‘No Notice, No Response Sheets’: Disquiet Among Foreign Medical Grads over ‘Opaque’ Licensing Exam
Samarth Grover | 10 July 2026 | Newslaundry.com
When the results of the June 2026 Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE) were declared earlier this week, many headlines focused on one statistic: only about 12.3 percent of 37,448 candidates qualified – lowest among the last six sessions.
Though the biannual exam has historically recorded lower pass percentages in June than in December, candidates, teachers and doctors Newslaundry spoke to point to a different concern: why an examination that determines whether thousands of foreign-trained Indian doctors can practise medicine offers no response sheets, no question papers and no scope for re-evaluation…