LINK Admission Test 2027: Complete Admission Test Guide

Items are set from short Italian passages (popular-science essays, narrative fiction, and current-affairs pieces), so expect most questions to carry a stimulus text.

• Abstract and specialist vocabulary in context
• Textual cohesion and coherence: connectives, references, cause-and-effect relationships
• Extracting and inferring information: explicit vs. implicit, fact vs. opinion
• Historical and geographical orientation: periods, turning points, cultural references
• National and international institutions: Parliament, Government, the Constitutional Court, the EU institutions, the UN, WHO, NATO
• Law, economics and citizenship, including contemporary public debate

LINK publishes no logic syllabus as such; this grouping is derived from the Call's general description and from past LINK papers.

• Verbal logic: restating statements, negation, equivalent vs. incompatible conclusions
• Formal logic: necessary and sufficient conditions, syllogisms, what is NOT necessarily true
• Argumentation: implicit assumptions, strengthening/weakening an argument, cause and effect
• Numerical problems: proportions, percentages, rates, probability, simultaneous equations
• Series, grids and deductive puzzles: sequences, codes, true/false constraint grids, ranking problems

• The chemistry of living things and cell biology: macromolecules, enzymes, membrane transport
• Cell cycle and reproduction: mitosis, meiosis, life cycles
• Mendelian and classical genetics: laws of inheritance, mono- and dihybrid crosses
• Molecular genetics and gene expression: DNA structure and replication, protein synthesis
• Human genetics: transmission of traits, hereditary disease, pedigree analysis
• Mutations and evolution: natural and artificial selection, evolutionary theory
• Biotechnology: recombinant DNA, restriction enzymes, plasmids, PCR, medical applications
• Anatomy, physiology and bioenergetics: human organ systems, homeostasis, ATP and cellular respiration

• Matter and atomic structure: states of matter, atomic number, electron configuration
• The periodic table and chemical bonding: periodic trends, ionic/covalent/metallic bonds
• Inorganic chemistry fundamentals: naming oxides, hydroxides, acids and salts
• Chemical reactions and stoichiometry: the mole, balancing equations
• Solutions, equilibria and kinetics: concentration, dilution, catalysis
• Redox reactions: oxidation numbers, balancing redox equations
• Acids, bases and pH: hydrolysis, buffer solutions
• Organic chemistry fundamentals: hydrocarbons, functional groups, isomerism

One combined 13-question block with no official split between the two subjects.

• Numerical sets and algebra: equations, inequalities, logarithms, factorisation
• Functions and graphs: domain, continuity, exponential/logarithmic/trigonometric functions
• Geometry and trigonometry: polygons, the Cartesian plane, conics, trigonometric identities
• Probability and statistics: frequency distributions, basic probability
• Measurement and vectors: fundamental and derived quantities, SI units
• Kinematics and dynamics: motion, Newton's laws, momentum, work and energy
• Fluid mechanics and thermodynamics: pressure, Bernoulli's equation, heat, the laws of thermodynamics
• Electricity and electromagnetism: Coulomb's law, circuits, Ohm's law, electromagnetic induction

It's LINK Campus University's own admission test for its Italian-taught Medicine and Surgery programme: 60 multiple-choice questions across five sections, sat on paper, in person, over 100 minutes.

It depends on your campus and your call. LINK teaches Medicine at eight sites, each admitting under its own call: the first 2026/2027 calls were for Rome, Novedrate (CO), Ascoli Piceno and Fano (Rome sat on 12 March 2026, the other three on 16 April), and later calls followed site by site, such as Novedrate's second call (22 July 2026). On 29 October 2026 every Italian site sits, and separate calls hold the test in Paris and Berlin on 27 October. Each sitting's venue is set by the number of applicants and may be off campus. Since this is an in-person exam with no remote option, confirm your exact venue directly with LINK before making travel plans.

No. LINK Campus delivers Medicine entirely in Italian and tests entirely in Italian. The IvyTest study guide and simulator questions for LINK are in Italian too, so you prepare in the language you'll sit the test in.

+1.5 points for a correct answer, −0.4 for an incorrect one, 0 for a blank, out of a maximum 90. A purely random guess has a slightly negative expected value (−0.02 points); unlike several peer schools, blind guessing is a small net loss here, so only answer when you can genuinely narrow down the options.

Not in the usual sense. The only rule is that your score must be strictly greater than zero to enter the ranking: candidates who answer nothing at all are excluded outright, but this is an exclusionary floor, not a meaningful pass mark. Separately, you need at least 50% of the maximum in each of Biology, Chemistry, and Physics & Mathematics to avoid an additional learning obligation in that area.

Reading and General Knowledge (4 questions), Logical Reasoning and Problem Solving (5), Biology (23, the largest section by far), Chemistry (15), and a combined Physics and Mathematics block (13, with no official split between the two subjects).

Yes. Rome's course was accredited by Ministerial Decree n. 1511 of 17 November 2023, and the calls for the other sites cite DM 178 of 27 February 2026. It's a genuinely new programme with no graduates yet, so if you plan to practise outside Italy, confirm the programme's listing status directly with the World Directory of Medical Schools (search.wdoms.org) before assuming the standard pathway applies.

