Sindh ministers reject MDCAT results
Controversies surround medical entry tests conducted by PMC
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KARACHI:
After months' long controversy, and massive discrepancies in the medical entry tests conducted under the supervision of the Pakistan Medical Commission, the Sindh government rejected on Monday the results of the entry tests.
Addressing a joint press conference on the day, provincial ministers demanded of the federal government to hand over the authority of conducting the test to the provincial government. The demand came in the wake of the controversial Medical and Dental College Admission Test (MDCAT) conducted by the PMC.
The test was conducted without a national uniform syllabus, and massive discrepancies in questions emerged, with allegations that they were out of syllabus. Further issues were voiced regarding wrong roll numbers, names and locations of the candidates. This created a quandary among students and parents in all four provinces. Many parents and students have also gone to the courts to challenge the results. At the press conference on Monday, provincial ministers, declaring the official response of the Pakistan Peoples Party-led Sindh government, said that there was no need for the federal government to have established the PMC to begin with.