Medical University of Warsaw Entrance Exam 2027: Complete Preparation Guide

Seven official areas. The syllabus's two trailing one-line entries, protists and fungi, carry no sub-bullets of their own and sit with zoology here.

• The cell: viruses, prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, cell membranes, cell division and the cell cycle, cellular transport, energy in the cell, microbes and biotechnology
• The chemistry of life: chemical elements and water, carbohydrates, lipids and proteins, DNA structure and replication, transcription and translation, enzymes, cell respiration, photosynthesis
• Genetics: chromosomes, genes, alleles and mutations, Mendel's genetics and meiosis, theoretical genetics, patterns of heredity, genetic engineering and biotechnology, population genetics
• Ecology and evolution: communities and ecosystems, the greenhouse effect, ecology and conservation, community ecology, ecosystems and biomes, human impact on ecosystems, conservation of biodiversity, population ecology, the origin of life, species and speciation, human evolution, phylogeny and systematics, classification of organisms
• Human health and physiology: digestion and the transport of digested food, human nutrition and health, the circulatory system, defences against infectious disease and immunity, gas exchange, nerves, hormones and homeostasis, the endocrine system and hormonal control, stimulus and response, perception of stimuli, innate and learned behaviour, the nervous system and the human brain, neurotransmitters and synapses, support and locomotion, muscles and movement, reproduction, the urinary system
• Plant science: the biology of the plant cell, plant structure and growth, plant physiology, reproduction in plants, seedless plants, seed-producing plants
• Zoology, protists and fungi: animal tissues, invertebrates, chordates, parasitology, protists, fungi

Thirteen numbered units, in the official syllabus's own order. Sat without a calculator but with a printed copy of the official WUM Periodic Table, so numeric items are built to resolve by hand.

• Stoichiometry: chemical formulas and the mole concept, Avogadro's constant, chemical reactions and equations, mass relationships in reactions, calculations
• Atomic theory: the nuclear model of the atom, isotopes, electron arrangement in shells, sub-shells and orbitals, electron configuration notation
• The periodic table of the elements: electron configurations and the periodic table, valence configuration of atoms, s, p, d and f blocks and groups, periodic trends in physical and chemical properties
• Bonding: ionic bonding, covalent bonding, molecular orbitals and hybridization, shapes of molecules and ions, intermolecular forces, hydrogen bonding, metallic bonding
• States of matter: changes of state and kinetic theory, gases, the gas laws
• Energetics: exothermic and endothermic reactions, standard enthalpy changes of reaction, calculation of enthalpy change, Hess's law, entropy and free energy, spontaneity of a reaction
• Kinetics: reaction mechanism and collision theory, activation energy, rates of reaction and rate expressions, factors affecting the rate of reaction, order of reaction and half-life
• Equilibrium law: the equilibrium law and its applications, calculations involving equilibrium constants
• Solutions: solubility and the solubility product constant, concentrations of solutions, dissociation, the dissociation or ionization constant and the degree of dissociation, Ostwald's dilution law
• Acids and bases: Arrhenius, Brønsted-Lowry and Lewis definitions, properties of acids and bases, strong and weak acids and bases, the pH scale and pH calculations, indicators, salt hydrolysis, calculations involving acids and bases
• Oxidation and reduction: redox reactions, definitions of reduction, oxidation, oxidizing agent and reducing agent, balancing redox reactions
• Electrochemistry: standard electrode potentials, galvanic cells, cell electromotive force, electrolysis, calculations in electrochemistry
• Organic chemistry: structural, geometric and optical isomerism and tautomerism, functional groups and homologous series, multiple bonds, shapes of molecules and types of organic reaction; alkanes, alkenes, alkynes and arenes; halogenoalkanes; alcohols, phenols and ethers; aldehydes and ketones; carboxylic acids and the factors affecting their acidity; esters, esterification and its mechanism, hydrolysis, lipids and fats; amines and amides and the basicity of amines; amino acids and proteins, peptide bond formation and primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary structure; carbohydrates as mono-, di- and polysaccharides; synthetic organic polymers made by polymerization and polycondensation; and for each class, the methods of preparation, physical and chemical properties, characteristic reactions and detection

Four strands, given in the official syllabus as approximately five questions each. The syllabus states that no specific subject knowledge is required beyond basic secondary-school scientific and mathematical material, and that no calculator is allowed, so every quantitative item has to be solvable by mental arithmetic, estimation and elimination.

