Entry Test of Aga Khan Medica College Karachi - Guidelines

Aga Khan Medical College Karachi is one of the renowned Medical Colleges of Pakistan. Entry test for admission is held every year, conducted by Aga Khan University Karachi. Generally, Entry test is held in the month of March or April every year in different cities of Pakistan. Entry test for year 2012 will be held on 14th March 2012. The last date for submitting application is 4th February 2012. 

After qualifying entry test candidates are shortlisted for interview. Short listing for interviews is based on combination of Secondary School achievement and the AKU Admission Test score. A student is eligible for admission into Aga Khan Medical College if he qualifies entry test as well as interview.

Eligibility for test (Student of Pakistan).
The students who have successfully completed or are in the process of completing their HSC (FSc Pre-medical) can apply for the test.
Candidates following systems of education (i.e A-level) other than the Pakistani system will be required to submit equivalence certificate from the Inter Board Committee of Chairman (IBCC) in Pakistan. The qualification must be equivalent to the pre-medical qualification in Pakistan.

How to apply.
Application form, prospectus and sample papers can be downloaded from the website of AKU,www.aku.edu or can be obtained from specified branches of Sonehri Bank in Pakistan.
Fill application form and admit card. Attach 1. Attested copies of marks sheet/transcript, 2. Admit Card, and 3. Application Fee Rs 3000/- for students applying from Pakistan. This is paid by demand draft in favor of Aga Khan University or by cash if application is delivered by hand.
The completed application form should be posted by registered mail or sent through a reliable courier service to address prescribed on application form or delivered in person to the Admission Office in AKU Karachi.

How to Prepare for the TEST

Structure (format) for 2012.

The test is divided in to three sections.

Section – I
This section tests the candidate’s competency in English language. There are two components in this section.

Component –I:  15 MCQs to test structure, cohesion and vocabulary

Component –II: A summative paragraph writing from notes given in question paper.

Time given for this section is 40 minutes. There is no negative marking in this section

Section – II 
There are 25 MCQs in this section to test the candidate’s science reasoning skills.

Time given for this section is 30 minutes. There is no negative marking in this section.

Section – III 
There are

30 MCQs each in Biology, Physics and Chemistry.
20 MCQs in Mathematics.

The time given for this section is one hour and 35 minutes. There is negative marking in this section. Each correct response gets one point and for each incorrect response 0.25 will be deducted.

Suggested Books

1. Your course books, A-level or Higher Secondary Education (FSc) books
2.  SAT-I (For English and Maths) and SAT-II (For Biology, Physics and Chemistry)
3. MCAT (It is a foreign book like SAT book, not the ordinary MCAT books which are written by Pakistani authors. You can search this book on Internet or buy from market)

These books are quite helpful in the preparation for AKU’s Test. Some MCQs are taken from inside of theory of these books and some are directly taken from the MCQs in the last of each chapter of these books. You should study the theory thoroughly and practice its MCQs as well.
In spite studying these books some students fail the Test because they only read these books on surface and read its MCQs but the best way is to read them with full concentration and extract the hidden ideas and MCQs from each sentence which can be asked in Test. Extracting MCQs from theory is a skill. Make your concept clear about each idea given your books. So you need to learn them in a way that you can use that learning yourself. Try to practice more and more MCQs. By doing so you will learn as well as you will become habitual of (used to) MCQs and you will not be stressed in test and will solve the test with confidence.

English and Mathematics

For English and Maths students who have qualified the test suggest SAT-I book. In English they check your English Grammar (advance level) i.e subject verb agreement, redundancy, prepositions, etc.  A paragraph is given, you have to read it as fast as you can because it’s a lengthy paragraph and you have to answer the questions given on it. These question cannot be..........

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(Continued from Page- 1)...answered by just have a rough idea of paragraph (as commonly given in Matric exams) But these question are to check you competency in English, Grammar skills and analyzing the idea given by grammatical structures in paragraph. Usually they give a question like “The word manipulate is used in paragraph in term of ______”  or may ask the meaning of word according to its usage in paragraph.

