Szeged Entrance Exam 2027: Complete Preparation Guide

Official. Szeged's four headings (Cell Biology, Physiology, Genetics and Evolution), with the two largest blocks split into workable groups. The 2025 sample paper contains no figures.

• Biological molecules and enzymes: the types and functions of lipids, biologically important carbohydrates, primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary protein structure, the structure of DNA and RNA, the types and function of RNA molecules, and what enzymes are and how they are regulated
• Cell structure and organelles: the cell as the basic structural and physiological unit, the nucleus, chromosomes, endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, ribosomes and their composition, lysosomes, the cytoskeleton, and prokaryotic against eukaryotic organisation
• The cell membrane and transport: the structure of the cell membrane, membrane transport including simple and facilitated diffusion, osmosis, active transport and the sodium-potassium pump, and exocytosis and endocytosis including phagocytosis and pinocytosis
• Cellular respiration and ATP production: glycolysis, the citric acid cycle, and the mechanism of ATP production in the mitochondria
• Replication, transcription and translation: DNA replication and the enzymes involved including helicase, primase, polymerase and ligase, leading and lagging strands, transcription, translation, codons and anticodons, and base-pairing arithmetic
• Mitosis and meiosis: mitosis, meiosis, the phases of the cell cycle including S phase, crossing over and independent assortment, and the differences between the two divisions
• Bacterial cells and viruses: the structure of the bacterial cell, transformation, conjugation and transduction, and the structure of viruses
• Digestion and absorption: the parts of the digestive system, the digestive enzymes, absorption of food and water, the emulsifying role of bile, and the liver's conversion of glucose
• Respiration and gas exchange: the parts of the respiratory system, the mechanism of inhalation and exhalation, and oxygen and carbon dioxide exchange in the lungs and its dependence on diffusion
• Excretion and kidney function: the parts of the excretory system, and water and ion transport in the kidneys
• Circulation, blood and immunity: the parts of the circulatory system, the structure and function of the heart including the pacemaker and the conducting tissue, the vessels entering and leaving each chamber, blood composition and cell types, and the cellular and humoral immune responses
• Bones, joints and muscle contraction: muscles, bones and joints, the roles of tendons and ligaments, and the mechanism of muscle contraction
• Endocrine system and reproduction: the pituitary, adrenal, thyroid and pancreatic glands and their hormones, local hormones, hormonal regulation of blood glucose, hormonal regulation of stress, the parts of the male and female reproductive systems, the ovarian and uterine cycles, and hormonal control of the reproductive system
• Nervous system and sense organs: the autonomic nervous system, central against peripheral nervous system, the spinal cord and spinal reflexes, the parts of the human brain and the functions of the lobes, nerve cell structure, resting and action potential, neurotransmitters and synaptic transmission, the structure of the eye and the mechanism of vision, the auditory system and the mechanism of hearing, the olfactory system, and mechanoreceptors and chemoreceptors
• Genetics and inheritance: the laws of Mendel, the structure of genes, levels of gene expression, the lactose operon, the genetic code with its redundancy and non-ambiguity, mutations and their types and consequences, human chromosome number aberrations and genetic diseases, and dominant-recessive and sex-linked inheritance
• Evolution and the origin of life: Darwin's theory, variation and natural selection, the species concept, and the origin of life

Official. Szeged's two headings (General and Inorganic Chemistry, and Organic Chemistry), split into workable groups. A periodic table and a calculator are prepared in advance for this section, so numerical items are in scope.

