Medical University of Gdańsk Entrance Exam 2027: Complete Preparation Guide

The part of the Biology scope MUG states directly, before the single line about the human body that the rest of the section expands.

• Cell structure and transport: prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, the bacterial cell wall, nucleoid, plasmids and flagella, animal and plant cells, plasma membrane structure and permeability, nucleus and nucleolus, free and bound ribosomes, rough and smooth endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, mitochondria, lysosomes and proteasomes, cytoskeleton, chloroplasts and vacuoles, diffusion, osmosis and tonicity, filtration, facilitated diffusion, active transport, phagocytosis, pinocytosis and exocytosis
• Cell division and cancer: cell cycle phases and checkpoints, the stages of mitosis and cytokinesis, meiosis I and II, crossing over and independent assortment, gamete formation, nondisjunction and its consequences, mutation and uncontrolled division, oncogenes and tumour suppressor genes, carcinogens and the major cancer risk factors
• Molecular basis of heredity: nucleotide and DNA structure, deoxyribose, phosphate and bases, the double helix, base pairing and Chargaff's rule, semi-conservative replication, mRNA, tRNA and rRNA and how they differ from DNA, transcription, translation, codons and anticodons, the genetic code, start and stop codons, degeneracy and reading frame, protein synthesis and degradation by lysosomes and proteasomes, bacterial transformation
• Genetics and hereditary disease: genes, alleles, loci, chromosomes and karyotype, homozygous and heterozygous, genotype and phenotype, dominant and recessive inheritance, Mendel's law of segregation and law of independent assortment, monohybrid and simple dihybrid crosses, sex chromosomes and sex determination, sex-linked traits such as colour blindness and haemophilia, factors influencing gene expression, transition, transversion, insertion, deletion, frameshift, silent, missense and nonsense mutations, Down, Turner, Klinefelter and Cri-du-chat syndromes, mitochondrial and maternal inheritance
• Reproduction and development: asexual and sexual reproduction and the biological significance of sexual reproduction, gonads, spermatogenesis and oogenesis, external and internal fertilisation, zygote formation, cleavage, blastula, gastrulation and neurulation, germ layers and the origin of organs, the placenta and its exchange, endocrine and protective roles, the male and female reproductive tracts, Leydig cells and testosterone, the ovarian and uterine phases of the menstrual cycle with FSH, LH, oestrogen and progesterone, implantation and pregnancy

MUG's written scope names this as one line; the systems below are the 2025 official oral interview topic list, which enumerates them in this order and is examined in both stages.

