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Paediatrics revision checklist for NEET PG, INI-CET & FMGE

Every topic broken into what's actually asked from it. Tick what you've already studied — mark it Shaky if you'd fumble it under exam pressure.

General & Developmental Pediatrics

Growth Parameters & Anthropometry

3 points

Head circumference velocity & Scammon organ-growth curves

BOTH🖼 Image2024

Alternative height estimation & half-adult-height age

INI2021, 2022

Nasmyth's membrane & last fontanelle to close

NEET2018

Developmental Milestones

3 points

Handedness establishment age (3 vs 4 years)

BOTH2016, 2022

Age-specific milestone delay red flags

INI2017, 2018, 2025 +1

Milestone sequence matching & draw-shape ladder

INI2020, 2021, 2024 +1

Nutrition & Malnutrition

Severe Acute Malnutrition — Classification

3 points

SAM criteria — MUAC <11.5 cm, edema, weight-for-height

INI2015, 2020, 2024

Wasting vs stunting — SD-score definitions

INI2012, 2015, 2024

Lean body mass & primary recovery-failure signs

BOTH2020, 2024

Rickets & CTEV

3 points

Rickets subtype by PTH/phosphate biochemistry grid

NEET2021, 2024

Rachitic skeletal signs — vitamin D deficiency image

NEET🖼 Image2023

CTEV correction timing — rachitic vs congenital foot

INI2012, 2013, 2022

Neonatology

Neonatal Resuscitation (NRP)

4 points

Best ventilation-adequacy indicator & O2 devices

BOTH2016, 2022, 2024

Meconium-stained liquor resuscitation steps

INI2023

HR-guided steps — CPAP vs PPV at HR <100

BOTH2018, 2019

Suction order (mouth then nose) & drug route

INI2016, 2018

Neonatal Jaundice

3 points

Breast milk jaundice — mechanism & management

INI2024, 2025

Phototherapy thresholds & lumirubin photoproduct

BOTH2013, 2017, 2020

Day-1 jaundice — Rh/ABO hemolytic management

INI2016

Infectious Diseases

Congenital CMV Infection

3 points

Optimal urine sample & periventricular calcification

INI2017, 2023

Commonest non-syndromic sensorineural hearing loss

BOTH2016, 2023

Symptomatic-at-birth & late-onset hearing loss facts

INI2021, 2022

Measles & SSPE

2 points

SSPE — myoclonus years after measles

NEET2021

Commonest complication (otitis media) & Hecht pneumonia

NEET🖼 Image2016, 2020

Respiratory System

Pneumonia — Etiology, Imaging & Complications

2 points

Round pneumonia organism & antibiotic escalation

BOTH2014, 2016, 2021

CXR patterns — Staph pneumatocele, steeple, ventilator

BOTH🖼 Image2016, 2017, 2020

Cystic Fibrosis

3 points

Sweat chloride test & CFTR chloride channel

BOTH2023

CFTR autosomal-recessive recurrence risk

BOTH2015, 2023

CF features — CBAVD, meconium ileus & the not-a-feature trap

BOTH2019, 2022, 2024

Cardiovascular System

Acyanotic Shunts — VSD, ASD & PDA

3 points

VSD vs ASD — left atrial enlargement on CXR

BOTH2014, 2017, 2020

PDA in preterm — wide pulse pressure & shunt reversal

INI2012, 2013

Supravalvular AS — Williams syndrome elfin facies

NEET2020

CHD — CXR & Clinical Evaluation

3 points

Nada's criteria for a pathological murmur

INI2023

Cyanotic CHD — CXR silhouette identification

NEET🖼 Image2019, 2020, 2021

Chamber enlargement — right atrium in ASD

NEET2017

Gastroenterology

Acute Diarrhea & Dehydration Assessment

3 points

Dehydration grading — some vs severe signs & Plan C

BOTH2020, 2022, 2024 +1

Dehydration signs in severe acute malnutrition

INI2024

Altered sensorium in diarrhea — differential set

INI2023

Fluid Therapy & Diarrhea Management

3 points

Ideal maintenance fluid — isotonic shift

INI2024

ORS + zinc as first-line for some dehydration

INI2015, 2017

Zinc adjunct & DKA/shock fluid bolus (ISPAD)

BOTH2015, 2023

Nephrology & Genitourinary

Nephrotic Syndrome

3 points

Minimal change disease — steroid-responsive, EM effacement

NEET2017, 2022

Frothy urine + 3+ proteinuria + edema diagnosis

INI2015

Steroid-dependent nephrotic — AKI causes & second-line agents

INI2013, 2014

Renal Function, eGFR & CKD

3 points

Schwartz eGFR calculation

INI2022

GFR maturation to adult value

NEET2016

CKD — metabolic acidosis

NEET2021

Neurology

Seizure Disorders — Febrile, West & JME

4 points

Febrile seizures — no post-ictal deficit

INI2024

West syndrome — hypsarrhythmia & ACTH

BOTH2022

Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy — morning myoclonic jerks

INI2012, 2018

EEG interpretation — epileptiform waves in normals

INI2021

Neural Tube Defects

2 points

NTD antenatal diagnosis — AChE marker, AFP & USG

BOTH🖼 Image2014, 2015, 2016

Meningomyelocele — saline dressing & infection workup

INI🖼 Image2011, 2013, 2015

Endocrinology

Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia & DSD

3 points

CAH enzymes — 21-hydroxylase (salt-wasting) vs hypertensive

BOTH2011, 2019

Fetal adrenal — DHEA-S predominance

INI2018

DSD — best prognosis (CAH)

INI2013

Hematology, Oncology & Immunology

Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

2 points

ALL — lymphoblasts, pancytopenia & lymphadenopathy

BOTH🖼 Image2017, 2023

ALL — best-improved cancer prognosis

INI2012

Genetics & Metabolic Disorders

Inheritance Patterns & Pedigree Analysis

2 points

Pedigree mode-of-inheritance identification

BOTH🖼 Image2018, 2020, 2024 +1

X-linked & female-predominant inheritance recognition

BOTH2015, 2022

Amino Acid & Organic Acid Metabolism

5 points

Homocystinuria — downward ectopia lentis & pyridoxine

NEET2024

Cystinuria — penicillamine chelation

NEET2019

IEM urine odors — sweaty feet & fish odor

NEET2014, 2018

Albinism — ophthalmology (eye) evaluation

INI2014

Alkaptonuria — urine darkening & homogentisate oxidase

NEET2017, 2020

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