• Atomic structure and the mole: elements and compounds, the mole concept and Avogadro's number, conversion between particles, moles and grams, the basic structure of atoms, the quantum numbers, atomic number and mass number, isotopes and neutron count, balancing simple chemical equations, and empirical and molecular formulas
• The periodic table and periodic properties: groups and periods, metals and nonmetals, the symbols and names of common elements, atomic radius, ionisation energy, electronegativity and electron affinity
• Chemical bonding and molecular geometry: the types of chemical bonding, ionic, covalent and metallic bonds, polar and nonpolar bonds, Lewis structures, counting bonding and nonbonding electron pairs, and the geometry of molecules and molecular polarity
• Intermolecular forces and types of solid: London dispersion forces, dipole-dipole interaction, hydrogen bonding and their effect on boiling point, and ionic, molecular, metallic and covalent network solids
• Solutions and concentration: solutions and the ways of expressing their composition, molarity and mass percent, density and the mass of a solution, and dilution
• Chemical equilibrium: dynamic equilibrium, Le Chatelier's principle, the effect of concentration, temperature and pressure or volume changes, and worked gas-phase equilibria with the direction of the shift
• Acids, bases and pH: the acid-base theories, the definition of pH and the pH scale, examples of strong and weak acids and bases, and calculating pH for monoprotic strong acids
• Oxidation and reduction: the definitions of oxidation and reduction, oxidation numbers and the rules for assigning them, and recognising a redox reaction among neutralisation and precipitation reactions
• Compounds of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur: carbon and its inorganic compounds, nitrogen and its compounds, phosphorus and its compounds, and sulfur and its compounds
• Functional groups, isomerism and reaction types: functional groups and their recognition from a structure, the types of organic reaction including addition, substitution, elimination, combustion and hydrolysis, and isomerism in organic compounds with types and examples including structural and constitutional isomers
• Hydrocarbons: alkanes with their nomenclature and physical and chemical properties, alkenes and alkynes with their nomenclature and properties, aromatic hydrocarbons and their reactions, IUPAC naming from a drawn skeletal structure, and the general formula of an acyclic alkane
• Alcohols, ethers and phenols: the classification and preparation of alcohols, their physical properties, their chemical properties and most important representatives, and ethers and phenols
• Oxo compounds and carboxylic acids: the classification of oxo compounds and their oxidation-reduction reactions, carboxylic acids with their nomenclature and physical and chemical properties, reaction with hydroxide bases, and the carboxylic acid derivatives esters and amides
• Amines, amino acids and the peptide bond: the classification and nomenclature of amines, examples of their chemical reactions, the proteinogenic amino acids, and the peptide bond
• Carbohydrates and nucleic acid components: the definition and classification of carbohydrates, the most important representatives across mono-, di- and polysaccharides, and the components of nucleic acids

Official. Szeged's Physics topic list, printed in mixed order, regrouped into conventional areas. Young's modulus and the reference sound level appear in the sample paper rather than in the official list and are carried for that reason. The only Physics sample Szeged serves is the 2022 edition.

• Kinematics: speed and velocity, average speed over an interval, acceleration, free fall, scalar and vector quantities, and units with their multiples and submultiples
• Newton's laws and forces: Newton's laws, force and the principle of superposition, forces of friction, Hooke's law, mass and weight, and the universal law of gravitation
• Work, energy and momentum: work and kinetic energy, the work-energy theorem, potential energy, the law of conservation of energy, and linear momentum and its conservation in recoil and collision problems
• Torque, equilibrium and circular motion: torque and lever arm, the conditions of equilibrium, uniform circular motion, and centripetal acceleration and centripetal force
• Simple harmonic motion and elasticity: simple harmonic motion with displacement, velocity and acceleration, period, amplitude, frequency and angular velocity, spring force, and the elongation of a loaded rod with Young's modulus
• Fluids and buoyancy: pressure in fluids, Pascal's principle, the pressure-depth relation, the hydraulic press, Archimedes' principle and buoyancy, and apparent weight when submerged
• Heat and thermal properties: the concept of temperature and temperature scales, thermal expansion, heat capacity and specific heat, and change of phase with latent heat
• Gases and thermodynamics: the ideal gas law, isothermic, isobaric and isochoric processes, the kinetic theory of gases, and the first law of thermodynamics
• Waves and sound: mechanical waves and the relation between wavelength, frequency and speed, interference, diffraction, standing waves and resonance, sound and the standard reference sound level, and the Doppler effect
• Optics: light as an electromagnetic wave, reflection and refraction, dispersion and the colours of light, optical lenses and mirrors, optical instruments, and real and virtual images with focal length
• Electrostatics and capacitance: electric charges and Coulomb's law, the electric field and field lines, electric flux and Gauss's law, electrical potential and equipotential surfaces, capacitance, capacitors and the energy stored in a capacitor
• Current, resistance and circuits: electrical current, resistance and Ohm's law, Kirchhoff's rules, resistors in series and in parallel, potential difference across a component, and the ampere-hour as a unit of charge
• Magnetism and alternating current: the magnetic field and magnetic force, the force on a current-carrying wire in a magnetic field, magnetic induction with Faraday's and Lenz's laws, alternating current and effective values, and R, L and C in an alternating circuit with resonance
• Atomic physics: the structure of the atom, electron shell structure, excitation and relaxation, and ionisation

