1) If i apply with a 2 year masters programme, which '3rd' year do they use in my gpa calc - the last year of my undergrad from years ago, or the first year from health science that I dropped out of?
2) Will the fact that i got a C+ in CHem110 ruin my chances despite hitting the other rerequired GPA thresholds? The study centre assure me that it wont, but i know that non-science grad entrants have to complete core 1st year papers with atleast a B- grade (at least last year)... So does my C+ in Chem destroy me, even if i go in with a >8.0 GPA from masters?
G'day mate,
UOA only look at your last two years of study, whether it's two years of an undergrad, or two PGDips, or a Masters. The only bearing whatever you did in undergrad years ago might be is on what papers they make you sit (if any). To put another way, only your last two years GPA count for medicine, provided (a) they are at a New Zealand university and were (b) not more than five years ago.
Depending on the content of your Masters and how much it overlaps with BHSc First Year you might be given a conditional place in MBChB II and asked to pass some, or all, of the core First Year papers with a prescribed grade. I know somebody who this applied to, they had to pass three papers (Chem, Bio and Medsci) with a B+ or better.
I feel your agony mate, CHEM110 and I are locked in war at the moment ... I will slay it but gawd, just, and with a lot of blinding brain pain involved. I'd rather you know, be tortured or something. It's pretty bad eh ... not even fake news.
