Medical University of Lublin Entrance Exam 2027: Complete Preparation Guide

Twenty official headings, reference text Biology: A Global Approach, 12th edition (Urry, Cain, Campbell). Level is a strong school leaver.

• The chemistry of life: the role of chemistry in biology, water and weak interactions, the biological macromolecules and lipids, the molecules of life, enzyme action and specificity, and the energy of life and ATP
• Cell biology: cell structure and function as the fundamental units of life, prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisation, the organelles, cell membranes and transport, cellular signalling and messaging, cell respiration, and mitosis and the key roles of cell division
• Genetics and gene expression: meiosis, Mendelian genetics, chromosomes, nucleic acids and inheritance, expression of genes, the flow of genetic information through transcription and translation, mutations, control of gene expression, DNA technology, and the evolution of genomes including noncoding DNA, multigene families, duplication and rearrangement
• Evolution: phylogenetic reconstruction and reading a phylogenetic tree, microevolution and the mechanisms that change allele frequencies, species and speciation, and macroevolution
• Viruses, prokaryotes and fungi: a virus as nucleic acid in a protein coat, viral replication in host cells, viruses and prions as pathogens, prokaryote structure and function, rapid reproduction, mutation and genetic recombination as sources of prokaryotic diversity, nutritional and metabolic adaptations and the prokaryote lineages, the roles of prokaryotes in the biosphere, the origin and evolution of eukaryotes, fungi as heterotrophs fed by absorption, sexual and asexual fungal life cycles, the fungal lineages, and fungi in nutrient cycling and human welfare
• Animal diversity and body plans: the invertebrate groups (sponges, cnidarians, lophotrochozoans, ecdysozoans and echinoderms), the chordates, and the body-plan features that separate them
• Form, function and homeostasis: animal form and function correlated at all levels of organisation, feedback control of the internal environment, homeostatic thermoregulation through form, function and behaviour, and energy requirements in relation to animal size, activity and environment
• Endocrine regulation: hormones and other signalling molecules binding target receptors to trigger specific response pathways, feedback regulation and coordination with the nervous system, and endocrine glands responding to diverse stimuli in regulating homeostasis, development and behaviour
• Digestion and nutrition: the diet as a supply of chemical energy, organic building blocks and essential nutrients, food processing through ingestion, digestion, absorption and elimination, the organs of the mammalian digestive system, evolutionary adaptations of vertebrate digestive systems to diet, and the feedback circuits regulating digestion, energy storage and appetite
• Circulation and gas exchange: circulatory systems linking exchange surfaces with cells throughout the body, coordinated cycles of heart contraction driving double circulation in mammals, patterns of blood pressure and flow reflecting vessel structure and arrangement, blood components in exchange, transport and defence, gas exchange across specialised respiratory surfaces, breathing and lung ventilation, and the pigments that bind and transport gases
• Excretion and osmoregulation: osmoregulation balancing the uptake and loss of water and solutes, diverse excretory systems as variations on a tubular theme, the nephron organised for stepwise processing of blood filtrate, and the hormonal circuits linking kidney function, water balance and blood pressure
• Reproduction and development: fertilization mechanisms that bring together sperm and eggs of the same species, reproductive organs producing and transporting gametes, the interplay of tropic and sex hormones in mammalian reproduction, embryonic development within the uterus of placental mammals, fertilization and cleavage initiating development, morphogenesis and changes in cell shape, position and survival, and cytoplasmic determinants and inductive signals regulating cell fate
• Immunity and defence against infection: innate immunity relying on traits common to groups of pathogens, adaptive immunity and the receptors giving pathogen-specific recognition, adaptive defence of body fluids and body cells, and the disruptions of immune function that elicit or exacerbate disease
• Nervous system, senses and movement: neuron structure and organisation reflecting function in information transfer, ion pumps and channels establishing the resting potential, action potentials conducted by axons, communication at synapses, nervous systems as circuits of neurons and supporting cells, regional specialisation of the vertebrate brain, the cerebral cortex in voluntary movement and cognition, synaptic change underlying memory and learning, molecular explanations of nervous system disorders, sensory receptors transducing stimulus energy, mechanoreceptors in hearing and equilibrium, visual receptors and light-absorbing pigments, taste and smell receptors, the protein filaments in muscle function, and skeletal systems transforming contraction into locomotion
• Ecology and biodiversity: the ecology of life across the organism, population, community and ecosystem levels, biodiversity and communities, community interactions, and energy flow and trophic structure

Thirteen official chapters, with stoichiometry and reaction energetics separated here because they are tested as different skills. No reference textbook is named for Chemistry in Lublin's document.

