Kore Admission Test 2027: Complete Admission Test Guide

• Biomolecules and enzymes: chemistry of living things, water and hydrogen bonding, carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, nucleic acids, enzymes, active site and specificity, cofactors, effect of pH and temperature
• The cell, membranes and transport: cell theory, prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, animal and plant cells, viruses, membrane structure and function, diffusion, osmosis, active transport, endocytosis and exocytosis
• Cell cycle, mitosis and meiosis: interphase and DNA replication, mitosis, meiosis, crossing-over and independent assortment, homologous chromosomes and sister chromatids, haploid and diploid, karyotypes
• Mendelian genetics and reproduction: sexual and asexual reproduction, Mendel's laws, genotype and phenotype, Punnett squares, mono- and dihybrid crosses, test crosses, incomplete dominance and codominance, multiple alleles and blood groups, sex-linked traits, pedigrees
• DNA, protein synthesis and human genetics: DNA structure and replication, the genetic code, transcription and translation, gene expression regulation, mono- and polygenic trait transmission, autosomal and X-linked hereditary diseases
• Mutations, evolution and biotechnology: gene, chromosomal and genomic mutations, natural and artificial selection, genetic basis of evolution, recombinant DNA technology, restriction enzymes, vectors, PCR, genetically modified organisms
• Anatomy and physiology of the body systems: digestive, respiratory, cardiovascular, excretory and musculoskeletal systems
• Coordination systems and homeostasis: nervous system, neurons, synapses and action potentials, endocrine system and hormones, immune system, reproductive system and gametogenesis, homeostasis and feedback mechanisms
• Bioenergetics: ATP as energy currency, redox reactions, glycolysis, aerobic respiration and the Krebs cycle, electron transport chain, fermentation, photosynthesis and the Calvin cycle

• Matter, states and gases: states of matter and phase changes, heterogeneous and homogeneous systems, pure substances and mixtures, ideal gas laws, the equation of state, temperature and unit conversions
• Atomic structure and periodic properties: elementary particles, atomic and mass number, isotopes, ions, electron structure, the periodic table, groups and periods, atomic radius, ionisation potential, electron affinity, metallic character
• Chemical bonds and intermolecular forces: ionic, covalent and metallic bonds, bond energy and polarity, electronegativity, London forces, dipole-dipole interactions, hydrogen bonding
• Inorganic compounds and nomenclature: nomenclature and properties of oxides, hydroxides, acids and salts, common oxidation numbers, neutralisation and salt-formation reactions
• The mole, stoichiometry and reaction types: atomic and molecular mass, Avogadro's number, the mole concept, molar mass, stoichiometric calculations, mole ratios, limiting reagent and yield
• Solutions, concentration and equilibrium: solubility and saturated solutions, molarity, mass and volume percentages, dilutions, aqueous equilibria, the equilibrium constant
• Kinetics, catalysis and redox: reaction rate and the factors affecting it, activation energy, catalysis, oxidation and reduction, oxidation number, balancing simple redox reactions
• Acids, bases, pH and buffers: Arrhenius and Brønsted-Lowry definitions, pH and pOH, strong and weak acids and bases, neutralisation and simple titrations, salt hydrolysis, buffer solutions
• Organic chemistry: carbon-carbon bonds, molecular and structural formulas, isomerism, aliphatic, alicyclic and aromatic hydrocarbons, functional groups including alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, esters and amides

