MedEntry Workshop Exam Results

[Surgeon]

Hey guy

Finally got the results for the practice exam I did at the lecture about 2 months ago. Pretty happy with how things turned out.

Section 1: 95th percentile
Section 2: 100th percentile
Section 3: <40th percentile..... Lol

Overall percentile: 90-95th.
Likelihood of being offered an interview based on UMAT: Highly likely.

Is there anyone else here that have gotten their results?

Keeping in mind that this is compared to the other people who did this same exam from the MedEntry lecture (percentile are apparently derived from many years of results accumulated from lectures all over Australia. Not sure how true this claim is, though.) how did I go?

[pi]

Great results! Now to improve on S3 (the easiest to improve on too!)

Likelihood of being offered an interview based on UMAT: Highly likely.

For what uni is this based on btw?

[Surgeon]

Great results! Now to improve on S3 (the easiest to improve on too!)

Likelihood of being offered an interview based on UMAT: Highly likely.

For what uni is this based on btw?

I'm not sure - it doesn't say. It just says that it's an interview for medicine. As opposed to Dentistry, Physiotherapy or Optometry.

It's almost certainly too low for Monash, though

[pi]

Yeah, with Monash mid-95%ile was the cut-off last year... And it seems too low for UNSW, Adelaide, UTas (need 100%ile for that), Newcastle, etc. too... Dodgy medentry...


Well, good luck with S3 prep

[Surgeon]

Yeah, with Monash mid-95%ile was the cut-off last year... And it seems too low for UNSW, Adelaide, UTas (need 100%ile for that), Newcastle, etc. too... Dodgy medentry...


Well, good luck with S3 prep

Thanks, man. I'll definitely need it :/

[Surgeon]

Just realises that this is a ranking against med entry students only. So in the real UMAT I would have been comfortably above 95th percentile.. Any flaws in my reasoning?

[Russ]

The absence of data showing medentry students receive higher marks than non medentry students?

Impossible to say, one way or the other

[pi]

Just realises that this is a ranking against med entry students only. So in the real UMAT I would have been comfortably above 95th percentile.. Any flaws in my reasoning?

If the exam was of the same calibre (remember that medentry S3 is harder and their S2 isn't anything like the real UMAT), then yes, that would be a valid assumption

The absence of data showing medentry students receive higher marks than non medentry students?

Impossible to say, one way or the other

I don't have actual statistics, but most people I've talked to where this topic has come up in med this year did some sort of prep course (the main one being medentry).

[Russ]

So, did more people get in because they did a course or did more people who did courses get in because they were more driven to start with?

afaik there's never been any decent research that showed they benefit medicine admissions specifically

[Surgeon]

I would have thought that considering medentry is one of the most popular preparation programs, of the people who didn't do medentry would have done either no preparation course or another one.

I think it's safe to assume that on average, those who did a medentry preparation program would perform better than those who did not do any preparation. Using this reasoning, (which is based on assumptions without any evidence), my overall percentile would be higher in the real UMAT where I'm not only compared against the people who have done a preparation program AND those who haven't.

[BlueSky_3]

Hey mate what were your actual scores for the individual sections in terms of out of 48,44 and 42?

[Surgeon]

Section 1: 36/48
Section 2: 39/44
Section 3: An embarrassing 12/42

[BlueSky_3]

That's weird since the LMS scores for section 1 practice exam 1 shows that a 36/48 is only a 75th percentile.

[pi]

That's weird since the LMS scores for section 1 practice exam 1 shows that a 36/48 is only a 75th percentile.

This isn't exam 1, this is the workshop exam.


Every exam has a different percentile range (keeps changing too), so exam 1 was probably an exam most people did good at.

[Surgeon]

That's weird since the LMS scores for section 1 practice exam 1 shows that a 36/48 is only a 75th percentile.

As VegemitePi said, the percentile range for every exam changes.

Also keep in mind that the exam you do at the lecture is done under strict UMAT conditions. Including time!

Perhaps more people did better on exam 1 on the LMS because they didn't adhere to the exam conditions they will face in the real UMAT.