Medical education: UHS entrance exam on Sunday

56,000 candidates will take the test across the province

LAHORE: University of Health Sciences (UHS) Vice Chancellor Muhammad Aslam said on Wednesday more than 56,000 candidates would appear in the entry test for  medical and dental colleges in the province on Sunday, August 28.

Talking to APP, he said the candidates would compete for 3,405 MBBS seats in 17 public sector medical colleges and 216 BDS seats in three public dental colleges of the province.

“Besides these, there are around 3,000 MBBS seats in 28 private medical colleges and around 1,000 BDS seats in 12 private dental colleges of the province,” he said.

He said the government had finalised arrangements for the test and had deputed senior officials, including provincial secretaries, divisional commissioners and Board of Revenue members as monitoring officers. He said senior medical professors would conduct the test.

He said the district coordination officers would act as focal persons for arrangements of the test.

Aslam said that the test would be held simultaneously at 27 centres established in 13 cities including Lahore, Faisalabad, Sahiwal, Multan, Bahawalpur, Rahim Yar Khan, Sargodha, Gujrat, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Sialkot, Dera Ghazi Khan and Hasanabdal.

The VC said that in Lahore, seven centres had been established at the examination halls of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education on Lawrence Road; examination halls of the Punjab University on Wahdat Road; Government Comprehensive Girls High School on Wahdat Road; University of Education in Township; Lahore College for Women University on Jail Road, Government Postgraduate College for Women in Samanabad and Government Central Model School on Lower Mall.

He said 16,500 candidates would take the test in the city.

“The test will comprise of 220 multiple choice questions and divided into four sections on physics, chemistry, English and biology,” he said.

He said the test had been set for 1,100 marks.

“Five marks would be awarded for each correct answer and one mark would be deducted for each incorrect answer,” he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 25^th, 2016.