In Maths, they check your learning of fundamentals of Mathematics. These are easy questions but involves trick in them. Like they ask “what is the sum natural number from 1 to 100” so it an easy question, a simple formula is involved but if you start to adding all the number from 1 to 100 , it will take a lot time. (Its formula is to add first and last number and divide on total numbers)

Example

MCQ.   If 3/4 of a number is 7 more than 1/6 of the number, what is  of the number?
A.       12
B.       15
C.       18
D.       20

MCQ.   If it is now June, what month will be 100 months from now?
A.       January
B.       April
C.       June
D.       October

General Guidance for MCQs Preparation

Remember, these MCQs test your knowledge and your mental sharpness. So each MCQs has question as well as a trick in it. Like an MCQs which has repeated many times in AKU’s test that is

MCQ.   The feet of elephants are large because
Answer: To reduce its pressure on earth.

It is easy MCQ, but student get confuse because there is a trick or indirect idea involved that is, we know that Pressure = Force / Area. It means Pressure is inversely proportion to Area. So more area of feet, less will  be the pressure and that’s the answer.

Questions of science subject are based on the Higher Secondary certificate Curriculum in Pakistan. Questions of Mathematics are based on the Secondary School Certificate curriculum in Pakistan. Question of English section is to check candidate’s competency in English language, grammar, vocabulary.

          All the questions are designed to check your learning level, your concepts, your mental approach to learning. Try to build concepts about things in your book. Suppose you study a topic, your learning should not be limited to reading sentence, try to know what the author wants to explain in each sentence, there are many hidden ideas, try to explore these ideas and make good question on them and try to find their answers.

Here is an example.. A student was studying about the chemical structure of atom, he read the sentence “protons reside in the nucleus of atom” he started thinking in his mind “proton have positive charge, bodies having same charge repel each other, then how protons reside in same place, why don’t they repel each other?” He made a question “How protons (having same charge) reside in one place, why they don’t repel each other? By making such question you achieve perfection in your learning.

Be a keen observer. When you study a topic, think about it at every angle, extract information from it which make your learning perfect. If some information is given about something in book, try to think on its all directions(which is usually not given in book), have a scientific approach to science subjects. Never ignore things if you are unable to understand, discuss with your teachers.      

It is better if student study books other than text books as well. Books like SAT II and MCAT are very helpful because these books have more details about the science subjects which builds your concepts as well as tells how can MCQs be made. SAT I book is good for learning English and Maths. Try to practice MCQs as much as possible.

Test Taking Strategies 
Remember, learning test taking strategies are as important as study preparation for Entry-Test.  A lot of intelligent student fail the test because they are not aware of test taking strategies. Test taking strategies tell you

• How to divide time over MCQs to complete test in time
• How to maximize your accuracy chances in answering MCQs
• And many more relevant things

For learning test taking strategies, click "Test Taking strategies"

                                                   Tips for attempting MCQs

• In MCQs test, usually time is short. You have 2 minutes or one and a half minute for each MCQ, so divide the time on all MCQs properly.
• Read the MCQ and before reading the choices, think in your mind for correct answer and then read the choices. It will help you to choose the correct choice or the answer.
• There will be some choices about which you will be sure that they are wrong, skip these wrong choices first and focus on the rest choices for correct answer. It increase the your chances to select the correct choice.
• Solve these MCQs first, which you can easily answer and leave which think is difficult for last. If you stick to one MCQ trying to find its answer and it takes your time, leave it because it hinders and when you finish all MCQs then come back to the un-attempted MCQs.
• For answering MCQs you are given a “computer sensitive sheet”. It has blocks or circles on it, you have to darken the block or the circle for correct answer. Learn the correct way how to darken blocks or circles on computer sensitive sheet because computer reads it for giving you marks.

                                                         Past Papers

We have collected papers from different academies as well as we have collected hundred of MCQs from the students of AKU who have undergone the test. We will upload them on the feedback of students.

For Paper help check MCAT Sample paper in this site.

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