How to Apply

Your first step starts with the VAI Diagnostic Exam — a placement and scholarship assessment designed to set you on the right path toward medical university.

VAI Diagnostic Exam — What to Expect

Before enrolling in the Veritas Aescula OSSD program, all applicants complete a VAI Diagnostic Test. This is not a pass/fail examination — it is a placement and scholarship assessment that helps us understand your current academic level, identify your areas of strength, and tailor your learning pathway for medical university success.

🎓 Scholarships are awarded based on your Diagnostic Test performance combined with your previous academic record. Strong performers receive merit-based reductions on tuition and additional program fees.

Why We Test

The VAI OSSD program is an accelerated, pre-medical curriculum. Our diagnostic exam helps us prepare you for success.

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Cohort Placement

Place you in the correct intake group matched to your academic level.

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Targeted Support

Identify subject areas that need additional attention before you begin.

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Scholarship Eligibility

Assess your eligibility for merit-based tuition reductions.

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Readiness Check

Confirm your readiness for university-preparation level study.

Exam Overview

Five subjects covering the core competencies required for medical school preparation.

Subject Format Questions Tools Permitted Delivery
English 3 Written Sections — None Online
Mathematics MC + Short Answer 16 Calculator Paper / Tablet
Physics MC + Full Answer 23 Calculator, Formula Sheet Paper / Tablet
Chemistry MC + Short Answer 24 Calculator, Periodic Table Paper / Tablet
Biology Multiple Choice 40 None Online · Google Forms
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English

Assesses reading comprehension, analytical writing, and command of English language conventions. All responses are written in full sentences.

⏱ 1 hour ✏️ No tools permitted 3 Sections

📖 Section A — Reading Comprehension & Analysis

Based on a passage from George Orwell's 1984.

  • Mood and atmosphere analysis using textual evidence
  • Interpreting authorial choices and symbolic names
  • Identifying and explaining literary devices
  • Understanding irony and its effect on meaning
  • Short analytical paragraph (dystopian setting and character)
  • First-person point of view rewrite (creative response)

✏️ Section B — Language & Conventions

  • Subject–verb agreement (neither/nor constructions)
  • Conditional tenses (past perfect conditional)
  • Comparative structures (than + pronoun)
  • Preposition usage
  • Correlative conjunctions (not only … but also)
  • Paragraph editing: capitalization, punctuation, grammar

🖊️ Section C — Writing (300–400 words, choose one)

Option A — Literary Essay

Theme analysis (identity and society) using a novel, short story, or film of your choice.

Option B — Personal Narrative

Describing a personal challenge, your response, and what you learned from the experience.

Assessed on: structure and organization · idea development · vocabulary range · grammar and conventions
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Mathematics

Advanced Functions at university-preparation level. Tests your ability to work with functions, trigonometry, logarithms, and polynomial analysis.

⏱ 30 minutes 🔢 Calculator permitted 16 Questions

🔵 Multiple Choice — Questions 1 to 10

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Multiple Choice questions
6
Short Answer questions
  • Domain of rational functions
  • Degree-to-radian conversion (e.g. 135° → radians)
  • Logarithm evaluation (e.g. log₂ 16)
  • Horizontal asymptotes of rational functions
  • Holes in graphs (removable discontinuities)
  • Period of sinusoidal functions
  • Function transformations (reflection, vertical stretch)
  • Exact trigonometric values (e.g. tan 7π/6)
  • Symmetry of functions — even, odd, or neither
  • Sketching polynomial graphs from factored form

📝 Short Answer — Questions 11 to 16 · Show full process

  • Vertical asymptotes of rational functions
  • Factoring higher-degree polynomials; difference of cubes
  • Composite functions — f∘g(x)
  • Solving rational, trigonometric, exponential, and logarithmic equations
  • Remainder theorem
  • Polynomial inequalities using sign chart analysis
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Physics

University-preparation physics covering mechanics, electricity, magnetism, waves, and special relativity. Full-answer questions require complete working.