• Tissues and body organisation: levels of organisation from cell to tissue to organ to system to organism, epithelial, connective, muscular and nervous tissue, where each is found and the property that distinguishes it
• Integumentary and musculoskeletal systems: skin layers, appendages and glands, keratin and melanin, barrier, thermoregulation, sensation and vitamin D roles, burns, acne and skin cancer basics, bone cells, bone formation and remodelling, compact and spongy bone, the axial and appendicular skeleton, cartilage, ligaments and tendons, classification and structure of joints, osteoporosis and ageing, skeletal, cardiac and smooth muscle, the sarcomere with actin, myosin, calcium and ATP, the mechanism of contraction, aerobic and anaerobic muscle metabolism and lactic acid
• Nervous and sensory systems: neurons and glia, resting and action potential, conduction of the nerve impulse, synapses and neurotransmitters, the reflex arc, central and peripheral, somatic and autonomic divisions, sympathetic and parasympathetic effects, brain and spinal cord, meninges and cerebrospinal fluid, cranial nerves I to XII and spinal nerves, Alzheimer and Parkinson disease, homeostasis, the eye with its protective structures, lacrimal apparatus, coats and the path of light, myopia, astigmatism and glaucoma, the ear in hearing and equilibrium, taste and smell receptors, and the general senses of touch, position, pressure, temperature and pain
• Endocrine system and hormones: chemical categories of hormone and their mechanisms of action, receptor types, feedback regulation and the stress response, hypothalamic and pituitary control, the thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal, pancreas, gonads, thymus and pineal glands and their hormones, hormone production by kidney, stomach and placenta, thyroxine and iodine, diabetes and normal blood glucose values
• Blood and cardiovascular system: functions of blood and composition of plasma, red cells, white cells and platelets with their structure, function and normal values, haematopoiesis, ABO antigens and the Rh factor and the problems of transfusion, haemostasis and clotting, heart wall and coverings, chambers, valves and coronary vessels, the conduction system and the cardiac cycle, artery, vein and capillary structure, systemic and pulmonary circulation, the hepatic portal system, pulse and blood pressure with their normal values and units
• Lymphatic system and immunity: lymphatic vessels and lymphoid organs, the mononuclear phagocyte system, physical and chemical barriers to pathogen entry, nonspecific and specific defences, lymphocytes, antibodies and interferon, vaccines and immunisation, allergy, transplant rejection, immunodeficiency and AIDS
• Respiratory system: nose, pharynx, larynx, trachea, bronchi, lungs and alveoli, the mechanics and stages of pulmonary ventilation, inhalation and exhalation, oxygen and carbon dioxide transport, external and internal respiration, regulation of breathing
• Digestion, nutrition and metabolism: anatomy and function of the digestive tract from mouth to anus, liver, gallbladder and pancreas as accessory organs, digestive enzymes with their sites of production and pH conditions such as pepsin in the acid stomach and the pancreatic enzymes, hormonal and nervous control of digestion, absorption, disorders such as stomach ulcers, anabolism and catabolism, carbohydrates, lipids and proteins in the diet, vitamins, minerals, essential amino acids and essential fatty acids, body temperature and hypothalamic control
• Urinary system and fluid balance: anatomy and function of the urinary organs, kidney function, nephron structure with glomerulus, Bowman's capsule, proximal tubule, loop of Henle, distal tubule and collecting duct, glomerular filtration, tubular reabsorption and secretion, permeability differences along the loop, normal urine constituents and urine concentration with ADH, the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system and erythropoietin, regulation of body fluids, the major electrolytes sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, bicarbonate, chloride and phosphate, acid-base balance and pH
• Disease, pathogens and ecology (partly derived): infection, inflammation and common disease examples, methods of destroying pathogens or inhibiting their growth including antiseptics, disinfectants, sterilisation, antibiotics, antivirals and vaccines, vitamin deficiency and malnutrition, addictions and their consequences and prevention all come from the official oral topic list; ecological interactions such as competition, mutualism, commensalism and parasitism, and comparative animal biology including mammalian characteristics and evolutionary adaptations, appear only in MUG's official 2014 sample paper and are not named in the written scope

All nine areas follow MUG's official written Chemistry scope; none is derived. Sat with a calculator and five printed MUG-approved tables, so items can legitimately require the periodic table, the electronegativity table, the galvanic series, the solubility chart or the amino acid table.

