PGI Chandigarh MD, MS Admissions 2020: Check out Selection Procedure, Percentile scores, Exam Centres
Chandigarh: PG Medical Candidates who are intending to apply for MD and MS courses January 2020 Session at Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) are requested to check out the selection procedure, Exam Centres, Percentile scores for admission to these courses.
Since candidates may have several questions regarding the entrance exams, the PGI Chandigarh has released the information on selection procedure including the exam centres and Percentile scores to be obtained to apply for MD and MS seats so as to avoid any confusion amidst the admission process.
COMPETETIVE ENTRANCE TEST
The Entrance Examination shall be conducted through a Computer Based Test (CBT).
The Entrance Test shall be held on Saturday, the 30th November, 2019 and duration shall be 3 hours (Three hours/180 minutes) for MD/MS courses.
The Online (CBT) Entrance Test will be conducted in one shift:
Timing – 10.00 AM to 01.00 PM.
Where are the EXAMINATION CENTRES?
(i) Applicants should indicate his/her choice of city of examination at the time of filling online application form. The city chosen is subject to confirmation of payment of the examination fee. The city of examination shall be allotted on firstcome first-serve basis subject to availability of nodes in respective city.
(ii) The city of examination once chosen and allotted will not be changed and any request in this regard will not be entertained. Applicants should therefore indicate the choice of city with utmost care. Applicants are advised to complete the process of online application at the earliest without waiting for the last date, to avoid not getting the city/centre of their choice.
LIST OF CITITES WHERE EXAMINATIONS ARE LIKELY TO BE HELD
Note: While PGI shall make all possible efforts to allocate candidates in the cities chosen by
them, however due to technical, logistic and other unforeseen reasons including nonavailability of sufficient number of Examination Centres or Candidates in that or natural calamities etc., some centres may be cancelled. Under such circumstances, PGI shall re-allocate these candidates to alternate centres in nearby cities. Such decisions shall be binding on the candidate.
TYPE OF PAPER
Candidates will be considered for selection to MD/MS courses based on a testconsisting of 250 multiple choice question (MCQs) with five alternatives each and single/multiple correct responses. Negative marks will be given for incorrect responses marked. The duration of Entrance Test is three hours.
What are the SUBJECTS?
The approximate number of questions for each subject is as follows:
What is the SCHEME OF MARKING?
The question paper has 250 questions, each with five response options. Hence there are a total of 1250 response options. One or more of these five options can be correct for each question. The question paper therefore has some number of correct responses (say a) and incorrect responses (say b, such that a+b=1250). A candidate would mark a proportion of these responses as being correct. Some of these are truly correct (say x) while the remaining are wrongly marked as being correct (say y). The scoring is done through customized software that matches the candidates’ responses to each of the 1250 possible responses (marked as correct, or left blank) with the true answer (correct or incorrect). True correct responses (i.e. candidate correctly marks a response as true) are scored positively, and incorrect responses (i.e. candidate marks an incorrect response as correct) are scored negatively. Any responses not marked by the candidate are not scored. A candidate’s percentage score will be computed using the formula: Percentage score= [x/a–y/b] ×100.
As an example, assume that the question paper has 600 correct responses. If a candidate marks 580 responses as correct, out of which 450 are truly correct and the remaining 130 are incorrect, then a = 600, b = 650, x = 450 and y = 130. Accordingly, for this candidate, percentage score is: [(450/600) – (130/650)] × 100 = 55.0. Please note that these figures are only illustrative, and do not imply the actual number of correct responses in the question paper, or actual performance of any candidate.
What are the PERCENTILE SCORES a candidate should have while applying?
Actual scores will not be considered further since these percentage scores will depend on relative difficulty of the question paper, and the relative ability of candidates, and it is not advisable to use these in generating cut-offs for selection. These will be converted into percentile score using the formula: Percentile= [(B+(0.5×E))/N]×100where B = number of scores below the candidate’s score, E = number of scores equal to the candidate’s score (1 if there is no tie, and >1 if there is a tie), and N = number of candidates appearing for exam. Overall rank of all the candidates shall be decided based on these percentile scores, with a higher percentile score translating into a better rank.
METHOD OF RESOLVING TIES
If two or more candidates obtain equal percentile scores, then inter-se merit for selection shall be determined on the following basis:
(i) A candidate who has obtained higher aggregate marks in MBBS examination shall rank higher to a candidate who has obtained lower marks.
(ii) If the aggregate marks obtained in MBBS examination are the same, then a candidate senior in age shall rank higher to a candidate who is junior in age.
