Medical University of Lodz Entrance Exam 2027: Complete Preparation Guide

Eight areas covering the 43 numbered headings of the official Range of Knowledge. Human anatomy and physiology is much the largest.

• Macromolecules and enzymes: carbohydrates, lipids, proteins and nucleic acids: structure, synthesis, metabolism, functions and examples of their use in living organisms; enzymes, activation energy, substrates and the active site
• Cell structure and organelles: the prokaryotic and the eukaryotic cell, cell membrane structure and functions including transport, mitochondria and chloroplast, nucleus, nucleolus and rough endoplasmic reticulum, ribosomes, Golgi apparatus and cytoskeleton
• Cell communication and the cell cycle: cell junctions, receptors and chemical messengers, pathways of intracellular signal transduction, the cell cycle, mitosis and meiosis
• Metabolism and cellular respiration: energy of life, metabolism and energy flow through organisms, free energy and equilibrium, ATP synthesis, hydrolysis, function and regeneration, catabolic and anabolic processes, glycolysis, the Krebs cycle, electron transport, proton motive force, oxidative phosphorylation, protein and fat metabolism and their connections to other pathways
• Genetics and molecular biology: Mendelian genetics and its connection to modern genetics, linkage and chromosomes, organization of genetic material, sex-linked and linked genes, genetic disorders and inheritance patterns, DNA and RNA as genetic material, transcription and translation, regulation of gene expression in prokaryotes and eukaryotes, gene and chromosome mutations and their role in pathogenesis and evolution, DNA technology and genome evolution including sequencing, cloning, GMO and DNA-based biotechnology
• Human anatomy and physiology: the skeletal system and structural classes of joints, muscle structure, physiology and contraction, skin and its accessory structures and glands, the nervous system with neurons, glial cells, the blood-brain barrier and electrical and chemical synapses, sense organs and types of sensory receptor, the respiratory system and the function of haemoglobin, pulmonary and systemic circulation with the heart and vessels, the functions and composition of blood including leucocyte types and clotting, the immune system and vaccination, the endocrine system with water-soluble and fat-soluble hormones and feedback regulation, the digestive tract with liver, gallbladder and pancreas, the urinary system and the nephron, and the reproductive systems with gametogenesis and the menstrual cycle
• Microbiology: viruses including structure, replication, bacteriophages, viroids and prions, human virus infections, transmission, tissue tropism and emerging viruses; bacteria including the five basic shapes, cell surface structures, the Gram stain, motility, growth, plasmids, nutritional and metabolic adaptation, and harmless, beneficial and harmful roles; fungal types, structure, reproduction and pathogenicity; protists and their role in the environment
• Ecology and evolution: biosphere, ecosystem, community, population, habitat, niches, biotic potential, limiting factors, tolerance, carrying capacity, adaptation, succession, consumers and producers, food chains, symbiosis, mutualism, commensalism and parasitism; evolution in populations, human evolution, Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, natural selection, genetic drift, gene flow, phylogeny and the tree of life

Nine areas covering the seventeen numbered units of the official Range of Knowledge, in its own order.

• Measurement, matter and energy: what chemistry studies, units of measurement, density, classification of matter, states and properties of matter, temperature, energy, specific heat and changes of state
• Atoms, elements and nuclear chemistry: elements and their symbols, the periodic table, the atom, atomic number and mass number, isotopes and atomic mass, electron energy levels, nuclear radioactivity, nuclear reactions, radiation measurement, the half-life of a radioisotope, nuclear fission and fusion
• Ionic and molecular compounds: ions, naming ionic compounds and writing their formulas, polyatomic ions, molecular compounds, electronegativity and bond polarity, shapes and polarity of molecules, attractive forces between compounds
• Chemical quantities and reactions: the mole, molar mass and calculations, equations for chemical reactions, types of reaction, oxidation-reduction reactions, mole relationships in chemical equations, mass calculations for reactions, energy in chemical reactions
• Gases and solutions: properties of gases and the laws of Boyle, Charles, Gay-Lussac, Avogadro and Dalton; solutions, electrolytes and nonelectrolytes, solubility, concentrations of solutions, dilution and the properties of solutions
• Acids, bases and equilibrium: acids and bases and their strengths, the ionization of water, the pH scale, reactions of acids and bases, buffers, and the Lewis definition of an acid, which MUL's own Sample Questions paper tests directly
• Organic chemistry and functional groups: organic compounds, alkanes and substituents and their properties, alkenes and alkynes, cis-trans isomers, aromatic compounds, alcohols, phenols, thiols and ethers, aldehydes and ketones and their reactions, carboxylic acids and their properties, esters and their hydrolysis, amines and amides
• Biomolecules: carbohydrates, chiral molecules, Fischer projections and Haworth structures of monosaccharides, the chemical properties of monosaccharides, disaccharides and polysaccharides; lipids, fatty acids, waxes and triacylglycerols, phospholipids, steroids including cholesterol and bile salts, cell membranes; proteins and amino acids, amino acids as acids and bases, primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary protein structure, enzymes and the factors affecting enzyme activity; the components and primary structure of nucleic acids, the DNA double helix, RNA and the genetic code, protein synthesis, genetic mutations and viruses
• Metabolic pathways and energy production: metabolism and ATP energy, the digestion of food, coenzymes in metabolic pathways, glycolysis as the oxidation of glucose, the citric acid cycle, electron transport and oxidative phosphorylation, the oxidation of fatty acids, the degradation of amino acids

