Pécs Entrance Exam 2027: Complete Preparation Guide

Official. Ten groups covering all 30 numbered topic areas of the Pécs entrance-exam topics page. Reference text: OpenStax Biology 2e.

• Cells, viruses and biomolecules: eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells, cell size, circular and linear DNA, the cell wall, binary fission compared with mitosis, viruses as acellular obligate intracellular agents, capsid and envelope, DNA and RNA genomes, why viruses are not prokaryotes, carbohydrates, lipids, proteins and nucleic acids, their monomers and major functions, structural and storage molecules, enzymes
• Organelles and membrane transport: the phospholipid bilayer and membrane proteins, diffusion, osmosis, facilitated diffusion, active transport, endocytosis and exocytosis, concentration gradients, the nuclear envelope, pores, chromatin and nucleolus, microtubules, microfilaments and intermediate filaments, tubulin, the mitotic spindle, centrioles, cilia and flagella, rough and smooth endoplasmic reticulum, the Golgi apparatus and lysosomes, protein modification and sorting, autophagy, the mitochondrial double membrane and mitochondrial DNA, evidence for endosymbiosis
• Cell division: the cell cycle, prophase, metaphase, anaphase and telophase, cytokinesis, chromosome movement, growth and repair, reduction division, homologous chromosomes, crossing over, independent assortment, gamete formation, genetic variation, and mitosis compared with meiosis
• Molecular genetics: Griffith's transformation experiment, Avery-MacLeod-McCarty, the Hershey-Chase phage experiment, semiconservative replication, complementary pairing, DNA polymerase and helicase, leading and lagging strands, Okazaki fragments, proofreading, transcription, template and coding strands, RNA polymerase, 5' to 3' directionality, writing a complementary RNA sequence with U for T, codons, start and stop codons, degeneracy, reading frame, ribosome subunits, mRNA, tRNA and rRNA, codon-anticodon pairing, and initiation, elongation and termination
• Human genetics and inheritance: genotype and phenotype, dominant and recessive inheritance, autosomal and sex-linked patterns, Punnett squares and pedigree reasoning, ABO and Rh genotypes, phenylketonuria and comparable single-gene disorders, incomplete dominance, and mutation types including frameshift, base substitution, missense and nonsense
• Skeleton, muscle and skin: the axial and appendicular skeleton, skull, vertebral column and ribs, the pectoral and pelvic girdles, the limbs, bone functions, joints and bone tissue, the sarcomere, actin and myosin, the sliding filament theory, Z lines, calcium and ATP, what shortens and what does not during contraction, the epidermis and dermis, skin glands and hair, thermoregulation, protection, sensory receptors and the vitamin D link
• Circulation, blood and respiration: heart chambers and valves, the direction of blood flow, the pulmonary and systemic circuits, the pacemaker and autonomic regulation of heart rate, cardiac output as stroke volume times heart rate, plasma, red and white blood cells and platelets, haemoglobin and its four polypeptide chains, ABO and Rh blood groups, clotting basics, the airways and alveoli, gas exchange, inspiration and expiration, the diaphragm, tidal volume, the oxygen-haemoglobin dissociation curve and its pH dependence, and carbon dioxide transport as bicarbonate
• Nervous and endocrine systems: the central and peripheral nervous systems, neurons, action potentials, synapses, the autonomic nervous system, sympathetic and parasympathetic effects, steroid and peptide hormone mechanisms and which class enters the target cell, the pituitary, thyroid, pancreas, adrenal glands and gonads, target tissues such as the gonads for luteinising hormone, and feedback control
• Digestion, liver and excretion: the digestive tract, enzymes matched to their substrates and products including maltase, lipase and pepsin, absorption, bile, water-soluble and fat-soluble vitamins, the roles of the pancreas and liver, liver metabolism, detoxification, glycogen and plasma proteins, the spleen's immune and blood-filtering functions, the nephron, filtration, reabsorption and secretion, urine formation, urea, and osmoregulation with water and salt balance
• Immunity, reproduction and development: innate and adaptive immunity, physical barriers, phagocytes and lymphocytes, antibodies, vaccination, inflammation, immune memory, male and female reproductive anatomy, gametogenesis, fertilisation, the menstrual cycle, sex hormones, and the basics of embryonic development

Official. Eleven groups covering all 20 numbered topic areas. Reference text: OpenStax Chemistry 2e. Roughly half the sample paper is calculation, and a simple calculator is permitted.