• Quantities, units and vectors: fundamental and derived quantities, unit systems, scientific notation, unit conversions, scalars and vectors, vector operations and component decomposition
• Kinematics and circular motion: velocity, acceleration, angular velocity, centripetal acceleration, uniform and uniformly accelerated rectilinear motion, free fall, uniform circular motion, harmonic motion, reading motion graphs
• Forces and the principles of dynamics: the law of inertia, Newton's second law, action-reaction, weight and elastic force, static and kinetic friction, inclined planes, torque, angular momentum, equilibrium
• Work, energy, power and collisions: impulse and momentum, conservation of momentum, elastic and inelastic collisions, work and kinetic energy, conservative forces and potential energy, conservation of mechanical energy, power
• Fluid mechanics: density, hydrostatics, pressure, Pascal's principle, Stevin's law, Archimedes' principle and buoyancy, the continuity equation, Bernoulli's equation, an outline of viscous forces
• Thermology and thermodynamics: thermal equilibrium, temperature and heat measurement, calorimetry, heat transfer, specific heat, phase changes and latent heat, ideal gas laws, the first and second laws of thermodynamics
• Charges, electric field and capacitors: Coulomb's law, electric field and potential, potential difference, the dielectric constant, capacitors in series and parallel
• Current, circuits and electrical power: resistance and resistivity, Ohm's law, the Joule effect, resistors in series and parallel, Kirchhoff's principles, electrical work and power, alternating current
• Magnetic field and induction: magnetic fields, the field generated by a current, forces on currents in a magnetic field, electromagnetic induction

It's the admission test Università degli Studi di Enna 'Kore' uses to select candidates for its Italian-taught Medicine and Surgery programme: 60 scored multiple-choice questions in 60 minutes, sat on computer, either in person at Enna (in the May and July 2026 rounds also in other cities listed in the call) or, in the September and October 2026 rounds, from home under ProctorExam.

No. The IMAT is the national test used by Italian public universities and some private ones; Kore sets and administers its own test under its own Rector's Decree, with a different structure, option count and scoring.

In person and computer-based, at Enna or at one of the other cities listed in the call (for May 2026: Bari, Cosenza, Florence, Lecce, Milan, Naples, Rome and Reggio Calabria). The rounds of 19 September 2026 (D.R. n. 95/2026) and 28 October 2026 (D.R. n. 119/2026) also let candidates sit it online from home under ProctorExam, so check the delivery options in the call you register under.

+1 point for a correct answer, −0.25 for an incorrect one, and 0 for a blank, across 60 questions with five answer options each.

It's a hard minimum, not just a low rank: score below 12 of 60 (20%) and you're excluded from the ranking entirely, regardless of how the rest of that session performed.

OFA (Obbligo Formativo Aggiuntivo, an additional learning requirement) is assigned subject by subject: if you're admitted but score below 30% of the maximum in Biology, Chemistry or Physics, you must make up that subject's OFA within the first year, even with a strong total. The Bando doesn't say whether the maximum means the 20 points a subject carries or the best score achieved.

Yes. Until the 2025/26 cycle, whose last sittings ran in January and February 2026, 36 of the 60 questions were logic, problem solving and reading comprehension. The current cycle dropped that section entirely: it's now 60 science-only questions split evenly across Biology, Chemistry and Physics.

Yes: six of the sixty questions are written in English. They're ordinary Biology, Chemistry or Physics items embedded inside their own subject, not a separate section, and no dictionary is permitted as an aid.

Only a sheet of paper and a pen. No calculator, periodic table, formula sheet, dictionary or electronic device is permitted.

Within the EU, yes: automatically, as a standard Italian medical degree (LM-41). Outside the EU recognition isn't automatic as a rule. For the UK, the Medical Act 1983 (sections 21B and 21C, as in force on 12 October 2026) spares holders of an Italian medical degree the knowledge test other international graduates take through PLAB/UKMLA, but the UK's list pairs the laurea with the Diploma di abilitazione all'esercizio della medicina e chirurgia, which Italy stopped issuing in March 2020, when the practical training moved inside the degree. The GMC's Italy page therefore offers graduates since then provisional registration on the laurea, for a UK Foundation Year 1 post, and asks for evidence of supervised practice, such as a 12-month internship, for full registration. Evidence of English is still required, and the rule is UK policy that can change. 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 Kore-format practice (60 questions, five options, the real scoring rule, no calculator) in timed, tutor and review modes, with a free diagnostic available without payment.