Nine areas covering the 25 numbered topics of the official Range of Knowledge, which follow the chapter order of Giancoli, Physics: Principles with Applications, the textbook MUL names on its admissions page.

• Measurement and kinematics: units, conversions and estimation, motion in one dimension with position, displacement, velocity, acceleration and the constant-acceleration equations, kinematics in two dimensions, vectors and their components, projectile motion, and interpreting position-time, velocity-time and acceleration-time graphs
• Dynamics, gravitation and circular motion: Newton's laws of motion, inertia, force and mass, weight, normal force, friction, free-body reasoning, uniform circular motion, centripetal acceleration and force, Newtonian gravitation and orbits
• Work, energy and momentum: work, kinetic and potential energy, conservation of mechanical energy, power, linear momentum, impulse, conservation of momentum, collisions and recoil
• Rotational motion and equilibrium: angular displacement, velocity and acceleration, torque, moment of inertia, rotational kinetic energy, static equilibrium of forces and torques, centre of gravity, elasticity, stress and strain, elastic limit and fracture
• Fluids, heat and thermodynamics: density, pressure, hydrostatic pressure, Pascal's principle, buoyancy, continuity and Bernoulli's principle, temperature scales and kinetic theory, the ideal gas relation between temperature and volume, heat, specific heat, calorimetry, latent heat, conduction, convection and radiation, the first and second laws of thermodynamics, internal energy and entropy
• Oscillation, waves and sound: simple harmonic motion, amplitude, period and frequency, wavelength and wave speed, superposition and resonance, sound as a longitudinal wave, the speed of sound, intensity and decibels, the Doppler effect
• Electric charge, potential and DC circuits: electric charge, Coulomb's law, conductors and insulators, electric field and field lines, electric potential energy, voltage and potential difference, capacitors, electric current, resistance, Ohm's law and electrical power, DC circuits with resistors in series and parallel, batteries and meters
• Magnetism and electromagnetic waves: magnetic fields, forces on moving charges and current-carrying wires, simple motors, electromagnetic induction and Faraday's law, magnetic flux, Lenz's law, generators and transformers, electromagnetic waves, the spectrum from radio waves to gamma rays, and the relation between frequency, wavelength and the speed of light
• Optics and the nature of light: geometric optics with reflection, refraction, mirrors, lenses, ray diagrams and image formation, the wave nature of light with interference, diffraction, polarization and the double-slit experiment, optical instruments, focal length, the eye and corrective lenses

Seven areas from the official Range of Knowledge, which tracks Greenwell, Ritchey and Lial, Calculus for the Life Sciences, plus an eighth that is derived rather than official. Arithmetic and number reasoning appears nowhere in the Range of Knowledge, but every one of the five Mathematics items in MUL's official Sample Questions paper is work of exactly that kind, so the list would misrepresent the paper without it.