MERIT LIST & MINIMUM CUT-OFF PERCENTILE
A combined merit list based on the percentile obtained by all the candidates appearing in the entrancetest (irrespective of their category) and applying the above method for resolving ties shall be prepared. The candidates with minimum cut-off percentile in entrance test as mentioned below against each category, will qualify for admission:
Open (General)/ OCI and Sponsored/Deputed : 55th percentile
OBC, PwBD, SC/ST, Rural Area, Foreign Nationals : 50th percentile
Bhutanese Nationals : 45th percentile
Candidates from reserved categories are also eligible for general category seats (open seats).Thus, in addition to category wise list; a combined merit list of all the candidates will also be prepared.
Read Also: MD, MS 2020: PGI Chandigarh releases FAQs for Application Form
Admission to postgraduate courses
a. Admission to various postgraduate courses conducted at the Institute is made twice a year. The sessions commence from first January and first July each year.
b. The Institute follows a Residency Service-cum-Training Scheme. Candidates admitted to MD/MS courses are called Junior Residents.
c. The admission to the above courses of the Institute is made on merit on all India basis, by holding an entrance test by the Institute, after issuing a countrywide admission notice. The admission notice is published in leading English newspapers Employment News of India in the month of September/Oct for January session and March/April for July session.
What are the IMPORTANT DATES?
What is the APPLICATION FEE PROCESS?
SC/ST Category : Rs. 1200/- + Transaction Charges as applicable
General /OCI /OBC /RA /FN/ Sponsored Category: Rs. 1500/- + Transaction Charges as applicable.
Persons with Bench-mark Disabilities (PwBD) Candidates are exempted from payment of fee.
All candidates are directed to deposit the above fees through online payment gateway available at MD/MS application portal w.e.f. 26.10.2019 to 14.11.2019.
MODE OF PAYMENT:
Through Debit / Credit Card / Net Banking
All applicants are advised to read the Prospectus and Instructions carefully before starting online registration and ensure that no column is left blank. In the event of rejection of the application form, no correspondence/request for reconsideration will be entertained. Applicants are also advised to download and take a print of the Application form. They should retain a copy of Application form till the completion of Admission Process.
Please visit www.pgimer.edu.in regularly for latest notification/ announcement as well as any Addendum/Corrigendum/Latest updates etc. regarding the Entrance Test.
WHO IS ELIGIBLE TO APPLY?
i) A candidate must have passed MBBS from a University/ Institute recognized by the Medical Council of India (MCI).
ii) Must have either completed, or due to complete, one year rotatory internship training on or before 31st December/30th June for January and July session respectively (as per Annexure-I).
iii) Must be registered with Central /State Medical Registration Council.
iv) For Sponsored Candidates The eligibility of Sponsored candidates will be the same as for candidates as mentioned from (i) to (iii) above
v) For Foreign National Candidates A candidate must have passed MBBS or equivalent degree. Candidate(s) must obtain the certificate of grading system from his/her University / Institution to determine the value of grading in percentage to be produced. After getting the certificate, calculate total and obtained marks from the certificate then fill “Marks Column” and complete Final Submission before due date.
vi) Graduated from Foreign Universities Indian National candidates who have been graduated from foreign Universities must have passed the MCI Screening Exam or FMGE (Foreign Medical Graduates Examination) exam conducted by NBE, Govt. of India, Delhi.
Candidates are requested to please visit the original website of PGIMER Chandigarh is mention below:
http://pgimer.edu.in/PGIMER_PORTAL/PGIMERPORTAL/home.jsp
Since candidates may have several questions regarding the entrance exams, the PGI Chandigarh has released the information on selection procedure including the exam centres and Percentile scores to be obtained to apply for MD and MS seats so as to avoid any confusion amidst the admission process.
MD, MS courses January 2020 Session Selection Procedure
COMPETETIVE ENTRANCE TEST
The Entrance Examination shall be conducted through a Computer Based Test (CBT).
The Entrance Test shall be held on Saturday, the 30th November, 2019 and duration shall be 3 hours (Three hours/180 minutes) for MD/MS courses.
The Online (CBT) Entrance Test will be conducted in one shift:
Timing – 10.00 AM to 01.00 PM.
Where are the EXAMINATION CENTRES?
(i) Applicants should indicate his/her choice of city of examination at the time of filling online application form. The city chosen is subject to confirmation of payment of the examination fee. The city of examination shall be allotted on firstcome first-serve basis subject to availability of nodes in respective city.
(ii) The city of examination once chosen and allotted will not be changed and any request in this regard will not be entertained. Applicants should therefore indicate the choice of city with utmost care. Applicants are advised to complete the process of online application at the earliest without waiting for the last date, to avoid not getting the city/centre of their choice.
