How the exam works
Format, scoring, quotas and the timeline, including what the 2025 reform did and did not change.
60 questions · 100 minutes · one attempt a year
A wrong answer costs you more than a blank one.
Most candidates lose their seat to arithmetic, not ignorance. FOCUS is 500 original practice questions and a strategy guide built around how the IMAT actually scores you.
~13,000candidates in 2025
1,608seats available
+1.5 / −0.4right / wrong
500questions in the bank
Score calculator
Work out what your test day actually scores.
Move the sliders. Everything you leave blank scores zero, which is often better than guessing.
Scoring follows the published IMAT formula: +1.5 correct, −0.4 incorrect, 0 for a blank. Maximum 90. Cut-offs vary by university and year, always check the current MUR ranking data.
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Two problems, two materials
Knowing the biology is only half of it.
Candidates fail for two separate reasons and need two separate fixes. Buy either on its own, or take both in the Full Package and save.
Material 01
The Strategy Guide
€45
The part nobody teaches: when to guess, when to leave it blank, how to pace 100 minutes, and how the ranking and seat allocation really work.
- The guessing maths, worked out properly
- Section-by-section timing plan
- How to spot a trap in the question stem
- Registration, ranking and seat allocation
Material 02
The Question Bank
€59
500 original questions across every section, each with a full worked explanation covering why the right answer is right and why each wrong option fails.
- 180 biology, 120 chemistry, 100 physics & maths, 100 logic
- Weighted to the official IMAT specification
- All four distractors explained, not just the answer
- Opens in your browser. Buy once, keep forever
Best value
Materials 01 + 02
The Full Package
€79.99
Save €24.01
Both materials together. The questions to build accuracy, and the strategy to stop giving points back on exam day.
- The complete Strategy Guide
- The full 500-question bank
- Both materials unlocked together
- One payment. Yours for good, with no subscription
Why the explanations matter
Knowing the correct letter teaches you almost nothing.
Most question banks give you an answer key. You get a question wrong, you read the letter, you move on, and you get the same question wrong in a different costume two weeks later.
Every question in FOCUS explains all five options. Why the correct one works, and why each of the four wrong ones is tempting and wrong. The traps repeat across the exam. Learn the trap once and you stop falling for the whole family of it.
Free, no purchase needed
Start with the free resources.
Four guides that cost nothing. If they're useful, the paid materials are built the same way.
The full syllabus
Every topic that can appear, broken down by subject, so you can audit your own gaps before you start.
A six-month study plan
Month by month, from diagnostic paper to final timed practice, plus the mistakes that cost people seats.
Sample questions
Full explanations including every wrong option, so you can judge the material before paying for it.
Straight answers
Who this is for.
You already know the theory
This is practice and strategy, not a first-time textbook. You should have covered school-level biology, chemistry and physics before starting.
You're applying from outside Italy
The registration process, the deadlines and the ranking are genuinely confusing from abroad. The guide walks through all of it.
You keep running out of time
100 minutes for 60 questions is 1 minute 40 each. Most candidates discover that on exam day. The timing plan fixes it before then.
Not for total beginners
If you haven't studied the sciences yet, work through a textbook first. Practice questions won't teach you content you've never met.
Preparation is a solved problem. Start now, not in June.
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