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Post-UCAT Discussion 2022
- Thread starter DrDrLMG!
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this sucks, i can't believe UQ dent uses SJT as well. i didn't go into my exam thinking that they'd use SJT.
Hi all!
Congrats to all on your amazing scores!
I took my UCAT yesterday and I was wondering what you think my chances are for dentistry? (Preferably Adelaide, but overall advice for anywhere would be good).
I think my nerves got the better of me, but at least it’s over now.
My GPA is 6.0 and I’m also rural RA4
VR - 600
DM - 670
QR - 760
AR - 880
Total - 2910
SJT - 618
Congrats to all on your amazing scores!
I took my UCAT yesterday and I was wondering what you think my chances are for dentistry? (Preferably Adelaide, but overall advice for anywhere would be good).
I think my nerves got the better of me, but at least it’s over now.
My GPA is 6.0 and I’m also rural RA4
VR - 600
DM - 670
QR - 760
AR - 880
Total - 2910
SJT - 618
mojokenobo
Member
I still reckon less than 3000, since MSO averages are a fair bit higher (about 30-50 points in the past two years iirc?) than 90th percentiles.
maybe im coping too much
jonesbbqandfoot
Member
JPM (Joint Program in Medicine) and WSU are effectively the same thing (JPM = WSU and CSU Med programs).
JMP (Joint Medical Program) is the Newcastle/UNE program.
There is no set amount of uni study required for eligibility to either of these programs, instead your ATAR can be used. Does your ATAR not reach their cut-offs? If you’re hoping for UNSW, then I’d think it must (as UNSW requires a higher ATAR than both those other two programs).
Not to mention the fact that neither JMP nor JPM use GPA (or ATAR) to determine interview eligibility.
Of all the schools WSU's UCAT counting is the most obscured, hard to predict.
That said, myself I don't think it will go up again. The GWS cutoff has increased somewhat in line with the percentile scores (90%ile 2850 to 2920 to 2960). It must reach a ceiling somewhere.
Reason being UKCAT 90%ile were 2800-2850-2850. We have proved three years in a row Aus students are smarter than UK students. For our 90%ile to increase again we'd be *impossibly* smarter so it's not allowed to happen. (This is a joke okay?
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jonesbbqandfoot
Member
gosh it must be nice to be british, lower ucat and....take that back nothin is good in england.Of all the schools WSU's UCAT counting is the most obscured, hard to predict.
That said, myself I don't think it will go up again. The GWS cutoff has increased somewhat in line with the percentile scores (90%ile 2850 to 2920 to 2960). It must reach a ceiling somewhere.
Reason being UKCAT 90%ile were 2800-2850-2850. We have proved three years in a row Aus students are smarter than UK students. For our 90%ile to increase again we'd be *impossibly* smarter so it's not allowed to happen. (This is a joke okay?
purpletuetles
Lurker
congrats everyone on the marks I just got my results and I was wondering what my chances are for WSU and UNSW for medicine
VR-760
DM-800
QR-810
AR-740
Total - 3110
SJT-617
VR-760
DM-800
QR-810
AR-740
Total - 3110
SJT-617
Aspiringmed
Member
damn that is a really great score. Can you shed your insight into how you approached VR? I am currently struggling with this section... Thanks!!! Also is it possible for you to post you mock scores ? Thank you!
iwannadomed
Lurker
Hi! I'm in Sydney so I'd like to try get an interview spot at UNSW or UWS. I got these scores:
VR - 700
DM - 780
QR - 880
AR - 870
Total - 3230
I looked at A1's formula for UWS and I believe I still make the cut with 770 despite my lowish VR. I believe my ATAR will be around 99.80-90.
VR - 700
DM - 780
QR - 880
AR - 870
Total - 3230
I looked at A1's formula for UWS and I believe I still make the cut with 770 despite my lowish VR. I believe my ATAR will be around 99.80-90.
Aspiringmed
Member
Congrats on that score - may i know how you approached the different sections. How did you go in the practice mocks?
Assuming you're NSW your VR 760 & the rest should definitely get WSU interview. If you're non-NSW I haven't checked to say definitely but looks very likely.
If 3110 is around 95%ile you can get UNSW interview with a low 99s ATAR. But that's like scraping in needing a near-top interview to compensate which is tough to achieve. Previous years the lowest offer-successful ATAR was 99.50 so make that your target.
See my reply to purpletuetles above regarding UNSW.
iwannadomed
Lurker
Do you know of people getting into UWS with a 700 VR?
Lots of subtest mocks. I actually never went past 2900 in my mocks - I don't know why, I would do well in my individual subtests.
purpletuetles
Lurker
Thanks,
So in my practice, my strengths were verbal and DM so I never really had a specific approach I just kinda did it, but for QR and AR, I did a bit of last-minute cramming just going through my past mocks on medify and memorizing the patterns I got wrong and why, for QR I basically skipped every hard question that I didn't understand immediately or had a clear way to do. My QR in mocks was up and down sometimes I got as low as 600 and sometimes as high as 850-870. But overall I would get around 3100 in mocks with around a 600-700 in AR, so those were my two weaknesses. I was really nervous going in (as you know this test could potentially change how the entirety of my 2023 year goes) so that's probably why I got a little worse on my VR and DM.
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