LIST OF CITITES WHERE EXAMINATIONS ARE LIKELY TO BE HELD
| Centre Code | NAME OF CITIES |
| 1 | Bhubaneswar |
| 2 | Bhopal |
| 3 | Bengaluru |
| 4 | Chandigarh |
| 5 | Chennai |
| 6 | Delhi |
| 7 | Guwahati |
| 8 | Hyderabad |
| 9 | Jalandhar |
| 10 | Jammu |
| 11 | Kolkata |
| 12 | Mumbai |
| 13 | Thiruvananthapuram |
Note: While PGI shall make all possible efforts to allocate candidates in the cities chosen by
them, however due to technical, logistic and other unforeseen reasons including nonavailability of sufficient number of Examination Centres or Candidates in that or natural calamities etc., some centres may be cancelled. Under such circumstances, PGI shall re-allocate these candidates to alternate centres in nearby cities. Such decisions shall be binding on the candidate.
TYPE OF PAPER
Candidates will be considered for selection to MD/MS courses based on a testconsisting of 250 multiple choice question (MCQs) with five alternatives each and single/multiple correct responses. Negative marks will be given for incorrect responses marked. The duration of Entrance Test is three hours.
What are the SUBJECTS?
The approximate number of questions for each subject is as follows:
| Subject | Tentative Number of questions | Subject | Tentative Number of questions |
| Applied Anatomy | 06 | Applied Biochemistry | 12 |
| Immunogenetics &Molecular Biology | 10 | Applied Physiology | 06 |
| Pathology | 15 | Pharmacology | 12 |
| Microbiology | 12 | Forensic Medicine | 06 |
| Social & Preventive Medicine | 07 | Internal Medicine | 36 |
| Paediatrics | 12 | Dermatology | 06 |
| Psychiatry | 06 | Radiodiagnosis | 06 |
| Obstetrics & Gynaecology | 20 | Radiotherapy | 06 |
| General Surgery | 36 | Otorhinolaryngology | 10 |
| Ophthalmology | 10 | Orthopaedics | 10 |
What is the SCHEME OF MARKING?
The question paper has 250 questions, each with five response options. Hence there are a total of 1250 response options. One or more of these five options can be correct for each question. The question paper therefore has some number of correct responses (say a) and incorrect responses (say b, such that a+b=1250). A candidate would mark a proportion of these responses as being correct. Some of these are truly correct (say x) while the remaining are wrongly marked as being correct (say y). The scoring is done through customized software that matches the candidates’ responses to each of the 1250 possible responses (marked as correct, or left blank) with the true answer (correct or incorrect). True correct responses (i.e. candidate correctly marks a response as true) are scored positively, and incorrect responses (i.e. candidate marks an incorrect response as correct) are scored negatively. Any responses not marked by the candidate are not scored. A candidate’s percentage score will be computed using the formula: Percentage score= [x/a–y/b] ×100.
As an example, assume that the question paper has 600 correct responses. If a candidate marks 580 responses as correct, out of which 450 are truly correct and the remaining 130 are incorrect, then a = 600, b = 650, x = 450 and y = 130. Accordingly, for this candidate, percentage score is: [(450/600) – (130/650)] × 100 = 55.0. Please note that these figures are only illustrative, and do not imply the actual number of correct responses in the question paper, or actual performance of any candidate.
What are the PERCENTILE SCORES a candidate should have while applying?
Actual scores will not be considered further since these percentage scores will depend on relative difficulty of the question paper, and the relative ability of candidates, and it is not advisable to use these in generating cut-offs for selection. These will be converted into percentile score using the formula: Percentile= [(B+(0.5×E))/N]×100where B = number of scores below the candidate’s score, E = number of scores equal to the candidate’s score (1 if there is no tie, and >1 if there is a tie), and N = number of candidates appearing for exam. Overall rank of all the candidates shall be decided based on these percentile scores, with a higher percentile score translating into a better rank.
METHOD OF RESOLVING TIES
If two or more candidates obtain equal percentile scores, then inter-se merit for selection shall be determined on the following basis:
(i) A candidate who has obtained higher aggregate marks in MBBS examination shall rank higher to a candidate who has obtained lower marks.
(ii) If the aggregate marks obtained in MBBS examination are the same, then a candidate senior in age shall rank higher to a candidate who is junior in age.
