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Requirments for Medicine and what unis offer it/which are good etc???
samuch:
ill do it too
Red_x_Lily:
--- Quote from: Greggler on November 08, 2009, 12:09:38 pm ---Would you reccommend going this early in the year..? or will i forget everything by the time i have to sit the umat...?
Also what kind of material do they give you at medentry, i was looking on their site and it says 10 prac exams (is this much?) and also some other things with catchy names eg. "eureka" or sections drills...
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Well, if this helps: I went for the first workshop, pretty much for the same reason - to start preparing asap. Yeah, you might forget a couple of fine details from the workshop or what you learn early on, but provided you practice consistently, a bit every week or so, you won't forget too much. Maybe a couple of fine details in methods (like in section 3), but overtime with practice you'll remember them.
Medentry gives you 10 Exam length exams. I did all of them, and needed to do all of them, but I know a lot of people who didn't and they did well. You can gauge your standard yourself, or according to percentiles that you will receive for each section once you complete them. These percentiles, obviously, give you an indication as to how you perform relative to the others who did them. Best to spread these exams out over the months as you do them, because you may need a few hours to revise each one properly.
The drills are essentialy about 10 - 20 questions grouped according to their "type", so you can have a more "focused" training; eg, In section 1 you can have drills for "Logical Reasoning", "Data Analysis", "Problem Solving" etc, Section 2 "Patient-Doctor Interaction", "Passages" (like excerpts from stories) etc, Section 3 "Pick the Middle", "Fourth in the Sequence" etc. Again, loads of good practice.
Eureka is for Section 3 training, essentially generates questions randomly, a lower standard than actual Section 3, but still alright for practice.
Greggler:
Ok, thanks for info...
What about the actual lectures/workshops do they justify the extra price? or is everything covered well in the notes and stuff?
Red_x_Lily:
The workshop goes through all three sections with a small intro, then doing a couple of questions as an entire group and going through them closely. In my opinion, not enough examples, but it was still OK. Latter half of the second day is spent going through general interview stuff. Also had a mini mock interview, with one of the students being the interviewee and two more being the interviewers, and the lecturer giving a few tips at the end.
To me, the most important part of the workshop is the practice exam you do on the second day. I'm quite certain a couple of the Section 3 questions was on last year's UMAT. You do it in "exam conditions" and it'll give you a good idea of where you stand and how much you need to improve.
So yeah, I thought it was OK. Not spectacular, not a terrible waste of time too (although I reckon it could have been condensed). The stuff is covered in the notes online, but not some of the specific examples and the sample exam, so yeah.
boysenberry:
--- Quote from: Red_x_Lily on November 08, 2009, 09:19:44 pm ---The workshop goes through all three sections with a small intro, then doing a couple of questions as an entire group and going through them closely. In my opinion, not enough examples, but it was still OK. Latter half of the second day is spent going through general interview stuff. Also had a mini mock interview, with one of the students being the interviewee and two more being the interviewers, and the lecturer giving a few tips at the end.
To me, the most important part of the workshop is the practice exam you do on the second day. I'm quite certain a couple of the Section 3 questions was on last year's UMAT. You do it in "exam conditions" and it'll give you a good idea of where you stand and how much you need to improve.
So yeah, I thought it was OK. Not spectacular, not a terrible waste of time too (although I reckon it could have been condensed). The stuff is covered in the notes online, but not some of the specific examples and the sample exam, so yeah.
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In total, how many hours did the workshops consume of your two whole days?
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