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General Interview Discussion and Questions 2020 Entry

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Hey guys, for JMP was an indicative ATAR needed to be sent to them I thought interviews are only based on UCAT
Interviews are indeed based only on UCAT. ATAR is a hurdle which will only come into play after the interviews.
 
I got 96%ile for UCAT, and an interview invite today for JMP, but didn't get one from Western Sydney the other day. Any reason that would be? - I'm currently first year at Auckland, but am from NSW (and applied as such) and got an ATAR of 98.15 and my GPA also meets their cutoff
Because WSU places a high weighting on VR score. Read around the forum for more details - there's been plenty of discussion about it.
 
Does anyone know if there will be any more offers for UNSW and jmp interviews. I got 87th percentile and didn’t get in. Do I have a chance? What about other unis in aus??? Do u think I stand a chance at any others?

JMP minimum was 2840 as confirmed by Sue Gardener by email on the JMP thread in the specific university forums.

As for other unis? considering UAdel lies between 84th and 89th, I suspect you might be likely to get an interview there
 
WSU weighted VR in the UCAT though. I'm non-rural non-standard with 96th (2990) and missed out too
Wow, geez!

I have exactly your score, 2780(non rural non gws). And yeah, it seems like it. I had kept my hopes up cause I had seen last year even UMAT %tiles in the low 80s received invites, so pretty disappointed.
Im pretty gutted as well ... I'm in Year 12 so probably could have tried to put more time into UCAT (I did do a fair bit tho) but that would have been quite detrimental to school marks. I'm currently hoping that maybe a good ATAR will help me out for UNSW interviews but this has certainly taken our my mojo. 😭
 
I got 96%ile for UCAT, and an interview invite today for JMP, but didn't get one from Western Sydney the other day. Any reason that would be?

Have a read of this post > UCAT Section Weighting Discussion and Questions

Try calculate your 55%VR + 5%DM + 20%QR + 20%AR , if it comes out less than 735 that's the reason WSU have not extended you an invite despite a high percentile.
 
Is anyone able to comment on the difference between MMI and MSA?? Reading the description for MSA sounds very similar to MMI
 
Do you reckon I could use UCAT resources to prepare for the PQA test? Any suggestions on how I could work on the MSA & PQA? Panic button definitely turned on right now!
 
Do you reckon I could use UCAT resources to prepare for the PQA test? Any suggestions on how I could work on the MSA & PQA? Panic button definitely turned on right now!
PQA is a personal qualities assessment, so no it is more of a personality test that if you try to study for you might just game yourself into losing as we don't know what they want/personality traits are optimal. So don't worry too much about that.
 
Adelaide interviews are coming on 29th. Do you know whether they open the booking system straight after the email comes out or is it opens later date?
 
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