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    Subject Choice Advice

    do it
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    Why must English count towards your ATAR?

    iirc it's because the UAC need a common subject to be the basis of scaling. Might be completely wrong though :redface:
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    Extracurricular activities needed for Medicine entry

    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...
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    Getting ahead in MX2

    - 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...
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    2016 UNSW Interview Offers

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

    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...
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    Coming 1st

    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...
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    Coming 1st

    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...
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    Chances of med interview

    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.
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    Question on Mathematics Extension 1 HSC Mark

    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...
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    Question on Mathematics Extension 1 HSC Mark

    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...
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    Medicine Interviews 2015/16

    Almost certainly at JMP and UWS Likely at UNSW
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    UMAT 2015 Discussion Thread

    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...
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    UMAT 2015 Discussion Thread

    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...
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    UMAT 2015 Discussion Thread

    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...
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    What do you reckon my chances are?

    The UNSW med website doesn't provide any clear indication of how it converts GPA to ATAR equivalent. They do say however that "An applicant who scores a ATAR of around 98 would need to achieve results of high distinctions in some courses and distinctions in the rest in order to maintain the...
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    UMAT 2015 Discussion Thread

    UNSW: I'd estimate 97+ ATAR to get an interview. 98+ to be safe, and as high as possible for the best chances - don't slack off now! UWS: Just need to make their ATAR hurdle (which was ~95 for non GWS last year, lower for GWS). If that's no problem, then for UMAT I'd say you'll likely get an...
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    UMAT 2015 Discussion Thread

    With a predicted ATAR of 99.8+ I'd say you are almost guaranteed an interview at UNSW (though not UoN/UNE JMP due to their 50 minimum section scores). I'm not sure where Caasss got her info from, but UNSW do not weight individual section scores (IIRC only UWS does), and only have a minimum...
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    What do you reckon my chances are?

    Firstly congrats on your UMAT result, it's really an impressive score! Now in terms of scoring an interview: UNSW - Unfortunately, I would say not likely. Your GPA/WAM would be a distinction average, however this is only considered to be a ~95.00 ATAR equivalent. This is then averaged with...
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    Life of a med student

    IMO If you can get into medicine (via ATAR or GPA), then I doubt you will have issues in learning the content. Because as everyone else has said, it's really not that conceptually difficult and though the volume of information needed to learn is huge (ESPECIALLY if you compare to highschool)...
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