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Newslaundry
National
Samarth Grover

‘No notice, no response sheets’: Disquiet among foreign medical grads over ‘opaque’ licensing exam

When the results of the June 2026 Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE) were declared earlier this week, many headlines focused on one statistic: only about 12.3 percent of 37,448 candidates qualified – lowest among the last six sessions.

Though the biannual exam has historically recorded lower pass percentages in June than in December, candidates, teachers and doctors Newslaundry spoke to point to a different concern: why an examination that determines whether thousands of foreign-trained Indian doctors can practise medicine offers no response sheets, no question papers and no scope for re-evaluation.

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