Medical and Dental College Entry
Test
In Pakistan
children are brought up with a deep rooted and clear thought that they are
to just memorize the text books for better performance in the examination.
No doubt this strategy is quite effective for High score in FSc exams. But
it is a great hurdle , besides the usefulness of the entrytest as a whole
for the nation, for the students seeking admission in Professional colleges.
Majority of our students come from colleges following traditional system of
memorization (rather craming) so they face a variety of problems in
preparing the entrytest. The gap between acquired and required skills, test
takers are suggested to study the text books thoroughly keeping in mind that
they are not going to be appeared in any subjective test, but they are to
take MCAT, which is not a cramming based test but rather a concept and short
methods oriented test. That's why they are to be dynamic. The general bias
that only the text book craming, as no question out of books will be
included in the entrytest is just a misconception. The reverse results of
test takers with high score in FSc but low score in the entrytest is an
obvious consequence of this misconception.
The
entrytest structure based on FSc course concepts. Only Physics, Chemistry,
Biology, and English are included. Each question from each section carry
equal points. However, the number of questions in English are fewer than
other sections. The number of questions in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology
is 50 in each section, while in English section there are 30 questions.
(Note: The number of question may change and be finalized after the
publication of this year Prospectus).
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