Six female intermediate students have challenged the medical entry test policy in the Lahore High Court (LHC) pleading the Punjab government, Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC), University of Health Sciences (UHS) and all medical colleges and medical universities. The students filed a petition through their counsel Azhar Siddique and submitted that the entry test policy was forcing students to take admission in various private medical institutes and spend a lot of money which was not possible for students with financial issues. They said the entry test nullified 12 years of hard work of students and decided their fate by entry tests which reduced the FSc weightage to only 40 percent.
They also said that marking negatively for a wrong answer was unfair. They said in other countries, separate entry test was not devised for admissions in medial colleges and only TOFEL, SAT or GMAT was required, which were the standard tests for admissions in any undergraduate university. It was also said that for engineering universities, FSc marks were given 70 percent weightage while the entry test was given 30 percent weightage while PMDC reversed this order for pre-medical students. The petitioners requested a ban on all private colleges and universities which hold courses for entry tests preparation which only the rich students could afford.