Exam pattern
FMGE (Foreign Medical Graduate Examination)
300MCQs
- Duration
- 5 hours total (2 hours 30 minutes per part)
- Pass mark
- 150 out of 300 (50%)
- Negative marking
- None
Test series
FMGE Mock Test & Full-Length Test Series
By Dr. Utsav Bhattacherjee, MBBS, MBA · Last updated:
A full-length FMGE mock test follows the shape of the real paper: 300 multiple-choice questions worth one mark each, split into two parts of 150 questions, with two hours and thirty minutes for each part, and no negative marking. That shape matters more than the questions. The pass mark is a fixed 150 out of 300, exactly 50%, so a mock built to a different length or a different marking scheme produces a score that cannot be read against the real cutoff. Sitting the whole paper in one go also tests the thing a question bank cannot: whether your accuracy holds across five hours rather than across twenty questions. Our mocks are scheduled against the actual NBEMS sittings, so each one is practice for the paper you are taking rather than an exercise timed to nothing in particular.
Source: National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS). Figures on this page are drawn from their published material.
Full 300-question papers on the real FMGE pattern, scheduled against the actual NBEMS sittings — so every mock you sit is practice for the paper you are taking, not a quiz that happens to be about medicine.
Built on the real FMGE paper
The pattern below is the exam’s, not ours — it is the same constant the FMGE exam page renders, so the two can never describe the paper differently. Our full-length mocks match it exactly.
FMGE test calendar
September 2026 to September 2027, with the FMGE sittings marked in place. 9 full-length tests, 23 September 2026 to 28 August 2027.
September 2026
23 SeptReflex full-length FMGE pattern test
October 2026
Exam31 OctFMGE sittingNBEMS confirmed
November 2026
5 NovReflex full-length FMGE pattern test
December 2026
12 DecReflex full-length FMGE pattern test
January 2027
23 JanReflex full-length FMGE pattern test
February 2027
ExpectedFebruary 2027FMGE sittingNot yet notified
March 2027
1 MarReflex full-length FMGE pattern test
April 2027
10 AprReflex full-length FMGE pattern test
May 2027
31 MayReflex full-length FMGE pattern test
June 2027
ExpectedJune 2027FMGE sittingNot yet notified
July 2027
15 JulReflex full-length FMGE pattern test
August 2027
28 AugReflex full-length FMGE pattern test
September 2027
ExpectedSeptember 2027FMGE sittingNot yet notified
Reflex full-length testFMGE sitting confirmed by NBEMS
FMGE exam dates you are practising for
One of these is confirmed by NBEMS. The rest are not, and each says what it rests on. We do not publish a specific day NBEMS has not announced.
FMGE October 2026
Confirmed31 October 2026
Confirmed by NBEMS, notice dated 28 August 2026
FMGE January/February 2027
ExpectedFebruary 2027
Expected (NBEMS notice: rescheduled to Jan/Feb 2027)
FMGE June 2027
ExpectedJune 2027
Expected — based on the thrice-yearly schedule, not yet notified by NBEMS
FMGE September 2027
ExpectedSeptember 2027
Expected — based on the thrice-yearly schedule, not yet notified by NBEMS
2027 sessions
NBEMS has confirmed FMGE will be held three times a year. Dates for 2027 have not been notified yet, including the date for the sitting that was previously listed for January 2027.
Checked against NBEMS notices on 26 September 2026. Only October 2026 carries a date NBEMS has published. Always confirm on natboard.edu.in rather than relying on any third-party page, including ours.
Why full-length
View plansWhat a full-length paper gives you that a question bank can't.
Chapter-wise practice tells you whether you know a topic. A whole paper tells you whether you can hold it together for five hours, which is the thing FMGE actually tests.
A score you can actually compare
Same 300 questions, same two parts, same absence of negative marking. A mock built on a different shape gives you a number that means nothing against the real cutoff of 150.
Five hours is a stamina problem
Most candidates lose marks in the back half of Part B, not because they do not know the answer but because they have been reading MCQs for four hours. The only way to train for that is to sit the whole paper.
Subject-wise breakdown after every paper
A total tells you where you stand. The breakdown tells you what to do on Monday — which subject cost you the most marks, and whether it was recall or application.
Sit it again, honestly
Every paper stays available after its date, so you can retake one under timed conditions closer to the exam and see whether the gap you found actually closed.
Testimonials
Doctors who cleared FMGE with Reflex
Graduates from Russia, China, and Ukraine on the specific thing that changed.
I had failed FMGE twice before I found Reflex. Not because I did not know medicine, I did. The subject-wise accuracy breakdown showed me I was losing 11 marks in Pharmacology alone. Three months of fixing that specific gap and I cleared on my third attempt.
I graduated from a university in Georgia and the FMGE pattern felt completely different from what I studied. Reflex's PYQ bank showed me exactly how the exam frames questions. Cleared it on my first attempt.
Studied MBBS in China, came back unsure how to prep for FMGE. The 6,000+ questions meant I never ran out of practice. Passed comfortably.
I came from a Russia MBBS background and the Indian exam pattern was my weak point. Reflex bridged that gap. The daily practice habit it built is what got me through.
The question style in China is very different from how FMGE asks. Reading the same subject twice got me nowhere. Practising 40 PYQs a day through Reflex, with the explanation of why the answer is what it is, made the Indian pattern make sense. Passed first attempt.
The high-yield topic breakdown saved me. Instead of drowning in the whole syllabus, I knew where the marks actually were. Worth every rupee.
What I liked most was the difficulty tagging, I could focus on the hard questions in the last month. The mock tests felt exactly like the real thing.
Affordable compared to everything else out there, and honestly more focused. I recommend it to every FMG I know who's preparing.
I tracked my score in the Reflex calculator after every mock. In November I was at 128. By January I was at 167. Seeing the number move kept me at it every day. That consistency was the difference.
After one failed attempt on my own, I switched to Reflex FMGE. The subject-wise question practice rebuilt my confidence. The explanations are clear and to the point.
The app works even on a patchy connection, which mattered because I was practising between clinical duties. Simple, focused, no distractions.
FMGE mock tests: frequently asked questions
Our full-length mocks follow the real FMGE paper: 300 multiple-choice questions worth 1 mark each, split into two parts of 150, with 2 hours 30 minutes per part. There is no negative marking, so a wrong answer costs nothing more than an unattempted one.
The pass mark is 150 out of 300, exactly 50%. It is a fixed absolute cutoff — there is no percentile, no rank-based selection and no category relaxation. Every candidate needs 150 or more.
No, because there is none in FMGE itself. A correct answer is +1 and a wrong or unattempted answer is 0. Our mocks mark the same way, so the score you see is directly comparable to the real thing and there is never a reason to leave a question blank.
NBEMS has confirmed 31 October 2026, in its notice dated 28 August 2026. FMGE is now held three times a year rather than twice. Dates beyond October 2026 have not been notified yet — the calendar on this page marks which sittings are confirmed and which are only expected.
The full-length papers run to a published calendar so you can plan revision around them rather than sitting them at random. The calendar on this page shows every month from September 2026 to September 2027 alongside the FMGE sittings, so you can see how each test lines up against the exam you are actually taking.
The Reflex app includes free practice alongside the paid plans. Pricing for the full test series is on the plans page, and the app is free to download and try first.
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