National MDCAT ELIGIBILITY, SYLLABUS, Medical Colleges MERIT: ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW
National
Medical and Dental Medical College Admission Test MDCAT is an entry test that is mandatory
to take admission in any Public or Private medical college of Pakistan to grab
MBBS or BDS degrees. National MDCAT is conducted by the National University of
Health Sciences NHS every year in September comprising the uniform syllabi for
all provinces of Pakistan. All admissions in Medical colleges on quota seats
also require a passed MDCAT test.
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WHY NATIONAL MDCAT TEST WAS NEEDED?
MDCAT was introduced in 1998 in Punjab province
to check the real competency of students looking forwardtakingtake medicine as a
career was soon followed by other provinces too. Earlier MDCAT was conducted by
every province separately and test results were used to get admissions in Medical
Colleges, anywhere in Pakistan. With time, it was observed that some admitting
universities consistently limited their question bank to reduce topics from the
FSc syllabus, resulting in an easier MDCAT exam for some compared to others.
The
inequality in the level of difficulty of different provincial MDCAT exams consistently
resulted in public objection, especially from Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. They
found the difficulty level of their MDCAT exams to be much higher than others,
resulting in their students obtaining lower marks than MDCAT candidates from
other provinces and regions. This also negatively affected the final merit of
these students due to other students giving easier MDCAT exams, thereby
acquiring higher marks. PMC introduced National MDCAT to curtail the negative merit
pressure from candidates.
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National MDCAT exam has set a “level playing field” for every candidate from
Pakistan in terms of merit to get admission in any Medical or Dental college.
NATIONAL SYLLABUS OF MDCAT
There is not any prescribed syllabus of MDCAT other than to thoroughly study and prepare from FSc textbooks of your exam boards.
There
were rumors of an ‘abrupt’ change of MDCAT syllabus and addition of topics out
of FSc level which strongly denied by PMC. According to the Pakistan medical council, the PMC correspondent,
‘The
PMC has not changed the MDCAT syllabus ‘abruptly’ or all for that matter. There exists no such syllabus for the MDCAT at all, therefore the issue
of PMC changing the syllabus should be rendered null and avoid.
The
MDCAT examination is based on selected topics from FSc syllabi for purpose of
limiting the scope of questions to remain in the domain of checking a student’s
aptitude to peruse higher medical education. These domains include requisite
knowledge in the disciplines of Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and English,
The Ministry of National Health services NHS stated that the purpose to introduce a
uniform syllabus for Medical and Dental College Admission Test MDCAT was to
provide a level playing field to students across the country.”
For
the sake of transparency, the PMC with the appeasement of all provinces has
reviewed and selected topics are included from FSc for National MDCAT. So, dear
students who are anxious about the syllabus of the National MDCAT, please don’t be.
Just go through properly and prepare MDCAT from your FSc textbooks, no matter
what province or region you’re from in Pakistan.
No
student in Pakistan needs to study beyond their FSc syllabus to appear in
MDCAT.
To see the included and excluded topics of Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and English National MDCAT then check in here:
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DOMICILE ISSUES IN MEDICAL COLLEGES ADMISSIONS
According
to PMC, there would be no provincial domicile restrictions for private medical colleges.
The final decision, however, left to the executive authority of each province.
STUDENTS CONCERNS ON NATIONAL MDCAT
The
National MDCAT exam however bothering many candidates across Pakistan and there
are concerns about the differences of contents under the same headings in
different FSc textbooks from different boards of Pakistan.
MDCAT TEST DATE AND REGISTRATION
The
date of the National MDCAT test is 15th November 2020 and registration
is in process. Examination centers will be allotted to candidates all across
the country including Azad Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan. A same and uniform National MDCAT exam will be
held on the same date in all centers. After the National MDCAT results, Medical
and dental colleges will announce admission dates and will formulate their merits.
ELIGIBILITY FOR MDCAT:
- Any student who attains above 70% marks in HSSC or A level result is eligible to apply in the MDCAT entry test.
- MDCAT Entry test is centralized and will be taken on the same date on allocated centers.
- The passing marks of the MDCAT entry test are 120/200 or
60%. If a student gets less than 120 or 60% marks in the MDCAT entry test
then he/she can't apply to any public medical college for admission.
- MDCAT 2019 date was August 25, 2019, where 74,000
students appeared in the MDCAT entry test, and about 5000 students attained
above 90% marks in the MDCAT entry test 2019.
- The test will be conducted on 15th November, 20 due to a pandemic break.
MDCAT Exam pattern 2021
- MDCAT entry test is an objective type test with 200
MCQs. MDCAT test is taken from four subjects Chemistry, Physics,
Biology, and English from the syllabus of FSc. It has 200 marks in total
where every question gets 1 mark. The highest score of the 2019 MDCAT entry
test was 199/200 from a candidate Abdul Hannan Rashid from Faisalabad.
- According to the notification of PMC, 'no topic will be
included outside prescribed Fs. Syllabi.
- Students will be given an objection form during exams to
record objections against any question.
- Any identified course question will be removed
from total scoring.
- Marks distribution of National MDCAT
Biology 80 marks
Chemistry 60 marks
Physics 40 marks
English 20 marks
- The students with SAT 2 result can opt for Math instead
of physics in the MDCAT entry test.
- Calculators are
not allowed in the MDCAT entry test.
- There is not any
negative marking for the wrong answer in the MDCAT entry test 2020.
MERIT FORMULATION OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL COLLEGES AFTER MDCAT
50% ENTRY TEST
50% FSc marks
- Matric or SSC
marks are not included in the merit of medical colleges. An aggregate of 50%
marks from HSSC and 50% marks from entry test are taken into consideration
while making the merit.
- A full 20-marks for Hifz e Quran are added in the aggregate
result of MDCAT after taking a proper Hifz e Quran test of the candidate which
no doubt has a great effect on merit.
- MDCAT FOR A LEVEL STUDENTS
- After the policy amendment by PMDC in 2020, A-level
students have an equal chance to apply and compete in the MDCAT entry test for
medical merit if they have attained above 70% marks in Cambridge or any other foreign examination. The medical merit for A-level students
is a 50% and entry test result and 50% MDCAT result will aggregate
merit. Luckily, O-level students don’t need to push towards Fsc. to
compete in MDCAT. They just require to revise their syllabus thoroughly,
solve MDCAT, and board past papers and practice online MCQs to achieve
high grades in MDCAT.
- NHS announced entry test dates and forms can be
downloaded from the official website of UHS. The MDCAT entry test form is
submitted with attested copies of CNIC, two passport size photographs,
educational certificates, B-form/birth certificate with fees of Rs 1500.
- Check National MDCAT result online Here:
- Want to know the merit list 2019 of top Medical Colleges in Pakistan then