• Units, matter and atomic structure: the SI units for mass, volume, amount of substance, temperature and pressure, conversion between cm³, dm³ and m³, grams and kilograms, Celsius and Kelvin, mol and mmol, physical and chemical properties and changes, elements, compounds, pure substances and homogeneous and heterogeneous mixtures, chemical symbols and formulas, atomic number and mass number, isotopes and ions, counting protons, neutrons and electrons, relative atomic, molecular, formula and molar mass
• Periodic table and chemical bonding: groups and periods, metals, nonmetals and metalloids, valence electrons and basic electron configuration, periodic trends in atomic radius, electronegativity, ionisation energy and metallic character, ionic bonding and the formation of cations and anions, single, double and triple covalent bonds, polar and nonpolar covalent bonds identified from electronegativity difference, hydrogen bonding, dipole-dipole and London dispersion forces
• Moles, stoichiometry and gas laws: atoms, molecules and moles, Avogadro's number, the laws of chemical combination including conservation of mass and fixed proportions, molar mass and n = m/M, balancing chemical equations including combustion, coefficients read as mole ratios, mass-to-mole, mole-to-mole and mole-to-mass calculations, limiting and excess reactants, theoretical and percent yield, empirical and molecular formulas from composition data, the ideal gas law PV = nRT, the combined gas law and molar volume
• Solutions, concentration and solubility: solution, solute and solvent, molar concentration c = n/V with volume in dm³, normal concentration, mass percent, volume percent and mass/volume percent, dilution with c₁V₁ = c₂V₂, density and percentage problems such as preparing a dilute acid from a concentrated one, saturated, unsaturated and supersaturated solutions, reading solubility curves in grams of solute per 100 g of water at a stated temperature, precipitation reactions and use of the solubility chart
• Acids, bases, salts and oxides: Arrhenius acids and bases, Brønsted-Lowry proton donors and acceptors, conjugate acid-base pairs and amphoteric substances, strong and weak acids and bases, ionisation and dissociation reactions, degree of dissociation as dissociated amount over total initial amount, pH and pOH, acidic, neutral and alkaline solutions, neutralisation and salt formation, acidic, basic and amphoteric oxides and hydroxides, ionic and net ionic equations
• Redox and electrochemistry: oxidation number rules, oxidation and reduction as loss and gain of electrons, oxidising and reducing agents, balancing redox equations in acidic and basic media, permanganate reactions and decolorisation, the galvanic (electropotential) series, metal displacement, and predicting whether a metal reacts with an acid to give hydrogen and a salt; official items often set these out as labelled test-tube diagrams
• Hydrocarbons and aromatic compounds: alkanes with their naming, structural isomers, combustion and substitution reactions, alkene and alkyne addition reactions including hydrogenation and reaction with hydrogen halides, benzene structure and stability, nitration, ortho, meta and para isomerism, simple substituted benzenes, and recognising sp, sp² and sp³ hybridisation from bonding and geometry
• Functional groups and reactions: primary, secondary and tertiary alcohols with their naming, oxidation products and dehydration, phenols and their acidity compared with alcohols, the carbonyl group, aldehydes against ketones and the Tollens test, carboxylic acids with their acidity, neutralisation and esterification, esters and amides including the peptide bond as an amide bond, hydrolysis, and identifying reaction type across substitution, addition, condensation, elimination, oxidation, reduction and polymerisation, with monomers and repeating units in poly(vinyl chloride), polytetrafluoroethylene and polystyrene
• Biomolecules: glucose, fructose and sucrose, reducing properties, reduction of glucose to sorbitol, glycosidic bonds and cellulose as a glucose polymer, fatty acids and triglycerides with ester bond formation and hydrolysis, saturated and unsaturated fatty acids, amino acid structure and the zwitterion, essential amino acids, peptide bond formation and protein structure, nucleotides and the general structure of DNA and RNA, and the formation of lactic acid in working muscle with its conversion back to glucose in the liver

It is the two-stage process MUG uses to select candidates for its English-taught six-year Doctor of Medicine programme. Stage one is a 60-question written multiple-choice paper in 90 minutes (Biology 30 questions, then Chemistry 30), sat online under Zoom proctoring. Candidates who qualify sit a second stage: an online interview of about twenty minutes, scored out of 10, needing 6 points to stay in the process.

Neither. Poland has no shared national medical entrance test: every university writes its own, and MUG's two-subject paper is narrower than Warsaw's three-section competency test and structurally unlike Łódź's spoken oral exam. It is also not the Matura, and a Matura result does not substitute for sitting it.

Online, proctored through Zoom. Your camera stays on and your screen stays shared for the whole exam, only the test window may be open, the session is recorded, and you must be alone in the room. Answers save individually and stay changeable until time expires, and results come back the same day.

More than at most medical entrance exams. A calculator is permitted, subject to MUG's own calculator policy, along with five printed MUG-approved reference documents: the Periodic Table of Elements, the Electronegativity Table, the Galvanic (Electropotential) Series, the Solubility Chart and the Amino Acids table. All of them must be shown to the camera before the exam starts. This changes what the Chemistry half is really testing: MUG's own sample items lean on multi-step calculation and on reading a value off a table, not on having memorised it.

There is no negative marking: a wrong answer and a blank both score zero, so you should answer every single question. With four options, a blind guess is worth an expected 0.25 marks. That is not a trivial amount across a paper: a candidate who genuinely knows 28 of the 60 questions and guesses the remaining 32 expects 36 marks, while the same candidate leaving those 32 blank scores 28. Eight raw marks out of 60, for free.

