Medicine and Surgery Admission Test

• Call for applications for admission to national restricted access single-cycle degree programs in medicine and surgery and in dentistry and dental prosthodontics, academic year 2024/2025

Reading Skills and Knowledge Acquired During Studies

• Virginia Wolf is the author of the novel To the Lighthouse
• Ancient societies used symbols to represent numbers and mathematical solutions
• Greek civilization distinguished mathematics by giving it abstract and general characteristics
• Pre-Greek civilizations confined solutions of mathematical problems to tangible cases
• Mathematical concepts were communicated sporadically and geared toward practical outcomes in pre-Greek civilizations
• The Hundred Years' War was a conflict between the Kingdom of France and the Kingdom of England
• "The deeds of Aeneas were sung by Virgil" is a passive verb construction

Logical Reasoning and Problem-Solving

• To pass the test according to the table, a mark of higher than 5 is needed, and 50% of candidates passed the test
• Shelly is one of 1500 participants in a Latin contest;12% of participants will receive a prize of silver or gold pens
• The probability of Shelly receiving a gold-plated pen, if the number of silver-plated pens is twice the number of gold-plated ones, is 4%
• Two consecutive discounts of 10% and 20% are equal to a single discount of 28%
• Stacie builds a cube using 343 blocks of wood, then paints it green, and 218 blocks will have at least one side painted green
• It can be deduced that if Marco arrived late, than he did not take the train, given "When he takes the train, Marco always arrives at work on time"

Biology

• Cellular respiration occurs within mitochondria
• Glucose is a hexose monosaccharide
• Ribose is the pentose sugar present in RNA nucleotides
• Carrier proteins transfer molecules and ions across the plasma membrane
• ATP is the cell's energy currency
• ATP hydrolysis is an exergonic reaction
• Intercellular compartmentalization is characteristic of eukaryotes
• The centriole is composed of microtubules
• Mitochondria have an outer membrane and a very selective inner membrane
• An anticodon is a sequence of three nucleotides on tRNA corresponding to a codon on mRNA
• Ribosomes are made of RNA and proteins
• The cell membrane consists of a double phospholipid layer with hydrophobic tails facing inward, plus integral and peripheral proteins
• Translation is the process in protein synthesis, where mRNA is read and converted into a specific sequence of amino acids
• Microtubules, microfilaments, and intermediate filaments are the principal components of the cytoskeleton
• An allele is one of several alternative forms of a gene
• In a heterozygous condition, a dominant allele can express itself
• Mutations are alterations in the genetic information of a cell
• Translation is the process that leads to the synthesis of polypeptide chains from mRNA
• The complementary strand to the DNA sequence CCGTTATTGA is GGCAATAAC
• Replication is the process through which DNA is used as a template to synthesize new DNA molecules
• A prokaryotic operon is a functional unit composed of a group of adjacent genes, co-ordinately controlled, and of DNA sequences with regulatory functions

Chemistry

• A mixture of 0.3 mol N2, 0.5 mol CO2, and 0.4 mol O2 exerts a pressure of 2.4 atm, the nitrogen exerts a pressure of 0.6 atm
• A gas confined in a rigid cylinder at -3°C exerts 9 atm; if heated to 27°C, it would exert 10 atm
• BaO forms a hydroxide when reacting with water
• In the theoretical reaction 4 FeS2 + 11 O2 → 2 Fe2O3 + 8 SO2, to obtain 1 mol of Fe2O3, 2 mol of FeS2 and 5.5 mol of O2 are necessary
• Adding 60 mL of water to 15 mL of a 0.25 M H2SO4 solution results in a 0.05 M solution
• 0.6 moles of Na+ ions are found in 250 mL of a 1.2 M solution of Na2SO4
• In the reaction NH3 + BF3 → NH3BF3, ammonia behaves as a Lewis base
• Zinc nitrate, nitrogen dioxide, and water are obtained when metallic zinc reacts with nitric acid, and the reducing species is Zn(s)
• 2,3-Dimethylpentane contains the most hydrogen atoms
• A carbon-oxygen double bond is NOT present in dimethyl ether
• 1013 millibar does NOT correspond to 1 atm
• Given nitrogen's relative atomic mass is 14 u, , 3.01×10^22 nitrogen atoms are present in 0.7 g of gaseous nitrogen
• With 9 g of carbon reacting with 36 g of oxygen, 33 g of CO2 are produced, assuming 100% yield
• 99 mL of water needs to be added to 1 mL of an HCl solution with a pH of 2 to obtain a pH of 4
• In the Brønsted-Lowry theory, a strong acid forms a conjugate with a weak base

Physics and Mathematics

• The expression (512^(1/3))^(1/2) is equivalent to 2√2
• The reciprocal of f(2) is 1/4 if f(x) = log₂(x² + 12)
• In a bag with 3 red and 7 green balls, with replacement after each draw, the probability of extracting 2 green balls is 49/100
• The solution to the inequality (x² + 4x + 3) / (4 - 3x) ≥ 0 is each real x with x < 4/3
• The acute angle between a tangent at point A to a circle and a chord AB is equal to any point D on the larger arc AB subtended by angle ADB
• The volume of a cylinder with base radius 5 cm and height 7 cm is 175π cm³
• In a right triangle, where a and b are legs and c is the hypotenuse, and α is the angle opposite a, then a = c sin(α)
• If a braking force of 210 N is applied for 5 m on a boat, the power developed by the braking force is 1050 W
• For an ideal gas at constant temperature, if volume triples, pressure becomes P/3
• If 2922W are dissipated in a conductor with a 10A current, the resistance is 29.22 Ω
• An electron moving with constant velocity entering a perpendicular magnetic field maintains constant velocity
• For a point particle moving along x-axis with x(t) = 4 cos(ωt) where x is in meters, t in seconds and ω = 2π rad/s, the velocity at t*=1/2s equals approximately -4 m/s
• False: In the pendulum rod moves from the vertical position, In the absence of friction, the pendulum tends to come to a stop after a certain time