• Matter, atoms and the periodic table: the composition of matter, the atom, charge, atomic number, atomic mass, the structure of atoms, isotopes, elements, atomic weight and the periodic table
• Chemical bonding and nomenclature: the chemical bond, covalent bonding, the molecule, polar covalent bonds, valence, naming covalent compounds, ions and the charges of ions, and ionic bonds
• Stoichiometry and chemical reactions: formula and molecular weight of compounds, the mole, chemical reactions, balancing chemical equations, interpreting equations, calculations based on equations, the types of reaction, and oxidation-reduction reactions
• Reaction energy, reversibility and rate: energy and chemical reactions, exothermic and endothermic change, activation energy, reversibility of reactions, the rate of a reaction and the factors that alter it including catalysis
• Water and the states of matter: the structure of water, the kinetic theory of liquids and solids, evaporation, heat and the states of water, density, surface tension, viscosity and water pressure
• Solutions, concentration and osmosis: the types of solution, the process of dissolving, solubility of solids, saturation, the solubility of liquids and gases, percentage concentration, molarity, dilution of solutions, osmosis and colloids
• Acids, bases, salts and buffers: acids and their properties, bases and their properties, the pH of acids and bases, measurement of pH, neutralization, salts and hydrolysis, and buffers
• Hydrocarbons and aromatic compounds: alkanes and their reactions, alkenes and their reactions, alkynes, cycloalkanes, aromatic hydrocarbons and benzene, the properties of benzene, and polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons
• Oxygen derivatives of hydrocarbons: functional groups, alcohols with their examples and reactions, ethers and their reactions, aldehydes and their reactions, ketones, carboxylic acids and their reactions, and esters and their reactions
• Other organic derivatives and polymers: halogen derivatives, sulfur derivatives, amines and their reactions, amides, heterocyclic nitrogen compounds, alkaloids and other nitrogen derivatives, organic polymers, and addition and condensation polymers
• Carbohydrates: classification of carbohydrates, monosaccharides, the open and closed forms of monosaccharides, glucose, the other hexoses including galactose and fructose, disaccharides, polysaccharides, reactions of carbohydrates, and optical isomers
• Lipids: fatty acids, soaps and detergents, waxes, and fats and oils with their properties
• Proteins and amino acids: the amino acids and their properties, primary structure, secondary structure, tertiary and quaternary structure, examples of protein structure, classification of proteins, the properties of proteins, and denaturation
• Basic mathematics for chemistry: fractions, decimals and percent, scientific or exponential notation, proportions and algebra, the unit-factor method, and metric system conversions

Nineteen official headings, reference text The MCAT Physics Book (Garrett Biehle), a higher pitch than a typical school syllabus. Calculators are prohibited, so numerical items must resolve by hand.

• Units, measurement and vectors: scientific notation, the International System of units, unit conversion, scalar quantities, graphic representation of vectors, vector components, and vector addition and subtraction
• Kinematics: displacement, velocity and acceleration, the fundamental kinematics equations, free fall, projectile motion and motion graphs
• Forces and Newton's laws: force, mass and weight, the normal force, friction, tension, net force, Newton's first, second and third laws, and free-body diagrams
• Equilibrium and torque: torque, lever arm and pivot, and the condition for static equilibrium in translation and in rotation
• Work, energy and momentum: work done by a constant force and by a variable force, power, kinetic energy, gravitational potential energy, conservation of mechanical energy, the work-energy theorem, momentum, impulse, conservation of linear momentum, and elastic and inelastic collisions
• Simple harmonic motion: the ideal spring and the restoring force, the pendulum, amplitude, period and frequency, and energy exchange during oscillation
• Mechanical waves and sound: the characteristics of waves, longitudinal waves, standing waves with nodes and antinodes, the speed of sound, sound intensity, sound level and decibels, and the Doppler effect
• Fluids: pressure and density, pressure in a static fluid column, Pascal's principle, and buoyancy and Archimedes' principle
• Gases and thermal processes: the mole and Avogadro's number, the ideal gas law, the kinetic theory of gases, and thermal processes using an ideal gas including isobaric, isochoric, isothermal and adiabatic change
• Solids and elasticity: the elastic properties of solids, stress, strain and Young's modulus
• Temperature, heat and thermodynamics: the common temperature scales, thermometers, thermal expansion, heat, transfer of heat by conduction, convection and radiation, heat and temperature change, specific heat capacity, the zeroth, first and second laws of thermodynamics, and entropy
• Electrostatics and electric potential: electric charge, conductors and insulators, the electric field, Coulomb's law and electric potential
• Electric current and circuits: current, voltage and resistance, Ohm's law, electric power, resistance in series and in parallel, Kirchhoff's laws, capacitance, and the parallel plate capacitor
• Magnetism and electromagnetic waves: the magnetic field, the force it exerts on moving charged particles, the field of a long straight current-carrying wire, transverse waves, the electromagnetic spectrum, and visible light and the colour of light
• Optics: reflection and refraction of light, the index of refraction, total internal reflection, dispersion, mirrors and images, the types of lens, images formed by lenses, and the thin-lens and magnification equations
• Radioactivity: gamma, beta and alpha decay, the law of radioactive decay, half-life, and the activity of a radioactive sample