There is no formally published pass mark for the written paper. MUG's Manual states that failure to qualify for the interview usually follows a written score below 60 per cent, which is 36 of the 60 marks, and the official Score Calculation page sets out only the ranking maxima (60 for school grades, 60 for the written exam, 10 for the interview) with no stated pass mark. So 36 is a practical target read off the university's own description of what usually happens, not a threshold it has committed to in advance. There are no per-subject floors either. Two rules are written down: the interview needs 6 of its 10 points, and the general rules of MUG's recruitment resolutions (§1.7, 2026/27 and 2027/28) let only candidates with at least 50% of the maximum recruitment points apply for medicine.

Candidates who qualify on the written paper sit a separate online interview of about twenty minutes, scored out of 10, and need 6 of those points to stay in the process. MUG's recruitment procedure page says it assesses English language proficiency, motivation and predisposition for the medical profession, and knowledge of selected subjects. It is spoken rather than multiple choice, and its sixteen official topic areas are the human body systems already inside the written Biology scope, so there is almost no new science to learn, but explaining a system aloud is a different skill from recognising it among four options. MUG's current manual offers no retake of either stage.

MUG proposes 72 places for 2026, the same number the Minister of Health's 2026/27 limit sets for its medicine taught in a language other than Polish, and reports 11.9 applicants per place for 2025. That is published applicant data most Polish schools simply do not disclose, and it means roughly one applicant in twelve secures a place.

This is worth knowing before you rely on anything. The written-exam Manual that defines the format is the 2023 edition, and it is still the file MUG's 2026-headed admissions page links to: its title page reads 2023 and it still references a portal the university has retired. Its companion oral-exam topics document was refreshed to a 2025 edition, which makes the written Manual's age look like an oversight rather than deliberate reuse. IvyTest re-checked the admissions site directly on 7 October 2026: the link sits under a 2026 manual heading and is labelled as the 2024 manual, but the file is still the 2023 edition, and there is no newer written-exam document. Confirming the format with MUG before you sit is genuinely worth doing here.

Within the EU, yes, under the EU's automatic recognition of medical degrees, but Poland's entry asks for more than the diploma. Annex V of the EU Directive on professional qualifications lists the Polish lekarz diploma together with the certificate of the LEK (Lekarski Egzamin Końcowy), Poland's national final exam, and the certificate of completing the postgraduate internship (staż), so the LEK matters beyond practising in Poland itself. The UK applies the same list: under the Medical Act 1983 (section 21B), a doctor of any nationality who holds it can register with the GMC without the knowledge test other international graduates sit, while a graduate without the LEK and the internship goes through the UKMLA. US-bound graduates need ECFMG certification via USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK, the same requirement every international medical graduate faces.

Yes. The IvyTest simulator runs MUG-format practice (60 questions in 90 minutes, Biology first then Chemistry, four options, one correct, no penalty) in timed, tutor and review modes, with a free diagnostic available without payment.

MUG publishes no past papers. Its Entrance Exams page links two free sample PDFs from 2014, Biology (25 questions, options A-D) and Chemistry (25 questions, options a-d), with no answer key. The same page links the topic list for the written part, the 2025 topics for the oral exam, the calculator policy and the five tables you may print and use, and the exam Manual. The practice questions on this page are IvyTest's own.

MUG had published neither on 7 October 2026. Its 2027/28 recruitment resolution (No. 91/2026) has the detailed dates published by 31 May 2027. In the 2026 cycle, registration opened on 18 March, the MD deadline was 15 July 2026, and MUG's own online sittings ran from 14 May to 30 July, with more dates through its recruitment agencies, some in Norway. Agencies can close earlier than MUG. There is one intake a year, starting with Orientation Week in late September.