Derived, not official. The Entrance Examination Topics list covers the sciences only, so these six areas come from the 2025 General and Medical English sample paper. That paper split ten grammar and vocabulary items from ten medical terminology items, but the 10/10 division is an observation of one paper rather than a published rule. Four options per item.

• Tenses and aspect: present, past and future forms, the future continuous, past perfect and past perfect continuous, and inferring time and aspect from the surrounding context rather than from an explicit time marker
• Verb patterns and the passive voice: verb plus object plus infinitive after want and similar verbs, gerund and infinitive complements, the simple passive, and modal perfect passive forms such as might have been delivered
• Prepositions, quantifiers and possessives: fixed prepositional phrases such as out of kindness, the by plus -ing pattern, transport and place expressions such as from platform 3, quantifiers including everything, all and every, and possessive pronouns and of-possessive structures such as friends of ours
• Collocation and formal register: choosing the most natural collocation rather than the merely grammatical option, formal written openings such as with regard to and as regards, and letter and email phrasing such as I wish to clarify
• Medical terminology and body regions: anatomical and body-region terms such as mammary, thoracic and femoral, protective and covering structures such as the meninges and the myelin sheath, eye and ear terminology including the tympanic membrane, diplopia and myopia, and medical terms with their everyday equivalents such as clavicle and collar bone
• Clinical vocabulary and disease: clinical and laboratory instruments and what they are used for, such as the pipette and the stethoscope, medical specialists and their fields, drug classes matched to the complaint they treat such as antacids for heartburn, symptom vocabulary, and infectious against non-infectious disease

It's Szeged's own admission assessment for its English-taught Medicine, Dental Medicine and Pharmacy programmes at the Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical School: a written paper of 60 multiple-choice questions in 60 minutes (20 Biology, 20 Chemistry (or Physics on request) and 20 General and Medical English), followed by a separate oral examination of about 20 minutes on Zoom.

Neither. There is no shared Hungarian medical entrance test, and the four schools' papers differ substantially. Szeged's is the shortest by time at 60 questions in 60 minutes, and its delivery requires an answer before you can move to the next item, so nothing can be left blank. Semmelweis runs four separately timed 20-minute tests with English worth half the marks; Debrecen tests Biology plus your choice of Chemistry or Physics with no English section; Pécs runs 100 questions with 60 of them English.

The written paper is delivered online on the Coospace platform and invigilated over Zoom. The oral examination that follows is also conducted on Zoom. A periodic table and a calculator are prepared in advance for the Chemistry section.

A correct answer scores one point and a wrong answer deducts nothing, out of a maximum of 60. The question of whether to guess does not really arise: items are presented one at a time and an answer must be selected before you can move on, so nothing can be left blank. Guessing blindly at all sixty would expect (40 × 1/5) + (20 × 1/4) = 13 marks, because the three sciences use five options and the English section uses four. Every mark above that comes from eliminating options: narrowing a five-option item to two raises its expected value from 0.20 to 0.50.

No entrance-exam pass mark is published, confirmed absent on the official FAQ and four other official pages checked on 21 September 2026. The 165 figure is a different thing entirely: it is a minimum GED, or school-leaving equivalency, score of 165 per subject for Medicine (145 for the Foundation Year), which decides whether you may apply at all and is checked before you ever sit the entrance exam. Szeged's own FAQ frames it as separate from an exam result, and it should never be quoted as one. Note that Szeged's two official FAQs disagree on that GED figure for Medicine: the Foreign Students' Secretariat's says 165, the faculty's English FAQ (read on 16 October 2026) says 145, so confirm it with the Admissions Office.

