The Medical School Berlin
Admission Guide
The MSB Medicine Selection Test at Medical School Berlin is a 90-minute online test in German covering Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics, worth 25% of the decision, with a video interview and case simulation making up the other 75%. This guide is built on MSB's own published selection procedure.
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In the full exam
90 minutes.
Who this is for
Built for Medical School Berlin applicants, and for the MSB Medicine Selection Test specifically.
Medicine & Surgery applicants
Sitting the MSB Medicine Selection Test for Medical School Berlin's German-taught MD programme.
International applicants
Applying to Medical School Berlin in Berlin, Germany from abroad.
Resitting to raise a score
Timed practice and topic analytics to fix weak areas efficiently.
Applicants who need the full picture
Guidance on deadlines, legalization and scholarships, not just the test.
How would you do on its test?
Take the free Medical School Berlin diagnostic: real questions from its own question bank, scored the way its exam is. Medical School Berlin publishes no cutoff, so it shows your score, not odds. No account needed.
Applying elsewhere? This system is specific to the Medical School Berlin MSB Medicine Selection Test. If you're sitting a different admissions test, you'll find the right guide under other schools below.
The MSB Medicine Selection Test at a glance
Checked against MSB Medical School Berlin's own published rules. Where something isn't published yet, we say so rather than guess.
Before you apply
Dates, scoring and admissions
Key dates
- Applications open
- Year-round: MSB accepts applications at any time
- Application deadline
- Not yet publishedNo fixed deadline: MSB states that applications are possible at any time, all year round, and that intake stops once the places are filled, so apply early
- Selection procedure: date no longer listed
- Not yet published22-23 October 2026 was listed on medicalschool-berlin.de/zulassungsverfahren/ on 28 September 2026 but no longer appeared there on 12 October 2026. MSB assigns each complete application to the next round with places available
- Selection procedure: next published date
- 3-4 December 2026
- Selection procedure: following published date
- 4-5 February 2027
- Further selection dates
- Not yet publishedNo dates beyond 4-5 February 2027 were listed on medicalschool-berlin.de/zulassungsverfahren/ as of 12 October 2026
- Decision issued
- Not yet publishedDecision timeline not yet announced; MSB does not publish how long after the selection procedure a decision follows
- Enrolment deadline
- Not yet publishedEnrolment deadline not yet announced
How it's scored
- Correct answer
- Not yet publishedNot published. IvyTest's working estimate is one mark per correct answer, the neutral assumption
- Incorrect answer
- Not yet publishedNot published. MSB neither confirms nor rules out a penalty for wrong answers
- Unanswered question
- Not yet publishedNot published (see above)
- Written test weighting
- 25% of the admission decision
- Interview weighting
- 75%: a 20-minute video interview with an integrated case simulation, over Microsoft Teams
- Minimum eligible score
- Not yet publishedNo pass mark is published for the written test; the rules that would contain one sit in MSB's unpublished Zulassungs- und Auswahlordnung
- Numerus Clausus
- None: admission is 'NC-frei', with no fixed school-grade cut-off, and external tests such as the TMS are not accepted
- Who decides
- A selection committee of one professor from human medicine and one from psychology or the social and health sciences, or a person from medical practice (Wissenschaftsrat, November 2025)
Admissions: MSB Medical School Berlin
- Degree
- Human Medicine (Staatsexamen): 12 semesters and 3 months full time, starting 1 April or 1 October
- Language of instruction
- German
- Language of the test
- German
- Campus
- Berlin, Germany (the written test is delivered online)
- Admission model
- 'NC-frei': no fixed school-grade cut-off, and no external test such as the TMS accepted in place of MSB's own
- Interview
- Required: 20-minute video interview over Microsoft Teams with an integrated case simulation, worth 75% of the decision
- Tuition
- €1,500 per month in the first and second study sections, then €300 per month in the practical year until the third medical state examination (MSB's published rates)
- Application fee
- €500 per application procedure, plus a one-time enrolment fee (Einschreibegebühr) of €100 (MSB's published fees)
- Governing regulations
- Not yet publishedMSB's Zulassungs- und Auswahlordnung governs admission but is not published; the university's own FAQ says its examination regulations and module handbooks are not publicly accessible to prospective students
- Application process
- Apply online via medicalschool-berlin.de with a signed admission application, a CV, a copy of your Abitur certificate, a copy of your ID and a motivation letter of 1-4 A4 pages (plus proof of any training or earlier study); no English certificate or recommendation letter is asked for; applicants whose school-leaving qualification is from outside the German school system first need a uni-assist VPD; the written test and the video interview together form the selection procedure
Checked against 13 official sources, most recently on 12 October 2026. Read the full MSB Medicine Selection Test guide →
Methodology
Why this guide holds up
Built from official sources
Every section is developed directly from Medical School Berlin's published syllabus and official exam criteria, cross-referenced against multiple years of past-paper data for accuracy.
Specialist-reviewed
Each resource is reviewed by subject-matter specialists and validated against the latest published exam criteria before release.
Revised every cycle
When Medical School Berlin updates its syllabus or exam structure, the guide is reviewed and revised to match before the next admissions cycle.
What's included
4 tested areas. Every topic MSB Medicine Selection Test can test.
20 mapped topics across the MSB Medicine Selection Test syllabus, aligned to the official Medical School Berlin regulations.
Biology
5 topics- The Chemistry of Living Things
- The Cell as the Basis of Life
- Bioenergetics
- Reproduction and Inheritance
- Evolution, Anatomy, and Physiology
Chemistry
5 topics- Structure of Matter and the Periodic Table
- Chemical Bonding and Properties of Matter
- Stoichiometry and Chemical Reactions
- Equilibria, Acids-Bases, and Redox
- Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry
Physics
5 topics- Measures and Kinematics
- Dynamics
- Fluid Mechanics and Optics
- Thermodynamics
- Electrostatics and Electrodynamics
Mathematics
5 topics- Algebra and Number Sets
- Functions
- Geometry and Trigonometry
- Logic and Mathematical Reasoning
- Probability, Statistics, and Combinatorics
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Yes. Human Medicine at MSB is a German-taught Staatsexamen degree, and the written selection test is sat in German too, even though the school appears in English-language listings internationally.
No. Neither German school in our catalogue uses the TMS. Each runs its own content-based written test together with an interview: biology, chemistry and general knowledge at UMCH, and biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics at Medical School Berlin.
Yes, it's the 2027 edition, built from the latest admission rules Medical School Berlin has published. Where a 2027 date or detail isn't published yet, confirm it with the university before you rely on it.
Yes. Medical School Berlin-format practice sessions are available inside the simulator and align with the guide section by section.
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