PESHAWAR, Oct 17: Hundreds of students who passed the test for admission to the four public sector medical colleges in the province will not get admission as over 2,000 have qualified while there are about 600 seats.

On Oct 4, 8,728 students appeared in the test held at the Army Stadium in Peshawar and the Ayub Medical College in Abbottabad.

More than 2,000 candidates secured 701 to 800 marks in the test. Of them, 595 candidates got more than 750 marks.

Some of the candidates have expressed dissatisfaction over the standard of the test.

“All the candidates had solved the paper within an hour because it was so easy that a matriculation student could solve it,” a girl who secured 740 out of 800 marks said. She is on the 800th number on the merit list.

Some students with their parents and a lawyer recently held a press conference and demanded constitution of a commission to check the question papers and answer sheets submitted by the candidates. They alleged that there were mistakes in the paper.

They said the papers had been prepared in haste after leakage of the earlier papers. They alleged that wrong answers of some questions had been fed in the computers.