⏱ 30 minutes 🔢 Calculator permitted 📄 Formula sheet provided 23 Questions

🔵 Multiple Choice — Questions 1 to 12

12
Multiple Choice questions
11
Full Answer questions
  • Properties of light — transverse wave characteristics (polarization)
  • Direction of acceleration in curved and circular motion
  • Projectile motion — horizontal throws from the same height
  • Free body diagrams — object on an inclined plane with kinetic friction
  • Velocity and acceleration direction for a decelerating object
  • Elevator force equilibrium at constant speed
  • Magnetic force between parallel current-carrying wires
  • Magnetic force on a proton (right-hand rule)
  • Conservation of momentum — completely inelastic 2D collision
  • Inertial frames of reference
  • Electric charge quantization
  • Diffraction — definition and identification

📝 Full Answer — Questions 13 to 23 · Show full process

  • Speed from momentum using p = mv
  • Time from kinematics with constant deceleration over a known distance
  • Vertical projectile motion — time for rocket to return at a different speed
  • Electron speed calculated from kinetic energy
  • Special relativity — length contraction at 0.75c
  • Vector addition — net force from perpendicular components (N and W)
  • Centripetal acceleration in uniform circular motion
  • Projectile launched at an angle from a cliff — horizontal range
  • Tension angle for an object pulled at constant speed with friction
  • Electric potential energy using Coulomb's law (point charges)
  • Double-slit diffraction angle for first-order maximum
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Chemistry

University-preparation chemistry covering organic chemistry, bonding, thermodynamics, equilibrium, acids and bases, and electrochemistry.

⏱ 30 minutes 🔢 Calculator permitted 🧮 Periodic table provided 24 Questions

🔵 Multiple Choice — Questions 1 to 13

13
Multiple Choice questions
11
Short Answer questions
  • Ranking intermolecular forces (H₂O, Cl₂, H₂S)
  • Molecular polarity — identifying non-polar molecules
  • Organic functional groups without oxygen
  • Oxidation products of secondary alcohols
  • Exothermic reactions — direction of heat flow
  • Enthalpy — energy lost or gained in a reaction
  • Catalysts and their effect on activation energy
  • Characteristics of dynamic chemical equilibrium
  • Equilibrium constants — reactant vs product favored
  • Le Chatelier's principle — maximizing product yield
  • Ka values and relative acid/base strength
  • Equivalence point in acid–base titration
  • Galvanic cell — site of reduction (cathode)

📝 Short Answer — Questions 14 to 24 · Show full process

  • Full electron configuration of O²⁻
  • Lewis structure and hybridization of SO₃
  • Comparative water solubility: ethane vs ethanol with reasoning
  • Naming organic compounds from condensed structural formulas
  • Drawing organic compounds from IUPAC names
  • Drawing and naming ester products of esterification reactions
  • Hess's Law — calculating heat of reaction from ΔH° values
  • Stoichiometry — grams of product from a given reactant mass
  • Le Chatelier's principle — effects of temperature and volume changes
  • pH and Ka calculation for a weak acid (given % dissociation)
  • Balancing redox reactions in acidic conditions (half-reaction method)
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Biology

40-question multiple choice exam completed online via Google Forms. Covers biochemistry, metabolic processes, molecular genetics, homeostasis, and population dynamics.

⏱ 30 minutes 🌐 Online · Google Forms No tools permitted 40 Questions

🔬 Biochemistry — Q1–7

  • Starch synthesis from simple sugars (macromolecule origin)
  • Protein function and the role of amino acid sequence
  • Cell membrane structure — glycoproteins as signal receptors
  • Deamination of amino acids (removal of nitrogen-containing part)
  • Allosteric and end-product enzyme inhibition
  • Enzyme–substrate binding with multiple competing molecules
  • Competitive inhibition — definition and mechanism