Seven official headings, attributed by Lublin's own document to the IB Mathematics SL guide. Calculators are prohibited.

• Number and arithmetic: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division with integers, decimals and fractions including order of operations, simple positive exponents, simplification of expressions involving roots, surds or radicals, prime numbers and factors including greatest common divisors and least common multiples, ratio, percentage and proportion linked to similarity, absolute value, rounding, decimal approximations, significant figures and an appreciation of errors, and standard form
• Sets, numbers and mappings: the concept and notation of sets, elements, universal and empty sets, complement, subset, equality of sets, disjoint sets, union and intersection, the commutative, associative and distributive properties, Venn diagrams, the natural numbers, integers, rationals, irrationals and reals, intervals on the real number line in set notation and by inequalities, expressing the solution set of a linear inequality, and mappings illustrated by ordered pairs, tables, diagrams and graphs
• Algebra and functions: manipulation of simple algebraic expressions involving factorization and expansion including quadratics, rearrangement, evaluation and combination of formulae with examples drawn from the sciences, the linear function and its graph with gradient and y-intercept, addition and subtraction of algebraic fractions, properties of order relations, solution of equations and inequalities in one variable including rational coefficients, and solution of simultaneous equations in two variables
• Trigonometry: angle measurement in degrees, compass directions and three-figure bearings, right-angle trigonometry, simple applications for solving triangles, and Pythagoras' theorem and its converse
• Geometry and measurement: simple geometric transformations including translation, reflection, rotation and enlargement, congruence and similarity and the scale factor of an enlargement, the circle with its centre, radius, area and circumference, the terms arc, sector, chord, tangent and segment, perimeter and area of plane figures, the properties of triangles and quadrilaterals including parallelograms, rhombuses, rectangles, squares, kites and trapeziums, compound shapes, and volumes of prisms, pyramids, spheres, cylinders and cones
• Coordinate geometry: elementary geometry of the plane including the concept of dimension for point, line, plane and space, the equation of a line in the form y = mx + c, parallel and perpendicular lines, the geometry of simple plane figures, the Cartesian plane with ordered pairs, origin and axes, the mid-point of a line segment, and the distance between two points in two and three dimensions
• Statistics and probability: collection of raw data, display of data in pictorial and diagrammatic forms including pie charts, pictograms, stem-and-leaf diagrams, bar graphs and line graphs, simple statistics from discrete and continuous data including mean, median, mode, quartiles, range and interquartile range, and calculating probabilities of simple events

Derived, not official. Lublin publishes the scope in a single line (terminology and key concepts in the life and mathematical sciences) and lists no subtopics. The seven domains below come from the terminology lists in the supplied study guides. Keep your preparation at recognition-and-definition level: this is not a problem-solving block, and at most one-step arithmetic belongs in it.

• Cell biology terminology: cell, nucleus, cytoplasm, membrane, organelle, mitochondrion, ribosome, endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, lysosome, diffusion, osmosis, active transport, mitosis
• Genetics terminology: DNA, RNA, nucleotide, gene, allele, chromosome, genome, mutation, transcription, translation, codon, protein, meiosis, heredity
• Anatomy and physiology terminology: tissue, organ, organ system, epithelial, connective, muscle and nervous tissue, skeleton, joint, artery, vein, capillary, lung, heart, kidney, liver, pancreas, uterus, homeostasis, feedback, hormone, receptor, enzyme, metabolism, respiration, digestion, absorption, excretion, filtration, blood pressure, ventilation, gas exchange
• Microbiology and immunity terminology: pathogen, bacterium, virus, fungus, parasite, prion, infection, inflammation, antigen, antibody, vaccine, innate immunity, adaptive immunity
• Chemistry and biomolecule terminology: atom, ion, molecule, compound, bond, pH, acid, base, buffer, solution, solute, solvent, molarity, concentration, hydrolysis, dehydration reaction, carbohydrate, lipid, protein, nucleic acid, amino acid, fatty acid, glucose, glycogen, enzyme, ATP
• Physics and mathematics terminology: force, mass, weight, energy, power, pressure, density, temperature, heat, current, voltage, resistance, wave, frequency, ratio, proportion, percentage, fraction, decimal, exponent, root, equation, inequality, graph, mean, median, probability
• Healthcare and clinical vocabulary: patient, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, rehabilitation, consent, confidentiality, empathy, teamwork, professional responsibility, ethical dilemma

