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Post-UCAT Discussion 2020

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Sounds like the big day is getting closer! Just going to remind everyone that "what are my chances?" questions will not be answered until the final percentile calculator is released - posts of a similar nature before then will be deleted. This allows us to avoid a double-up in questions/answers which is very time consuming for us and also misleading for all of you!
 
ucatboy said:
Just spent the past hour calculating the change in the MSO rankings if SJ scores are taken into account i.e. added onto the cognitive score. This specifically concerns Monash's change in how they're interpreting UCAT scores this year, so if you're not applying to Monash, disregard this post. I only had the SJ data for 142 users (not everyone who reported their UCAT score also provided their SJ one), so I had to make do with what I had. Shown below are the new MSO rankings with SJ taken into account, with the change in rank from the original stated beside each user. Enjoy!

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My goodness! The SJT can make quite a significant difference in some cases, especially around where the scores congregate. I have a feeling the cutoffs for the interviews might be slightly higher than previous years given they are only using the UCAT as the mechanism for deciding interviews (and not the ATAR). Might this be a correct postulation?
 
EAGLE_BIT said:
My goodness! The SJT can make quite a significant difference in some cases, especially around where the scores congregate. I have a feeling the cutoffs for the interviews might be slightly higher than previous years given they are only using the UCAT as the mechanism for deciding interviews (and not the ATAR). Might this be a correct postulation?
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Note that this is only for first round interviews. Second round interviews are given out based of both UCAT and ATAR (50/50) as per the normal.
 
nb said:
Note that this is only for first round interviews. Second round interviews are given out based of both UCAT and ATAR (50/50) as per the normal.
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AFAIK Monash has not disclosed their weighting of ATAR and UCAT to determine interview offers. I also think that including SJT as part of the final UCAT score is for everyone, not just for those getting early interview offers.
 
ucatboy said:
Did the math and the standard deviation works out to approximately 307 (rounded to the nearest whole number)

With a 2527 and 307 mean, here are the extrapolated upper percentiles:

95th: 3030
96th: 3060
97th: 3100
98th: 3160
99th: 3240

The 99th percentile cutoff has gone up 110 from 3130 in 2019.

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Idk how you worked out the SD from nothing but you are a legend.
 
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