• Essential elements and water: bioelements and trace elements, water polarity, hydrogen bonding, the solvent properties of water, and the behaviour of acids and bases in aqueous systems
• Atomic structure and the periodic table: protons, neutrons and electrons, atomic number and mass number, isotopes and ions and why an ion is not a different element, electron configuration basics, groups and periods, metals and nonmetals, trends in atomic radius, ionisation energy, electron affinity and electronegativity, the halogens and alkali metals, and inferring common ion charges from group position
• Chemical bonding and intermolecular forces: ionic, covalent and polar covalent bonding, basic molecular geometry, polar and nonpolar molecules, combining bond polarity with molecular shape, hydrogen bonding, dipole forces, London forces, and identifying substances containing covalent bonds only while excluding ionic salts that contain covalent polyatomic ions
• Stoichiometry and gas laws: the mole and molar mass, Avogadro's number, balancing equations, conversions between mass, amount, particle number and gas volume, the limiting reactant, the molar volume of about 22.4 L at STP, pressure, volume and temperature relationships, ideal gas reasoning and gas stoichiometry
• Solutions and concentration: molarity as amount over volume in litres, mass percent, density, dilution, converting millilitres to litres, and obtaining the total mass of a solution from its density and volume
• Kinetics and chemical equilibrium: the factors affecting reaction rate, dynamic equilibrium, Le Chatelier's principle, the effects of pressure, concentration and temperature changes, exothermic and endothermic shifts, and comparing moles of gas on each side before deciding a pressure effect
• Acids, bases, buffers and pH: the Arrhenius and Brønsted concepts, strong and weak acids and bases, pH and pOH and the relation pH + pOH = 14, hydrogen and hydroxide ion concentrations, buffers, and ranking solutions of equal concentration by increasing pH from strong acid through weak acid, neutral salt and weak base to strong base
• Redox and electrochemistry: assigning oxidation numbers so that they sum to the charge on the species, oxidation as electron loss and reduction as electron gain, identifying redox reactions from oxidation-number changes rather than from the look of the equation, and basic electrochemical cells
• Hydrocarbons and aromatic compounds: alkanes, alkenes and alkynes, saturation, elements of nomenclature, structural formulas, addition to double bonds including HBr addition and major-product logic, benzene and aromatic stability, substitution rather than addition as the aromatic pattern, and common aromatic derivatives
• Functional groups and organic reactions: alcohols, phenols and ethers, polarity and hydrogen bonding, the carbonyl group and the aldehyde-ketone distinction, carboxylic acids, esters and amides, esterification, soaps and fatty acid salts, amines and their basicity, nitrogen heterocycles, distinguishing an amide from an amine, recognising R-O-R, R-COOH, R-COO-R and R-CONH-R from drawn structures, and structural isomerism judged on connectivity rather than on molecular formula alone
• Biomolecules: monosaccharides, aldose and ketose, pentose and hexose, counting chiral carbons, D and L notation from the lowest chiral centre, Fischer projections and open-chain forms, amino acid structure, zwitterions, peptide bonds, primary to quaternary protein structure, enzymes as proteins, fatty acids, triglycerides, phospholipids and sterols, hydrolysis and saponification, nucleosides and nucleotides as base plus sugar plus phosphate, DNA and RNA differences, and ATP

Derived, not official. Pécs publishes no grammar syllabus; these seven areas come from the university's own English Sample Test 1 and from the exam's structure. Every sampled item is a single-gap sentence completion with four options and no reading passage. Target level: solid upper-intermediate B2, and expect areas the sample never touches, since it covers 20 items against 40 on the real paper.