It's the three-part selection Lublin uses for its English-taught Medicine programme: a subject-specific entrance examination (compulsory Biology at 20 questions, plus two electives of 15 chosen from Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics), a separate 20-question Qualification Test taken in 20 minutes, and an interview on Zoom. Each subject, the Qualification Test and the interview are worth 100 points each, for 500 in total.

Specific to Lublin. There's no shared national Polish medical entrance test: every Polish university writes its own paper for international applicants, and across the five Polish schools IvyTest covers the question counts alone run from 12 to 100. Lublin's is also the most componentised of them, which means preparation built for another Polish school will leave two of its five scored parts untouched.

Online, from home. It is computer-based and delivered under live proctoring, entirely in English, with your camera and microphone on throughout and your identity verified beforehand. It's one sitting: the timer starts automatically and does not pause. Blank paper and a pen or pencil are permitted for rough work; calculators, phones, notes, textbooks, websites and any external help are not. The interview follows separately on Zoom.

Lublin doesn't publish a marking rule, and it doesn't publish how many answer options each item carries either: the official admission pages were re-read on 7 October 2026 and every one says only 'multiple-choice... one correct answer'. IvyTest carries one mark per correct answer and nothing for a wrong one as the neutral assumption. Usefully, the guessing decision doesn't depend on resolving this: under no penalty a blind guess is worth +0.25 marks at four options or +0.20 at five, so answering everything is right either way, and a penalty would have to exceed a third of a mark (at four options) or a quarter (at five) before a blank became preferable.

There are minimums, and no fixed cut-off. Senate Resolution No. 56/2025 requires at least 60% of the subject points (180 of 300), 60% in the interview and 60% in the Qualification Test, or 50% of each in a supplementary round; below any one of them you are listed as unclassified. Above them, places go by rank: the lowest total on Lublin's 10 July 2026 Medicine list was 327 of 500. Be careful with cutoffs you find online: Lublin's separate Polish-language domestic-recruitment portal publishes a 150-point minimum and 2025 figures of 246 points full-time and 165 part-time. Those govern the Matura-based domestic track and do not apply to this exam.

Whichever two you can score highest in, because all three are worth an identical 100 points; there is no weighting advantage to find. Judge them on scope and your own baseline instead. Physics is the widest at nineteen headings and Lublin pitches it to The MCAT Physics Book rather than a school syllabus. Mathematics is the narrowest at seven headings, drawn from the IB Mathematics SL guide. Chemistry sits between them and includes a full organic sequence plus a chapter of basic chemical arithmetic. Remember that calculators are prohibited in all of them.

Yes, every candidate sits it, on both recruitment paths. It's 20 questions in 20 minutes on terminology and key concepts in the life and mathematical sciences, at recognition-and-definition level, and it carries 100 of the 500 points, the same as the entire Biology paper. For candidates exempt from the subject examination it matters even more: they sit only the Qualification Test and the interview, with their subject points replaced by points converted from secondary-school grades, which makes those 20 questions their whole examined academic score.

Yes. It's held on Zoom straight after the Qualification Test, lasts about 5 to 10 minutes, and is worth 100 of the 500 points, a full fifth of the total. Lublin says it covers motivation and empathy, teamwork and career aims, and life and mathematical science terminology, but it doesn't publish a scoring rubric, so we leave that unverified rather than guessing at the criteria. What is clear is the arithmetic: together with the Qualification Test, 40% of the decision is made outside the subject examination entirely.

Seventy, on the Medicine route: 20 Biology, 15 in each of your two chosen electives, and the Qualification Test's 20. You may see 85 quoted elsewhere: that's the sum of every subject on the syllabus, including the third elective you don't take, and it isn't the length of anyone's paper.

The Minister of Health's 2026/27 admission limit gives Lublin 200 places in medicine taught in a language other than Polish, shared with its contracted programmes. The university publishes no acceptance rate, but it does publish its lists: for Medicine, 36 candidates were initially qualified on 10 July 2026 and 37 in the supplementary round on 14 September, while 64 and 26 were listed as unclassified, for a part not sat, missing documents or a part below the minimum. The calendar is unusually long: in 2026/27 recruitment closed on 7 October.

