All India
Pre-Medical / Pre-Dental Entrance Examination
All India Premedical / Pre Dental Entrance Test is conducted
by Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) for the 15%
seats of Government Medical & Dental colleges of India.
Eligibility : The minimum academic qualification
for admission through AIMPT is minimum 50% marks in Physics,
Chemistry & Biology taken together. For SC/ST and other
backward classes this limit is 40%.
Age & Attempt Limit : Candidate must
have completed age of 17 years before 31st December of the
year in
which he/she seeks admission. Maximum attempt limit is 3.
Language of the Test : The Preliminary and
the main examinations are conducted in English & Hindi.
The
option has to be exercised while filing the application form.
It can not be changed later.
Test Centers : Preliminary examination is
conducted at 28+ cities across the nation. In Gujarat, it
is conducted
at Ahmedabad only. Final examination is conducted at app.10
centers.
Notification : Notification for AIPMT usually appears
in month of October.
About the Test : AIMPT is conducted in two
stages 1. Preliminary examination 2. Final examination
The Preliminary examination is a pure objective type test
of 200 questions. Each question has four options with single
correct answer.
For each correct response student gets 3 marks and for each
incorrect response one mark is deducted. No penalty for unattempted
questions. Duration of the test is 3 hours. Rough brake up
of 200 questions follows.
Biology (Botany & Zoology)
100 questions
Physics
50 questions
Chemistry
50 questions
Preliminary test is conducted normally in the first half of
April.
Final examination : The students
who qualify in the preliminary examination are only eligible
to appear for the
final examination. The final examination consists of 2 papers
each of 2 hours.
Paper 1. Physics & Chemistry
Paper 2. Biology (Botany & Zoology)
Both the papers are conducted on the same day. This is non objective
paper to be answered in test booklet supplied.
The final examination is conducted in the middle of May.
Results : Results of the Preliminary examination
gets out by end of April while that of final examination is
made
available by 1st week of June on web site
www.cbse.nic.in
Syllabus : The
syllabus of AIPMT is from both 11th & 12th standards roughly
divided equally in 11th & 12th.
