Tuesday 28 April 2015

Preparing for DNB-CET entrance exam requires online Mock test practice

                           
The National Board of Examinations (NBE) conducts the DNB-CET (Diplomate National Board – Centralized Entrance Test) twice a year as a qualifying-cum-ranking examination for entry to various Medical Post Graduate courses including Direct 6 years course in the specialty of Plastic Surgery, Neuro-Surgery, Cardio-thoracic Surgery and Pediatric Surgery. The aim of this exam is to provide a common standard and mechanism of evaluation of minimum level of attainment of the knowledge and competencies of medical specialties.  

In this article we will guide you through the exam pattern of DNB-CET 2015. It is a computer based test conducted online. DNB CET 2015 exam will be based on the syllabus prescribed by Graduate Medical Education Regulations with approval from Medical Council of India. Exam will consist of the subjects covered during MBBS and the examination will be a multiple choice question test.

The questions allocated for DNB-CET MCQs mock test has the following weightage subject wise:

SL. No
Subject
Subject wise weightage
1
ANATOMY
16
2
PHYSIOLOGY
16
3
BIOCHEMISTRY
16
4
PATHOLOGY
12
5
MICROBIOLOGY
12
6
PHARMACOLOGY
12
7
FORENSIC MEDICINE
8
8
OPHTHALMOLOGY
8
9
ENT
8
10
SPM, STATISTICS & BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH
16
11
GENERAL MEDICINE
18
12
PSYCHIATRY
4
13
DERMATOLOGY & STD
4
14
GENERAL SURGERY
17
15
ORTHOPEDICS
3
16
ANAESTHESIOLOGY
3
17
RADIOLOGY
3
18
OBSTETRICS & GYNAECOLOGY
16
19
PAEDIATRICS
8

GRAND TOTAL
200

As this exam will have multiple choice questions, it becomes mandatory to practice online mock test and question papers to get familiarize with the computer based testing format of DNB-CET.  There are many DNB-CET MCQs available online for revision. Taking online mock test will help to do a self assessment of your performance level and work on the areas lagging behind. 

Elsevier one of the leading medical publisher has launched a preparation tool – MyPGMEE by leading authors like Dr. Mudit Khanna, Dr. P.L. Dhingra, Dr. U Satyanarayana, Dr.Sushanta Bhanja and Dr. Rajeev Kumar.


MyPGMEE is a unique and helpful online Postgraduate entrance exam preparation tool with customized features like DNB style online questions, mock tests, MCQS, Practice papers etc to enhance your knowledge. The tool is built on Elsevier IntelloTesting platform an ideal partner for your exam with recent examination style questions, written and reviewed by leading author, Dr Mudit Khanna. It offers thousands of questions with their detailed answers and many other features to track performance for DNB exams.
 

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