• Verbal reasoning: analysing information presented in written form, drawing conclusions from a passage, identifying assumptions and flaws in an argument, recognising what would strengthen or weaken it, and distinguishing what the text actually supports from what merely sounds plausible
• Quantitative reasoning: reading, analysing and evaluating numerical data, extracting the relevant figures from tables and charts, percentages, ratios, rates and unit conversion, simple arithmetic performed without a calculator, estimation and order-of-magnitude checks
• Problem solving: selecting the relevant information from a longer scenario, applying logic to reach a solution, constraint, ordering and ranking puzzles, working backwards from a stated result, and testing the given options against the constraints
• Abstract reasoning: identifying patterns in abstract figural information, separating the governing rule from decorative distractors of colour, size and position, sequence completion, odd one out, and choosing the figure that completes a set

WUM publishes this syllabus, prepared on the basis of Matura standard-level attainment standards, together with a formula sheet. It carries no questions and no points on the competency test. It is listed here so you can recognise it and put it down.

• Scalars and vectors; motion, frames of reference and the elements of relativistic mechanics
• Forces and dynamics: Newton's laws, momentum and impulse, friction, the four fundamental interactions
• Fields and interactions: gravitation, electric charge and Coulomb's law, magnetic fields and the Lorentz force, electromagnetic waves
• Matter and thermodynamics: the ideal gas, the gas laws, the first and second laws, heat engines and thermal transfer
• Optics and waves: reflection, refraction, lenses and mirrors, interference and diffraction, the photoelectric effect, the eye and vision defects
• Energy, nuclear and modern physics: work, energy and power, mass-energy equivalence, radioactive decay and half-life, fusion in stars, wave-particle duality

It is the online test the Medical University of Warsaw uses to select candidates for the English Division of its six-year Medicine degree: 80 multiple-choice questions in 100 minutes across Biology (30 questions), Chemistry (30) and Decision Making (20), scored out of 100 points.

Neither. Poland has no shared national medical entrance test: each university sets its own, and Warsaw's competency test is structurally different from what Gdańsk or Łódź run. It is also not the Matura: a Matura result does not substitute for sitting the competency test.

Online, from home, on your own computer under camera proctoring, and delivered entirely in English. You may have one white sheet of paper and a pen or pencil (shown to the camera before the test and destroyed afterwards), plus a printout of the official WUM Periodic Table. No calculator, phone, tablet, MP3 player or watch is permitted, and because no files may be opened on screen during the test, the periodic table has to be on paper.

Biology and Chemistry questions score one point each, so those two sections are 30 points each. Decision Making questions score two points each, so its 20 questions are worth 40 points: 40% of the score from 25% of the questions, for a total of 100. Wrong answers and blanks both score zero. WUM's own guidance describes Decision Making as the section where the ranking spreads out, which is exactly what the two-point weighting is for.

Guess on everything you cannot work out. WUM's competency-test page states that it does not deduct points for incorrect answers: a correct answer earns 1 or 2 points and an incorrect one 0, on every section, so a wrong answer costs you nothing a blank would not. That makes a blind guess worth roughly +0.2 points on a science item and +0.4 on a Decision Making item, and it means there is never a reason to leave a box empty.

WUM does not publish it. Its rules describe the test only as 'multiple choice', and none of the official Biology, Chemistry or Decision Making syllabuses, nor the official regulations document, states a count; IvyTest re-checked WUM's official sources directly on 28 September 2026 and confirmed the figure is absent rather than merely hard to find. Practically it makes little difference to strategy, since guessing is free either way, and WUM's non-graded trial test will show you the real interface before the scored attempt.

Not on the test: there is no pass mark and no per-section floor. Admission is by ranking, in which your school grades count for 20% and the test for 80%, and WUM's 2027/28 rules (Senate Resolution No. 42/2026) set the cut-off at no less than 66% of the maximum ranking points, a line the Admissions Committee chair may lower if places stay unfilled. Where it actually falls depends on who else applied. Poland also has no equivalent of the Italian OFA mechanism, so there is no extra-coursework consequence attached to a weak section.

No. WUM publishes a Physics Syllabus and a physics formula sheet, which candidates routinely find while researching and assume is examinable, but the competency test scores Biology, Chemistry and Decision Making only: physics is worth 0 of the 100 points. Treat the physics material as optional support for quantitative confidence, not as a fourth section to revise.

The Minister of Health's 2026/27 admission limit gives WUM 170 places in medicine taught in a language other than Polish. WUM publishes no applicant volume or acceptance rate, so any such figure quoted elsewhere is an estimate. What is published is that admission is ranking-driven, which makes the competition explicitly relative to the cohort you sit with.

