Karachi, Over 4, 390 candidates appeared in an MCAT test for admission against 700 seats in MBBS Programme and100 seats in BDS Programme on October 30. Test was held in Dow University of Health Sciences at Ojha campus. Test was conducted by the National Testing Service NTS from 10 am to 12 noon. Results have been displayed and answer keys are available on the NTS official website.
Entry tests for another 1,000 MBBS and BDS seats, offered by other public sector medical and dental colleges and universities was held at Hyderabad, Benazirabad, Larkana and Sukkur.
DUHS, Pro vice chancellor Prof Dr M. Umar Farooq, chairman of selection board and SMC principal, visited the test venue with admission committee director Prof S.M. Idrees, admission coordinator Dr Raana Qamar Masood and DMC Principal Prof Dr Junaid Ashraf to ensure that the candidates were facing no problems in taking the test.
Prof Farooq said that although the NTS had posted the test’s answer key on its website nts.org.pk, DUHS would declare the results within 72 hours, most probably by Nov 3. The answer keys of the tests held at Hyderabad, Sukkur, Benazirabad and Larkana had also been posted by the NTS, he added.
A DUHS official revealed about the seats that 700 MBBS seats at the DMC and SMC, 456 general merit seats (228 each for the DMC and SMC), 101 seats under the self-financing scheme (55 at DMC and 46 at SMC), 45 reserved seats for candidates from the interior of Sindh (22 at DMC and 23 at SMC), 16 reserved under the self-financing scheme for foreign nationals at DMC, 46 seats under the self-finance scheme for overseas Pakistanis (28 at Dow and 18 at SMC), 32 seats for the ministries of foreign affairs and economic division at SMC, two seats (one each at DMC and SMC) under the disabled students quota, two seats (one each at DMC and SMC) for Hafiz-i-Quran, two seats reserved for Balochistan, two seats for Karachi candidates at the Bolan Medical College, Quetta, and four seats reserved for Karachi candidates at the Fatima Jinnah Medical College.
For BDS Programme, of the total 100 admissions to be offered at the Dr Ishrat-ul-Ibad Khan Institute of Oral Health Sciences, the official said that 60 of them would be filled under open merit, 34 under the self-financing scheme for locals and six seats under the self-financing scheme for overseas Pakistanis.
Answer keys for DOW University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences, Jamshoro Hyderabad, Ghulam Mohammad Mahar Medical College, Sukkur, Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Medical University, Larkana, Peoples University of Medical & Health Sciences for Women Shaheed Benazirabad, Nawabshah are available at NTS official website.
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Monday 31 October 2011
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