All India Pre-Medical/Pre-Dental Entrance Exam
The All India Pre Medical Test (AIPMT) is a yearly college entrance examination in India. The exam is conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), Delhi for admission to MBBS and BDS courses in several medical colleges around the country. Presently, 15% of the total seats in all medical and dental colleges run by the Union of India, state governments, municipal, or other local authorities in India, except in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir, are reserved for candidates who qualify this examination. Recently reservation for SC,ST and OBC have been undertaken in AIPMT 2011.
AIPMT Pattern
It is been conducted by the CBSE till date, by adhering to the rules and regulations that are framed by the Supreme Court of India for 15% of medical seats on merit basis. It comprises of two types of examinations, namely, the preliminary and the final examinations. The preliminary examination consists of 200 objective type questions from the subjects namely, physics, chemistry and biology and the final examination consists of 120 objective type questions from physics, chemistry and biology. The question pattern has been changed effectively as mentioned above from the year 2010 onwards, due to the repeated complaints on the unreliability issues of the subject mains. Hence, the final examination has also changed to be an objective type, question pattern, similar to the preliminary examination. The AIPMT has great significance, as most of the prominent and standard medical colleges would be definitely admitting their students only, via AIPMT.
