MDCAT Past Papers by Year (2015–2025)

Last updated 2 August 2026

Past papers are the closest thing to seeing the exam before you sit it. They tell you how deep the questions actually go, which topics come back year after year, and how fast you need to move — things no syllabus list can teach you.

One thing to get straight first: the MDCAT has not been the same paper every year. It was a 220-question UHS paper for Punjab until 2019, became a 210-question national exam under the PMC from 2020, and since 2023 each province has conducted its own 200-question paper on one PMDC syllabus — KMU for KP, UHS for Punjab, and so on. Anyone quoting you a single format for every year has not checked. Each card below says exactly what its own year was.

Year-wise papers

MDCAT Past Papers by Year

Browse 11 MDCAT papers. Every card shows who conducted that year's exam, how big the paper was, and what set it apart.

MDCAT 2025

Conducted province-wise

PMDC syllabus
  1. 200 MCQs · 200 marks
  2. Each province set its own paper on one PMDC syllabus
  3. Heavier on application and clinical-scenario Biology
  4. Physics numericals tougher than the year before

MDCAT 2024

Conducted province-wise

PMDC syllabus
  1. 200 MCQs · 200 marks
  2. Province-wise papers, same PMDC syllabus and 200-MCQ format
  3. Difficulty balanced fairly evenly across subjects
  4. English section built around reading comprehension

MDCAT 2023

Conducted province-wise

PMDC syllabus
  1. 200 MCQs · 200 marks
  2. First year the provinces conducted their own MDCAT
  3. KP paper set by KMU — 200 MCQs, no negative marking
  4. Genetics and molecular biology heavily tested

MDCAT 2022

PMC Conducted

PMC
  1. 210 MCQs · 210 marks
  2. Computer-based testing fully established
  3. More diagram-based questions introduced
  4. Increased focus on analytical reasoning

MDCAT 2021

PMC Conducted

PMC
  1. 210 MCQs · 210 marks
  2. Post-COVID exam with an adjusted syllabus
  3. Held in multiple sessions for the first time
  4. Scoring standardised across sessions

MDCAT 2020

PMC Conducted

PMC
  1. 210 MCQs · 210 marks
  2. First fully computer-based national MDCAT
  3. Controversial questions led to grace marks
  4. Difficulty rated moderate to hard overall

MDCAT 2019

UHS Conducted

UHS
  1. 220 MCQs · 220 marks
  2. Last UHS-conducted MDCAT before the national exam
  3. Paper-based, single sitting across Punjab
  4. Punjab-specific syllabus and question pattern

MDCAT 2018

UHS Conducted

UHS
  1. 220 MCQs · 220 marks
  2. Paper-based exam format
  3. High-difficulty Biology section
  4. Straightforward Physics numericals

MDCAT 2017

UHS Conducted

UHS
  1. 220 MCQs · 220 marks
  2. Strong focus on FSc textbook content
  3. English tested grammar more than comprehension
  4. Chemistry leaned on definitions and reactions

MDCAT 2016

UHS Conducted

UHS
  1. 220 MCQs · 220 marks
  2. Textbook-faithful wording throughout
  3. Biology diagrams and labelling well represented
  4. Considered one of the more manageable papers

MDCAT 2015

UHS Conducted

UHS
  1. 220 MCQs · 220 marks
  2. Oldest paper in the archive
  3. Recall-heavy compared with today's pattern
  4. Useful mainly for topic coverage practice

How to actually use a past paper

Reading a past paper with the answer key open feels productive and teaches you almost nothing. Two habits separate students who gain marks from past papers and students who only feel busy:

  • Sit it timed, once, cold. One pass under the real clock, no notes, no pausing. That score is your honest baseline — and the panic of running out of time is exactly the thing you want to feel now instead of in the hall.
  • Then spend longer on the review than the paper. For every question you missed, work out whether you did not know it, misread it, or ran out of time. Three different problems, three different fixes. Repeated topics across years are your revision list, already written for you.

Once you know your weak topics, drill them rather than re-reading whole chapters — the MDCAT study plan and the full syllabus outline show you where each topic sits.

What's available right now

We are adding past papers to the platform year by year, each question checked and given a written explanation rather than a bare answer key — that takes time, so a year appears here only once its paper is genuinely ready to attempt. What is live today is the full MDCAT question bank: topic-wise practice with explanations, timed full-length mock tests in the real 180-question format, and analytics that rank your weakest topics. Create a free account and you will see the newly added papers the day they land; sitting or studying a full paper is part of Pro.

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