IMAT 2025 Syllabus and Description

The IMAT (International Medical Admissions Test) for the year 2025 will assess candidates’ skills in various areas, including reading comprehension, logical reasoning, and knowledge in subjects such as mathematics, chemistry, physics, and biology.

Questions Distribution:
Total Questions: 60

Reading skills and knowledge acquired during studies- 4 questions
Logical reasoning and problem solving- 5 questions
Biology- 23 questions
Chemistry- 15 questions
Physics- 5 questions
Mathematics- 8 questions

Each correct answer awards 1.5 marks, while each incorrect answer deducts 0.4 marks from the obtained marks.

 

Annex A
Programs relating to the questions of the admission tests to the master’s degree courses in Medicine and Surgery (LM-41), in Dentistry and Dental Prosthetics (LM-46) in English

Admission to the courses requires the ability to understand and analyze written texts of various types, to conduct logical-mathematical reasoning, as well as knowledge of general culture, with special regard to the historical, geographical, social and institutional and disciplinary fields in mathematics, chemistry, physics and biology.

The skills and knowledge required respond to the preparation promoted by educational institutions that organize educational and teaching activities consistent with the national indications for high schools and with the guidelines for technical institutes and professional institutes, especially in view of the state exams.

1. Reading skills and knowledge acquired in studies
The ability to understand texts written in English of different nature and with different communicative purposes constitutes a transversal competence, given that all types of questions will be formulated in English, even using symbolic language.
The following capabilities will also be subject to specific verification:

• understand abstract, uncommon or specialized vocabulary in real contexts;

• identify the phenomena of textual cohesion and coherence;

• extract and infer specific information from the text.

These skills will be verified starting from short texts of scientific essays or classic and contemporary fiction, or from short current affairs texts published in newspapers and in generalist or specialized magazines.
Always starting from short texts of various types and themes, the skills acquired in previous studies and the knowledge of general culture, including supranational issues or topics subject to contemporary public debate, will be tested.
In particular, the questions will aim to ascertain:

• the ability to orient oneself in the space and time represented, or rather a placing relevant historical-cultural phenomena in space and time;

• knowledge of the main national and international institutions;

• understanding of phenomena relating to the legal, economic and citizenship.

2. Logical reasoning and problems

The questions are aimed at testing the ability to logically complete a reasoning, in a coherent way with the premises. These premises are stated in symbolic or verbal form, and concern cases or problems, even of an abstract nature, whose solution requires the adoption of different forms of logical reasoning. 

3. Biology

• The chemistry of living things.

• The biological importance of weak interactions.

• The organic molecules present in organisms and their respective functions. The role of enzymes.

• The cell as the basis of life. Cell theory. Cell dimensions. The cell- prokaryotic and eukaryotic, animal and plant. Viruses.

• The cell membrane: structure and functions; transport across the membrane.

  • Cellular structures and their specific functions.

• Cell cycle and cell reproduction: mitosis and meiosis – chromosome set and chromosome maps.

• Reproduction and inheritance. Life cycles. Sexual and asexual reproduction.

• Mendelian genetics: Mendel’s laws and their applications.

  • Classical genetics: chromosomal theory of inheritance – models of inheritance.

  • Molecular genetics: structure and duplication of DNA, the genetic code, protein synthesis. The DNA of prokaryotes. The structure of the eukaryotic chromosome. Genes and the regulation of gene expression.

  • Human genetics: transmission of mono- and polyfactorial characters; autosomal and X-linked hereditary diseases.

• Mutations. Natural and artificial selection. Evolutionary theories. The genetic basis of evolution. Inheritance and environment.

• Biotechnology: recombinant DNA technology and its applications.

• Anatomy and Physiology of animals and humans. Animal tissue. Anatomy and physiology of human systems and apparatuses and related interactions. Homeostasis.

• Bioenergetics. The energy currency of cells: ATP. Redox reactions in living things. Energy processes: photosynthesis, glycolysis, aerobic respiration and fermentation.

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4. Chemistry

• The constitution of matter: the states of aggregation of matter; systems- heterogeneous and homogeneous systems; compounds and elements. Ideal gas laws.

• The structure of the atom: elementary particles; atomic number and number of mass, isotopes, electronic structure of the atoms of the various elements.

• The periodic system of elements: groups and periods; transition elements. Periodic properties of the elements: atomic radius, ionization potential, electron affinity, metallic character. Relations between electronic structure, position in the periodic system and properties of the elements.

• The chemical bond: ionic bond, covalent and metallic bond. Binding energy. Polarity of bonds. Electronegativity. Intermolecular bonds.

• Fundamentals of inorganic chemistry: nomenclature and main properties of inorganic compounds: oxides, hydroxides, acids, salts.

• Chemical reactions and stoichiometry: atomic and molecular mass, Avogadro’s number, the concept of mole and its application, elementary stoichiometry, balancing of simple reactions, the different types of chemical reaction.

• Solutions: solvent properties of water, solubility, the main methods of express the concentration of solutions.

• Equilibria in aqueous solution. Elements of chemical kinetics and catalysis.

• Oxidation and reduction: oxidation number, concept of oxidant and reducing. Balancing simple reactions.

• Acids and bases: the concept of acid and base. Acidity, neutrality and basicity of aqueous solutions. The pH. Hydrolysis. Buffer solutions.

• Fundamentals of organic chemistry: bonds between carbon atoms, crude formulas and structure, concept of isomerism. Aliphatic, alicyclic and aromatic hydrocarbons. Functional groups: alcohols, ethers, amines, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, esters, amides. Nomenclature elements.

For the pdf of translated version of syllabus from MIUR refer below-

IMAT-2023-Syllabus-and-Bando-2.pdf