Otago HSFY chat - archive

[miss_universe]

[MENTION=5617]miss_universe[/MENTION] : What do females usually wear to interviews? I know that's a bit pedantic to ask but I think I'd feel more comfortable knowing that what I am wearing is appropriate and not being overdressed :/

Yep fair question. Females should wear a blouse and dress pants with nice shoes (not too big heals). Hair presented nicely. Not too much makeup and minimal jewelry.

 

[marsupial]

[MENTION=5617]miss_universe[/MENTION]: okay I don't mean to make this sound like a fashion dilemma, but how about skirts? Something like this https://www.luckymag.com/style/howto/2007/shortpleatedskirts -- would you say, anything goes as long as it looks professional and kind of conservative?

Cheers

 

[bulbus]

@skyfire27 what were your section scores if you dont mind i'm kind of curious?

 

[miss_universe]

@miss_universe : okay I don't mean to make this sound like a fashion dilemma, but how about skirts? Something like this https://www.luckymag.com/style/howto/2007/shortpleatedskirts -- would you say, anything goes as long as it looks professional and kind of conservative?

Cheers

Yes, skirts are fine like that. Wear stockings wih them I would suggest. As long as your are comfortable and as you said, professional and some what conservative, you can wear whatever

 

[smile]

I wore a plain black dress with black tights and black flats and a cardigan with a long necklace. Most people wore similar stuff and it doesn't really need to be super formal, just tidy and respectable because the interview is super quick and fairly casual (from my experience at least).

Questions I got last year:
Why do you want dent over med?
What do you think a dentist does in a day?
What qualities do you think a dentist needs?
What's a hard decision you've had to make before and how did you decide (thought processes)?
Why do you think research is important in dentistry?
What are some of the negative aspects of dentistry?
Then the scenario was something along the lines of ... you're fourth year dent but not sure that you really like it, what would you do?

Physio exactly the same but change dentist for physio!

Just try be genuinely nice and make sure you sound like a real person and not just a robot repeating your pre-learned answers

Good luck

 

[Doodle]

Yeah like I think I'm going to wear what I normally wear except just make sure I'm extra neat and polished looking
It's just going to be a fitted black t-shirt and a high waisted skirt... flats I think . I'm pretty sure my high heeled walk is awkward looking and I won't feel confident.
Woo I'm kinda excited for this!!
So when are the FIRST interviews commencing? Today??

 

[bulbus]

OK.
So I gave the health sciences office a ring today, they told me that for the dent interview that at first they look at your year 13 UMAT and if that passes last years UMAT threshold for an interview then you get an interview this year. If that does not pass the threshold then they look at this years UMAT and decide on an interview...this years threshold was higher than last year. So the reason for the interview offers for somewhat similar UMAT scores seems to be due to last years UMAT......if that makes sense

 

[skyfire27]

oh, surprised that they would give out details like this. yeah that makes more sense

 

[frootloop]

OK.
So I gave the health sciences office a ring today, they told me that for the dent interview that at first they look at your year 13 UMAT and if that passes last years UMAT threshold for an interview then you get an interview this year. If that does not pass the threshold then they look at this years UMAT and decide on an interview...this years threshold was higher than last year. So the reason for the interview offers for somewhat similar UMAT scores seems to be due to last years UMAT......if that makes sense

That makes so many things make sense. Although that is a *really* weird way of doing it....

 

[kaixian0011]

What was last year's threshold for the UMAT section 2?!

 

[Pineapple]

OK.
So I gave the health sciences office a ring today, they told me that for the dent interview that at first they look at your year 13 UMAT and if that passes last years UMAT threshold for an interview then you get an interview this year. If that does not pass the threshold then they look at this years UMAT and decide on an interview...this years threshold was higher than last year. So the reason for the interview offers for somewhat similar UMAT scores seems to be due to last years UMAT......if that makes sense

confirming my theory of people doing significantly better in UMAT this year....

 

[frootloop]

confirming my theory of people doing significantly better in UMAT this year....

Theory? Dude, all you have to do is read the graphs from this year and compare them to last year The raw scores have shot up one or two for most percentiles, increasing more towards the ends of the scale (eg; 98th percentile 2010=raw score 65. 98th percentile this year=raw score 68/9).
ETA: Before you ask, Pine: Yes, yes you should still *easily* pass the threshold for med with your scores. Easily. If the first-round cut-off goes >80 ranking score, I (and probably everyone else) will be *very* surprised. (Which means you only need like 81% this semester to get in. Man I wish I had your marks lol).

 

[Cathay]

confirming my theory of people doing significantly better in UMAT this year....

[removed a theory from here that I didn't think through]

I know you didn't say anything explicitly here but from various 'hatbox conversations I can see what you're hinting at. If unnecessary panic helps you study better, that's fine, but I would ask that you don't make other people (who aren't helped by panic) panic. A lot of time and effort goes into reassuring health scis here, to maximise their chances by avoiding spending time panicking (because people typically get distracted from studying when they're panicking), and we'd like to maintain a general, truthful theme of "it's not that hard". For people who don't know that unnecessary stressing out is your thing, it can be particularly despair-inducing to see someone with your first semester grades and your UMAT freaking out.

 

[Doodle]

Hmm yeah well in the case of everybody doing better at UMAT this year than last...it is nice and fair of them to look at last year's scores too.
So when do the first dentistry interviews commence?
And i agree with the above message that we really shouldn't try and set our fellow health scis into a frenzied panic . It doesn't help anyone. Everybody take deep breaths. Although feel free to wind yourself up haha.
Health sci really hasn't been that bad ... right?? haha

 

[marsupial]

Hey @smile just wondering if you could tell us what the set up is like? For example, do you sit at a table and the interviewers are on the other side of the table? Or is it that both parties are sitting on chairs facing each other. Lol weird question I know, but I'm just trying to mentally prepare myself.

Thanks

Edit: [MENTION=8205]kaixian0011[/MENTION] I think I read somewhere that the cut off for section 2 was about 46, not sure if that was a percentile or raw score...

 

[bulbus]

Agree with you guys there...to me it only seems as people did on average 3 raw marks better in each section for the same percentile as last year....which hardly moves the ranking score and if anything going by the averages of our cohort compared to last years based on terms test results we have done slightly worse....so I wouldn't expect to see much of a change in ranking score compared to last year to be honest...so I wouldn't worry too much

 

[Cathay]

HUBS Terms Test 2 results are up.
[box="Of course there is a button to show my result"]23/25. Not going to complain at all - I thought I would've lost more.[/box]

 

[skyfire27]

22/25. Have no idea what I got wrong, coz there were too many questions that I was unsure.

 

[frootloop]

Well, so far we're posting in descending order: 21/25. Pretty much as expected, to be honest.

 

[marsupial]

20/25 -- just to keep the pattern going...