Nasjonal deleksamen International students
For international medical studentsOne written paper in Norwegian, taken by medical students at the four Norwegian faculties. Here is what it looks like, where a second language costs you time, and how to prepare without reading everything twice.
Next exam: 24 November 2026, 09:00 to 13:00. Your faculty confirms dates, rooms and rules. Doctor trained outside the EU/EEA? See the authorisation guide.
The national exam is one written paper, taken by medical students at the four Norwegian faculties. If your faculty has told you that you sit it, this page is for you.
Each question is a short clinical vignette with four options and one best answer.
About 100 seconds per question. The V26 paper is built this way.
The paper, the answers and the explanations. Plan reading speed into your preparation.
Tuesday, 09:00 to 13:00. Your faculty confirms rooms and rules, so check your course page.
One honest thing first. The exam is in Norwegian, and so is everything on MedEksamen: past papers, practice questions and explanations. We do not translate. What we can do is show you the exam's patterns, so the language gets smaller faster.
Time pressure is the real problem. A vignette you would solve in English in 30 seconds can take twice as long if you stop on one word. The same few stems repeat across the paper, so learn them first and spend your reading time on the clinical details.
These stems are among the most frequent in our question bank. A stem is half the sentence of every question, so it pays to know them cold.
It is free with an account (the full V26 paper). Do not skip the clock: it shows whether your problem is knowledge or reading speed.
"I did not know it" and "I did not understand the wording". The second pile is a vocabulary list you can finish.
Topics that recur most across V17 to V26 come first, not syllabus order. See the topics on the national exam page (in Norwegian).
Short daily sessions train recognition of the stems and the vignette structure better than one long weekend.
We cannot guarantee a pass, and we are not affiliated with any faculty. Practice questions are original, they are not copies of real exam questions.
Getting Norwegian authorisation is a separate route with its own steps, fees and exams. The written fagprøve at UiO is the same exam as this one.
The exam is in Norwegian, and so is MedEksamen. If you need an accommodation for language, ask your faculty's study administration, since we cannot speak for them.
You need to read clinical Norwegian at exam speed. That is exactly what past papers under time will show you in an afternoon, and why we suggest sorting wording errors from knowledge errors.
Yes. A free account opens the full V26 paper. Take it under time first, then decide.
Tuesday 24 November 2026, 09:00 to 13:00. Your own faculty confirms dates, rooms and rules, so check your course page.
We have free explainers on the OSKE and the clinical oral exam, in Norwegian. Our training for them is built around the Norwegian student programmes.
Take V26 under time and see where you stand, knowledge or reading speed. You only need an account.