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There are no shortcuts in INI-CET or NEET PG. You have to understand the concepts and memorize the facts too. It takes time.

Those who manage to do it in six months usually already have their concepts clear from their MBBS days. Don’t start chasing questions from day one. First, clear your concepts; then, while revising, start solving questions and identifying your weak areas.

Everyone has their own pace. For me, it took almost two years, and I’m now done with Medicine, Pharmacology, Pathology, Physiology, Biochemistry, OBGY, Microbiology, PSM, and Surgery. I’m currently averaging around 120 correct answers, with the remaining syllabus still left to complete.

I might not get my desired branch this year, but I know I’ll be in the top 100 next year.

So don’t get upset. Keep hustling. Everyone achieves success—just at the right time.:

🫐Blueberry muffin rash - Congenital rubella

🍓Strawberry tongue - Scarlet fever, Kawasaki dis, TSS

♥️Raspberry tongue - Vit B12/Folate def

🍎Apple jelly on diascopy- Lupus vulgaris

🍒Cherry red skin- CO poisoning

🍇Currant jelly stool - Intususeption

🍉Watermelon stomach- GAVE

🍿Popcorn calcification- Hamartoma of lung, Fibroadenoma, Papillary thyroid Ca

🍯Honeycomb lung- end stage pulmonary fibrosis

☕️coffee bean sign- Sigmoid volvulus

☕️Coffee ground vomitus - Upper GI bleed

🥛Cottage cheese discharge- Vaginal Candidiasis

These are diseases I remember when I think abt food related. Feel free to add other diseases that you know.

Idk.. today i just checked the mock nbe has posted on their website.. they have this new highlighter, annotation, magnifier, night mode, font size and what not.

This year all the papers were difficult than usual.. be it may ini, fmge or upsc.. makes me wonder if this neet pg becomes too difficult, what if i m not able to answer anything and get a really low score. I m panicking at this point.. 10 days before exam as if that's gonna change anything 😭😭😭😭😭😭

I don’t know where to vent it out.I do have friends but don’t wanna disturb their preparation. My parents are pretty normally people (first gen medico)they don’t much understand what Im going through .Seriously I can’t.I don’t know how people are doing this thing soo effortlessly.Never felt this much low.Yeah will have at least one/ two episodes before university exam but I was sure that I will pass ! I don’t need to perform better than other.I just have to pass!! why this exam measures who’s better than who ? That too after a point it totally depend on luck. NEET PG 25 152-5k 148-10K . With just 4 questions 5k rank difference? Only luck plays the role.Such huge syllabus to be completed in 10 days.I know it will be tough but not this much. Started Revision but crashed on Day 3. Why do I always have such high expectations from myself even though I’m very very average? 7 long years just for this 3 hour exam. In outside world I’m not even worth 40k .Whereas 4 years engineering done you can earn lakhs and crores. Even if I put half this hard work there it would have worked wonders.But this Universe made have no interest in engineering and some interest in biology.(why universe?why?)8 years ago I badly wanna be a doctor. Now I’m…..Not even single happy moment.Last time I was happy was exactly 13 months before. At my graduation,after that only gulit.Even can’t sleep properly. Feel very useless now …now I want some branch verybadly.Even If I got that branch will I be happy ?Or after 3 years again I have to long for other things?

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Was this feature there before??😭 They didn't give keyboard in the ini exam😭 please I am very technically challenged why did they have to do this ise acha pen hi de dete 😭

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Is it very necessary to give this national mock? How were the questions if anyone attempted..

a low score now can affect my main exam.