• Algebra and expressions: polynomials, factoring, rational expressions, equations, inequalities, exponents and radicals, simplifying expressions, solving linear and quadratic equations
• Functions and graphs: composition of functions, lines and linear functions, the least squares line, properties of functions, quadratic functions, translation and reflection, polynomial and rational functions, domain and range
• Exponentials, logarithms and trigonometry: exponential functions and growth and decay, logarithmic functions and log laws, solving exponential and logarithmic equations, trigonometric functions, radians and degrees, basic identities and graphs
• Limits and the derivative: limits, continuity, rates of change, the definition of the derivative, graphical differentiation, derivatives of products and quotients, the chain rule, graphs and the derivative, increasing and decreasing functions, relative and absolute extrema
• Integration: antiderivatives, substitution, integration by parts, definite and indefinite integrals, area under a curve
• Multivariable calculus: functions of several variables, partial derivatives, maxima and minima, total differentials and approximations
• Probability and random variables: sets, conditional probability, independent events, discrete random variables, expected value and the variance of continuous random variables
• Arithmetic and number reasoning (derived, not official): divisibility, prime factors and smallest-value factor problems, digit sums and digit-constrained integer counting, ratios and proportional reasoning, percentage profit and loss, the area of a triangle from two sides and the included angle, and systematic counting problems. Taken from MUL's official Sample Questions paper rather than from the Range of Knowledge.

Five official areas, one for each numbered item of the Range of Knowledge. Both questions are open and spoken; the official prompts are phrased as opinion questions, so the facts are what you reason from rather than what you are scored on reciting.

• Treatment and prevention: primary, secondary and tertiary prevention, screening, health promotion, and the relationship between preventive and curative care and how each is resourced
• Lifestyle and environmental risk factors: environmental and lifestyle-related factors affecting health, a healthy lifestyle, the health needs of society and risk factors including smoking, alcohol, diet, physical activity, sleep, pollution and socioeconomic determinants
• Challenges in the medical field: an ageing population, chronic and noncommunicable disease, mental health, antimicrobial resistance, epidemics, health misinformation, workforce shortage and access to care
• Donation, vaccination and alternative medicine: blood and organ donation and the consent models around it, vaccination and herd immunity, volunteer work in a health setting, and how evidence-based medicine relates to alternative and complementary therapies
• Global and local health problems: major health problems and challenges compared from a global versus a local perspective, including infectious disease, maternal and child health, health inequality and resource constraint

Six areas from the Range of Knowledge, with the Student Code of Ethics separated out because it is the only part backed by a published text, and therefore the only part with a checkable right answer. The official heading for this subject reads GENERAL QUESTIONS REGARDING MOTIVATIONS, INTERESTS AND ETHICS.

• Duties and responsibilities of doctors: how you understand the requirements, duties and responsibilities of doctors, dentists and other medical staff, including competence, confidentiality, honesty with patients, teamwork and patient safety
• The Student Code of Ethics: the Code's purpose as a guide in situations of moral dilemma; respect for law and for other viewpoints, beliefs and cultural traditions, and the duty to prevent discrimination and to oppose unethical behaviour lawfully; the obligations to work diligently, prepare conscientiously for tests and examinations and respect staff and fellow students
• The Student Code of Ethics: conduct expressly considered unethical: consultation with outsiders, unauthorised aids, devices capable of downloading, communicating or recording, breach of intellectual property, forgery of grades, falsification of documents, impersonating another student and exploiting family relationships
• The Student Code of Ethics: conduct considered reprehensible, including lateness, disruption of classes and examinations, insults, poor hygiene, inappropriate expression and the use of stimulants or intoxicants; the Student as a representative of the University and the treatment of University property; and the disciplinary ladder from admonition through reprimand, reprimand with warning and suspension of student rights to expulsion
• Motivation and expectations of study: your motivation for medicine and for the English-language programme, your expectations of studying at the Medical University of Lodz, and the attitudes and features expected of a student
• Personal context: your own practice of the lifestyle factors that affect health and how a future clinician's habits relate to the advice they will give; studying and living abroad, cultural differences, independence and adaptation to an international academic environment; and your hobbies, interests and future plans and what they show about balance, discipline, teamwork and commitment

It is a single oral examination of about thirty minutes, conducted online over Microsoft Teams and delivered in English. It contains 12 questions worth 32 points: four questions in each of two science subjects you choose, plus two compulsory socio-medical questions and two compulsory questions on motivation, interests and ethics. You need 18 of the 32 points.

Neither. Poland has no shared national medical entrance test: every university sets its own, and MUL's spoken format is unlike Warsaw's 80-question written competency test or Gdańsk's 60-question written paper. It is not the Matura either, although holding a Matura does matter here: under §7 of the governing Ordinance it is one of the qualifications that exempts you from the science block entirely.

Online, over Microsoft Teams, with your face visible on camera throughout and no one else in the room. You may have blank white paper, a pen or pencil, a calculator and a periodic table, but all of them only under camera visibility. External notes, additional devices, communication tools and unauthorised software are prohibited. The Ordinance allows a 10-minute grace period if you are late to start and 5 minutes to reconnect if you drop out.

