AIIMS Papers Collective
Addressed to
  • The Director, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi
  • The Examination Section, AIIMS New Delhi
  • Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India

Release the AIIMS Papers: Preserve India's Medical Education Heritage

Where do past AIIMS MBBS papers belong?

A public academic archive?
Forgotten files?

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The petition

We request AIIMS New Delhi to make publicly available the official question papers and, wherever available, answer keys of past AIIMS MBBS Entrance Examinations, including examinations conducted up to 2019.

AIIMS MBBS Entrance Examination was one of India's most respected undergraduate medical entrance examinations. Thousands of academically rigorous questions were created by the country's premier medical institution.

The separate AIIMS MBBS entrance examination is no longer conducted. Admissions to AIIMS are now made through NEET-UG. These old examination papers therefore represent an important part of India's academic and medical-education heritage.

Why these papers should be released

Five reasons, from students, doctors, teachers and parents.

  1. They have immense educational value.

    AIIMS questions were known for testing conceptual understanding, application and scientific reasoning. Making the authentic papers available would benefit millions of students and teachers.

  2. These questions are part of India's academic heritage.

    Decades of examination questions prepared by one of India's leading medical institutions constitute a valuable educational archive that should be preserved.

  3. The examination has been discontinued.

    Since the separate AIIMS MBBS entrance examination no longer exists, releasing historical papers would not compromise the integrity of any future AIIMS MBBS entrance examination.

  4. Students should have equal access to authentic material.

    Many reconstructed or memory-based AIIMS papers circulate commercially and online. An official archive would allow every student — irrespective of whether they can afford coaching or commercial question banks — to access the same authentic material.

  5. Public availability would help teachers and researchers too.

    The papers can help educators understand how assessment of scientific reasoning evolved over time and can contribute to research on entrance examinations and medical education.

What exactly are we requesting?

We request AIIMS to:

  1. Digitise and publish all available AIIMS MBBS Entrance Examination question papers from past years.

  2. Publish official answer keys wherever they are available in AIIMS records.

  3. Clearly identify papers or answer keys that are unavailable rather than leaving gaps unexplained.

  4. Create a permanent, freely accessible archive on an official AIIMS website.

  5. Permit these papers to be used freely for non-commercial educational and research purposes, subject to appropriate attribution and applicable copyright rules.

Generations of India's doctors competed through the AIIMS entrance examination. The questions created for those examinations should not simply disappear because the examination itself has ended. They should be preserved, digitised and made accessible to future generations of students.

We therefore request AIIMS and the Government of India to create an AIIMS MBBS Entrance Examination Digital Archive containing all recoverable question papers and answer keys from previous years.

Past AIIMS papers belong in an academic archive — not in forgotten files.

We, the undersigned, request AIIMS to release this academic resource in the public interest.

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