Just did fmge recall given by marrow

Key points to note for neet pg

There were around 15-20 video q (5 q were hard rest were do able)

Around 50-60 image based q

Majority q were clinical only very few 1 liners

50-60% clinical q were more than 4-5 lines and rest 2 lines

20% hard q rest mod to easy

1️⃣ General Anatomy & Embryology

• Anatomical position → Supine? ❌ Standing, palms facing forward
• Median plane → Divides body into equal right & left halves
• Superficial fascia → Contains fat, cutaneous nerves & vessels
• Deep fascia → Encloses muscles and forms intermuscular septa
• Tendon → Muscle → bone attachment
• Ligament → Bone → bone attachment ⭐
• Dermatomes → Skin supplied by a single spinal nerve
• Myotome → Muscles supplied by a single spinal nerve
• Sclerotome → Vertebral body + intervertebral disc
• Neural crest → PNS ganglia, Schwann cells, melanocytes, adrenal medulla ⭐
• Notochord → Nucleus pulposus of intervertebral disc
• Somites → Sclerotome + myotome + dermatome
• 1st pharyngeal arch → Mandible, muscles of mastication, CN V3
• 2nd arch → Muscles of facial expression, CN VII
• 3rd arch → Stylopharyngeus, CN IX
• 4th & 6th arches → Pharyngeal/laryngeal muscles, CN X ⭐
• Meckel cartilage → 1st arch cartilage
• Reichert cartilage → 2nd arch cartilage

2️⃣ Upper Limb

• Brachial plexus → C5–T1 ⭐
• Roots → Trunks → Divisions → Cords → Branches
• Erb palsy → C5–C6 → Waiter's tip deformity ⭐
• Klumpke palsy → C8–T1 → Claw hand
• Long thoracic nerve → Serratus anterior → Winged scapula
• Axillary nerve → Deltoid + teres minor; surgical neck of humerus
• Radial nerve → Extensors of arm/forearm; spiral groove ⭐
• Median nerve → Most forearm flexors + thenar muscles
• Ulnar nerve → Interossei + adductor pollicis
• Ulnar nerve injury → Clawing of 4th & 5th fingers
• Anatomical snuffbox → Scaphoid forms floor; radial artery passes through ⭐
• Scaphoid → Most commonly fractured carpal bone
• Lunate → Most commonly dislocated carpal bone
• Carpal tunnel → Median nerve + 9 flexor tendons ⭐
• Biceps → Musculocutaneous nerve
• Triceps → Radial nerve
• Deltoid → Axillary nerve
• Ape thumb → Median nerve injury
• Froment sign → Ulnar nerve palsy

3️⃣ Lower Limb

• Femoral nerve → Anterior compartment of thigh
• Obturator nerve → Medial compartment of thigh
• Sciatic nerve → Posterior thigh + most muscles below knee ⭐
• Common peroneal nerve → Winds around neck of fibula ⭐
• Common peroneal injury → Foot drop
• Tibial nerve → Posterior compartment of leg
• Deep peroneal nerve → Anterior compartment of leg
• Superficial peroneal nerve → Lateral compartment of leg
• Trendelenburg sign → Superior gluteal nerve injury
• Gluteus maximus → Inferior gluteal nerve
• Gluteus medius/minimus → Superior gluteal nerve
• Femoral triangle → NAVEL from lateral → medial ⭐
• Femoral sheath → Femoral artery, vein & canal
• Adductor canal → Femoral vessels + saphenous nerve
• Great saphenous vein → Passes anterior to medial malleolus
• Small saphenous vein → Passes posterior to lateral malleolus
• ACL → Prevents anterior displacement of tibia ⭐
• PCL → Prevents posterior displacement of tibia
• Medial meniscus → More commonly injured; attached to MCL
• Q-angle → Increased in genu valgum

4️⃣ Thorax

• Intercostal nerves → Anterior rami of T1–T11
• VAN → Vein, artery, nerve in costal groove ⭐
• Intercostal neurovascular bundle → Between internal & innermost intercostal muscles
• Internal thoracic artery → Branch of subclavian artery
• Phrenic nerve → C3, C4, C5 → diaphragm ⭐
• Vagus nerve → Parasympathetic supply to thoracic viscera
• Right recurrent laryngeal nerve → Loops around right subclavian artery
• Left recurrent laryngeal nerve → Loops under arch of aorta ⭐
• Diaphragm openings → T8 IVC, T10 esophagus, T12 aorta
• Coronary arteries → Branches of ascending aorta
• SA node → Usually supplied by RCA
• AV node → Usually supplied by RCA
• LAD → Anterior interventricular septum + anterior LV
• RCA → Right heart + inferior wall
• Mitral valve → Left atrium → left ventricle
• Tricuspid valve → Right atrium → right ventricle

