Recent content by redjnr

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iirc it's because the UAC need a common subject to be the basis of scaling. Might be completely wrong though :redface:

What kind of extracurricular activities are wanted other than volunteering for medicine? At UNSW I thought they were very interested in you as an individual and your story. So I don't think there is are "good" extracurriculars, as long as you can make it interesting by talking about how it has...

- make sure you can understand and apply calculus well -> will help a lot with integration and mechanics - worthwhile to review polynomials, curve sketching and trigonometry before starting mx2 - PAST PAPERS when studying for 4u exams Not much else you can do now imo, unless you want to start...

Are you sure your school sent in a predicted ATAR of 98.75? I'm also very surprised you didn't get an interview.

Bachelor of medical science (BMedSci) is more of a science/research based degree, and graduates cannot practice medicine. If they wanted to later on, they would have to complete an AMC accredited medicine degree (such as MBBS, MD etc...) As far as I know there are no extra considerations given...

And another simplified example to consider: Imagine a course with only two people in the school You're ranked first and I'm ranked second Now let's say I get 90 in the exam, and you get 80 in the exam Your internal mark will be 90, because that is the highest examination mark, and it becomes...

Examination marks = Externals = Marks you get in the HSC exam Assessment marks = Internals = Marks allocated to you based on your performance and performance of the school. Since you are rank 1st, whatever the highest examination mark in the school (whether you got it or someone else), will...

As a rural applicant you will likely get an interview at UNSW, and almost certainly at JMP and UWS You probably don't even need to apply via the rural entry scheme for the latter two as your UMAT is very good.

Basically OP, don't be worried about unfairly losing out by doing accelerated extension 1 because of marks conversion. As braintic clarified, it is pre-aligned marks being used by UAC (3u counting as 2 units if you subsequently do 4u), so whatever happens on HSC results shouldn't affect your...

In your accelerated year, your MX1 mark will be out of 50 for everything (exam, assessment, hsc) If you subsequently complete MX2, your MX1 assessment and exam mark will be given again out of 100 (and it is possible to have odd number marks - it isn't simply just doubling). I assume these are...

Almost certainly at JMP and UWS Likely at UNSW

You mean ATAR aggregate (out of 500)? I'm not sure if universities know that... But if they did it would be fair to compare against the UMAT score. Actually it's a good idea because I've found people with very high ATARs (disproportionately higher aggregate scores) tend to get interviews even...

I'd say 99.9 ATAR + 96 percentile UMAT is far stronger. No one really knows what the equivalence between ATAR and UMAT is, but percentiles in UMAT don't seem to be nearly as important as percentiles in ATAR (i.e. a 2 ATAR difference >>> 2 UMAT percentile difference). This sort of makes sense as...

Firstly grats on your UMAT score! I'm not too clear on the requirements for interstate unis, so I'll stick with talking about the 3 NSW undergrad med schools. UNSW: An estimate of 99+ ATAR should score you a first round interview, for an unbonded offer you would have to do quite well. BTW...