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 200-question national final exam, and the certificate of completing the 13-month postgraduate internship (staż), conducted in Polish and arranged through a regional Medical Chamber, 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 WUM-format practice (80 questions in 100 minutes across Biology, Chemistry and Decision Making, scored out of 100 with Decision Making items weighted at two points) in timed, tutor and review modes, with a free diagnostic available without payment.

Not official ones. WUM publishes no past papers and no sample test on its current admission pages. Its PDFs are the syllabus for each section (Biology, Chemistry and Decision Making), the competency-test rules and the WUM Periodic Table you print for the test. The only official preview is the non-graded trial test, which the exam platform emails in the week before your session so you can learn the navigation. The practice questions on this page are IvyTest's own.

WUM had not published its 2027 session dates on 7 October 2026. Senate Resolution No. 42/2026 opens recruitment for the English-taught programmes on 1 March 2027 and ends it on 30 September 2027, with the detailed dates due by 15 February 2027. In 2026 the online sessions ran on 28-29 March, 25-26 April, 23-24 May, 6-7 June, 20-21 June and 4-5 July; the last day to register in ORS was 30 June and to book a session 1 July 2026.

A school-leaving certificate that admits you to university in the country that issued it, with passing grades in Biology and Chemistry at the level of the extended Polish Matura, plus Physics or Mathematics; a missing subject can be made up with WUM's own exam (pass mark 30%). Then you sit the competency test: exemption through UCAT, BMAT, MCAT, GAMSAT, HPAT or a BSc/MSc is open only to some international candidates. Once qualified, you add a B2 English certificate (such as IELTS Academic 6.5 or TOEFL iBT 87) or an IB or EB diploma. A certificate Poland does not recognise by law needs NAWA recognition first, which takes about 60 days.

For students starting in 2026/27, Medicine costs €18,800 a year, €112,800 for the six years, or two instalments of €9,600 or four of €4,900; Rector's Order No. 58/2026 keeps these fees until you finish your studies. The application fee is €24 with the competency test, €20 on the exempt paths. A candidate offered a place pays a €1,000 confirmation fee that counts towards tuition and is not refunded, except €500 for a written withdrawal before 15 July 2026. WUM accepts bank transfers in euros only.

The six-year MD carries 384 ECTS credits. It runs from morphology (clinical anatomy, histology with embryology) and the scientific basis of medicine, through pre-clinical subjects such as genetics, microbiology, pharmacology and pathomorphology, to the surgical and non-surgical clinical specialties, with 20 weeks of summer clerkship over the course. The 2026/27 first year includes Clinical Anatomy (180 hours), Histology with Embryology and Cytophysiology, Biophysics and Basic Polish (70 hours). Each year's syllabuses are on the English Division's Syllabuses page, and the 2026/27 winter semester began on 1 October 2026.

Yes. WUM's Senate set up the English Division in 1993 to teach Medicine in English, and its About us page says about 700 students from 75 countries now study there, with 80 to 100 graduating each year (its home page counts 614 English Division students). The six-year Medicine programme and a five-year Dentistry programme are taught in English, and the competency test is in English too. Polish is still part of the course: Basic Polish in year 1, then Polish for Medicine in years 2 and 3, where you learn to take a patient's history in Polish, with a final exam covering all three years; practical clinical classes start in year 4.

THE's own World University Rankings 2027 table puts it in the 1001-1200 band, the third-highest Polish medical university, level with Gdańsk, behind Wrocław (451-500) and Łódź (801-1000). By WUM's own reports: in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026 it is 451-500 for Medicine, one of seven Polish institutions listed; and in Poland's Perspektywy 2026 ranking its Medicine programme is 2nd of 19. WUM also says its graduates do well in the LEK, Poland's licensing exam. For reviews, its Studies in English page carries video testimonials from students and graduates. IvyTest has read THE's table, not the QS or Perspektywy ones.

WUM says the test checks high-school Biology and Chemistry plus logical problem solving, and needs no exceptional teaching or preparation. What makes it hard is the format and the competition: 80 questions in 100 minutes without a calculator, Decision Making worth 40 of the 100 points, and admission by ranking for 170 places in 2026/27, with a cut-off of at least 66% of the maximum ranking points under the 2027/28 rules. WUM publishes no applicant numbers, acceptance rate or past cut-offs.

Yes: r/WUM, where Medical University of Warsaw applicants ask each other about the Medical University of Warsaw 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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