INI CET PSM and Forensic Medicine Last-Month Revision Plan
INI CET PSM and Forensic Medicine Last-Month Revision Plan: INI CET aspirants find that Community Medicine (PSM) and Forensic Medicine are boring and come up very often. Both feel like subjects of long lists, numbers and laws. Yet they are also the subjects where a small amount of focused work gives quick marks compared to clinical subjects. PSM questions in recent sessions have been direct and scoring, and Forensic Medicine has a limited set of topics that you can finish in a few days. The INI CET January 2027 session is scheduled for Sunday, 1 November 2026. Do a full pass of both subjects, practise numerals, solve previous year questions and keep everything fresh for the last week.
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- INI CET PSM and Forensic Medicine Last-Month Revision Plan
- INI CET PSM Revision Plan: Days 1 to 9 (8 to 16 October)
- INI CET Forensic Medicine Revision Plan: Days 10 to 14 (17 to 21 October)
- INI CET Revision Plan - Previous Year Questions: Days 15 to 17 (22 to 24 October)
- PSM and Forensic Medicine in the Final Week: Days 18 to 24 (25 to 31 October)
- Common Mistakes in INI CET PSM and Forensic Medicine Revision
There is a reason to plan these two subjects separately. They are often pushed to "later" because they feel low-weightage, and "later" never comes. Aspirants then lose easy marks on an odds ratio, a vaccine schedule or a poison matching question. In the sections below, you will find a day-by-day plan, a plan for previous year questions and timed sets, and a way to fit both subjects into the final week. The plan assumes about two and a half to three hours a day for these two subjects. The rest of your day goes to your other subjects.
INI CET PSM and Forensic Medicine Last-Month Revision Plan
The plan has three phases. In the first nine days, you finish PSM, because it carries more questions and has numbers that need practice. In the next five days, you finish Forensic Medicine. Then, spend three days on previous-year questions and timed sets. From 25 October, the final week begins, and both subjects get a small daily slot. If you want to see where these two subjects can fit in your whole month, the Careers360 INI CET subject-wise preparation strategy is a useful companion.
Phase | Days | Dates | What you do |
Phase 1: PSM | 1 to 9 | 8 to 16 October | One focused pass, with numericals and MCQs every day |
Phase 1: Forensic Medicine | 10 to 14 | 17 to 21 October | One focused pass, with images, tables and MCQs |
Phase 2: PYQs and timed sets | 15 to 17 | 22 to 24 October | Previous year questions, mistake log, mixed timed set |
Phase 3: Final week | 18 to 24 | 25 to 31 October | Short daily slot: formulas, tables, mistake log |
This is a revision plan and not a learning plan. If you have never studied one of these subjects properly, cover the high-yield topics first and do not try to finish every chapter.
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INI CET PSM Revision Plan: Days 1 to 9 (8 to 16 October)
PSM is a subject of formulas, schedules and targets. Build one page for each: a formula sheet, a vaccine schedule, a table of national health programmes and a list of indicators. Spend the first hour of each day on reading and the second on numericals and MCQs. Write each wrong answer in a mistake log.
Day | Date | Topics | Focus |
1 | Thu 8 Oct | Epidemiology basics | Measures of disease, study designs, bias and confounding |
2 | Fri 9 Oct | Biostatistics and numericals | Relative risk, odds ratio, attributable risk, sensitivity, specificity, predictive values, tests of significance |
3 | Sat 10 Oct | Screening and surveillance | Screening criteria, levels of prevention, surveillance, outbreak investigation, epidemic curves |
4 | Sun 11 Oct | Communicable diseases | Epidemiology and control of major infections |
5 | Mon 12 Oct | Immunisation | National immunisation schedule, vaccine contraindications, cold chain |
6 | Tue 13 Oct | Non-communicable diseases, nutrition, environment | Disease control, nutrition indicators, occupational and environmental health |
7 | Wed 14 Oct | Demography and indicators | Fertility, mortality and maternal and child health indicators, family planning |
8 | Thu 15 Oct | Health programmes and health care | National health programmes with targets, health care delivery, planning, international health |
9 | Fri 16 Oct | Mixed practice | Fifty mixed PSM questions and a numerical sheet, then fix weak topics |
Some tips from the pattern of recent papers:
Write the formulas down every day for a week. A short formula sheet is the best tool for this subject.
Remember that relative risk belongs to cohort studies and odds ratio to case-control studies. Mixing them up is a common mistake.
Here is a quick table to keep on your formula page.
Measure | How it is calculated |
Relative risk | Risk in the exposed divided by risk in the unexposed |
Odds ratio | (a x d) divided by (b x c) in the 2 by 2 table |
Sensitivity | True positives divided by all diseased people |
Specificity | True negatives divided by all non-diseased people |
Positive predictive value | True positives divided by all test-positive people |
Negative predictive value | True negatives divided by all test-negative people |
Learn the immunisation schedule as a table and revise it every second day. It overlaps with Microbiology and Paediatrics.
For national programmes, learn the aim, target and current norm. Check the latest numbers in your book, since they change.
Outbreak curves are asked in Microbiology and PSM. Learn the difference between a point-source and a propagated outbreak once.