5️⃣ Abdomen

• Celiac trunk → Foregut ⭐
• Superior mesenteric artery → Midgut
• Inferior mesenteric artery → Hindgut
• Foregut → Up to proximal 2/3 duodenum
• Midgut → Distal 1/3 duodenum to proximal 2/3 transverse colon
• Hindgut → Distal 1/3 transverse colon to upper anal canal
• Portal vein → Splenic vein + SMV
• Portal triad → Portal vein + hepatic artery + bile duct ⭐
• Pringle maneuver → Compresses portal triad
• Bare area of liver → Not covered by peritoneum
• Calot triangle → Cystic duct, common hepatic duct, cystic artery
• McBurney point → 1/3 from ASIS to umbilicus
• Appendix → Base at convergence of taeniae coli ⭐
• Meckel diverticulum → Rule of 2s
• SMA → Midgut blood supply
• IMV → Usually drains into splenic vein
• Kidney → Retroperitoneal except? → All retroperitoneal except kidneys are retroperitoneal; spleen is intraperitoneal
• Right kidney → Lower than left
• Left renal vein → Passes anterior to aorta

6️⃣ Pelvis & Perineum

• Pudendal nerve → S2–S4 ⭐
• Pudendal nerve → Main somatic nerve of perineum
• Ischioanal fossa → Fat-filled space beside anal canal
• Internal pudendal artery → Branch of internal iliac artery
• Pelvic diaphragm → Levator ani + coccygeus
• Levator ani → Puborectalis, pubococcygeus, iliococcygeus
• Puborectalis → Maintains anorectal angle ⭐
• Ureter → Passes under uterine artery in females → “Water under the bridge”
• Ureter → Passes under ductus deferens in males
• Broad ligament → Double layer of peritoneum
• Cardinal ligament → Major support of uterus
• Prostate → Inferior to bladder, surrounds prostatic urethra
• Internal iliac artery → Main artery of pelvis

7️⃣ Head & Neck

• Facial nerve → Muscles of facial expression ⭐
• Trigeminal nerve → Main sensory nerve of face
• V1 → Ophthalmic
• V2 → Maxillary
• V3 → Mandibular + motor to muscles of mastication
• Cavernous sinus → Contains CN III, IV, V1, V2 & VI ⭐
• CN VI → Most vulnerable nerve in cavernous sinus
• Optic nerve → CN II
• Parasympathetic to pupil → CN III
• Facial artery → Crosses mandible anterior to masseter
• External carotid branches → SALFOPM
• Internal carotid → No branches in neck
• Thyroid gland → Supplied mainly by superior & inferior thyroid arteries
• Recurrent laryngeal nerve → Motor supply to all intrinsic laryngeal muscles except cricothyroid ⭐
• External laryngeal nerve → Cricothyroid muscle
• Cricothyroid → Tenses vocal cords
• Vocal cord → Recurrent laryngeal nerve
• Tongue anterior 2/3 sensation → V3
• Taste anterior 2/3 → CN VII
• Posterior 1/3 sensation + taste → CN IX
• Motor tongue → CN XII except palatoglossus → CN X

8️⃣ Neuroanatomy

• UMN lesion → Spasticity, hyperreflexia, Babinski ⭐
• LMN lesion → Flaccidity, fasciculations, hyporeflexia
• Internal capsule → Major compact pathway for motor fibers
• MCA → Lateral cerebral hemisphere
• ACA → Medial frontal/parietal cortex
• PCA → Occipital lobe ⭐
• Broca area → Motor speech
• Wernicke area → Language comprehension
• Hippocampus → Memory consolidation
• Amygdala → Fear/emotional processing
• Basal ganglia → Movement regulation
• Substantia nigra → Dopamine
• Subthalamic nucleus lesion → Hemiballismus
• Cerebellar lesion → Ipsilateral ataxia
• Medial medullary syndrome → Pyramid + medial lemniscus + hypoglossal
• Lateral medullary syndrome → PICA → Wallenberg syndrome ⭐
• Anterior spinal artery → Supplies anterior 2/3 of spinal cord
• Dorsal columns → Fine touch, vibration, proprioception
• Spinothalamic tract → Pain & temperature

