NMAT (Philippines) study guide
NMAT (Philippines) · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The National Medical Admission Test (NMAT) is the standardized admission examination that Philippine medical schools use when screening applicants for Doctor of Medicine programs. It is developed and administered by the Center for Educational Measurement, Inc. The NMAT (Philippines) study guide has 8 sections and about 2,108 words.
01Verbal Ability
Verbal ability on the NMAT blends vocabulary in context, analogies, sentence completion, reading comprehension, and short critical-reasoning items. None of these reward a memorized word list alone; they reward a disciplined procedure applied to unfamiliar text.
276 words, about 1 min02Inductive Reasoning
Classify the series before computing. Check arithmetic (constant addition), geometric (constant multiplier), second-order differences (the differences themselves follow a pattern), interleaved alternating series, squares or cubes plus an offset, and primes.
285 words, about 1 min03Quantitative Ability
Percent problems fail on wording, not computation. Distinguish "20% of X" from "X is 20% more than Y," and remember that successive percent changes multiply: a 20% rise followed by a 20% fall gives 1.2 × 0.8 = 0.96, a net 4% decrease, not zero.
239 words, about 1 min04Perceptual Acuity
Perceptual acuity items are timed and deliberately repetitive: matching symbol strings, spotting differences between paired rows, distinguishing mirror images from rotations, counting occurrences of a target symbol, and completing visual patterns. Your score reflects speed plus accuracy, so careless checking costs more than deliberate checking.
280 words, about 1 min05Biology
Know prokaryote versus eukaryote: bacteria lack a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles. Match organelles to jobs - mitochondria produce ATP, chloroplasts carry out photosynthesis, ribosomes synthesize protein, the nucleus stores DNA.
250 words, about 1 min06Chemistry
Electron configuration fixes an element's position: group number reflects valence electrons, period reflects shells. Across a period, atomic radius decreases and electronegativity increases; down a group, the pattern reverses.
235 words, about 1 min07Physics
Separate speed (a scalar) from velocity (a vector). For constant acceleration use v = u + at and s = ut + ½at².
260 words, about 1 min08Social Science
Anchor a timeline: Katipunan founded 1892; revolution 1896; independence declared 12 June 1898 at Kawit; the Treaty of Paris on 10 December 1898 ceded the islands to the United States for $20 million; Commonwealth in 1935 under Quezon; Japanese occupation 1942–1945; independence on 4 July 1946; Martial Law declared in September 1972; EDSA People Power in February 1986; the 1987 Constitution ratified in 1987. Three branches: executive (President, one six-year term, no reelection), legislative (bicameral Congress - 24 senators on six-year terms plus the House of Representatives), and judicial (Supreme Court with a Chief Justice and 14 associate justices).
283 words, about 1 min