AIIMS UG : What's the difference?

Greetings Readers

AIIMS - almost every medical aspirant and even non-medical students have heard this term and each medical aspirant aspires to get a seat at what is said to be the No.1 Medical College of India - AIIMS Delhi.

Even the other six AIIMS at Bhopal,Bhubaneshwar,Jodhpur(my home town),Rishikesh,Patna and Raipur are no small things and are dynamic institutions showing fast and steady growth.So this makes the destination one seeks even greater and a class apart.

But,one question has been crippling all medical aspirants since years.What's the difference between exams like NEET,state PMTs and AIIMS-UG entrance examination?This question arises due to AIIMS not releasing their test papers officially, and also that candidates are not allowed to take away the question papers and even the rough works sheets or admit cards with them after the examination.The recent shift to the online mode as made getting previous year questions even tougher.Even more, these AIIMS guys don't even specify the syllabus of the examination and just say that,"It would be based on 10+2 syllabus of  educations boards throughout the country".

This puts a normal NEET/AIIMS student in utter confusion(I myself was confused).

Next,come the coaching institutes.Some institutes which even probably have no idea of the AIIMS questions paper just put a tag on their billboards "Coaching for NEET/AIIMS/CET/Boards", and then teach almost anything in name of NEET/AIIMS, be it relevant or not."Who checks and who cares?",they think.But students are becoming smarter and more aware these days,they must know.

Then come established institutes like Allen,Aakash and Resonance etc.These guys know about the paper,syllabus,pattern but somewhat except at the Delhi and Kota(head branches where special batches are made of toppers and they are taught extra stuff aside from normal students, being a sad truth of discrimination among students), don't manage to deliver consistently good results.However some exceptions maybe there(I myself had a very good experience at Resonance Jodhpur and even last year a senior of mine here got AIR 126 in AIIMS UG 2015 and is now at AIIMS Jodhpur).So the teaching depends on local faculty  more but the material and test are more of Delhi or Kota branch related.

Coming to what they do,they build previous year papers according to 'memory' of their past students,but the problem comes when the same paper gets two different versions by two different institutes and so on.Utter confusion na?To add to it this, these institutes(mainly Allen and Aakash) teach almost anything and everything in name of AIIMS sometimes,which normally aren't necessary for AIIMS UG actually.

We are not here for criticism of coaching institutes here but I only wanted to tell you the backdrop of this mysterious story of AIIMS UG and why many students though capable get confused and aren't able to crack AIIMS UG. Now coming back to the point - What actually is the difference between AIIMS UG and NEET and state PMTs?

• First of all, all that hype that AIIMS asks out of syllabus questions,even higher than class 11 and class 12 ,from MBBS subjects or Medicine in Biology or like JEE Advanced type in Physics and Chemistry is utterly false as of 2016.I myself have the paper and feel that yes they have gone outside of NCERT in some 10-15 questions in Physics and Chemistry, but they have stuck to NCERT in Biology for almost 55-57 questions out of 60 questions(maybe even all 60 of them as I don't remember exactly now).That's the thing you need to fix in your mind for now.
• Second thing is the framing of questions.Questions are framed extremely logically and pure mugging up won't help.Biology can have some direct questions but match the column types need complete knowledge.Physics and Chemistry have logical and statement understanding questions which become easy when you are very thorough with your concepts.Calculations are lengthy in many questions and you need to make your calaculations fast and accurate as time will be a limiting factor there. Assertion-Reason types need a strong command on the theory portion of the subjects.

Trying not to make this post long,I am breaking this AIIMS topic into two posts - Will mention what different stuff to do specifically in all the three subjects and GK for AIIMS in the next post.
Do post your queries in comments section.I will try my best to answer them.

Till then

Bye!