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Auckland OLY1 chat - archive

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Hey guys I'm year 13 atm and I just saw my UMAT results. Im really depressed. I got raw scores of 51 50 and 62, overall score of 54 and percentile of 71%. I am aiming to enter medicine at Auckland University, so can someone please enlighten me as to whether these dismal scores will still mean I am in for a chance?? According to the UMAT GPA calculator, I will only have got a score of C-, wouldn't this ruin my chances :cry:

Also, is it true that nowadays Auckland uni looks at the best UMAT score you have attained (if u did it in yr 13 and OLY), instead of the most recent score? Then I may have a shot at improving my score while still keeping it as a backup...
 
Just finished the OASIS (i know i've been slacking off lol) the UMAT thing got me excited/anxious for the whole afternoon! Btw is anyone finding physics this year hard? or is it just me? It takes me ages to practice before hand for the assignments. And somehow i still find the thermal lectures inconprehensible:confused:
 
Ash92 said:
Hey guys I'm year 13 atm and I just saw my UMAT results. Im really depressed. I got raw scores of 51 50 and 62, overall score of 54 and percentile of 71%. I am aiming to enter medicine at Auckland University, so can someone please enlighten me as to whether these dismal scores will still mean I am in for a chance?? According to the UMAT GPA calculator, I will only have got a score of C-, wouldn't this ruin my chances :cry:

Also, is it true that nowadays Auckland uni looks at the best UMAT score you have attained (if u did it in yr 13 and OLY), instead of the most recent score? Then I may have a shot at improving my score while still keeping it as a backup...
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Hey Ash, don't worry too much about your score, nobody will get an A for UMAT (unless you are some crazy genius). And yes you can do it again next year but the uni will only look at your most recent mark, ie if you choose to sit the exam again the score you got this year won't matter anymore.
 
Lots of people are saying they take the best UMAT score now though. But I'd check on that. Anyway, you got lotsa time to improve. Not saying you should not worry, but worry less :lol:

I'm actually finding physics much better this year. This time we actually have a textbook! All we got in AS physics was an old, smelly, fifty page study guide.
 
Leafie said:
Just finished the OASIS (i know i've been slacking off lol) the UMAT thing got me excited/anxious for the whole afternoon! Btw is anyone finding physics this year hard? or is it just me? It takes me ages to practice before hand for the assignments. And somehow i still find the thermal lectures inconprehensible:confused:
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the key to physics is old questions. I swear they just modify numbers year after year.

and to those who are unhappy about UMAT, don't worry too much about it. It's only worth 15% at Auckland anyways. I would have been on sooner to congratulate you guys but i've been skiing for 2 days in rather abysmal conditions
 
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Definitely go in with an authentic desire and genuine responses. Know what's happening in the world around you, and current affairs outside of the health sector.

If you only know a little about the topic, express what you know. If you don't know, don't pretend you do :). My opinion is that medical students should know their limitations - perhaps that is why some interviewees get curve-ball questions. Or perhaps it's to see how you react when faced with uncertainty?

I think it'd be good to read up on articles, books etc. when you have time. I've found "Cole's Medical Practice in New Zealand" to be quite a good concise read on what is required of doctors, cultural issues etc.

Oh and I think it'd be good to know yourself as well, as straightforward as it sounds. I mean have a think about how to would answer q's such as "tell me about yourself" or strengths/weaknesses, leadership experience, initiative, coping with stress/pressure. But I definitely don't advise writing down speech cards and rehearsing them :P

Hope it helps :)
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Good description, sounds a lot like my interview last year. I also found that I had control over what they asked me by bringing up certain topics that I wanted to discuss, implicitly offcourse.

Good luck, if you have any questions feel free to PM me.
 
according to eco students, on their first lecture they were told 40% of the class were biomeds, and most of them are asians so im guessing heaps. i was gonna do philosophy but my bro got a C+ in it despite his usualy A's, apparently its only easy for the kiwis, sux as for the rest of us :S
 
I take philosophy too! Although now I'm thinking I should have chosen ECON. I'm not too good at philosophy. :x
One of the tutors told me that only 10-15 students every year in our class get A+. Sounds like I won't be getting it. lol
 
ahh screw the gen ed, i hated the idea of it from the very start, just coz harvard does it doesnt mean we have to. im stuck doing assignments and labs about how we can communicate complex ideas to the general public, and thats all fine if only our lecturer wasnt this 170 year old epicly-slow speaking, lame, unbelievably boring statistician, i honeslty wonder how she can bear to be around herself all the time, each one of her lectures lasts an eternity and whats even worse is how the rest of the class can be so co-operative with the stupidest, most idiotic tasks she asks us to do.

What sux even more is that we have to bear 6 more lectures about pulmonology w/o Dr. Quilter :'(
 
g.walker said:
ahh screw the gen ed, i hated the idea of it from the very start, just coz harvard does it doesnt mean we have to. im stuck doing assignments and labs about how we can communicate complex ideas to the general public, and thats all fine if only our lecturer wasnt this 170 year old epicly-slow speaking, lame, unbelievably boring statistician, i honeslty wonder how she can bear to be around herself all the time, each one of her lectures lasts an eternity and whats even worse is how the rest of the class can be so co-operative with the stupidest, most idiotic tasks she asks us to do.

What sux even more is that we have to bear 6 more lectures about pulmonology w/o Dr. Quilter :'(
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why not pick a gen ed that you actually want to do?
 
i didnt really want to do a gen ed to begin with, but the ones i sorta liked all had messed up schedules, AND i had to change it in my second week coz the one i chose to begin with wasnt an approved course for biomed
 
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