JANUARY 2027 INTAKE · DIAGNOSTIC EXAM 100% FOC (FREE)

ALMA: A Levels, Built for Medical School National Diagnostic & Scholarship Exam

18-month Pearson Edexcel International A Levels (Biology, Chemistry & Mathematics/Physics) with built-in IMAT, CSCA & European medical entrance preparation.

Choose one of 5 exam centres

  • Yangon
  • Mandalay
  • Taunggyi
  • Tachileik
  • Online Exam Center

Scholarships & lucky draw

Every student who registers is considered. Pick your pathway when you book.

7 A* or Grade 8–9

Direct Invite Scholarship

For aspiring medical and healthcare students with 7 A* (or Grade 8–9) in O Levels / IGCSE.

  • 100% zero tuition fees (FOC) for the full 18-month ALMA programme.
  • Exempt from the written diagnostic exam. Complete a pre-event online interview with the VAI Academic Team.
  • Receive your Direct Invite Scholarship Certificate on stage on 21 December.
6 A* or Grade 8–9

Excellence Scholarship

Sit the 1.5-hour diagnostic exam on 21 December.

  • Score above 80 marks: upgraded to a 100% full scholarship (zero tuition fees) for 18 months.
  • Score of 80 or below: >90% tuition fee discount.
Open to every test-taker

Composite Merit Scholarship

A scholarship ladder from 10% to 67% off tuition, open to O Level, predicted O Level, Grade 10/11 and GED students.

  • Calculated from 50% O Level / predicted score + 50% diagnostic exam score.
Healthcare pledge

Who can apply

Scholarships are for students who pledge to study at a recognised healthcare or medical university after ALMA: Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Nursing or Allied Health Sciences.

  • The diagnostic exam itself is free for everyone, scholarship or not.
3:00 – 4:00 PM MMT · on site

Lucky draw for every test-taker

Everyone who sits the diagnostic exam enters the live lucky draw.

1 × Grand PrizeA full VAI OSSD Programme Scholarship worth $15,400 USD.
Test-taker prizesMedical entrance exam prep (IMAT / CSCA / EU) and university admission packages worth $500 – $5,000 USD.

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ALMA – A Levels for Medical Aspirants · January 2027 cohort

A Levels, built for medical school.

ALMA is VAI's 18-month Pearson Edexcel International A Level programme in Biology, Chemistry, and Maths or Physics, for students aiming at medicine in Europe, China, Southeast Asia and around the world. Strong A Level grades can even replace the entrance exam at a number of medical schools.

Official Pearson exams at the British Council Myanmar exam centre. Live online classes, so students anywhere in Myanmar can join.

Duration
18 months · Jan 2027 – Jun 2028
Subjects
Biology · Chemistry · Maths or Physics
Qualification
Pearson Edexcel International A Levels
Exams
British Council Myanmar · one combined certificate
Study mode
Live classes, fully online
Destinations
Europe, China, Southeast Asia and beyond

Why ALMA

Built for medicine

Biology, Chemistry, and Maths or Physics: the subjects medical schools ask for, and nothing else. Every class, timed test and mock is aimed at that goal.

Good grades can replace the entrance exam

Several European medical schools waive their own entrance exam, or admit students directly on A Level grades. That saves months of separate preparation and the cost of extra exams.

Grades in hand when applications open

Biology and Chemistry are examined in October 2027, with results in January 2028, just as applications open. All three subjects appear on one combined certificate.

Ready for the schools that still test

CSCA, IMAT and EU entrance-exam preparation, personal statements and MMI interview practice are already in the timetable.

A clear plan

Two sciences first, the third subject from June 2027, weekly timed tests and a full mock before every exam series.

A route for GED students

The A Level Foundation (AF) closes your exact gaps first, then you join ALMA. Unique to VAI.

Where good grades can replace the entrance exam

Examples of medical schools, 2026/27 entry
University Country How A Levels are used Minimum A Level grades
Charles University, Second Faculty of Medicine Czech Republic Entrance exam waived (up to 25 applicants a year; apply by 30 April) AAA in Biology, Chemistry, and Physics or Maths
University of Szeged Hungary Entrance exam waived; predicted grades give a conditional place A in two of Biology, Chemistry and Physics, plus a pass in a third A Level
University of Thessaly Greece Admission test waived; online interview AAB in Biology, Chemistry and one other subject (not English); final results only
Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (LSMU) Lithuania Entrance test waived Biology and Chemistry, minimum grade C in each

Requirements as published on each university's website for 2026/27 entry, checked October 2026. Places are competitive and rules change every year; we confirm each student's shortlist individually.

Your 18-month plan

  1. January 2027: ALMA begins with Biology and Chemistry.
  2. June 2027: Your third subject begins: Maths or Physics.
  3. October 2027: Biology and Chemistry exams.
  4. January 2028: Biology and Chemistry results, as applications for September 2028 intakes open.
  5. May/June 2028: Third-subject exams.
  6. August 2028: Final results: all three A Levels on one combined certificate.

Application windows vary by university and country. Our admissions team plans each student's timeline individually.

A Level Foundation (AF)

Unique to VAI

Your GED is a starting line, not a dead end. The A Level Foundation closes the exact gaps between the GED and A Level, then you join ALMA.

  1. Diagnostic and interview. Non-calculator algebra, a mole calculation, short-answer biology and a written explanation.
  2. The Foundation, 6–12 months. Only the topics you are missing, taught live online.
  3. ALMA, 18 months. Biology and Chemistry first, then Maths or Physics.

