FMGE December 2024-25 Exam Concludes: Mixed Difficulty with Balanced Subject Coverage

FMGE Dec 2024-25 examination has just ended and was relatively easier to moderately difficult as witnessed with questions spanning pre clinical, clinical and public health domains. Candidates stressed that some pre-clinical areas can be managed, some clinical areas are moderately difficult, and a high scoring segment of community medicine should be made.

The FMGE test for the December 2024 session was held by NBE successfully on 16th and 17th December, 2024. This biannual test is a compulsory measure for citizens of India, who graduated a medical school in a foreign country and would like to practice medicine in India.

Stream and Candidate Perception of Difficulty

The areas like Pathology, Pharmacology, and Medicine were given large prominence, and a good number of questions assessed the applied and conceptual knowledge. Also, new learnings and update on medical knowledge and protocols were integrated into the assessment, making the candidates assess their ability to be always updated with current medical practice.

Key Highlights

• Exam Format:

1. A total of 300 multiple choice questions (MCQs) in two Papers of 150 questions each.
2. Administered in the a computer based test (CBT) procedure.
3. All the areas of knowledge tested in MBBS course were covered by the successful subjects such basic science, clinical and applied medical subjects.

• Difficulty Level

1. Overall difficulty: Moderate to high.
2. Factual as well as clinical-case based questions including diagnosis, investigations, management, follow up, etc.
3. Specification of practical assignments and recent changes to the Standards of Care.

• Challenging Areas:

1. A major focus emerged which was on integrating the subjects clinically.
2. Group work and responsibility also came to light because of the large volume of syllabus which make time management a key factor.

• Pass Criteria

1. Such a minimum mark of 150 for 300 is needed to pass the course.
2. Historical pass percentage is low, sometimes touching even single digit or at most it is below twenty percent.

Detailed Analysis of FMGE December 2024-25: Subject-wise Insights

The FMGE December 2024-25 examination included questions of MCQ type related to pre-clinical, clinical, and public health topics. Here's a detailed breakdown based on candidate feedback:

Pre-Clinical Subjects

Other specific courses such as Anatomy, Physiology as well as Biochemistry were considered to be easy and moderate difficult.

• Anatomy:

1. Most of the questions asked were factual and concepts.
2. Some of the topics covered were neuroanatomy, gross anatomy and embryology.
3. Identification questions involving structures in radiological images were relatively easy.

• Physiology:

1. A combination of basic and more specific topics which focus on such bodies as cardiovascular and respiratory systems.
2. Tasks such as case based scenarios which formed the major part of the course needed knowledge in applied physiology.

• Biochemistry:

1. A combination of clear and ambiguous ones.
2. Areas of concentration were metabolic maps, enzyme velocities and the metabolic disorders.

Clinical Subjects

Clinical disciplines such as Pharmacology, Pathology, Microbiology, and Forensic Medicine were regarded relatively mid to tough.

• Pharmacology:

1. Questions equipped those mechanisms, applications of a drug as well as its side effects were asked.
2. Specific focus was made to recent drug classification and pharmacovigilance.
   Pathology:
3. Case histories presented a relatively large number of patients with systemic and neoplastic diseases.

• Microbiology:

1. Both theoretical and applied sorts of questions.
2. Occupying the general topic of infectious agents that include diagnostic tests and antimicrobial resistances.

• Forensic Medicine:

1. It included questions on medico-legal and toxicological nature.
2. Questions that dealt directly with defined applications and postmortem analyses were posed.

Community Medicine (PSM)

• This section was deemed as fairly easy and this part is normally maritime by the candidates.