Has anyone here aced the umat without doing medentry?

[HERculina]

Just wondering the above as medentry is very expensive and I'm not sure if I should do it or not to prepare for the umat

[shinny]

Personally did it but I've got a friend who got 100 percentile without MedEntry or any form of preparation whatsoever. He didn't even want to get into Medicine and was just forced to by his Asian parents really. As for whether or not to, it depends how much you value getting into a health science. UMAT is quite a limiting test in terms of your potential to do well. Simply studying it a lot will not necessarily give you a good score. MedEntry will increase you to a bit above your current level, whatever that is. Let's say for examples sake, without MedEntry you would have got 85 percentile, and with it, you got 95 percentile. A score like that gives you access to basically any health science, and if you were wanting to do Medicine for example, then that would've been money well spent since you'd need at least a ~93 percentile for that. But for the majority of MedEntry users, I'd say it looks something more along the lines of jumping from a 60 percentile to like a 70, which is more or less a waste of money since both are equally useless scores. Problem is, it's quite difficult to determine where abouts you lie at the moment. So if being in a health science really matters to you, then yeh go for it. Otherwise just wing it and see how you go.

[pi]

A user on here got 97 last year with no MedEntry/f2f or anything

[dc302]

I didn't but I had a few friends who got like, 97 and 100 or something without touching any preparation.

edit: except maybe the official practice questions, not sure though.

[HERculina]

Ohh ok thanks guys

[totaled]

my school had 6 100's in umat this year, 3 of the kids did no preparation (so yeah, no medentry, only the two sample acer papers)

[HERculina]

Are the sample acer papers free? Can someone link me

[totaled]

you get one of them free when yo usign up for the umat, you can pay an additional $25 for the second one

[HERculina]

Ok kool i think I'll be doing medentry now don't want to regret not doing it laterz

[totaled]

yeah i think you should do it, it does give you a good idea of what to expect

[paulsterio]

Personally, I learnt a lot from MedEntry with regards to Section 3, so even if you find that S1 and S2 don't really improve, your S3 mark should go up after doing MedEntry, I basically learnt nothing for Section 2, but I picked up some handy tips for S1 and basically MedEntry improved me from scoring 20/38-ish for S3 to around 35/38-ish, just a lot of practice.

On a side note though, if you do get MedEntry, make the most of it, there's plenty on there - a lot of my friends got MedEntry but didn't really use it to it's potential