• Tenses and aspect: past simple, present perfect with for and since, past perfect, past continuous, future continuous, stative verbs that resist continuous forms, and choosing between finished past time and present relevance
• Modal verbs: must and mustn't for obligation and prohibition, needn't and don't have to for lack of necessity, should for advice, shouldn't have plus past participle for regret and criticism, and might have and can't have for deduction about the past
• Conditionals, wishes and regrets: first, second and third conditionals, unless as if-not with a present-simple verb for future meaning, hypothetical advice with if I were you, wish plus past perfect for past regret, and would for future irritation and requests
• Passive voice: passive formation across tenses, perfect passive forms such as had been plus past participle, choosing the passive when the agent is unknown or unimportant, and distinguishing passive from active past forms
• Relative clauses: defining and non-defining clauses, which against that, comma use, a clause commenting on a whole preceding sentence, and preposition plus which or whom, such as of which after proud
• Comparison and degree: the same as and similar to, comparative and superlative forms, too plus adjective plus to-infinitive, and the placement of enough relative to an adjective and to a noun
• Verb patterns and common structures: used to against be used to and get used to, shall for offers and suggestions, adjectives rather than adverbs after linking verbs such as look and taste, cause or make plus object plus infinitive, and verb plus gerund or infinitive

Derived, not official. Pécs publishes no vocabulary list; these five areas come from items 21-30 of the official English Sample Test 1 and show the register and question style rather than the full vocabulary universe. The level target is recognition of common clinical vocabulary: items stay answerable from language, not from medical training.

• Medical specialties: matching an organ or system to the specialist who treats it: angiology, urology, pulmonology, nephrology, cardiology, stomatology, dermatology and other common branches, with near-miss specialties used as distractors
• Word roots, prefixes and suffixes: -itis for inflammation, -osis for a condition or process, -pathy for disease, -penia for deficiency or diminution, -ectomy, -otomy and -algia, common Greek and Latin roots for organs and tissues, and building or decoding a term from its parts
• Anatomy and physiology terminology: cardiology terms such as the SA node, atria, conduction and heart block, musculoskeletal terms such as range of motion and osteoporosis, common condition names such as hypertension and rheumatoid arthritis, and everyday clinical phrasing for structures and processes
• Clinical vocabulary and synonyms: predisposition and susceptibility, deteriorating and degenerative, impairment and impediment, high-frequency academic verbs such as strive, and choosing the nearest synonym for a term as it is used in a clinical sentence
• Scientific adjectives: empirical, aetiological, pathological and physiological: separating observation-based from cause-based, disease-based and function-based description, and applying the right adjective to a method, a finding or a process

It's Pécs's own admission assessment for its English-taught General Medicine and Dentistry programmes: a written paper of 100 multiple-choice questions in 100 minutes (Biology 20, Chemistry 20, General English 40 and Medical English 20), followed by a separate 20-to-30-minute personal interview with a university professor over Zoom or Microsoft Teams.

Neither. There is no shared Hungarian medical entrance test, and the four schools' papers differ structurally. Pécs puts 60 of its 100 questions into English, which is the highest English share of the four. Semmelweis runs four separately timed 20-minute tests; Debrecen tests Biology plus your choice of Chemistry or Physics and has no English section at all; Szeged runs 60 questions in 60 minutes with a single combined English component.

Recent sittings have been planned mostly online, delivered in English on the university's platform, and paper-based sittings may also be organised by schools or official representatives. A simple calculator is permitted; mobile phones, smart watches and other electronic devices are prohibited. The interview can be taken online over Zoom or Microsoft Teams, or in person in Pécs, in Budapest or abroad at a sitting run by the Medical School or its representatives.

Pécs publishes no marking scheme. IvyTest fetched the official FAQ, About the exam and Entrance exam in Pécs pages on 21 September 2026: none of them mentions negative marking, penalties or blank-answer scoring in either direction: they are silent, not affirmative, so be wary of any guide claiming Pécs states there is no penalty. Under the neutral model IvyTest practises against, a four-option guess is worth +0.25, a five-option guess +0.20, and a blank exactly 0. Guessing blindly at all 100 items would expect about 23.3 marks, given the paper's 66 four-option and 34 five-option questions, so there is no item worth leaving empty.