No. Kore publishes no past papers and no sample test: the questions are drawn from an archive the university owns, and the call's Allegato A is the official syllabus. After the test, each candidate can review their own paper and score online. Older material would not match anyway: the 2025/26 call still had 36 logic, problem-solving and reading questions out of 60.

Yes, for registered candidates. The call puts a simulator on the selection platform in the days before the test, and Kore's 'Preparati al test di ammissione' page says it runs like the real test, with no pausing, then shows the correct answers and your results by subject area. The same page lists TheFaculty, a free app under the university's patronage, and a 30-hour online course for €800.

A 2026/27 round is open: D.R. n. 119/2026 offers the places still free at Enna, Ragusa and Siracusa, with registration on uke.it from 8 to 26 October 2026 (23:59, €160) and the test on 28 October 2026, in Enna or from home. The 2027/28 call is not out yet; the 2026/27 call (D.R. n. 23/2026) came out on 26 February 2026, for a test on 8-9 May 2026.

Only candidates with at least 12 of 60 are ranked, by total score, and the list is published on uke.it by unique code. Those ranked within the available places enrol by paying the first €7,000 by the deadline, or lose the place. Free places then go down the list in scorrimento notices, each naming the positions and a deadline, until every place is filled. The May 2026 list named 172 eligible candidates, without scores, and all were told to enrol.

For 2025/26 (test of 14-15 March 2025, on the older paper with logic), the final EU list ranked 633 candidates from 59.00 down to 12.25. It counted each candidate's best score, including one from a 2024 sitting taken in the penultimate school year (D.R. 145/2024, Art. 2), so it ran longer than the 22 March 2025 list of the March sitting alone (551). The first 409 were called to enrol, the 409th on 34.25, and the first scorrimento in April 2025 called positions 410 to 633. For 2024/25 the list ranked 881 and the first 416 were called; a second test on 23 September 2024 ranked 235, and the thirteenth scorrimento reached the last of them in November 2024.

€18,000 a year in three installments. For 2026/27 that is €7,000 at enrolment (the €2,500 university contribution plus €4,500 of course contribution), €6,000 by 17 December 2026 and €5,000 by 30 March 2027. Sitting the test costs €160, not refunded. In the May 2026 round, five scholarships covering the €15,500 course contribution were offered to the top five eligible Italian, EU or equivalent candidates with an ISEE up to €30,000.

Yes, from 2026/27. ANVUR accredited the two new sites on 23 September 2026, and the national allocation (D.M. 1004/2026) gives Kore 632 places for the year: Enna 450 + 16 non-EU, Ragusa 80 + 3 and Siracusa 80 + 3. It is the same LM-41 degree with the same test; you rank your preferred sites when you register. The first test for the new sites was on 19 September 2026.

Italian only. Kore's Medicine FAQ says lessons are given exclusively in Italian, and it has one Medicine programme, Medicine and Surgery (LM-41), the one this page covers; English appears only in six of the 60 test questions. The same FAQ answers the Romanian question: the Romanian-taught Medicine course in Enna belongs to Dunarea de Jos University of Romania, a separate institution.

Six years. The course page carries the 2026/27 study plan and a table of prerequisites: Human Physiology I, for instance, needs Biochemistry I and Human Anatomy I first, and the final year holds Internal Medicine (13 credits), General Surgery and Medical-Surgical Emergencies. Kore's FAQ counts 36 graded exams, about six a year; in Enna, teaching runs in Kore's own buildings, the Santa Panasia campus among them, and in a Medicine building at the Umberto I hospital.

Kore publishes its students' course evaluations on the Medicine course page, from 2020/21 to 2023/24. In 2023/24, 6,769 questionnaires rated the teaching 3.36 out of 4 on average, and 3.32 for overall satisfaction with how each course was taught. The change students asked for most was intermediate exams (41.6%), ahead of a lighter overall workload (25.6%).