The first 2026/2027 calls offered 640 places across four sites (400 in Rome and 80 each at Novedrate, Ascoli Piceno and Fano, including 10 and 5 respectively for non-EU applicants resident abroad). For 29 October 2026 the calls list 192 Medicine places in Rome, 98 at Novedrate, 50 at Pescara, 48 at Fano, 47 at Pietra Ligure, 46 at Frosinone, 44 at Ascoli Piceno and 43 at Matera. No applicant counts are published, but the ranking lists read ranked fewer candidates than places: 208 for Rome's 390 on 12 March, 32 for Rome's 225 on 22 September.

Within the EU, a standard Italian medical degree (LM-41) is designed to qualify for automatic EU/EEA recognition, though as a brand-new programme, confirm LINK's current accreditation status directly. For the US, recognition follows the standard ECFMG/USMLE route once the programme has graduates and a confirmed WDOMS listing. For the UK, the Medical Act 1983 (sections 21B and 21C, as in force on 12 October 2026) spares holders of an Italian medical degree the knowledge test other international graduates take through PLAB/UKMLA, but the UK's list pairs the laurea with the Diploma di abilitazione all'esercizio della medicina e chirurgia, which Italy stopped issuing in March 2020, when the practical training moved inside the degree. The GMC's Italy page therefore offers graduates since then provisional registration on the laurea, for a UK Foundation Year 1 post, and asks for evidence of supervised practice, such as a 12-month internship, for full registration. Evidence of English is still required, and the rule is UK policy that can change.

Yes. The IvyTest simulator runs LINK-format practice (60 questions across the real five-section structure, the real +1.5/−0.4/0 scoring) in timed, tutor and review modes, with a free diagnostic available without payment.

Yes, one. Under 'Test ammissioni anni precedenti', LINK's Rome Medicine page links the 2024/2025 admission test as a free 10-page PDF: all 60 questions, in the same five sections as today's paper. It has no separate answer key: LINK notes that the first option is always the correct one, and that the paper is published only as an example of the test. No other year is published. The practice questions on this page are IvyTest's own.

The 2027/28 call isn't out yet; in 2026/27 the first calls came out on 6 February 2026, for a 12 March test in Rome. The 2026/27 cycle is still open: every Italian site sits on 29 October 2026 under its own call, with registration closing at 18:00 on 23 October 2026 (€200), and separate calls for every site hold the test in Paris and Berlin on 27 October. Each call is on its site's Medicine page on unilink.it.

After each sitting LINK publishes a merit ranking on the site's page, anonymous (pre-matricola number and date of birth) and with every total score; a score of 0 or less is not ranked. Ranked candidates within the places enrol in the window the call sets. Rome's 12 March 2026 list ranked 208, from 79.10 to 0.20, for 390 places; on 22 September Rome ranked 32 for Medicine (54.60 to 1.10), all able to enrol. The 2025/26 cycle's lists (tests of 18 December 2025, 4 February and 5 March 2026) are on LINK's 2025/26 page.

Tuition is €20,050 in the first year and €19,800 a year after that (2026/2027 calls). The first year is paid in four instalments: €5,200 at enrolment, plus €16 stamp duty and the €140 regional tax, then €4,950 by 31 December 2026, 28 February and 30 April 2027. Sitting the test costs €200, non-refundable. At Fano and Ascoli Piceno, residents of that area pay 20% less and Marche residents 10% less; a disability of 66% or more means no tuition.

LINK Campus University is based in Rome (Via del Casale di San Pio V, 44). In 2026/2027 it admits to Medicine and Surgery at eight sites, each with its own call and places: Rome, Novedrate (CO), Ascoli Piceno, Fano (PU), Frosinone, Matera, Pescara and Pietra Ligure (SV). Several run in agreement with the local health service: Fano with AST Pesaro e Urbino, Matera with the ASL di Matera, Pescara with the ASL di Pescara, Pietra Ligure with Ospedale Santa Corona (ASL 2). The test is the same at every site; each site's page links its own regulations.

LINK's teaching regulations (Regolamento didattico, LM-41) set a six-year course in Italian worth 360 CFU over 12 semesters, with no more than 36 courses and at least 60 CFU of practical training, including the three-month clinical placement before graduation; the final degree exam also qualifies you to practise. The year-by-year plan is the regulations' Annex 1 (Manifesto degli studi), and each site's page links its own regulations.

Yes, into later years when places are free. For 2026/2027 LINK offered 90 second-year and 32 third-year places in Rome, and second-year places at Novedrate (15), Ascoli Piceno (54) and Fano (22). Medicine students needed at least 15 CFU or two recognisable exams for the second year, and 60 CFU or every first-year exam for the third; applications closed on 3 September 2026 (a €150 fee in Rome) and admitted students enrolled by 22 September. The first year is entered through the admission test.

LINK's Medicine pages publish no student-opinion survey and no graduate data: the course is new (Rome's course was accredited by Ministerial Decree n. 1511 of 17 November 2023), so nobody has graduated yet. What the pages describe is the teaching itself: lectures alongside clinical problem solving, case simulations and doctor-patient role play, practical labs and simulations from the first years, and placements in affiliated hospitals from the third year.