MERIT LIST & MINIMUM CUT-OFF PERCENTILE
A combined merit list based on the percentile obtained by all the candidates appearing in the entrancetest (irrespective of their category) and applying the above method for resolving ties shall be prepared. The candidates with minimum cut-off percentile in entrance test as mentioned below against each category, will qualify for admission:
Open (General)/ OCI and Sponsored/Deputed : 55th percentile
OBC, PwBD, SC/ST, Rural Area, Foreign Nationals : 50th percentile
Bhutanese Nationals : 45th percentile
Candidates from reserved categories are also eligible for general category seats (open seats).Thus, in addition to category wise list; a combined merit list of all the candidates will also be prepared.
| SUMMARY OF MD/MS ENTRANCE TEST PATTERN (Please see the text for details and explanations) |
| 01 | Mode of Examination | Computer Based Test (CBT) / Online |
| 02 | Duration of Examination | 3 hours (Three hours/ 180 minutes) |
| 03 | Date of Examination | Saturday, the 30th November, 2019 |
| 04 | Number of Shifts | 01 (One) |
| 05 | Timing of Examination | 10.00 AM to 01.00 PM |
| 06 | Location of Examination Centres | Tentatively 14 cities in India |
| 07 | Language of Paper | English |
| 08 | Type of Examination | Objective Type |
| 09 | Number of Questions | One Paper of 250 MCQ (Two hundred and fifty) |
| 10 | Marking Scheme | Please see the concerned sections for details. |
| 11 | Method of Cut-Off | |
| 12 | Method of determining merit | |
| 13 | Method of resolving ties |
Read Also: MD, MS 2020: PGI Chandigarh releases FAQs for Application Form
Admission to postgraduate courses
a. Admission to various postgraduate courses conducted at the Institute is made twice a year. The sessions commence from first January and first July each year.
b. The Institute follows a Residency Service-cum-Training Scheme. Candidates admitted to MD/MS courses are called Junior Residents.
c. The admission to the above courses of the Institute is made on merit on all India basis, by holding an entrance test by the Institute, after issuing a countrywide admission notice. The admission notice is published in leading English newspapers Employment News of India in the month of September/Oct for January session and March/April for July session.
What are the IMPORTANT DATES?
| Start of PGIMER MD/MS online Application on PGI Website www.pgimer.edu.in | 26.10.2019 |
| PGIMER MD/MS (Jan, 2020) application form closes | 14.11.2019 |
| Computer Based Entrance Test for MD/MS courses | 30.11.2019 (Saturday) |
| Expected date of declaration of result | 06.12.2019 |
| 1st counselling for MD/MS courses at PGIMER, Chandigarh | 20.12.2019 at 11.00 AM |
| 2nd counselling for MD/MS courses at PGIMER, Chandigarh | 10.01.2020 at 11.00 AM |
| 3rd counselling for MD/MS courses at PGIMER, Chandigarh | 18.01.2020 at 11.00 AM |
| Spot Admission through Open counselling at PGIMER, Chandigarh | 30.01.2020 at 11.00 AM |
What is the APPLICATION FEE PROCESS?
SC/ST Category : Rs. 1200/- + Transaction Charges as applicable
General /OCI /OBC /RA /FN/ Sponsored Category: Rs. 1500/- + Transaction Charges as applicable.
Persons with Bench-mark Disabilities (PwBD) Candidates are exempted from payment of fee.
All candidates are directed to deposit the above fees through online payment gateway available at MD/MS application portal w.e.f. 26.10.2019 to 14.11.2019.
MODE OF PAYMENT:
Through Debit / Credit Card / Net Banking
All applicants are advised to read the Prospectus and Instructions carefully before starting online registration and ensure that no column is left blank. In the event of rejection of the application form, no correspondence/request for reconsideration will be entertained. Applicants are also advised to download and take a print of the Application form. They should retain a copy of Application form till the completion of Admission Process.
Please visit www.pgimer.edu.in regularly for latest notification/ announcement as well as any Addendum/Corrigendum/Latest updates etc. regarding the Entrance Test.
WHO IS ELIGIBLE TO APPLY?
i) A candidate must have passed MBBS from a University/ Institute recognized by the Medical Council of India (MCI).
ii) Must have either completed, or due to complete, one year rotatory internship training on or before 31st December/30th June for January and July session respectively (as per Annexure-I).
iii) Must be registered with Central /State Medical Registration Council.
iv) For Sponsored Candidates The eligibility of Sponsored candidates will be the same as for candidates as mentioned from (i) to (iii) above
v) For Foreign National Candidates A candidate must have passed MBBS or equivalent degree. Candidate(s) must obtain the certificate of grading system from his/her University / Institution to determine the value of grading in percentage to be produced. After getting the certificate, calculate total and obtained marks from the certificate then fill “Marks Column” and complete Final Submission before due date.
vi) Graduated from Foreign Universities Indian National candidates who have been graduated from foreign Universities must have passed the MCI Screening Exam or FMGE (Foreign Medical Graduates Examination) exam conducted by NBE, Govt. of India, Delhi.
Candidates are requested to please visit the original website of PGIMER Chandigarh is mention below:
http://pgimer.edu.in/PGIMER_PORTAL/PGIMERPORTAL/home.jsp
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