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BA22:

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I seriously hope your right. My only hope to get into monash is to play the pity card due to my shitty umat score. They are really going to have to believe that im some poor, blind, insulated guy who has no idea about the goings on around him haha. I feel guilty winging about my poor situation because personally i dont feel as if ive been disadvantaged at all, especially in regard to the umat. Seeing as its a supposed IQ test your performance should depend on your own intellect not your environment or schooling. Do you think monash will fall for the whole disadvantaged rural thing? They could react differently to the other uni's?
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Monash, UNCLE and UNSW love rural kids

UNSW and UNCLE have entirely seperate schemes for them to apply

Monash have the DRL, which will invite another 60 kids for interview, they'll only like you if you say "yes, i'd really consider working in a rural area". As for that scheme, they will invite applicants with lower UMAT scores than required for the general stream. the cut-off was 59 and i got 54, so if i gt one, it would be cutting it close. The only thing is, this scheme can stil be competitve, and your ENTER would still need to be 95-98, i have heard of kids getting lower, but they had outstanding interviews


Apparently according to medentry, monash weight like:
ENTER: 40%
UMAT: 20%
INT: 40%


**Apparently

bonghead:
I see. Do you know how much emphasis the victorian college of pharmacy (under monash) place on the umat? Would their stance be any different from mainstream monash?

huangers:
hey everyone, yeh i did the umat, but i also went to medentry like a few other people here ahha

i found it was helpful to do it because they exposed me to the style of questions that may be asked, plus their online ranking system was against other people who i guess were also motivated to do their best for it so that was alright.

i ended up with an overall percentile of 90, the sum of the sections was 253. raw score 178

my best section was the 3rd one (98th percentile) haha the one where people dont see the point of :P, although my schools careers counsellor told me that dentistry places emphasis on that section so yay i guess :)

i doubt my enter will be anywhere near the score needed for dentistry at melb uni, so i applied to adelaide, queensland and western australia as well. but section 1 was my worst so i was knocked back by western australia for an interview haha i was outside the top 20 percent for it so yeh... i got an interview for adelaide though.

anyone else get interviews?

munto:
the UMAT is a crock of shit to say it straight out.

it does not test for doctor abilities. my uncle is a paediatric neurologist and i gave him a practice test to and he couldn't understand section 3 and failed overall. go figure.

the whole empathy crap is a farce. if it was on empathy there would be psychoanalysis or something like that, not a multiple choice.

i'm fairly bitter about the test. i did some course before and worked my arse off and got a bad score and had been gunning for med, while a girl at school gets a 250 and has no interest whatsoever, whereas i wanted to work with the red cross in refugee camps in africa. yeah it tests for empathy, my arse.

the UMAT is more stringent than any other test and for good reason, so uni's ensure they don't have to read resumes or sit through thousands of interviews.

Pencil:
I didn't do the umat, I don't suppose someone could post up an example of a question that tests empathy? Just curious

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