You pick two of Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics on the application form and sit only those, alongside the two compulsory subjects everyone takes. Your two choices carry 24 of the 32 points (three-quarters of the exam), so the decision is worth making on the basis of a real self-test against all four official Ranges of Knowledge rather than on which subject sounds most medical.

Only partly, and this is the most important thing to understand about the exam. Four of the twelve questions are closed multiple-choice items: two per chosen science subject, four options each, one correct, worth 3 points apiece. The other eight are open questions answered aloud, with no options at all, and the Regulations note that the committee is not expected to prompt a candidate whose answer is incomplete. So 20 of the 32 points come from answers you have to construct and finish yourself.

A correct closed question scores 3 points and an incorrect one scores 0: there is no negative marking, so you should answer all four. The two open questions in each chosen science are scored 0 to 3 each, giving 12 points per science subject, and the four compulsory open questions are scored 0 to 2 each, giving 8. That makes 32 in total. Because guessing is free, a blind guess on a closed item is worth an expected 0.75 points, and guessing all four is worth an expected 3.

Yes, and unusually it is published rather than inferred: §6.3 of the governing Ordinance sets it at 18 of 32 points. There are no per-subject floors. Candidates who pass and submit their documents receive a Letter of Acceptance, and the 2027/28 rules list qualified candidates in order of exam result within the admission limit, so 18 is the line you must clear rather than a guarantee of a place.

Yes, through a documented route. Section 7 of the Ordinance exempts holders of the International Baccalaureate, the European Baccalaureate and the Matura, along with graduates of MUL's own Pre-Medical Preparatory Course with a GPA of 4.0 or above, from the science block entirely, and awards them maximum science points. Since those points alone already exceed the 18-point overall floor, the Ordinance sets exempt candidates a separate requirement of 5 of the 8 points on the socio-medical and motivation/ethics part. In practice their whole examination is four spoken questions.

The Minister of Health's 2026/27 admission limit gives MUL 104 places in medicine taught in a language other than Polish. MUL publishes no applicant volume, so any acceptance rate quoted elsewhere is an estimate. What is known is the model: a school-grade threshold decides who reaches the exam, and candidates who pass it are listed in order of exam result within that limit, across a window that ran from mid-January to early September in the last published cycle.

Within the EU, yes, under the EU's automatic recognition of medical degrees, but Poland's entry asks for more than the diploma. Annex V of the EU Directive on professional qualifications lists the Polish lekarz diploma together with the certificate of the LEK (Lekarski Egzamin Końcowy), Poland's national final exam, and the certificate of completing the postgraduate internship (staż), so the LEK matters beyond practising in Poland itself. The UK applies the same list: under the Medical Act 1983 (section 21B), a doctor of any nationality who holds it can register with the GMC without the knowledge test other international graduates sit, while a graduate without the LEK and the internship goes through the UKMLA. MUL's own Accreditation page says the same: graduates who pass the LEK and complete the practical training can practise in the UK. US-bound graduates need ECFMG certification via USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK, the same requirement every international medical graduate faces.

Yes, and it is free. The oral practice page sets the exam in its own format: for each of Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics, two mock sets of two closed and two open questions, every open question with a model spoken answer and a guide to what earns 1, 2 and 3 points, then 17 socio-medical, motivation and Code of Ethics questions with outlines for your own answer. Its mock mode builds a 12-question exam from the two sciences you pick, with a 30-minute timer, reads each question aloud and adds up your score out of 32. The annotated topic checklist covers all 103 topics of the Range of Knowledge, and the IvyTest simulator drills the closed questions in their real format (four options, 3 points or 0).

MUL publishes no past papers. Its MS Teams entrance exam page links one free Sample Questions PDF: 20 questions, five each in Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics, a mix of open questions and four-option multiple-choice items (all five in Mathematics are multiple choice), with no answer key and none for the socio-medical or motivation part. The same page links the Range of Knowledge, the Student Code of Ethics and the textbooks the questions draw on, such as Campbell Biology and Timberlake's Chemistry. The practice questions on this page are IvyTest's own.

MUL had not set either on 17 October 2026: its Application Calendar opens admission on 15 January 2027 and lists the exam sessions and the application deadline as to be advised. Senate Resolution No. 60/2026 runs the 2027/28 recruitment from 15 January to 31 October 2027. In the last cycle, sessions started on 5 March, you picked your own date, and applications closed on 7 September 2026 at 9:00 Polish time. There is one intake a year, in October.

