MCI Screening test - My experience and Guide for FMGE

My experience and Guide for FMGE:

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This is by an fmge candidate , written on aippg.net  ; i took this so that other people might get some idea how to prepare.
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Bharath

Author: Vishal Dadlani

Well now you have 5 and half months for the March attempt
Based on my experience you need to master Medicine, Systemic Pathology, Surgery, PSM, Ophthalmology, Obs-Gyn, Pharmacology and Biochemistry
If you do these subjects well……you are definitely beyond 150 marks

1) Medicine- Do Coaching notes + Mudit Khanna Medicine MCQs. Doesn’t matter how well you have studied coaching notes you can’t answer more than 60% answer right but don’t worry that’s PG entrance questions you can’t answer everything.
The mudit khanna book is divided into 2 sections A & B. Once you are done with section A, immediately do section B.
e.g.- First you read CVS from your coaching notes, than you do chapter CVS from Mudit khanna and finally go to section B and do remaining MCQs
- Remember Internal medicine is the most important Subject for FMGE. You might have heard this time not much was asked from medicine but directly or indirectly question will come from Medicine. So read it well

2) Pathology- Well frankly speaking these days not many questions are coming from General pathology, so you can read it from smaller version of Govind Garg & Sparsh Gupta book
About Systemic Pathology its as important as Medicine so read it from bigger version of Garg & Gupta book. Pathology concept will make reading Medicine easy so read Patho before reading medicine.

3) Surgery- Read Coaching notes for both systemic & general surgery, followed by solving AA surgery. In AA surgery each chapter is divided into 2 parts, the first part is from recent papers and from major exams while the 2nd consists of questions from 80s and early 90s and mostly state PG exams. If you have read notes well than you can definitely solve good amount of questions from 1st part but in 2nd part you might find some weird questions. So after you are done with reading Notes & solving MCQs just write down those answers which you could not solve as “one liner” information, it might take some time in first reading but its will save a lot of time while revising.
About AA book- the first 20 chapters are from systemic surgery, remaining chapters are general and a/c to me those are the most important chapters to be mastered. Even this time there were aroung 5-6 ques directly from those chapters. You can skip chapters like Plastic surgery, tumors and others topics that you have read somewhere else but chapters like burn, trauma, infection, transfusion etc are those chapters from where you will find easy & guaranteed questions.

4) PSM- The most scoring subject among all
Book of Choice- Vivek Jain PSM book for FMGE
Mug it up form page 1 till end……..What ever the pattern of paper around 30-35 questions will show up from PSM and if you have read Vivek jain well you can answer 90% of questions easily.

5) Ophthalmology- What ever you read in this subject you won’t be satisfied with your preparation so don’t worry it happens with everyone.
You can read coaching notes followed by MCQs from Across (by Saumya & Anurag Shukla) or you can only read review book of Ruchi Rai, it contains both review notes+ MCQs.
Like PSM, Optha also carries around 30-35 questions every time but unlike PSM you have to satisfy with around 70% right answers in exam that too if you have read it well.

6) Obs-Gyn- Since I was always good in Obs-Gyn (as all males are born with gr8 knowledge in Obs-Gyn) I decided to go with Sakshi Arora. There are two different volumes, Gyn around 400 pages and Obs around 600 pages……in short its gonna take time.
So few of my friends who were running short of time, started with coaching notes and finished mugging with a Small book which finishes as soon as you open it, Harmeet Goyal review book. You can try that as well but a/c to me nothing can beat Sakshi arora.

7) Pharmacology- I started with bigger version of Govind Garg and Sparsh Gupta during my final MBBS but soon realized it contains excess of information so I switched to Smaller version and believe me that’s the book of choice for MCI pharma portion. Keep reading it, keep revising it and you can definitely score 90% of questions right.

8) Biochemistry- It’s the most common nightmare subject among MBBS students but not for this exam. Questions are either too straight or too difficult that it doesn’t matter how much you study you cannot solve those questions but fortunately those questions are very few.
Start reading any coaching notes mug those 80-90 pages notes and solve MCQs from Across.
You will find very few difficulties in Carbohydrate and lipids but as will go ahead you will realize you can’t even solve half of questions right but don’t worry those question will NOT come in your exam.

This was about the first reading of major subjects, but secret of passing this simple exam is how many times and how well you revise these subjects. In my first attempt I missed by 2 marks, for the next 1 month the only work in my life was to haul about my bad luck as I read everything important to pass this exam but later I realized it wasn’t just my bad luck it was because I could not revise everything in the last days….i did it this time along with continuing internship in China and easily passed with 183 marks.

One important thing I forgot to mention- Give your final touch with Kamal KV book not for just for these subjects but for all subjects. Even though you haven’t read that subject in your life time (for me it was Dermatology & Orthopedics) still just mug up the answers for all 19 subjects and don’t be surprised if you find the exact questions in your exam……

Finally Small subjects like Forensic, ENT, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Radio, Dermatology and Orthopedics read it from any source- Coaching notes/ ROAMS (whatever you have). These subjects are actually scoring…but don’t just waste so much time on these subjects.......