⚡ Metabolic Processes — Q8–12

  • Role of oxygen in cellular respiration — final electron acceptor in ETC
  • Why carbohydrates and fats are high-energy foods (C–H bonds)
  • Reason for limited NADH formation in glycolysis
  • Mitochondrial metabolic defects causing excess lactate production
  • Location of CO₂ release in catabolism — citric acid cycle

🧬 Molecular Genetics — Q13–23

  • Translation diagram — tRNA, ribosome, and mRNA components
  • Effect of point mutations on amino acid sequence
  • Definition of a codon
  • Role of tRNA in translation
  • Advantage of using RNA as an intermediate in protein synthesis
  • Universal genetic code — implications and what cannot be inferred
  • Features shared between prokaryotic and eukaryotic gene expression
  • Cell cycle phases — S phase as DNA synthesis phase
  • UV light as the cause of pyrimidine dimer formation
  • Excision repair gene mutations — xeroderma pigmentosum
  • Recombinant DNA using restriction enzymes and DNA ligase

🧠 Homeostasis — Q24–32

  • Fight-or-flight response — sympathetic nervous system
  • Types of CNS neuroglia — distinguishing CNS from PNS support cells
  • Interneuron — definition and CNS location
  • Definition of homeostasis
  • Temperature regulation as an example of negative feedback
  • Role of the hypothalamus as sensor and control center
  • Positive feedback — characteristics and when it is used
  • Hormone binding effects — downstream changes

🌏 Population Dynamics & Related Systems — Q33–40

  • Carrying capacity — definition
  • Population density calculation (individuals per km²)
  • Limitations of random sampling
  • Non-renewable vs renewable resources (coal as non-renewable)
  • Diffusion — alveolar gas exchange diagram interpretation
  • Osmosis — red blood cell crenation in a hypertonic solution
  • Natural killer cells — destruction via perforin-lined pores
  • Secondary immune response — role of memory cells

Your Enrollment Journey

From first inquiry to full admission — 9 steps to becoming a Veritas Aescula student.

Pre-Enrollment Contact us to begin Registration Fee Secure your place Enrollment & App Submit your documents Scholarship Offer Merit-based award Admission Welcome to VAI ✦ Eligibility Check Confirm your pathway Diagnostic Briefing Prep guide & format Diagnostic Test 5-subject assessment 1st Installment Flexible plans available 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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    Pre-EnrollmentContact us via Viber or email to express interest
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    Eligibility CheckWe confirm your qualifications & entry pathway
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    Registration FeeOne-time fee to secure your place
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    Diagnostic BriefingFull prep guide — format, subjects & timing
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    Enrollment & ApplicationSubmit required documents with team support
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    Diagnostic Test5-subject placement & scholarship exam
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    Scholarship OfferMerit-based tuition reduction awarded
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    Tuition — 1st InstallmentConfirm your place. Flexible plans available
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    Admission 🎓Welcome to Veritas Aescula Institute
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Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about the diagnostic exam and application process.

No. The diagnostic is a placement and scholarship assessment. All applicants who complete it are considered for admission. Your results inform your cohort placement and scholarship award — not whether you are accepted.
You will receive additional support in that area during the program. The diagnostic helps us design a personalised study plan that addresses your specific needs before and during the OSSD courses.
  • 📝 English: 1 hour
  • 📐 Mathematics: 30 minutes
  • ⚛️ Physics: 30 minutes
  • 🧪 Chemistry: 30 minutes
  • 🧬 Biology (Google Form): 30 minutes
  • ⏱ Total: approximately 3 hours
Only the tools listed in each exam are permitted. Calculators are allowed for Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry. Physics also provides a formula sheet. Chemistry provides a periodic table. No tools are permitted for English, and the Biology Google Form is completed without external aids.
Diagnostic tests are offered on a rolling basis throughout the year.
Scholarships are merit-based and awarded according to your Diagnostic Test performance combined with your previous academic record. Strong performers across all five subjects receive the highest merit-based reductions on tuition and program fees.

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