About 24–30 months from the start of the Foundation to your final A Level exams, ending with one combined Pearson Edexcel certificate.

Secure your place in the January 2027 cohort

  1. Book your Diagnostic Placement Exam
  2. Complete your Structured Admissions Interview
  3. Confirm your seat, or start the A Level Foundation
Book your diagnostic

Questions about ALMA? Contact our admissions team.

ALMA in Burmese · မြန်မာဘာသာ

🩺 ဆေးတက္ကသိုလ်ဝင်ဖို့ ရည်ရွယ်တည်ဆောက်ထားတဲ့ A Levels

ALMA (A Levels for Medical Aspirants) ဟာ ဥရောပ၊ China၊ အရှေ့တောင်အာရှနဲ့ ကမ္ဘာတစ်ဝှမ်းက ဆေးတက္ကသိုလ်တွေကို ရည်မှန်းထားတဲ့ ကျောင်းသားတွေအတွက် VAI က စီစဉ်ထားတဲ့ ၁၈ လ Pearson Edexcel International A Level Program ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ A Level အမှတ်ကောင်းကောင်းရရင် ဆေးတက္ကသိုလ်အချို့မှာ Entrance exam ကိုတောင် မဖြေဆိုရဘဲ ဝင်ခွင့်ရနိုင်ပါတယ်။

ဆေးပညာအတွက်သာ ရည်ရွယ်ထားတယ်
Biology၊ Chemistry နဲ့ Maths (သို့) Physics – ဆေးတက္ကသိုလ်တွေ တောင်းဆိုတဲ့ ဘာသာရပ်တွေကိုသာ အဓိကထား သင်ကြားပါတယ်။ အတန်းတိုင်း၊ Test တိုင်း၊ Mock တိုင်းဟာ ဆေးကျောင်းဝင်ဖို့ဆိုတဲ့ ပန်းတိုင်တစ်ခုတည်းဆီ ဦးတည်ပါတယ်။

A Level အမှတ်ကောင်းရင် Entrance exam အစား အသုံးပြုနိုင်
ဥရောပက ဆေးတက္ကသိုလ်အချို့ဟာ A Level အမှတ်ကောင်းကောင်းရထားတဲ့ ကျောင်းသားတွေကို ကိုယ်ပိုင် Entrance exam ဖြေဆိုရခြင်းမှ ကင်းလွတ်ခွင့်ပေးပြီး A Level အမှတ်နဲ့ပဲ တိုက်ရိုက် ဝင်ခွင့်ပေးပါတယ်။ ဒါကြောင့် Entrance exam အတွက် သီးခြားပြင်ဆင်ရမယ့် လပေါင်းများစွာနဲ့ စာမေးပွဲကြေးတွေကို သက်သာစေပါတယ်။ ALMA က ကျောင်းသားတိုင်းကို အဲဒီအမှတ်တွေရအောင် ဦးတည်ပြင်ဆင်ပေးပါတယ်။

လျှောက်လွှာဖွင့်ချိန်မှာ ရလဒ်က လက်ထဲရောက်နေပြီ
Biology နဲ့ Chemistry ကို October 2027 series မှာ ဖြေဆိုပြီး ရလဒ်ကို January 2028 မှာ ရရှိပါမယ်။ ဆေးတက္ကသိုလ် လျှောက်လွှာတွေ စဖွင့်တဲ့အချိန်နဲ့ ကွက်တိကိုက်ပါတယ်။ တတိယဘာသာကို May/June 2028 မှာ ဖြေဆိုပြီး ဘာသာရပ်သုံးခုလုံးကို Certificate တစ်စောင်တည်းနဲ့ ရရှိမှာပါ။

Entrance exam စစ်ဆေးဆဲ တက္ကသိုလ်တွေအတွက်လည်း အသင့်
ကိုယ်ပိုင် Entrance exam (သို့) Interview စစ်ဆေးဆဲ တက္ကသိုလ်တွေအတွက် CSCA၊ IMAT နဲ့ EU Entrance exam ပြင်ဆင်ခြင်း၊ Personal statement ရေးသားခြင်းနဲ့ MMI Interview လေ့ကျင့်ခြင်းတွေကို သင်ကြားချိန်ဇယားထဲမှာ တစ်ပါတည်း စီစဉ်ထားပါတယ်။

တည်ငြိမ်ပြီး အားကောင်းတဲ့ လေ့လာမှုအစီအစဉ်
သိပ္ပံဘာသာနှစ်ခုကို အရင်စတင်ပြီး တတိယဘာသာကို June 2027 မှာ ထပ်ပေါင်းထည့်ပါတယ်။ အပတ်စဉ် Timed test နဲ့ စာမေးပွဲတိုင်းမတိုင်ခင် Full mock ပါဝင်ပါတယ်။

GED ကျောင်းသားတွေအတွက် ဝင်ပေါက်
A Level Foundation (AF) – VAI ရဲ့ ထူးခြားတဲ့ Program (Unique to VAI)။

Pearson ရဲ့ တရားဝင်စာမေးပွဲတွေကို British Council Myanmar မှာ ဖြေဆိုရပါတယ်။ Live online သင်တန်းဖြစ်လို့ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ ဘယ်နေရာကနေမဆို တက်ရောက်နိုင်ပါတယ်။

👉 Diagnostic test အတွက် ယခုပဲ စာရင်းပေးသွင်းလိုက်ပါ။

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