None is published. IvyTest checked nine official Pécs pages on 21 September 2026 and found no minimum score, pass mark or qualifying threshold on any of them. This is a confirmed absence, not just something hard to find.

No. Pécs publishes no per-section minimum, and Hungary has no counterpart to the Italian Obblighi Formativi Aggiuntivi mechanism.

Because the programmes are taught and examined in English, and Pécs tests it as two scored written components rather than as a fluency check. General English is 40 questions of B2-level grammar and usage in single-gap sentence completion form; Medical English is 20 questions on clinical vocabulary, word parts and specialties. Together they are 60 of the 100 marks: three times the weight of Biology, and three times the weight of Chemistry.

It varies by section, and no official page states a fixed count. Counted directly on the university's own sample papers: all 20 Chemistry items have five options (A-E); Biology is mixed, with 14 of 20 at five options and 6 at four; and all 30 sampled General and Medical English items have four options (a-d). Expect roughly two thirds of the real paper to be four-option.

Pécs publishes no seat count or applicant figure, so any acceptance rate quoted elsewhere is an estimate. What the university does say is more immediately useful: admission is rolling, the exam runs weekly from early March to mid-July, and applying earlier leaves more seats available. The medical school has around 3,500 students from some 67 countries.

Within the EU, yes: automatically, as a standard Hungarian medical degree. There's no separate Hungarian licensing exam afterwards: the closing exam (záróvizsga) is built into the sixth year of the degree itself, and registration with the national healthcare register is automatic. A specialist exam (szakvizsga) applies later, only to those pursuing specialty practice. Outside the EU recognition isn't automatic as a rule, but the UK is an exception. Under the Medical Act 1983 (section 21B, as in force on 12 October 2026), a Hungarian medical degree is a 'relevant European qualification', so a graduate who applies to the GMC with one, whatever their nationality, is not asked to show the knowledge and skills other international graduates prove through PLAB/UKMLA; 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 Pécs-format practice (100 questions in 100 minutes across Biology, Chemistry, General English and Medical English, in the real mixed four- and five-option format, including statement-combination and negatively phrased items) in timed, tutor and review modes, with a free diagnostic available without payment.

Yes. Pécs's own Sample tests page offers Biology, Chemistry and English sample tests as PDFs, each with a separate PDF of solutions, free to download. They are the closest thing to past papers the university publishes, and the answer-option formats on this page were counted on them. IvyTest's free practice paper adds a full-length one: 100 questions in the real format, with every answer explained and a Save as PDF button.

Dentistry, yes: the written exam and the oral interview are one exam for General Medicine and Dentistry, so this guide covers both. Pharmacy (PharmD) and Biotechnology (BSc and MSc) have no written exam: their applicants sit only the oral interview, 20 to 30 minutes with a university professor over Zoom or MS Teams, between March and mid-July 2027, booked two weeks ahead with the USD 250 exam fee.

General Medicine is a six-year M.D. taught in English: ten semesters of study and a final year of clinical rotations. The Basic module covers the healthy body, the Preclinical module disease processes and patient examination, and the Clinical module specific diseases, mostly on the wards. Expect 25 to 30 hours of classes a week.

On the facts it publishes: its M.D. diploma is accepted across the European Union and in several other countries, including Norway, the USA, Canada and Israel, and 3,500 students from 67 countries study at its Medical School. General Medicine has 180 places a year. Whether it suits you depends on your budget, the city and the exam.

No. This page is about the Medical School's exam for General Medicine and Dentistry. The Medical School's programmes are General Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy and Biotechnology; Computer Science admits through another part of the University of Pécs, so check that programme's own admission page.

Yes: r/UniversityOfPecs, where University of Pécs applicants ask each other about the Pécs 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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