Maintaining 70% Average Monash Med

[WhoTookMyUsername]

How hard is this?
My scholarship offer from Monash is conditional on maintain a 'minimum of a distinction weighted average mark (70 per cent) each semester'
I thought 70% was pretty high?
I'm tossing up between Melb Chancellor's and Monash Med so just trying to get all the info i can,
Thanks

[pi]

I'm really lazy and I managed an average of above 70% haha. It was harder than VCE to maintain (for me), but I'm guessing half the cohort gets 70%+.

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[Russ]

70% is a good mark that probably requires solid effort throughout the year.

As for your decision, there was a thread last year about it. I take the position that if the MD place is guaranteed, then spending three years undergrad is a Good Thing and there isn't really any compelling reason not to go to UoM, unless you happen to live next door to Clayton.

[Shenz0r]

I'm really lazy

What do you define as lazy? As in, skipping lectures, leaving everything to the last minute, and cramming just before an exam?

[pi]

What do you define as lazy? As in, skipping lectures, leaving everything to the last minute, and cramming just before an exam?

Well, yeah a lot of cramming. However, I think towards the last half of semester 2 I got a solid study pattern after experimenting with a few tactics haha.

I think doing less than 2-3 hours a day of work is "lazy" in med

[REBORN]

70% is a good mark that probably requires solid effort throughout the year.

As for your decision, there was a thread last year about it. I take the position that if the MD place is guaranteed, then spending three years undergrad is a Good Thing and there isn't really any compelling reason not to go to UoM, unless you happen to live next door to Clayton.

Don't you have to pay yourself for 4 years post-grad whereas Monash scholarship covers everything?

[Russ]

Yes. 9k a year for 4 years for the MD. Doesn't change my opinion.