MDCAT 2020: Protests continue against PMC in major cities of Pakistan

The MDCAT 2020 candidates continue to protest in Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar, and other cities, claiming incongruities in the test and result, reports said on Monday.

The argument is intensifying over the recent test for admission in medical and dental colleges across the country. Many candidates took the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMC) to account, alleging the council to court over out-of-syllabus and abstruse test questions, grading mistakes, and defects in candidate data.

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The regular entry exam for the MDCAT 2020 was held on November 29, while the special exam for candidates who missed the exam due to COVID-19 infection sat for the test on December 13.

Earlier, the protestors also took to social media and vented their anger against PMC.

The Human rights activist and lawyer Jibran Nasir has also said while siding with the protestors that the PMC had deleted 14 MDCAT questions after admitting they were ambiguous.

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“Those [ambiguous] questions were 7% of the test. Also, for candidates based in Sindh, at least 18 questions were out of the syllabus. That is another 9% of the test,” he stated.