9️⃣ Cranial Nerves — MUST KNOW

• CN I → Smell
• CN II → Vision
• CN III → Most eye movements + pupil constriction
• CN IV → Superior oblique
• CN V → Facial sensation + mastication
• CN VI → Lateral rectus
• CN VII → Facial expression + taste anterior 2/3
• CN VIII → Hearing + balance
• CN IX → Taste posterior 1/3 + stylopharyngeus
• CN X → Palate, pharynx, larynx ⭐
• CN XI → SCM + trapezius
• CN XII → Tongue movements

• LR6 SO4 → Lateral rectus CN VI, superior oblique CN IV
• All other extraocular muscles → CN III ⭐
• Parasympathetic ganglia → Ciliary, pterygopalatine, submandibular, otic
• Gag afferent → CN IX
• Gag efferent → CN X

🔟 Histology & Applied Anatomy

• Hyaline cartilage → Most common cartilage
• Elastic cartilage → Pinna, epiglottis
• Fibrocartilage → Intervertebral disc, pubic symphysis ⭐
• Type I collagen → Bone, tendon, skin
• Type II collagen → Cartilage
• Type III collagen → Reticulin fibers
• Type IV collagen → Basement membrane
• Skeletal muscle → Peripheral nuclei
• Cardiac muscle → Central nuclei + intercalated discs
• Smooth muscle → Single central nucleus, no striations
• Liver → Classical lobule centered on central vein
• Kidney → Cortex contains glomeruli; medulla does not ⭐
• Thyroid → Follicles filled with colloid
• Parathyroid → Chief cells + oxyphil cells
• Lymph node → Cortex = B cells; paracortex = T cells
• Spleen → White pulp = lymphoid; red pulp = blood filtration
• Hassall corpuscles → Thymic medulla ⭐
• Pacinian corpuscles → Deep pressure/vibration
• Meissner corpuscles → Fine touch
• Merkel cells → Light touch
• Ruffini endings → Skin stretch

🔥 LAST-MINUTE ANATOMY PEARLS

• Surgical neck of humerus → Axillary nerve
• Neck of fibula → Common peroneal nerve
• Midshaft humerus → Radial nerve
• Medial epicondyle → Ulnar nerve
• Carpal tunnel → Median nerve
• Guyon's canal → Ulnar nerve
• Tarsal tunnel → Tibial nerve
• Anatomical snuffbox → Scaphoid + radial artery
• Fracture of surgical neck → Axillary nerve ⭐
• Fracture of midshaft humerus → Radial nerve
• Fracture of neck of fibula → Common peroneal nerve
• Posterior dislocation of hip → Sciatic nerve risk
• Epidural hematoma → Middle meningeal artery
• Subdural hematoma → Bridging veins
• Subarachnoid hemorrhage → Circle of Willis aneurysm
• Berry aneurysm → Common cause of SAH
• Pterion fracture → Middle meningeal artery ⭐
• Uncal herniation → CN III compression → Dilated pupil
• Tonsillar herniation → Medulla compression → Respiratory arrest

📌 Save this for your last 10-minute Anatomy revision before NEET PG.

All the best 💫🩺

I'm forgetting it no matter what 😭

A 2-month-old male infant presents with a scrotal swelling that has been present since birth. Now, the swelling has become suddenly painful, red, and irreducible. What is the most likely diagnosis?

A. Acute epididymo-orchitis

B. Testicular torsion

C. Strangulated inguinal hernia

D. Incarcerated inguinal hernia

Please someone clear the concept for me.