Otago HSFY chat - archive

[mango101]

Does anyone know when the accommondation offers for 2012 are decided on/come out?

 

[Pineapple]

perhaps the rank score getting in will increase by a little this year then, since the cohort performed better overall. heard of heaps of really good marks.

 

[frootloop]

perhaps the rank score getting in will increase by a little this year then, since the cohort performed better overall. heard of heaps of really good marks.

I find it somewhat hard to believe that HSFY as a cohort performed more than 5% better than the overall UMAT average. Most likely, you are told 1) marks from people who are happy to share them (ie: those who got good marks), or 2) inflated marks by people trying to scare you.
And even if you're not, and I'm wrong, and HSFY did 10% better on average... 4 or 5 raw scores in UMAT will only put the required ranking score up by 1 (the equivalent of a percent and a half's worth of HSFY average).
ETA: BIOC terms test results are up. A quick sweep (the first 4 pages of candidate results) suggests around 7% (95% CI 5%, 10%) got 48/50, 5% (95% CI 2%, 7%) got 49/50, and 1% (95% CI 0.5%, 2%) of people got full marks.

 

[Caesar]

When I applied (back in '09) I got my offer late Dec/early Jan. However, I was the slacker who didn't even get UE so I was probably in the last round of offers for the most rubbishest colleges (i.e. city college lol) So I suspect it's probably different for the folk with, you know, brains.

That being said, due to the fact I'm pumping out straight E's now it'd be good to know when they do come out.

Current HSFY/Med students, any idea? Also, what would my odds of acceptance into Knox be if I've taken a gap year(s) and don't have any recent valid grades?

 

[Cathay]

First round of offers are made in early October. That's when the most popular ones tend to fill up (Carrington, St Margarets, Knox, Arana, possibly Hayward), and the "less prestigious" colleges just divide up what's left, and take on anyone else as they come.

 

[frootloop]

When I applied (back in '09) I got my offer late Dec/early Jan. However, I was the slacker who didn't even get UE so I was probably in the last round of offers for the most rubbishest colleges (i.e. city college lol) So I suspect it's probably different for the folk with, you know, brains.

I don't know why people rag on CityCol so much... I've got a mate there, and it seems nice and modern, good food, warm, etc... I'd probably rather have gone there than UniCol (where I ended up), or scumberland. I'll leave out the bit where I tell you how little impact your res. college has on your chances of making med

 

[Bamboozle]

I really like how you put up confidence intervals!! epi's really getting to us... got 48 :/

 

[frootloop]

I really like how you put up confidence intervals!! epi's really getting to us... got 48 :/

48/50, only 96% *shakes head*... Loljk, I also got 48, which really isn't that bad.

 

[Cathay]

Meh, froot, I went by the good ol' fashioned way of counting the number of 50's from all pages, it turns out to be 27.

 

[xyz]

Turns out I severely overestimated the number of 50s from my own experience of the test. Only 30 came up from my auto search. I'm happy however as I am one of them

 

[Pineapple]

yep got 50 too. mcq pool was a huge help

 

[xyz]

Too much of a help in my honest opinion. Would've rather not had it available or perhaps less questions drawn from it.

 

[frootloop]

Too much of a help in my honest opinion. Would've rather not had it available or perhaps less questions drawn from it.

I'd have to agree with that. From memory, *all* of the lab and GLM questions came from the pool (there might have been one that was new), which kind of negated the point of examining those components of the course, as we all had just looked up the answers to the questions, without having to understand it (heck, I know I barely understood some of the lab stuff, still got all those questions right).
Seems maybe they've decided to make BIOC easier this year....

 

[greenglacier]

BIOC has been scaled up considerably in the past (when I did it my final exam mark was 92.5/100, but I got a final mark for the overall paper of 98%... work out the maths!), so presumably if this test really was easier than it should have been, that can be controlled for.

 

[Pineapple]

i get the feeling they think bioc is too hard so they made the terms test easier and provided us with an mcq pool so they wont have to scale? thats my theory anyway.

 

[greenglacier]

It probably won't make much difference... it's because of the exam they had to scale in my year (some of the marking was rather harsh).

 

[frootloop]

i get the feeling they think bioc is too hard so they made the terms test easier and provided us with an mcq pool so they wont have to scale? thats my theory anyway.

Not that it makes any difference overall, but I think you might be right there.

 

[aaa24]

Anyone know when dent interviews came out last year?

 

[smile]

Anyone know when dent interviews came out last year?

3rd of October

 

[Ben]

According to my tutor, apparently the results for the epi test will be out this afternoon or tomorrow, shockingly early imo. D: