Background and aim: A goal of dental education is to enhance the ability of students to think critically and form their own opinions. A related trend in dental education is the desire to increase student exposure to the concepts and approaches on basic science subjects. The present study aims to evaluate how to approach different basic science subjects for preparations of exams in dentistry. Materials and methods: A questionnaire-based survey was conducted among 100 selected populations of random selection, the responses were collected in ‘google forms’ and the values were estimated in SPSS version [22.0]. Results:The distribution of factors affecting exam preparations where 29.49% of the participants responded to Unable to recall and review, 25.64% of the participants responded to fear of failure, 39.74% of the participants responded to lack of time before the exam and 5.13% of the participants responded to dietary habits. The majority of both UG and PG students responded to lack of time before the exam. There was no significant difference between the year of study and the preference of study material. Pearson chi-square test- 0.956 , Pvalue = 0.913 [>0.05] - statistically not significant Conclusion: Results obtained from this study show the awareness on how to approach the different basic science subjects for the preparation of exams in dentistry among the study population was very satisfactory.