Overview
- Authorities report 138,160 candidates have registered to sit MDCAT 2026 across 34 Pakistani cities and an international centre in Riyadh.
- The Pakistan Medical and Dental Council says it developed a question bank of about 8,000 items with nearly 80 subject experts and created at least two distinct 180-question papers for each province.
- In Punjab, university and provincial teams dispatched sealed exam trunks under police supervision and set up control rooms and helplines to monitor centre operations.
- Practical conduct and on-the-ground security are the responsibility of provincial authorities and designated universities, which may retain question papers after the test for custody and review.
- The MDCAT is the national entrance exam for medical and dental colleges and this arrangement highlights how PMDC sets standards while provinces manage logistics and candidate delivery.