Hours after the Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC) announced the syllabus for the Medical and Dental College Admission Test (MDCAT) 2020, students took to social media to record their protest against the move.
The PMC had earlier said that the MDCAT exam would not contain any topic which was outside the existing syllabus of the students’ respective province.
NMDCAT exam will NOT contain any item/topic which is outside the existing syllabus of your respective province. No NEW syllabus will be issued for NMDCAT this year.
Read full notification here: https://t.co/eCPosW8DPs
— Pakistan Medical Commission (@pmc_org) October 7, 2020
“No NEW syllabus will be issued for NMDCAT this year,” it said.
However, the students, taking to Twitter, said that the PMC had included “extra topics” for the MDCAT.
Most of the students complained that the PMC had at first said that a new syllabus for the upcoming MDCAT exam would not be provided.
However, a few hours after the syllabus was made public by the Commission, several students took to Twitter to claim that “many extra topics” had been included in it roughly 20 days before the exam.
You put a notification, telling us this, and NOT with a capital, then you waste 13 days and come up with the same NUMS syllabus which does contain so many extra topics 20 days before the exam.@pmc_org Agr NUMS ka syllabus hi dena tha tou ye notif kyu kia?
#changeyoursyllabuspmc— Ahmed Bajwa (@AhmedBajwa30) October 19, 2020
Why is PMC playing with the future of thousnads of students??😡
*#Changeyoursyllabuspmc*
*#Werejectpmcsyllabus*@pmc_org@ZakaWaqar#SAEED MDCAT TEAM— Rameen Fatima Bukhari (@rameen_bukhari) October 19, 2020
We reject new lengthy syllabus of NMDCAT provided by PMC just before 20 days of test.#ChangeYourSyllabusPMC pic.twitter.com/bipNMt1hSj
— Wajiha_Sheikh (@its_JiaSheikh) October 19, 2020
Dear Sir @ImranKhanPTI , First PMC put a notification, telling students that "No NEW syllabus will be issued for NMDCAT this year", Now they have released a new syllabus which contain so many extra topics, just 20 days before the exam.. #ChangeYourSyllabusPMC https://t.co/zvs2R16ahe
— Jawad (@Jawadsince1995) October 19, 2020
PMC u-turn STORY
2 oct: follow nums syallbus
7oct:follow provincial syallbus
19oct:naya aa raha ha detail meeting hui ha
19 oct:follow our own syallbus which is totally based on nums (1/2)#ChangeYourSyllabusPMC#Werejectpmcsyllabus@pmc_org— ArSlan SiDD (@ArSlanSiDD5) October 19, 2020
PMC 13 days ago announced MDCAT exam syllabus will same as provincial admitting universities syllabus and no syllabus will be given today PMC announced the NUMS syllabus that contain lot of different topics how can we prepare it only one month left from##ChangeYourSyllabusPMC pic.twitter.com/8LFvX7wrgN
— Imran Raza (@Tasawur30106114) October 19, 2020
Thanks for torturing the students PMC. Keep up the hardwork. I think you should have uploaded the new syllabus only a day before the exam. Kuch zada jaldi upload nai krdia? #Changeyoursyllabuspmc #Werejectpmcsyllabus
#WeRejectPMC @ZakaWaqar @ImranKhanPTI @DrMuradPTI— Shaza Shahzad (@shaza_shahzad) October 19, 2020