Test Medicine 2020, the questions: from “The Lord of the Rings” to Freud

There was also a question about Covid, among the 60 of the entrance test to the faculties of Medicine and Surgery and Dentistry, which took place throughout Italy on Thursday. A more difficult test than expected and much more complex than the Veterinary one that took place just two days ago, commented the first students, who left 14 universities, fair halls and sports halls that hosted them shortly after, in this regard. health indications. Starting at 12, one hundred minutes of available time, the 66,638 who dream of wearing the white coat have competed for 13,072 places, answering 18 questions from biology (doable, for the most part, although the answers were very similar to each other and it was easy to get wrong, the guys commented on the Alpha Test community pages), twelve out of chemistry (an equilibrium reaction, definition of nephron, photosynthesis), eight of physical (including one in Period T of a spring) and of maths (With a question of trigonometry, he asked to calculate the length of the base, given the median of an isosceles triangle and the tangent of an angle at the vertex). Especially difficult questions for logic (ten in total, ed), which had a purely mathematical bias. The most frequently cited is the one that asks If it is 7 pm on September 5 in London, in what city will it be on September 6? For him general culture – 12 questions -, one on the legislative power; one that asked to put the presidents of the Republic in chronological order from Cossiga to Mattarella; find the intruder among the different writings of Freud; to indicate where the sun is in Zenith, on June 20; who is the author of The Lord of the Rings. It is not a difficult test, I would say normal. If you had studied, says a student, leaving the Sapienza University of Rome. In one of the dedicated Facebook groups, instead, it is argued that the test was more difficult than last year, especially the logic and general culture.