INI CET Forensic Medicine Revision Plan: Days 10 to 14 (17 to 21 October)
Forensic Medicine is a subject of tables and images. Make a one-page table for each chapter. For poisons, write the poison, the key sign, the test and the antidote. For injuries, write the type, the feature and the medico-legal point.
Day | Date | Topics | Focus |
10 | Sat 17 Oct | Basics and the law | BNS, BNSS and BSA sections, inquest, identification, age estimation, death and post-mortem changes |
11 | Sun 18 Oct | Injuries | Mechanical injuries, firearm injuries, blast injuries, burns, electrical injuries, asphyxia |
12 | Mon 19 Oct | Sexual offences, abortion, ethics | Sexual offences, infanticide, abortion and MTP, consent, medical ethics |
13 | Tue 20 Oct | Toxicology, part 1 | General principles, corrosives, metals, organophosphates, alcohol, drugs, antidotes |
14 | Wed 21 Oct | Toxicology, part 2 and images | Plant and animal poisons, snake bite, carbon monoxide, cyanide, phosphorus, aluminium phosphide, tattoo and wound images, then fifty mixed questions |
Some tips from the pattern of recent papers:
Learn the four categories of blast injury once. The May 2026 recall asked where burns fall.
Make a poison matching table and revise it twice. Matching questions are easy marks, and toxicology also overlaps with Pharmacology antidotes.
Spend part of Day 14 on images, since the recall had a tattoo question with a picture.
Keep the BNS and BNSS table from the section above on a single page, with the old numbers beside the new ones.
INI CET Revision Plan - Previous Year Questions: Days 15 to 17 (22 to 24 October)
Now you test what you have learnt. AIIMS does not release official papers, so the available papers are candidate recalls and coaching compilations. Use more than one source and cross-check an answer that looks odd. Aspirants can start with the INI CET previous year question papers with answer key and solutions, and the INI CET 2025 question paper with answer key page are good places to start.
Day | Date | Task |
15 | Thu 22 Oct | Solve all PSM questions from the last three or four sessions. Redo every numerical |
16 | Fri 23 Oct | Solve all Forensic Medicine questions from the same sessions. Revise the BNS and BNSS table and the poison table |
17 | Sat 24 Oct | Take 100 mixed PSM and Forensic Medicine questions as two sets of 50, each in 45 minutes |
For every wrong answer, write one line on why: a formula error, a forgotten fact or a careless slip. Then go back to that topic. The two sets of 50 questions in 45 minutes are not accidental. INI CET has four sections of 50 questions with 45 minutes each, and a section closes by itself when the time is over. That works out at about 54 seconds per question. PSM numericals can eat time, so practise setting up a 2 by 2 table quickly.
PSM and Forensic Medicine in the Final Week: Days 18 to 24 (25 to 31 October)
The final week is for staying steady. Do not start new topics. Keep these two subjects to a small daily slot of about an hour so that they fit with the rest of your last-week routine and the Careers360 INI CET revision strategy.
Day | Date | Task |
18 | Sun 25 Oct | A timed set of 50 mixed PSM and Forensic Medicine questions in 45 minutes, taken at your exam hour |
19 | Mon 26 Oct | Review the set. Fix mistakes only |
20 | Tue 27 Oct | PSM formula sheet, vaccine schedule and programme targets |
21 | Wed 28 Oct | Forensic tables: poisons, injuries, age estimation and the new laws |
22 | Thu 29 Oct | Redo your numericals and revise images |
23 | Fri 30 Oct | Mistake log only |
24 | Sat 31 Oct | Thirty to forty-five minutes of flashcards. Then stop and rest |
One last tip for the exam hall. PSM numericals are usually simple if you set up the table calmly. Write the 2 by 2 table on your rough sheet or the back of your admit card, if allowed, and fill in the cells before you calculate. In Forensic Medicine, an unfamiliar question is often a matching or a classification, so look for the option you are sure about and remove the rest. Since INI CET deducts one-third of a mark for a wrong answer and nothing for a skipped one, a blind guess gives no gain on average. If you can remove at least two options, the guess is worth taking. If you cannot, skip and move on.
Common Mistakes in INI CET PSM and Forensic Medicine Revision
A few mistakes show up again and again. The first is skipping both subjects because they carry fewer questions than Medicine or Surgery. They are quick to revise, and the questions are often direct, so the return on your time is high. The second is reading PSM instead of practising it. You cannot learn an odds ratio by reading, so do the calculation by hand.
The third mistake is memorising old law sections. If your Forensic Medicine notes still say IPC and CrPC throughout, update them with BNS and BNSS before the exam. The fourth is leaving out the images. A tattoo, a wound or a skin layer is easy to recall if you have seen the picture, and hard if you have not. The fifth is treating national programmes as a list of names. Learn the target, the age group and the latest norm, since that is what a question will test. Finally, do not neglect your other subjects. Use this plan for the time you have set aside for PSM and Forensic Medicine, and keep the rest of your preparation moving.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
A good 30-day revision plan for INI CET focuses strictly on high-yield topics, previous year questions (PYQs), and timed mock tests rather than learning new chapters.
No, previous year questions (PYQs) alone are not enough to crack the INI-CET with a competitive rank.
The INI CET (Institute of National Importance Combined Entrance Test) is generally considered moderate to difficult, and it is widely viewed as more competitive than NEET PG due to a smaller number of available seats.
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