Status, 25 September 2026: the official answer keys are out, and Punjab has its result. UHS declared the MDCAT 2026 result on 24 September, four days after the test. KMU has published its key and its result cards. Below is where each province has put them, how to check your answers against the right key, and what to do if you think a question was marked wrong.
Match your paper code first
In 2026 each province set its own paper, and each paper came in several versions. A key only works for the exact version you sat.
Find the code printed on your question paper. In Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa it is A, B, C or D. Use that column of the key and nothing else. Checking your answers against the wrong code, or against another province's key, gives you a number that means nothing.
Punjab (UHS Lahore)
- Result: declared on 24 September. Check yours on the UHS result portal at results.uhs.edu.pk with your roll number, which is printed on your admittance card.
- Answer keys: published for codes A to D on the UHS website.
- Complaints: UHS has three portals open: one for answer-key complaints, one for question-paper complaints, and a recount/review portal for your result. They do not stay open for long, so check the deadline on the UHS site today rather than next week.
The figures reported from the UHS result: 47,475 candidates sat the Punjab paper. 37,708 of them (79.43%) reached the 55% needed for MBBS, and 40,457 (85.22%) reached the 50% needed for BDS. 1,772 scored between 170 and 180.
Read that carefully. Roughly four in five candidates passed. Passing only means your application counts. Seats are given by merit, which is your aggregate, and with that many people over the pass mark the merit for a public college sits a long way above it.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KMU Peshawar)
- Answer keys: published for codes A to D on the KMU admissions site.
- Result: result cards can be downloaded from the same site.
- Rechecking: KMU is taking applications for rechecking and retotalling there too.
One detail in the KMU key catches people out. Some questions list two correct answers, printed like "a, d". Either of those letters was marked right, so if you chose either one, count it.
Sindh, Islamabad and Balochistan
The keys for Sindh (Sukkur IBA), Islamabad (SZABMU) and Balochistan (BUMHS) have been reported as published. Balochistan uses paper colours rather than letters, and Islamabad uses codes 1 to 4.
Get the key from the university's own website, not from a screenshot in a WhatsApp group. Screenshots get cropped, mislabelled with the wrong code, and passed around long after a correction.
How to work out your score
The paper is 180 MCQs, one mark each, with no negative marking. A wrong answer costs nothing.
So your score is simply the number you got right, out of 180. Go down your paper against your own code's column and count. Where the key gives two answers for a question, either one scores.
From your score to a seat
Your score is half the picture. Admission runs on an aggregate: 50% MDCAT, 40% FSc and 10% Matric. That formula is set by PM&DC and every province uses it.
Before merit is even looked at, there are two minimums. You need at least 60% in FSc, and at least 55% in the MDCAT for MBBS or 50% for BDS. Miss either and a good aggregate does not help.
Put your marks into the MDCAT aggregate calculator. It works out your aggregate and tells you straight away if you are under either minimum.
If you are sitting it again in 2027
The calendar has changed. From 2027 PMDC has said the MDCAT will be held within about six days of the Inter exams, so there is no longer a gap of several months after boards to prepare in. Whatever preparing you do has to happen alongside college, starting now.
If that is you, sit a full mock test this week to see where you actually stand, and use the MDCAT subject pages to work through the topics you lost marks on.