The Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC) on Tuesday announced that a portal to download the roll number slips for the Medical and Dental College Admission Test (MDCAT) was now operational.
“The portal for downloading roll number slips is now available,” the PMC said on Twitter.
The portal for downloading roll number slips is now available. All MDCAT applicants, including the ones who had already received their roll number slips previously, are requested to download their updated roll number slips.
Portal link: https://t.co/l3dkF8GBRq
— Pakistan Medical Commission (@pmc_org) November 24, 2020
“All MDCAT applicants, including the ones who had already received; their roll number, slip previously, requested to download their updated roll number slips,” it added.
Earlier, Prime Minister Imran Khan’s aide on health had said the MDCAT would hold on November 29. In line with the schedule, and under a strict implementation of the coronavirus-related standard operating procedures (SOPs).
Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on National Health Services, Regulations, and Coordination, Dr. Faisal Sultan. They had said in a press conference yesterday all entry and professional exams would hold on their respective dates. He, however, stressed the implementation of coronavirus SOPs during the exams.
The latest decision made during the Inter-Provincial Education Ministers Conference (IPEMC) convened to discuss the closures of educational institutes in Pakistan.
Earlier according to the court ruling, the Board will have “the powers to formulate the examination structure and standards for the MDCAT for approval of the Council”.
The SHC further criticized a notification. Issued on October 23, 2020, by the PMC regarding the syllabus. In which it said candidates would have the option to mark any questions; they believed were beyond the syllabus in an objection form to be provided at the examination center. Saying it “created uncertainty and gross confusion and perplexity in the minds of all applicants” and terming it “unreasonable and nonstandard”.
“This is quite a unique idea that every applicant will provide objection form at the time of entering into the examination hall. So first he should oblige to do an audit exercise. As to how many questions are out of his syllabus.
“Much time of the candidate would lapse. And consumed to go through the entire question paper as an examiner and then filling the objection forms.
“No further mechanism has provided in the above announcement. As to how and when the students appearing in the MDCAT will come to know. Whether objections raised by them considered. And the question considered by them to outside the identified syllabus has removed from scoring or not.
“Such unreasonable and nonstandard conditions amount to create hardship, distress, and uncertainty. Amongst the candidates and their futures are also at stake. Unless the proper syllabus made out by the competent authority. With due deliberation and examination of the FSC syllabus of the country to make out a common syllabus. Without any doubts so that the candidates should not be asked; to fill objection forms in the examination hall,” the order read.
Earlier in the day, during the hearing, the PMC informed the bench that the entry tests scheduled for November 15. They informed the students via text messages. Roll number and admit cards have also issued,” the body’s legal counsel said.
A lawyer representing the students confirmed and added that students collect their admit cards.
The counsel for the National Testing Service (NTS) said his client incurred losses. Due to the high court’s October 17 decision to postpone the test. “We need compensation.”