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With the poplhlth exam, do they just give you an answer booklet filled with lines to write your responses, or do they give you a set no. of lines for each question? Cause its hard to know how much they expect you to write from just looking at the exam papers lol.

Uggggh exams are so clooose:wacko:
 
Yup, they do, but I just find it easier if they visually show us the space we have to write for each q as a guide to the depth of the answer. Nvm though :), it won't really make that much of a difference lol.
 
Hey just want to let you know about my partner who was going for 2009 entrance. He got A+ in biosci107,medsci142, and chem110, and a B+ in poplhlth111. He got a high UMAT and interview score and didn't get a place. I'm not trying to scare you, but I wish someone had told me the actual marks that are needed in first year! They have added more places since then so maybe it won't be like that. But at this point you have ~2 weeks until exams and that's plenty of time to sort yourself out and study hard and get the marks you want. Good luck!
 
Rahrah said:
Hey just want to let you know about my partner who was going for 2009 entrance. He got A+ in biosci107,medsci142, and chem110, and a B+ in poplhlth111. He got a high UMAT and interview score and didn't get a place. I'm not trying to scare you, but I wish someone had told me the actual marks that are needed in first year! They have added more places since then so maybe it won't be like that. But at this point you have ~2 weeks until exams and that's plenty of time to sort yourself out and study hard and get the marks you want. Good luck!
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How does he know what he got in the interview?

Also, my mate for 2010 entrance got exactly the same marks (3A+s in cores and a B+ in poplhlth) a high umat and he got into med (wasn't applying under MAPAS or ROMPE too). So it can be done.
 
midnightrambler said:
How does he know what he got in the interview?

Also, my mate for 2010 entrance got exactly the same marks (3A+s in cores and a B+ in poplhlth) a high umat and he got into med (wasn't applying under MAPAS or ROMPE too). So it can be done.
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becausea all the core GPAs are clustered around the 8.25-8.5 mark, all of the difference is in the interview. It's ranked out of 10 now.
 
my pop health test 2 mark is totally f**ked for test 2 that im emailing dennis about it
on my feedback, i apparently got Q9 wrong, a question that 99% of candidates got right.

apparently

This question tested your understanding of a set of criteria used to assess if a population health problem is important (Lecture 22).

as i recall, the question gave u like 3 things that were on how big a health problem is, and the answer was "all of the above"... RIGHT???
 
CatcherRye said:
my pop health test 2 mark is totally f**ked for test 2 that im emailing dennis about it
on my feedback, i apparently got Q9 wrong, a question that 99% of candidates got right.

apparently

This question tested your understanding of a set of criteria used to assess if a population health problem is important (Lecture 22).

as i recall, the question gave u like 3 things that were on how big a health problem is, and the answer was "all of the above"... RIGHT???
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you know, i'm going to play the devil's advocate here. Are you sure you didn't circle in the wrong answer?
 
How does he know what he got in the interview?
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You can write in and ask what you got and they will tell you. No point doing it if you're in med but there is if you're going to apply again as a graduate. Maybe your friend got in with an excellent interview score or because there were more places available in 2010 entry. I wasn't trying to say it couldn't be done - I was trying to say it's bloody hard and they still have their exams to go so they might as well study hard for them.
 
Hey does anybody have any insight into what the MCQ questions for module 4 in the exam are going to be like? On a side note ill be glad to get this exam done; memorising the objectives of different health projects is driving my head in!
 
CatcherRye said:
c'mon guys... any hints reg. pop health...
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I will reiterate this again. There is no point giving you guys hints about exams because we aren't setting the exams. Approach this like you would any other exam and study EVERYTHING. If you have your bases covered you will do well. Past exam papers give you a flavour of the kind of material required

Trust me, if you get into med school, be prepared to study EVERYTHING :P
 
lordgarlic said:
I will reiterate this again. There is no point giving you guys hints about exams because we aren't setting the exams. Approach this like you would any other exam and study EVERYTHING. If you have your bases covered you will do well. Past exam papers give you a flavour of the kind of material required

Trust me, if you get into med school, be prepared to study EVERYTHING :P
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thanks mom
 
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