UMAT!!!! (1 Viewer)

[frippyful]

hey, im doing my umat this year, and i was wondering, if i get a high percentile in the umat, can i still get a slightly lower atar, like 97 - 98, and still get into medicine at a good uni? or does my atar still have to be like 99.95.
and does anyone know some techniques i could keep in mind for the umat. i am so scared.

 

[qwerty44]

I think that some uni's allow for a slightly lower ATAR with a high UMAT but not sure which ones.

 

[Dylanamali]

at unsw, you need both a great UMAT and a great ATAR, I'd aim for 90th+ percentile and 99 ATAR, as a general guideline. But it works like a scale, so the higher your UMAT the less your ATAR has to be and vice-versa.

at uws, ATAR is only a threshold, e.g. once you surpass the ATAR cut-off they don't use it to compare candidates anymore, this is 93.55 for GWS and 95.40 for non-GWS. UMAT is weighted differently at UWS with 1:1:0.5 for sections 1:2:3.
So you'll need a weighted mark of approx 140+.

at une, ATAR is similar to uws, 95 ish.. however for UMAT you must get minimum of 50,50,50 across all three sections and then they rank you via the section 1 mark.

those are your main undergrad unis in nsw.

 

[study-freak]

at unsw, you need both a great UMAT and a great ATAR, I'd aim for 90th+ percentile and 99 ATAR, as a general guideline. But it works like a scale, so the higher your UMAT the less your ATAR has to be and vice-versa.

at uws, ATAR is only a threshold, e.g. once you surpass the ATAR cut-off they don't use it to compare candidates anymore, this is 93.55 for GWS and 95.40 for non-GWS. UMAT is weighted differently at UWS with 1:1:0.5 for sections 1:2:3.
So you'll need a weighted mark of approx 140+.

at une, ATAR is similar to uws, 95 ish.. however for UMAT you must get minimum of 50,50,50 across all three sections and then they rank you via the section 1 mark.

those are your main undergrad unis in nsw.

Really? Has it changed in the past 2 years? Because for JMP, I remember, I've got an interview with section 2 much less than 50.

 

[ohexploitable]

it changed for 2012 entry

 

[Dylanamali]

Really? Has it changed in the past 2 years? Because for JMP, I remember, I've got an interview with section 2 much less than 50.

yeah think it changed for this years applicants.

 

[study-freak]

it changed for 2012 entry

yeah think it changed for this years applicants.

Oh, I see. Haha it would have sucked for me if I needed 50 in section 2. UWS rejected me for interview because of that too lol. Not that I ended up going to either of those anyway.

 

[Sainteced]

I'm posting up UMAT questions, you can comment with your reasons and I'll try my best to critic and praise.

http://community.boredofstudies.org/showthread.php?t=274732