{"id":82712,"date":"2025-08-09T18:41:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T13:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=82712"},"modified":"2025-08-09T18:43:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T13:43:37","slug":"pmdc-refutes-mdcat-fee-increase-opens-registration-for-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/education\/pmdc-refutes-mdcat-fee-increase-opens-registration-for-test\/","title":{"rendered":"PMDC refutes MDCAT fee increase, opens registration for test"},"content":{"rendered":"

ISLAMABAD: The Medical & Dental Colleges Admission Test (MDCAT 2025<\/a>) will take place on Sunday, 5th October 2025, the Pakistan Medical & Dental Council (PMDC) declared on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Making the announcement in a statement, the PMDC also dismissed the news in media regarding 80 per cent hike in MDCAT exam fee. “There is a misunderstanding about the MDCAT examination fee, which asserts that it has been raised by 80%,” the council mentioned.<\/p>\n

It further elucidated that the MDCAT fee has tended to increase modestly and gradually over the past years: in 2024, it was Rs8,000, and for 2025, it has been set at Rs9,000.<\/p>\n

“This year, only Rs1,000 has been added to the previous year’s fee, which is an increment of 12.5%, not 80% as circulated on social media.<\/p>\n

The MDCAT test will be conducted by federal and provincial authority-nominated universities, not by PMDC. But PMDC as a regulator, has designed a common syllabus for MDCAT in collaboration with all stakeholders, i.e., federal and provincial authorities.<\/p>\n

PMDC has also made a considerable investment in crafting a question bank based on a common syllabus that the provinces have agreed upon.<\/p>\n

The Council also decided to amend the fee on behalf of universities conducting the examinations in light of increased paper-printing costs, stricter security measures and arrangements, remunerations for examiners, invigilators, and officials, and providing comfortable seating and facilities to candidates across the country and foreign locations.<\/p>\n

Despite a large degree of inflation and rising operational expenses, PMDC continues to be committed to affordability and merit. The Council has adopted a balanced strategy to make the exam convenient for all candidates while keeping the quality and integrity of the testing process intact.<\/p>\n

PMDC reiterates merit-based, transparent, and responsible admissions, making equal opportunities available to all prospective medical and dental students.<\/p>\n

Registration Deadline<\/h2>\n

The timeline for MDCAT-2025 online registration for local and foreign candidates opened on August 8, 2025, and will end on August 25, 2025.<\/p>\n

Registration will be entertained only with a late fee after this date, which will remain open until September 1, 2025.<\/p>\n

The candidates have to choose one city\/centre for the MDCAT with due care and complete the application with all the requirements; otherwise, the online system will refuse the application.<\/p>\n

The test will be a paper-based, multiple-choice test in English, consisting of 180 MCQs with no negative marking, divided a follows: Biology (81), Chemistry (45), Physics (36), English (9), and Logical Reasoning (9).<\/p>\n

The curriculum\/syllabus is available at www.pmdc, and candidates must complete their registration through mdcat.pmdc.pk. Incomplete applications will not be accepted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ISLAMABAD: The Medical & Dental Colleges Admission Test (MDCAT 2025) will take place on Sunday, 5th October 2025, the Pakistan Medical & Dental Council (PMDC) declared on Saturday. Making the announcement in a statement, the PMDC also dismissed the news in media regarding 80 per cent hike in MDCAT exam fee. “There is a misunderstanding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":49087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1478,9990,30614],"class_list":["post-82712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-mdcat","tag-pmdc","tag-mdcat-fee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82714,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82712\/revisions\/82714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}