short privilege exam.

A single pass mark for doctors, which some preparation material quotes, does not match the guideline.

Dentists

General Dentist is 150 questions in 3 hours at 60 percent. Implantology is 65 percent. The 8 specialist titles are 60 percent and the 7 consultant titles are 70 percent with 100 questions.

Pharmacists

DHA lists Pharmacist, Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Technician under Allied Healthcare, not as a category of their own, so they are shown together here. Pharmacist is 150 questions in 3 hours at 60 percent.

Allied health

The guideline lists 47 allied health titles, including the pharmacist titles above. Pass scores run from 50 to 70 percent, and the question count is 70 to 150. Most are 150 questions in 3 hours. Aesthetician, Cast Technician, Operation Theatre Technician and Technologist are 100 questions in 2 hours, Laser Hair Reduction Technician is 70 questions in 2 hours, and Speech Therapist is 100 questions in 3 hours. The table below leaves out the pharmacist titles, which are in the table above.

TCIM practitioners

Traditional, complementary and integrative medicine practitioners (acupuncture, ayurveda, hijama, homeopathy and unani) each sit 100 questions in 2 hours with a 60 percent pass score.

What DHA does not state

These are the things candidates often ask about and that DHA does not say in the documents we read. Where you see them stated as fact elsewhere, treat them as reported, not official.

What can change and what this page cannot tell you

DHA can change the exam format, the content and the pass score without a new edition of the guideline, so a number on this page can be out of date even if the guideline still shows it. The cover date tells you when DHA last refreshed the document, not when each figure was set.

The pass score is not a prediction of your result and not a target for mock scores. DHA reports pass or fail only, and calculates results using domain weights that it does not publish. The table says what DHA states, nothing more.

Sources and how we checked

We read the guideline on 15 October 2026 and checked all 118 rows against the PDF again on 16 October 2026. We also used the Manual for DHA Professional Assessment for the rules on duration, results and attempts. Meddex is independent and not connected to DHA or Prometric. The links below go to the documents themselves.