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How many MDCAT marks do I need?

Enter your Matric and FSc marks and the aggregate you are aiming for. This works out the MDCAT score that gets you there, using the official PMDC formula - 10% Matric + 40% FSc + 50% MDCAT. Everything runs in your browser, so nothing you type is sent anywhere.

Your marks so far
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What you need

Enter your Matric and FSc marks to see the MDCAT score you need.

The arithmetic, in the open

Your Matric and FSc percentages are already decided, so their weighted contribution is a fixed number. Subtract it from your target and you have the number of points the MDCAT still has to supply; divide by the MDCAT's 50% weight to turn that back into a percentage, then into marks.

locked in = (Matric % × 0.1) + (FSc % × 0.4)
MDCAT %   = (target − locked in) ÷ 0.5
marks     = MDCAT % ÷ 100 × 180   (rounded up)

Marks are rounded up, because a fractional mark does not exist and rounding down would quietly tell you that you had cleared a threshold you had missed. The whole point of this page is that the number is the one you can rely on, so it errs upward.

Why this number moves more than any other

Matric is 10% and finished. FSc is 40% and, for most candidates reading this, also finished. The MDCAT is 50% - more than the two of them together - and it is the only component still in play. That asymmetry is why a candidate with mediocre academics can still reach a good college and why a candidate with excellent academics can still miss one.

One practical consequence of the 180-question, no-negative-marking format: every blank is a mark you have chosen not to try for. Work the ladder in the table above and you will usually find the gap between two targets is a handful of questions, not a different person.

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Frequently asked questions

How many MDCAT marks do I need for a 90% aggregate?
It depends entirely on your Matric and FSc, because those are half the aggregate before you sit the exam. As a worked example: with 1000/1100 in Matric and 950/1100 in FSc you are already carrying 43.636 points, so you need 167 correct answers out of 180 for a 90% aggregate. Drop the FSc to 900/1100 and the same 90% now needs 174 - 7 more questions, off the back of one weaker year at college. Use the calculator above with your own marks rather than a number from a forum post.
Why does the tool sometimes say a target is not reachable?
Because Matric and FSc are locked in, and together they cap what you can finish on. The MDCAT is worth 50% of the aggregate, so a perfect 180/180 adds at most 50 points to whatever your academics already contribute. If that total still falls short of your target, the target is arithmetically out of reach and no amount of preparation changes it. Saying so is more useful than showing an impossible number.
Is the MDCAT score out of 180 or 200?
Out of 180. The 2026 paper is 180 MCQs in 3 hours with no negative marking, so your score is simply your number of correct answers. Several sites still quote 200 or 210 questions, or a 3.5-hour paper - those figures are out of date and will make any calculation built on them wrong.
Does a wrong answer cost me marks?
No. There is no negative marking in the MDCAT, which has a direct consequence for how you sit the paper: leave nothing blank. A guess on a question you have no idea about is free, and on a four-option MCQ it is worth a quarter of a mark on average.
What aggregate should I be aiming for?
Aim at the colleges you would actually accept rather than at a round number. Punjab's public medical colleges closed between roughly 94 and 96 on open merit in the last published cycle, and provincial and private thresholds differ considerably. The college predictor compares a given aggregate against each college's last closing merit so you can pick a target that means something.
Does this work for A-Level students?
Yes, but enter your IBCC equivalence marks rather than your raw A-Level grades. IBCC converts A-Level results into an FSc-equivalent total, and that equivalence figure is the one admission offices put into the formula.