FMGE 90-Day Study Plan: Timetable, Revision & MCQ Strategy

FMGE 90-Day Study Plan (December 2026 Session)

FMGE has traditionally run in June and December. In a notice dated 28 August 2026, NBEMS said the exam will now be held three times a year. It added an extra exam on 31 October 2026 and moved the 9 January 2027 exam to a later date in January or February 2027.

This plan is for MBBS graduates from abroad who have studied all subjects at least once and now want a structured final push. It works for first-time candidates and for repeaters. If you are writing the 31 October exam, this is not your plan, because applications for that sitting closed in September. If you miss the pass mark there, you can start Day 1 of this plan for the next sitting and use your October mistakes as the starting list.

FMGE Exam Pattern and Subject-Wise Marks for Your 3-Month Plan

The FMGE is a computer-based test with 300 multiple-choice questions, each worth one mark. It is held in two parts of 150 questions, with 2 hours 30 minutes for each part. In the October 2026 schedule, Part A ran from 9:00 to 11:30 AM and Part B from 2:00 to 4:30 PM. There is no negative marking. You need 150 marks to qualify, and there is no category-wise relaxation.

One feature of the paper changes how you should practise. According to the NBEMS information bulletin, each part is divided into time-bound sections. These are commonly described as three sections of 50 questions, with 50 minutes each. You cannot move to the next section before the time for the current one ends. Once a section closes, you cannot go back and change your answers. This means a slow start in a section cannot be repaired later. Your plan must include timed practice from the first week, and you will see that in the daily timetable below.

Here are the subject-wise marks, as per the NBEMS scheme:

Look at the top of the clinical list. Medicine, Surgery, OBG and Community Medicine together carry 125 marks. Add Anatomy, Physiology and Biochemistry, and these seven subjects carry 176 marks, which is more than the pass mark. That does not mean you can skip the rest. The six five-mark subjects add up to 30 marks, and each one can be covered in a day or less. The point is to decide where your time goes. The FMGE subject-wise weightage article gives more detail.

Why Candidates Fail FMGE and What a 90-Day Study Plan Must Fix

Several problems show up again and again. A good plan has to deal with each one.

The last row needs some context. Candidates who wrote the June 2026 paper reported many clinical scenario questions, questions that mixed more than one subject, and some image and video-based items. They also said that long clinical cases took a lot of time. This comes from candidate recall, not from an official NBEMS document, so treat it as a trend and not a rule. You can read the FMGE June 2026 exam analysis and the FMGE difficulty level review for the subject-wise reactions.

What did high scorers do? The June 2025 AIR 1, who studied MBBS in the Philippines, said in his Careers360 interview that his preparation was long and steady and not a rush in the last few months. He relied mostly on his own notes, then PYQs, and kept quick revision videos and a crash course for the end. Dr Royam Venkatesh Nikhil scored 237 in the January 2026 session. In his interview, he said he spent six to seven months on structured preparation and kept the last 30 to 45 days only for revision. He named too many resources and too little revision as the biggest mistakes.

Notice something here. Neither of them prepared in 90 days from a cold start. A 90-day plan works best if you already have a base, because the plan is mostly about organised revision and MCQ practice. If you are very weak in several subjects, give yourself more time.

Daily Timetable for FMGE Preparation in 3 Months

Coaching platforms publish plans that range from about 6 to 10 hours of study a day. Pick a number you can keep up for 90 days. Seven to eight focused hours is a reasonable target for most people. The structure matters more than the exact hours.

Treat the timed set as non-negotiable. It trains the exact skill that the section lock demands, which is to finish 50 questions without looking back. Include some image-based questions in these sets. If you can, take the NBE practice test early so the screen and navigation do not surprise you on exam day.

Check: FMGE practice test

FMGE Study Plan for Days 1 to 63: First Pass by Subject

The first pass covers every subject once, in a fixed order. Pre- and para-clinical subjects come first because they feed the clinical ones. The days follow the marks and the size of each subject. So, Medicine gets more days than Orthopedics. On revision days, finish pending topics, take a mixed test and fix the weak areas from your mistake log.

Community Medicine is the subject where candidates trained abroad most often lose marks, because the syllabus is built around Indian programmes, Indian guidelines and Indian public health data. Do not read it once and move on. Keep a separate sheet for programme names, targets and recent changes, and add to it every time you see a new fact in an MCQ.

FMGE Revision Plan for Days 64 to 79: Second Pass With Previous Year Questions

The second pass is faster. You are no longer learning; you are checking what stayed in your head. Work from your own notes, your one-page charts and your mistake log. For each subject, solve its previous year questions the same day. The FMGE question paper page has memory-based papers with solutions that you can use here.

For every wrong answer, note why you got it wrong: a concept gap, a forgotten fact or a careless slip. Then go back to that topic.

Last 11 Days (Days 80 to 90): FMGE Mock Test Strategy for Section-Locked Papers

Now the plan turns to exam skills. Take four full-length mocks, each in the real format: two sittings of 150 questions, with a break in between, and sections of 50 questions in 50 minutes. Do not pause the clock or look up an answer. On the days after each mock, spend the whole day on the mistake log and the subjects that cost you the most marks.

A few rules for the locked sections. Fifty questions in fifty minutes gives you about one minute per question. Go through the section once and answer what you know. If a long clinical case takes more than two minutes, pick your best answer, flag it and move on. Since there is no negative marking, never leave a question blank. In the last few minutes of each section, fill every empty option, because you will not get another chance to return.

For the final revision days, use the most scoring topics of FMGE list along with your own mistake log. If you have time, go through the FMGE question paper 2026 once more to see how recent questions were framed. Do not start a new book now. Do not compare your mock scores with other people's scores either. Your only comparison is with your last mock.

Also Read:

• FMGE Memory-Based Questions: Most Expected Questions

• FMGE Solutions