FMGE

Indian students who have pursued medical education from abroad & wish to practice in India, must clear the Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE) in India.

It is a medical licensing exam for foreign medical graduates, conducted by the National Board of Examination (NBE) to assess student's skills & medical knowledge.

To know more about the exam, visit: FMGE exam 2025

Overall there will be 100 questions asked in the exam from Pre and Para Clinical Subject. Out of these 100 questions around 17 questions will be based on Anatomy section. Along with it, the same 17 questions will be asked from Physiology and Biochemistry sections as well. 

Students are advised to attempt all the questions which are asked in the exam as it does not have negative marking scheme.

While filling the FMGE 2026 application form students need to ensure that photograph should be coloured and without background. It should have white background and candidate's name & date should be mentioned on it. 

The ideal size of image which needs to be uploaded must be 3.5 cm x 4.5 cm. The maximum size for the image is 80 KB and acceptable format should be of .JPG/.JPEG/.IMAGE. 

Yes, it is mandatory to pass the FMGE exam to practice in India after pursuing MBBS abroad. However, you are exempted from this exam if you have completed your MBBS from a university in the USA, UK, Canada, Australia, or New Zealand.

In 2023, the passing percentage of FMGE at Orenburg State Medical University was recorded to 30.8%. However, it has varied over the years.

According to the official notification, a total of 300 questions are asked in the FMGE exam. Though students will have to solve 150-150 questions seperately. There will be a time interval between both these exams. The nature of questions which will be asked in the FMGE exam will be of Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ). 

There will be a total of 200 questions asked in the FMGE exam from the Clinical subject. Out of these 200 questions around 30 questions will be asked in the exam from Obstetrics & Genecology. Though the final number of questions can be changed in the exam. 

There will be a total of 100 questions from Pre & Para Clinical section in the FMGE exam. There will be 17 questions each for Biochemistry, Physiology and Anatomy section. Along with this, Microbiology, Pharmacology and Pathology each have 13 questions. At last the Forensic Medicine section has 10 questions. 

The examination requirements for FMGE involve achieving minimum scores of 50% for the general category and 45% for candidates who belong to OBC/SC/ST groups.

•  50% for general candidates and 45% for OBC/SC/ST candidates in the exam.

The NEET UG 2019 admission standards indicated that OBC candidates needed a 40th percentile score yet a 58 percentile would have sufficed to qualify.

FMGE admission eligibility depends solely on examination results rather than 12th board grades. Refer to the latest NBE guidelines for complete information.

The subsequent edit window from December 27 to December 30, 2024, was designated for rectifying deficiencies related to other documents, not for image corrections. 

As of today, February 6, 2025, the FMGE January 2025 exam has already been conducted on January 12, 2025. If you were unable to make the necessary corrections to your photograph before the exam, it could potentially affect the processing of your results.