AIIMS entrance exam: Students find physics tough

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 27

Aspirants from Chandigarh appeared for the AIIMS online entrance exam conducted in two slots on Sunday.

The AIIMS MBBS-2018 is for admissions to 800 MBBS seats in nine institutions, including two new AIIMS in Guntur and Nagpur.

It was an online-mode examination and comprised five sections, with 60 questions each from physics, chemistry, biology, and 10 each general knowledge and aptitude and logical thinking questions.

Parseerat Kaur , who took the exam at the Lalru centre, said: “I was comfortable with biology and chemistry, but some physics questions were challenging. I attempted around 158 out of 200 questions. Chemistry focused more on the organic part of the syllabus.”

Students said the biology section was easy. The whole paper was NCERT-based, they say.

The result of AIIMS MBBS-2018 will be declared on June 18.

Expert views

Chandigarh-based physics teacher Kunal Singh said: “While a majority of the test-takers claimed that the physics section was toughest and time-consuming of all, the overall difficulty level of the exam was moderate due to scoring chemistry, biology and mental ability questions. Several aspirants claimed to have attempted more than 150 questions which means that selectivity and accuracy will hold the key for success in the exam.”

“The questions were more analytical and required greater understanding of the subject. The biology section was mostly based on the NCERT books, but required in-depth knowledge and application across related topics. In contrast to this years’ NEET, there were questions based on the diagrams also. The chemistry section was also based on NCERT books, but there were some tricky questions from the organic chemistry section. Physics was as always more numerical-based with lengthy calculations which led to several students not being able to solve all questions to their satisfaction,” said Arvind Goyal, an AIIMS trainer.