Free Practice Questions for USJ Medical Sciences Concours — Medicine, Dental Medicine & Pharmacy

Culture Générale

General knowledge tested as one-mark MCQs: world history from the ancient Near East to the contemporary period, physical and human geography, civics and the institutions of international life, cinema, painting, sculpture, music and comics, world and French literature, language families and writing systems, and precise French vocabulary, grammar and orthography. The paper closes with a 700-word commentary in French on a supplied text, marked against a published scheme covering presentation, ideas, plan, lexis, spelling and grammar, and syntax.

Biology (Life & Earth Sciences)

Molecular genetics (DNA semi-conservative replication, leading and lagging strand synthesis, transcription, pre-mRNA processing, translation, wobble hypothesis, genetic code), cell cycle regulation and division (mitosis, meiosis, prophase I crossing over, p53 and p21 checkpoint control), enzyme kinetics (Km, Vmax, competitive and non-competitive inhibition, allostery), neurophysiology (resting membrane potential, action potential ion channels, refractory periods, synaptic transmission, SNARE complex, IPSP and EPSP summation), human reproductive endocrinology (ovarian and uterine cycles, follicular estradiol feedback, pre-ovulatory LH surge, corpus luteum maintenance, male Leydig/Sertoli hormonal axes), and Mendelian inheritance, pedigree charts, and gene linkage.

Chemistry

Atomic structure and electronic configurations (Aufbau principle, Hund's rule, Pauli exclusion principle), aqueous solutions and colligative properties (molarity, osmotic pressure, van 't Hoff factor), reaction kinetics (rate laws, reaction orders, first-order half-life, Arrhenius activation energy, catalysts), dynamic chemical equilibrium (Le Chatelier's principle, pressure/temperature shifts, Haber process), aqueous acid-base equilibria (weak acid pH calculations, Ka, Henderson-Hasselbalch equation, physiological buffer systems), electrochemistry (galvanic cells, standard reduction potentials, cell EMF, spontaneity), and organic chemistry (functional group identification, stereochemistry, asymmetric carbons, R/S enantiomers, oxidation of primary/secondary alcohols, nucleophilic addition to carbonyls, Fischer esterification, triglyceride saponification, thermochemistry and Hess's law).

Physics

Classical Newtonian dynamics (Newton's laws, inclined planes with friction, acceleration derivations, work-energy theorem, mechanical energy conservation), linear momentum conservation in inelastic collisions, uniform circular motion and planetary gravitation (centripetal acceleration, Kepler's third law), direct current electricity (series RC circuits, time constant tau = RC, exponential charging equations), geometrical optics (thin converging lens formula, image distance and magnification, Snell-Descartes refraction law, critical angle for total internal reflection in fiber optics), mechanical and sound waves (standing wave harmonics on strings, Doppler effect for moving sources, harmonic oscillators with period T and energy E), and nuclear physics (alpha, beta, and gamma radioactive decay laws, half-life and decay constant lambda = ln 2 / t1/2, Einstein mass defect Delta m, total binding energy, and binding energy per nucleon).

Mathematics

Calculus and real analysis (evaluating indeterminate limits, l'Hôpital's rule, product and chain rule derivatives, tangent line equations, definite integrals via substitution and integration by parts, rational function asymptotes including vertical and oblique/slant asymptotes, Intermediate Value Theorem and bijection theorem for unique root isolation), differential equations (first-order linear decay initial value problems, second-order harmonic ODEs), numerical sequences (infinite geometric series convergence and sums, monotone convergence theorem and recursive fixed-point limits), combinatorics (combinations, selection of delegations), and probability theory (conditional probability, Bayes' theorem in clinical test predictive values, binomial distribution calculations, discrete random variable expectation and variance derivations).