Khyber Medical University (KMU) conducted MDCAT 2025 for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on 26 October 2025, across 43 centres in eight districts. (PMDC moved the exam from its original 5 October date because of the floods.) 39,986 candidates registered — 20,266 boys and 19,720 girls — and 38,447 appeared, a 96% turnout. KMU published the answer key the same evening and the full result the next day.
The score you should aim for
(Want the raw numbers? Download the scores as a CSV — shown exactly as KMU published them, with the source noted in every row.)
The pass mark tells you far less than you think. To pass, you need 55% — that is 99 out of 180 for MBBS. But about 60% of everyone who appeared scored 100 or more, so simply passing leaves you well down the field, nowhere near a seat.
The real targets are much higher, and this is the useful part — a score you cannot read off the chart by eye:
- 150 marks put you in the top 21%.
- 160 marks put you in the top 11%.
- 170 marks put you in the top 2% — and no one reached 180 (the best in the province was 178).
That matters because of who actually got a seat. Of the students later called for a KP public college, about 70% had scored 160 or more (the full breakdown). So a realistic, competitive target is around 160 — high, but well short of a perfect score.
Where would your score have placed you?
Move the slider to a target score — for example, your latest mock-exam score — to see exactly where it would have ranked among the 38,447 students who appeared in KP:
At the top (170+) these figures use the real per-mark scores from the merit lists, so they are close to exact. In the middle they estimate from KMU's 10-mark bands, assuming an even spread inside each band — close, but not exact. Below 90 marks the data has no detail: 12,258 students (31.88%) finished under the BDS line.
Two things are worth noticing as you move it:
- A few marks move you past many students. The middle bands are packed, so five more correct answers can move you ahead of more than a thousand students — a much bigger jump than the same five marks would give near the top or bottom.
- Five extra correct answers is the same as fixing one weak Biology topic. This is why studying where the marks are works: the fastest way to climb is to repair your weakest high-value topics, not to polish what you already know.
The last three years, side by side
You cannot compare raw marks across these years, because the 2023 and 2024 papers were out of 200 and 2025 was out of 180. So the averages and top scores below are shown as a percentage of each paper:
Average score % of paper
Top score % of paper
Qualified for MBBS candidates
Across all three years the average has stayed in a narrow range — about 56% to 61% of the paper — even though the paper changed from 200 to 180 marks in 2025. So the exam’s overall difficulty has been broadly steady; a 2026 student should prepare for a paper of similar demand, not an easier or harder one.
Small errors in KMU’s published numbers. We show KMU’s figures exactly as published. But we point out where they do not fully add up:
- The percentages do not match the counts. KMU says 23,634 students qualified for MBBS and calls this 53.3%. But 23,634 is 61.5% of the 38,447 who appeared, and 59.1% of the 39,986 who registered. Neither equals 53.3%. The counts themselves match the score list above, and news reports used the same percentages.
- The likely reason: the percentages fit the old 200-mark paper’s pass marks. On a 200-mark paper, MBBS needed 110 and BDS needed 100. In the 2025 scores, 20,477 students got 110 or more — exactly 53.26% of those who appeared. And 23,364 got 100 or more — exactly 58.43% of those who registered. Both match KMU’s percentages to the decimal (our maths). So the counts use the correct 180-mark pass marks, but the percentage column seems to still use the old 200-mark ones. Trust the counts.
- KMU’s own 2023 result notice reported a top score of 192 and 34,852 students appearing. This summary says 193 and 34,713.
None of this changes the big picture. It just means you should read the exact 2023 numbers and the percentage column with some care.
How KP fits into the national picture
MDCAT 2025 used one national paper, run by five universities. Just over 140,000 students registered across the country — competing for about 22,000 MBBS and BDS seats (as national news reported):
(These counts come from national news. Some universities gave registered students and others gave students who appeared, so they are not all counted the same way.) Each university marks its own students against the same national paper. That is why results are published province by province, not as one national list. We have not found reliable 2025 score lists for the other universities. KP publishes the most detailed results of any province — which is exactly why this page exists. We will add other provinces’ numbers when they are published and we can check them. We do not guess numbers we have not seen.