Pmc press release , 17 December 2020

 PRESS RELEASE 

NATIONAL MDCAT RESULT RECONCILIATION 

[Islamabad, 17th December 2020]: After PMC released the National MDCAT result on 16th

December, 2020, we received numerous complaints from students that they had erroneously 

been marked ‘absent’. Some students also complained that their names and roll numbers did 

not match. 

To thoroughly investigate the complaints and to ensure that no student was deprived of the 

correct result, the result was taken offline for reconciliation. The MDCAT result is a computer 

generated result. Hence, any investigation required it to be taken offline and reverified in its 

entirety through physical verification of students’ admit cards and examination answer sheets. 

Therefore, the examination team carried out a detailed scrutiny and reverification process over 

the last 30 hours. 

The verified result is now available online again and students may check their result now. 

There is a very small minority of students whose result is missing because neither their name 

nor their roll number could be matched. Therefore, these students will be notified next week 

and asked to appear for verification. 

In the interest of transparency, PMC would still like to elaborate on why the errors occurred in 

the first place. The issue arose primarily due to an anomaly in the computer generation of the 

result. Many students had inadvertently written the incorrect or incomplete roll number, or 

name on their answer sheets. The computer machines, when checking the paper, identified 

all results that either had a non-existent roll number or a duplicate roll no. All such results 

were taken out of the final list by the operating system automatically and such anomalies were 

marked absent by the system. In some cases, the wrong roll number written by a student 

belonged to a student who was actually absent and the computer sought to rectify the 

irregularity by inputting the name of the student in the database against the incorrect roll 

number. This showed up as a mismatched name against the correct roll number. 

Utilization of technology is crucial to processing such a large volume of exam results in a timely 

manner. However, even the best technological solutions have some margin of error. That error 

has been rectified by human intervention i.e physical verification of each answer paper and 

matching it with student admit cards. As mentioned above, any result that could not be 

reconciled even after physical verification because neither the student’s name nor roll number 

could be matched, has been withheld. Students who are unable to see their result online now 

will be contacted next week and issued a notice to clarify.

Many students also inquired about the marks that were to be added to all students’ results to 

make up for the questions identified as problematic during the Post Exam Analysis. PMC has 

re-checked and can confirm that 14 marks have been added to the result of each student who 

took the exam on the 29th of November 2020. Moreover, 7 marks have been added to the 

result of each student who took the exam on the 13th of December 2020. These marks have 

been added in lieu of scoring full marks in the questions deemed problematic and removed by 

PMC after the exam. Therefore, absolutely no student has been put at a disadvantage

. student has been put at a disadvantage.

In order to ensure utmost fairness and relieve any anxiety students may have about the 

accuracy of the marking, PMC has allowed every student to seek a recount of their exam script 

free of cost. Forms for a recount appeal are available online and can be submitted till the 21st

of December 2020.

In addition, students who find out that their identity information (name, date of birth, gender or 

any other aspect) is not exactly the same as on their CNIC, may also appeal for correction by 

submitting an online form. This correction will also be done free of cost after verifying the 

student’s CNIC record. 

PMC apologizes for the delay. However, it was essential to ensure that no student is put at a 

disadvantage or is deprived of their correct result. It is pertinent to note that less than 2% of 

the total number of students who took the exam faced these difficulties and submitted 

complaints to PMC. However, no matter how small that number was, the complaints were of 

grave concern to the PMC. In fact, we believe even a single complaint is one too many and 

we strive to ensure a fair, seamless process for 100% of the students who take the exam in 

the future. PMC has no false pride and does not deem it necessary to conceal any errors; the 

institution’s sole concern is ensuring transparency of the system and satisfaction of the students.