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Six months, weighted properly.

You are revising a whole MBBS syllabus against a flat 150/300. The plan below spends time in proportion to where the questions actually are, and puts previous-year questions early enough to change what you revise.

6Months
19Subjects
125Questions in the top four
150Marks to pass
The principle

Spend time where the questions are

FMGE is qualifying, not competitive. You do not need to be excellent anywhere; you need to be adequate almost everywhere. That makes breadth worth more than depth, and it makes the question split the right thing to plan against. These six subjects carry more than half the paper:

The trap is the small subjects. Orthopaedics, Dermatology, Psychiatry, Anaesthesia and Radiology are five questions each — twenty-five marks together, which is a sixth of what you need to pass, and each is small enough to finish in two or three days. Candidates who fail narrowly have usually skipped these to spend another week on Medicine.
Six months

A plan you can actually hold to

Months 1–2

The heavy clinical subjects

Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics & Gynaecology first, from one revision volume each, while your attention is freshest. About 95 questions live here. Do the end-of-chapter questions as you go rather than saving them.

Months 3–4

Para-clinical and PSM

Pathology, Pharmacology, Microbiology, Forensic Medicine and Community Medicine. PSM alone is about 30 questions and is the most recoverable subject in the paper — it rewards tables and numbers, not understanding. Start a first pass of previous-year questions in month 4.

Months 5–6

Pre-clinical, short subjects, revision

Anatomy, Physiology and Biochemistry are about 51 questions and can be revised quickly from a single volume each. Then clear the five-question subjects in a fortnight. Keep the last four weeks for second revision and full-length practice.

Running the weeks

What a working week looks like

  1. One subject at a time, not three

    Finishing a subject and closing it is worth more than partial progress across several. A closed subject can be revised in a day later; a half-read one has to be restarted.

  2. Questions the same day, not at the end

    Do previous-year questions on a chapter the day you read it. Questions asked before are the best guide to what will be asked again, and they change what you re-read.

  3. Write the second pass, do not read it

    Second revision should produce something — a page of numbers, a table, a list of drug names. Re-reading feels productive and is not.

  4. One full-length paper a week from month 5

    Sat to the real clock, in two parts, with the sections timed. The skill being trained is abandoning a question at ninety seconds, and that only comes from practice under a section timer.

  5. Never leave a blank

    Marking is zero for a wrong answer. Every unanswered question is a guaranteed zero where a guess is a one-in-four.

Last four weeks

The final month

Do

  • Revise from your own written notes, not from the books again
  • One full paper a week, plus daily section-timed blocks
  • Clear the five-question subjects properly — they are cheap marks
  • Go through every question you got wrong in earlier papers
  • Get the printing done early so the last fortnight is reading, not logistics

Skip

  • New books — a fourth Medicine resource in the last month helps nobody
  • Topics you have never touched, if a high-yield subject is still shaky
  • Reading without writing
  • Comparing your mock scores with anyone else's; the pass mark is fixed at 150

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Frequently asked

FMGE preparation — questions

How many months does FMGE preparation take?

Six focused months is the usual plan for a first attempt, and three to four for a repeat attempt where the base is already there. What matters more than the total is finishing subjects rather than leaving several half-done.

Which subject should I start with?

Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics and Gynaecology, while your attention is freshest. Together they carry about 95 of the 300 questions.

Are the small subjects worth doing?

Yes, and they are the cheapest marks in the paper. Orthopaedics, Dermatology, Psychiatry, Anaesthesia and Radiology are five questions each — twenty-five marks for about two weeks of work.

When should I start previous-year questions?

From month four at the latest, and ideally chapter by chapter from the beginning. They are the best available guide to what gets asked again.

Should I guess when I do not know an answer?

Always. A wrong answer costs nothing, so an unanswered question is a certain zero where a guess is a one-in-four chance.