A school-leaving certificate that qualifies you for university at home (MUG names A-levels, the IB and the EB), with Biology and one of Chemistry, Physics or Mathematics at advanced level, and English at B2 (IELTS 5.5, TOEFL iBT 80, an IB English grade or a Norwegian, Swedish or Danish school grade). You register at admission2026.mug.edu.pl or through a recruitment agency, upload your documents, pay the PLN 100 registration fee if you apply directly, then sit the exam and the interview. IB and EB holders skip the written paper: their advanced-level grades count again in its place, and they sit only the interview.

For students admitted in 2026, the MD costs PLN 64,200 a year for all six years, paid as two instalments of PLN 32,100, by 15 October (15 November for students applying for loans) and by 15 February. MUG lists one fee, with no separate rate by nationality. You also pay a PLN 100 registration fee and, within 30 days of acceptance, a PLN 3,100 Orientation Week fee (PLN 2,050 for candidates from Poland and MUG Premedical Course graduates). MUG offers no scholarship of its own; its Loans page lists Norwegian, Swedish and Canadian loan schemes. Fees for 2027 starters were not out on 7 October 2026.

The MD is a uniform master's programme of 6 years (12 semesters, 360 ECTS), taught in English by the English Division of the Faculty of Medicine, set up in 2001. It starts with an obligatory Orientation Week that includes a Polish language course. Each academic year runs from 1 October, with a winter and a summer semester and mandatory summer work placements. Clinical teaching takes place at the University Clinical Centre and teaching hospitals in Gdańsk. MUG's English pages publish no year-by-year subject list, so the topics this page covers are those of the entrance exam.

A one-year course in English, from October to mid-June, for school leavers who took few of the core sciences: General Biology, Inorganic and Organic Chemistry, Anatomy and Physiology, Physics, Medical Terminology, English and Polish. It costs PLN 33,000, textbooks and extra health insurance included. Admission is on school grades in Biology and one of Chemistry, Physics or Mathematics, an English certificate and a pass/fail interview. Graduating gives a chance of a place on the MD the following year, and MUG's 2027/28 rules let the Admissions Committee, in justified cases, count PreMed exam results as the written part (§16.2).

THE's own World University Rankings 2027 table puts it at 1001-1200, third (shared with Warsaw) among the eight Polish medical universities ranked. As MUG reports it: 551-600 for Medicine in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2022, the most recent QS result its accreditations page gives; 301-400 for Clinical Medicine in the 2021 ShanghaiRanking; first in Poland for Oncology in U.S. News. It is the only medical university among Poland's ten Excellence Initiative research universities, and its accreditations page lists the Medical Board of California and the US NCFMEA, valid until 2029. IvyTest has read THE's table, not the others.

In Gdańsk, Poland: the oldest medical university in Northern Poland, at 3a M. Skłodowskiej-Curie Street, with the Admissions Office at al. Zwycięstwa 41-42. Its student hostels are 300 m from the university buildings, 1.5 km from Gdańsk railway station and 12 km from the airport. MUG has over 6,000 students, more than 1,000 of them from abroad (over 16%), and 787 in the English Division, and puts the yearly number of young people from abroad studying with it at about 180.

It has no private owner: its Statute makes it an academic public university, founded by a decree of 8 October 1945 as the Physicians' Academy (Akademia Lekarska), renamed the Medical Academy in 1950 and the Medical University of Gdańsk in 2009. In Polish it is Gdański Uniwersytet Medyczny, shortened to GUMed; in English it is MUG. The English-taught MD is paid, at fees set each year in a Rector's Order.

The paper itself is narrow: 60 questions in 90 minutes, Biology and Chemistry only, with a calculator and five printed tables allowed and no penalty for a wrong answer. The competition is what makes it hard: MUG reports 11.9 applicants per place for 2025 and proposed 72 places for 2026. Candidates usually need about 60% on the written paper to reach the interview, then 6 of 10 there, and the ranking adds school grades. One example on MUG's IB page puts the line at 91 of 130 points for admission and 88-90 for the waiting list, without saying which year.

Yes: r/MedicalUniGdansk, where Medical University of Gdańsk applicants ask each other about the Medical University of Gdańsk Entrance Exam and share how their preparation is going. It is run by the IvyTest team. Dates, rules and results come only from the university's own pages, listed under Official sources on this page.

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