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 Lublin-format practice component by component (Biology at 20 questions, each elective at 15, and the Qualification Test at its real 20-minute limit) in timed, tutor and review modes, with results converted into points of 500 so you can see which component is actually costing you. A free diagnostic is available without payment.

Not official ones. Lublin publishes no past papers and no sample test. What it does publish is the topic list for the subject-specific entrance exam (a Word document linked from its Recruitment Conditions page, which this guide's syllabus follows) and a list of recommended books for the Qualification Test, such as Campbell and Reece's Biology; the same page says a detailed reading list for the subject exam 'will be shared soon'. The practice questions on this page are IvyTest's own.

Lublin had not published its 2027/28 schedule on 7 October 2026. In 2026/27 registration in the online system ran from 17 April to 22 June 2026, the exam and interview days for Medicine were 28 April, 7 May, 27 May, 10 June, 2 July and 7 July, the list of initially qualified candidates came out on 10 July and enrolment documents were due by 30 September, extended to 7 October. A supplementary round took registrations from 13 July to 31 August, examined on 18 August and published its list on 14 September 2026.

A secondary-school certificate with Biology and two of Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics, an English certificate at B2 or above from the Ministry's list (for example IELTS 5.5 or TOEFL iBT 72) and the application fee. A certificate from outside the EU, EFTA and OECD with no agreement with Poland also needs a NAWA recognition statement (free, up to 60 days), and its holder sits the subject exam. Everyone sits the Qualification Test and the interview and needs 60% in each part. US citizens also need an MCAT score. There is no upper age limit.

On the International Medicine Program, students admitted from 2026/27 pay $9,120 a semester ($18,240 a year) in each of the six years, due on 30 September and 28 February, or four instalments of $2,394 a semester. The application fee is PLN 100 (about $26) per programme, refunded only in a few cases such as an overpayment. The Asian Medicine Program has its own fees. The degree is the MD (lekarz), a long-cycle Master's, not an MBBS.

The six-year MD runs over 12 semesters and 360 ECTS credits. In the 2026/27 curriculum, year 1 covers Biology, Chemistry, Physics/Biophysics, Math/Statistics, Medical English and Clinical Skills; year 2 Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Genetics and Human Physiology; year 3 Microbiology, Pathology and Pharmacology. Years 4 and 5 are the clinical subjects, from internal medicine to surgery and paediatrics, and year 6 is practical rotations ending in an OSCE exam, with summer practice in between. The English-taught courses are Medicine, Medical Dentistry, Nursing and Midwifery.

By its own reports: its graduates had the highest average score of Poland's medical universities in the autumn 2026 session of the LEK, the national medical final exam (161.45 points), after 4th place in the spring session, and the Polish Accreditation Committee assessed its Medicine programme positively in 2025. Its Medicine page also says it is the only university in Poland approved by the US Department of Education for Title IV federal student loans. The pages IvyTest read cite no world ranking such as QS or THE.

Public. Its Statute calls it a public academic university (in Polish, Uniwersytet Medyczny w Lublinie), founded by a government regulation of 24 October 1949 as a medical academy and named a university in 2008, under the supervision of the minister of health. Its English-taught programmes are fee-paying, as Senate Resolution No. 56/2025 states. In November 2025 the university marked its 75th anniversary and 30 years of teaching in English.

The Dean's Office of the English Division, Faculty of Medicine, is at 19 Chodźki Street, third floor, with its Front Desk at 4 Chodźki Street, room 23, open on weekdays from 8:30 to 14:30 (10:00 to 17:00 on Thursdays) with a short midday break. Applicants deal with the Recruitment Section at Al. Racławickie 1 (Collegium Novum), room 32, [email protected], +48 81 448 53 74. Lublin's contact page links a virtual tour of the campus.

The graduation ceremony for the English-taught programmes was held on 2 June 2026 at the Centrum Spotkania Kultur in Lublin, with diplomas for the Nursing, Dentistry, American, International, Asian and Gulf medical programmes and the medical pledge. The new year opened with a White Coat Ceremony for first-year students from the US and Canada on 2 October and the inauguration on 6 October 2026; the 2026/27 academic year runs from 1 October 2026 to 30 September 2027.

The content is school level: Lublin says the subject exam checks fundamental concepts, and that the interview is not meant to test advanced knowledge. What makes it hard is the shape: 70 questions without a calculator, two fifths of the score from a 20-minute Qualification Test and a Zoom interview, and a 60% minimum in every part, so a weak interview alone can end an application. The 2026/27 Medicine list of 10 July qualified 36 candidates, the lowest of them on 327 of 500.