Your prospects after medical entrance exams
Medical education focuses on study, diagnosis and treatment of a patient, who has a health concern and who seeks a physician's help. Studying medicine requires that the student is inquisitive, analytical, like to communicate with people and is good at sciences particularly biology, chemistry and physics.
The undergraduate degree offered for medical study in India is MBBS. It is a four and half year's course followed by one year of Compulsory Rotating Residential Internship. In order to get admission in an MBBS course, a candidate needs to take medical entrance exams at All India Level or State Level.
Most of the medical entrance exams have duration from 2 - 3 1/2 hour and gauges the student's subjective knowledge in the subjects of physics, chemistry, biology and also general knowledge.
Some of the most popular medical entrance exams in India are:
- AFMC (Armed Forces Medical College Exam)
- AIIMS (All India Institute of Medical Sciences)
- AIPGMEE (All India Post Graduate Medical/Dental Entrance Exam)
- AIPMT (All India Pre-Medical/Dental Entrance Examination)
- COMEDK PGET (Consortium of Medical Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka Post Graduate Entrance Test)
- DUMET (Delhi University Medical/Dental Entrance Test)
- JIPMER (Jawaharlal Institute of Post-Graduate Medical Education and Research)
- KEAM (Kerala Engineering Architecture Medical Entrance Exam)
- UPCAT (Uttar Pradesh Common Admission Test)
- UP CPMT (Uttar Pradesh Combined Pre Medical Test)
Besides, there are several other medical entrance exams at state level too.
Who can appear for medical entrance exams?
Students can appear for medical entrance exams after completing 10+2 with Physics, Chemistry and Biology as their subjects. For some exams, it is compulsory to have English as one of the subjects too. Most institutes offering medical coaching accept students as young as those studying in class 8th.
Some of the bigger coaching centers have one-year intensive coaching programs for medical aspirants who have already cleared 12th, two-year intense coaching programs for medical aspirants who have completed 12th, and coaching for medical aspirants who are still studying in school where they follow a gradual pace.
Online coaching programs that can be customized to suit specific needs are also available for those who want to crack medical entrance exams.
