CIP Merit Calculator

Take a graduate with a 92% MDCAT percentile, 850/1100 in their combined MBBS professional exams, one university position in their final professional year, house job completed at their parent institution, and a first-attempt FCPS-I pass. Here's how that maps to the 30-mark formula:

• MDCAT (out of 2): scaled from the percentile — a 92nd-percentile score lands well above the middle of the 2-mark band.
• MBBS/BDS professional exams (out of 15): scaled from the 850/1100 aggregate — this is the single largest category, so a strong professional-exam run matters more than any other line item.
• University positions (out of 3, capped): one position contributes a fraction of the 3-mark cap; multiple positions across different professional years stack up to the cap, not beyond it.
• House job (out of 5): full 5 marks, since it was completed at the parent institution — see the house-job nuance below if yours wasn't.
• FCPS-I / JCAT (out of 5): full 5 marks for a first-attempt pass.

Add the five category scores and the result is the applicant's position on the PRP merit list — use the calculator above with your own numbers rather than this example's.

Baseline eligibility is an MBBS or BDS degree, a Certificate of Completion for 12 months of house job, and valid PMDC registration. Foreign graduates and graduates from outside Punjab are eligible to apply as well, subject to the house-job marks adjustment covered separately below.

Beyond the transcripts and certificates that back each merit category (MDCAT result, professional exam mark sheets, university-position notifications, house-job completion certificate, FCPS-I/JCAT result), the portal also asks applicants to attach any research papers and proof of the application fee payment before the application can be finalised.

1. Register and log in at prp.punjab.gov.pk using a valid email and CNIC.
2. Build your profile — personal details and your full education history, MBBS/BDS through house job.
3. Add experience, where applicable to your eligibility (note: service experience no longer earns CIP merit marks under the current revision, even where it's still recorded).
4. Attach research papers, if you have any to submit.
5. Upload proof of fee payment and submit before the deadline stated in that induction cycle's notification.

Every document upload on the portal is capped at 500KB — compress scans before you start rather than discovering the limit partway through the form. Missing a mandatory field or the submission deadline is one of the most common, and most avoidable, reasons applicants drop off a merit list they'd otherwise have qualified for.

The version of CIP governing July 2026 induction onward removed three categories that earlier iterations of the policy carried: working-experience marks (previously up to 5, for time served at BHUs, RHCs, DHQ/THQ hospitals, or jail hospitals), matric/FSc marks, and parent-institute preference. None of those three categories contribute to your score under the current policy, regardless of how they were weighted in a version you may have seen referenced elsewhere online.

The practical effect is that the formula now leans harder on things you can still actively improve pre-graduation and immediately post-graduation — your professional exam aggregate, your MDCAT result, and above all your FCPS-I attempt number — rather than on years of service or which institution you trained at. If you're still a student, that's the leverage worth acting on now; if you've already graduated, FCPS-I attempt number is the biggest remaining lever in your control.

House job completed at your parent institution (the same medical/dental college you graduated from) earns the full 5 marks in this category. House job completed at a non-parent institution, outside Punjab, or by a foreign graduate at any recognized teaching hospital in Punjab earns 2.5 marks instead — half the category, regardless of how the year itself went.

This is worth planning around before you start your house job, not after: the location decision is worth a full 2.5 CIP marks on its own, which is more than the entire university-positions category on its own for most applicants.