No. Szeged publishes no per-block minimum, and Hungary has no counterpart to the Italian Obblighi Formativi Aggiuntivi mechanism. The three blocks are simply equally weighted at 20 marks each.

No, you cannot. Questions are presented one at a time with no backward navigation, and an answer must be selected before you proceed, so there is no flagging, no final sweep, and in practice no blanks. Practise on mocks that enforce the same rule, because a habit built on being able to revisit is a habit this exam will not honour.

Yes, on request, in sittings hosted by the Admissions Office, but it is not available to Stipendium Hungaricum applicants. Physics replaces the Chemistry block rather than adding to it, so a Physics-route candidate still sits exactly 60 questions. One thing to weigh before choosing it: the only Physics sample paper Szeged serves is the 2022 edition, while Biology, Chemistry and English have 2025 papers.

Szeged says it admits close to 250 students a year to its English Language Programme in Medicine, but publishes no applicant figure, so any acceptance rate quoted elsewhere is an estimate rather than a university number. What is documented is scale: around 1,045 international students are enrolled at the Faculty of Medicine, within a wider international community of roughly 4,500 students from about 130 countries university-wide. The 2027 calendar has nine sessions, from 26-28 January to 22-24 June 2027, with up to two attempts per application period.

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 Szeged-format practice (60 questions in 60 minutes across Biology, Chemistry or Physics and General and Medical English, in the real five-option science and four-option English mix, delivered one item at a time with no backward navigation) in timed, tutor and review modes, with a free diagnostic available without payment.

Szeged publishes no past papers, but its Entrance Examination page links four sample tests as free PDFs: Biology, Chemistry, English Language and Physics (the 2022 edition). Each holds one section's 20 questions, with no answer key. The same page links the official Entrance Exam Topics PDF; every Biology, Chemistry and Physics topic on it is in the topic list on this page.

Applications for 2027/2028 open on 1 December 2026, and the General Medicine deadline is 1 June 2027 (23:59 CET); transfer applicants apply by 15 May 2027. The 2027 calendar has nine online sessions, from 26-28 January to 22-24 June 2027, and you may sit at most two in one application period. Admission is rolling, and students admitted by 1 April get €300 off their first semester.

You must be 18 by 31 December of the year you apply, hold a school-leaving certificate (final-year students may apply) and not have failed Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics or English in your final year; Medicine also asks for a GED score of 165 per subject. Then you sit the entrance exam, unless you have A grades in two A2-level sciences, grade 5 in two Higher Level IB sciences or a First Class BSc. You apply on DreamApply; the Admissions Office answers at [email protected], and about the exam at [email protected].

For students starting in 2027/2028, tuition is €7,900 a semester: €15,800 a year in years 1 to 5 and €7,900 for the sixth year. The first semester is paid in one amount within 14 days of the Admission Letter and includes a €1,600 deposit. Applying costs €300, which covers the entrance exam. Tuition includes health insurance valid in Hungary, but not textbooks, housing or living costs.

Medicine takes 12 semesters and at least 360 credits, and leads to the title Doctor of Medicine. Years 1 and 2 are the Basic Module, year 3 the Preclinical Module, years 4 and 5 the Clinical Module, and the sixth year is 40 weeks of clinical rotations, ending with a thesis, a written test and a patient examination. Hungarian is taught from the first semester, and the Medical School publishes each year's curriculum and suggested study plan as a PDF.

Szeged's own page says QS has ranked it the best Hungarian higher education institution for more than a decade. QS's own tables put Szeged first in Hungary in every edition from 2020 to 2024 (601-610 in 2024), but not since: in QS 2025 Eötvös Loránd University (564) placed above Szeged (=570), and in QS 2026 Szeged (=597) was third in Hungary, behind the University of Debrecen (=563) and Eötvös Loránd (=584). These rank the whole university, not its medical school. The Medical School is named after Albert Szent-Györgyi, its former rector, who won the Nobel Prize in 1937; its alumna Katalin Karikó won one in 2023.

Yes: r/SzegedMedicine, where University of Szeged applicants ask each other about the Szeged 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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