Not published yet. Recruitment for 2027/28 runs from 15 January to 31 October 2027 (Senate Resolution No. 60/2026), and MUL's Application Calendar lists the deadline as to be advised; in 2026 it was 7 September at 9:00 Polish time. Don't wait for it: you book your exam date only after MUL has verified your documents, and in 2026 the exam sessions started on 5 March.

Online, on MUL's registration portal (registration.umed.lodz.pl): create an account, choose the 6MD programme, submit the form (it cannot be edited afterwards), upload your school certificates and transcripts, passport, photo and, if required, English certificate and NAWA information, and pay the €24 application fee. Within two working days of a positive document check you are told to sign up for the exam, with 14 days to book a date. The Virtual University (wu.umed.lodz.pl) is not for applicants: it is MUL's system for enrolled students.

A secondary-school certificate that qualifies you for university at home (MUL names A-levels, where it asks for three including two sciences, the IB and the EB), with two of Biology, Chemistry, Physics or Mathematics on it. Those grades are converted into points, and only candidates above the year's threshold sit the entrance exam, where 18 of 32 passes. Candidates who are not EU, EFTA, Swiss or UK citizens, and some who are, add a B2 English certificate, and some certificates need NAWA recognition. Predicted grades are accepted, and there is no age limit.

For students starting in October 2026, the 6-year MD costs €15,100 for the first year and €14,900 a year for years 2 to 6, the same for EU and non-EU students; MUL had not published fees for 2027 starters on 17 October 2026. The first year can be paid in two instalments of €7,550, the first within two weeks of the Letter of Acceptance. The application fee is €24, non-refundable. MUL offers no scholarships, but sibling and high-GPA discounts apply from the second year, and it refunds payments in full after a visa refusal.

The 6MD is a unified master's programme of 12 semesters, run by MUL's Faculty of Medicine, leading to the Polish lekarz degree (Doctor of Medicine). Preclinical subjects such as anatomy, histology, biochemistry, physiology, pathomorphology and pharmacology fill mainly the first three years, clinical subjects the last three, and the sixth year is 60 ECTS of practical clinical training. The 2026/27 first year carries 60 ECTS, including Gross Anatomy (16 ECTS) and compulsory Polish, which continues in year 2. MUL posts each intake's study programme on its Curriculum page.

The English Division is MUL's Studies in English, run within the Faculty of Medicine by a Vice-Dean for Studies in English. It began in 2003 with 8 students from the USA and Canada and now teaches the 6-year MD and the 5-year DMD in Dentistry entirely in English, with over 100 new students a year and 700+ international students from nearly 70 countries. MUL's admissions in English cover only Medicine, Dentistry, the PREMED course and PhD study: the Faculty of Health Sciences (Public Health, Dietetics, Emergency Medicine, Nursing, Midwifery) is listed under its studies in Polish.

In THE's own World University Rankings 2027 table, MUL is in the 801–1000 band, second among Polish medical universities after Wroclaw Medical University (451–500). MUL's Accreditation and rankings page adds: 301-400 in the world and fourth among Polish medical universities in the Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2026, third among 48 Polish universities in THE 2027 by its own count, third among Polish medical universities in Perspektywy 2026, and 562nd in the world for Clinical Medicine in U.S. News. It calls itself the largest public medical university in Poland. For reviews, its Student interviews page carries 13 interviews with students.

In Łódź, Poland, which MUL describes as the heart of the country. Its campus is spread across the city: the Admission Office and the Administrative Centre for Studies in English are in Building U1, 253 Pomorska Street, on the campus of the Clinical and Didactic Centre, and the university's administration is at 4 Kościuszki Avenue. Most international students arrive at Warsaw Chopin airport; by MUL's Student Guide, trains between Warsaw and Łódź run about every hour and take about 1.5 hours. Teaching takes place in the university's three hospitals, with over 1,600 beds, and in wards of the city's hospitals. MUL is a separate university from the University of Lodz and the Lodz University of Technology, which run their own admissions.

Yes: r/MedicalUniLodz, where Medical University of Lodz applicants ask each other about the Medical University of Lodz Entrance Exam and share how their preparation is going. It is run by the IvyTest team. Dates, rules and results come only from the university's own pages, listed under Official sources on this page.

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