A rant about KIPS (A brief vent out about KIPS' Yakkia'n).
Just a vent out that I have been wanting to do for a while, below are some points that could be counted as KIPS ki yakkia'n. KIPS hasn't been a good institution for the preparation of MDCAT, and these are the things that I have noted and felt, which I am going to discuss below. These could differ from the experiences of other aspirants of other than MDCAT. Some could relate to it who are preparing/have been preparing/or have prepared from KIPS.
1. 2026's new AI Smart Book scheme:
This is the first one that's considered a proper yakki of KIPS, they have decided to remake the older KIPS books into new and sell them by tagging the "AI Smart Books" there's nothing smart about them except QR codes attached. One good thing about them is that they are kind of well-written as compared to 2025's or the years before that, I have read about few topics from them, and they seem to have been written quite well. I have read Immunity in detail and it's pretty much the same material as in Federal Board's Class 12 Biology's Immunity chapter, so I will give credits to them for that.
The price factor of these book-set has also been increased to about 12,000 PKR for the aspirants enrolled in the physical classes as compared to the last year's book-set price which was 8,500 PKR and 500 PKR of supplement when PMDC decided to change the syllabi.
2. KIPS Virtual LMS for aspirants enrolled in physical classes:
They decided to not give KIPS Virtual LMS to aspirants enrolled in the physical coaching classes unless they buy their "AI Smart Books". The aspirants who decided to buy 2025's books pretty much shot themselves in the foot, because they won't be able to get LMS unless they spend again on the same thing.
3. Injustice and no solidarity with aspirants:
Being a big institution and still not having a courage to stand up with the students of this year to at least try to get MDCAT delayed. kudos to all other coaching academies who decided to show solidarity with the students and tried their best in delaying the MDCAT 2026.
4. Mafia-esque behaviour:
Now as the MDCAT has been postponed to 20th September, they have decided to NOT CONTINUE the current session, and end it on 15th of August, despite taken up a lot of money for a months' MDCAT prep session. Last year when MDCAT was postponed, they continued the same session and didn't ask money for new session. But not this year, they are starting a new session from 17th of September WITH NEW FEES, which sucks.
It doesn't end here, there are many other keypoints that could've been discussed, but I guess that's for another day.