PRE-MEDICAL ENTRANCE EXAM

Career in Medicine, besides being one of the noble professions, continues to hold considerable attraction for students looking for respectable and everative jobs. It offers rewarding career opportunities both in service sector as well as in private practice. It affords you an opportunity to serve the people and make good earning. But the study in Medicine is not an easy job. It needs lot of hard work and long study hours during course of your study. And equally difficult is getting admitted to the course because of the limited number of seats available in the existing medical colleges comparing the large number of aspirants competing for these seats.

Besides MBBS, Dental, Homeopathy, Pharmacy, Nursing, Ayurvedic Medicine, ----- Medicine, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy etc. are also important branches of Medicine. In most of the cases domicile condition is applicable, there are institutions which offer admissions on All-India basis by conducting competitive entrance tests.

Main Categories

1. CBSE - All India Basis Exam

2. BHU

3. AIIMS

4. AFMC

5. CPMT

6. All State level Combined Entrance Test (CET) Bihar CET, Haryana CET, Punjab CET, Karnatka CET…….

7. DPMT Exams are Conducted in: From May of every year till end of June every year

Eligibility: Indian Nationals

Age: 17 years on December 31 of the year of admission

Academic Qualification: 12 years Sr. Sec. Exam with 50% (40% for SC/ST) aggregate marks in English, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and English. Passed at higher secondary. Candidates should be medically fit.

Entrance exam: Consist of one paper in Physics, Chemistry and Biology (Botany and Zoology)(combined) of 2.1/2 hours duration and carries 800 marks. The question are of objective type with negative marks for incorrect response. The syllabus for the entrance exam is given in the bulletin of information.

Medium / Language: Hindi / English


Pre-Medical Entrance Examination

The profession of medicine is directly related to the well-being of the humanity and is rightly considered to be a noble profession.

General Guidelines for Admission: Medical colleges in India follow a different type of admissions of students. In private medical colleges 50% of the seats for undergraduate course (MBBS) are known as merit seats, and other 50% are called payment seats. The 15% of the payment seats can be filled by the NRI / Foreign Students. The admissions to merit as well as payment seats are made through an open competitive process. All private as well as govt. medical institutes, for admission, follow the

eligibility criteria prescribed by their respective university, however, in general terms the candidates seeking admission to a medical college should have passed Senior Secondary Examination of CBSE or its equivalent with Physics, Chemistry & Biology with 50% marks. All Government Medical Colleges except those in the state of Andhra Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir, have 15% seats reserved for admissions for the students from other states. For this, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) conducts All India Entrance Examination. The information on eligibility conditions, applications, and entrance examination procedure for these 15% seats is as under:

Eligibility: Indian Nationals Age: 17 years on December 31 of the year of admission

Academic Qualification: 12 years Sr. Sec. Exam with 50% (40% for SC/ST) aggregate marks in English, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and English. Passed at higher secondary.Candidates should be medically fit. Application Procedure: Application form and Bulletin of Information can be obtained on cash payments of Rs. 135/- including exam fee (Rs. 60/- for SC/ST) from the no.

1 Entrance exam: Consist of one paper in Physics, Chemistry and Biology (Botany and Zoology)(combined) of 2.1/2 hours duration and carries 800 marks.

The question are of objective type with negative marks for incorrect response. The syllabus for the entrance exam is given in the bulletin of information.

Medium / Language: Hindi / English Centers: Agartala, Ahmedabad, Shillong and Trivandrum Result: The CBSE conducts the exam, evaluates the answer scripts, prepares the merit / waiting list and notifies the result in leading newspapers. A copy of the merit / waiting list of candidates is forwarded to the Director General of Health Services who allocate the seats at medical / dental college. In case of a tie, intense merit is determined on marks in Zoology, Botany, Chemistry and Physics.

PRE-MEDICAL ENTRANCE EXAMINATION

The profession of medicines is directly related to the well being of the humanity an is rightly considered to be a noble profession.

CBSE: CBSE has certain seats reserved for itself in most of the prestigious Medical Colleges in India. CBSE conducts a pre-medical Test called CBSE-PMT which is generally conducted in the 2nd week of May. Approximately 2000 students are selected and the allotment of colleges is based on ranking. There are other prestigious Medical Colleges.

Qualification: The Higher secondary Examination or the Indian School Certificate Examination which is equivalent to 10+2. Higher / Senior Secondary Examination after a period of 12 years study, the last two years of study comprising of Physics, Chemistry, Biology with English at a level not less than the core course for english prescribed by NCERT after the introduction of the 10+2+3 years educational structure as recommended by the National committee on Education. Candidates for admission to the medical / dental course must have obtained not less than 50% (40% for SC/ ST/ OBC) of the total marks in English, Physics, Chemistry and Biology taken together at qualifying examination. All those candidates who have appeared or are appearing at the qualifying examination and aspect to pass the examination with the required percentage of the total marks in aggregate are also eligible to apply and appear in the competitive entrance examination.

Entrance Examination: The examination will have one paper consisting or Physics, Chemistry and Biology of 2.5 years duration. There will be 200 objective type questions carrying 800 marks.

Medium: Both Hindi and English Examination

Centers: Itanagar, Agartala, Port Blair, Shillong, Imphal, Panaji, Pondicherry, Patna, Chandigarh, Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Nagpur, Bangalore, Trivandrum, Chennai, Guwahati, Calcutta, Bhubneshwar, Jaipur, Bhopal, Shimla, Delhi.

Selection: A merit list of all successful candidates shall also be prepared by the Board in order of merit. The results are published in the leading newspapers.

Last date: The last date of receipt of application form / fee by registered post is usually in 1st or 2nd week of February. Banaras Hindu University BHU - Medical Examination Banaras Hindu University conducts its Entrance Tests usually during May-June for admission. Admissions are done according to merit in the Entrance Tests, Subject to fulfiling of eligibility requirements. Entrance Test, Admission forms are issued by the office of the controller of examinations usually in February - March every year.

The Entrance Tests are held at the following centers in India - Varanasi, Delhi, Calcutta, Chennai, Jaipur, Hyderabad and Mumbai. AIIMS: AFMC: Armed Forces Medical College.