HPAT

sean_17

I'm going into 5th year next year, with my heart set on doing medicine at Trinity preferably!

Anyway, I noticed that the contingent for entry to medicine is to take the HPAT "in the two years preceding your entry to medicine"

If I took the HPAT in 5th year and 6th year could I use my better result? Is it possible to take it twice?

Thanks for any information.

EDIT: Sorry I saw you can't, just saw on the website you must be in 6th year or finished. Any help on the exam would be helpful though

PhysiologyRocks

No, apparently nobody's allowed to do it in 5th year.

I think you can repeat it the year after the L.C. though.

Google "HPAT Acer Ireland" and the official site comes up (I don't know how to post links). You should find more information there.

Hope this helps. And best of luck with the HPAT.

PhysiologyRocks

People in the Leaving Cert. forum seem to know quite a bit about it. Quite a few have taken it this year.

drrkpd

this is from http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055604717&page=5




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definitely NOT allowed to do it in 5th year
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Originally Posted by HQvhs
You're not allowed to do it in 5th year. But if you did it in 6th year and decided to repeat the next year you can take the best score I assume.

Definitely NOT allowed to do in 5th year

Who is eligible to sit HPAT-Ireland? HPAT-Ireland is available to any candidate who is capable of meeting the academic entry requirements set by the universities. Applicants must either be in their final year of school or have completed their Leaving Certificate prior to 2009.



and
http://www.hpat-ireland.acer.edu.au/...test&Itemid=39



I'm in 5th form, can I sit HPAT-Ireland?
No, you are not eligible to sit HPAT-Ireland unless you have already completed your leaving certificate or are doing so in 2009.
Please be warned that when all candidates register to sit HPAT-Ireland they will be required to check a box declaring that they are either doing 6th Form in 2009 or have already completed it, or its equivalent, prior to 2009. They will also have to declare that they are a bona fide student.
A 5th form student is NOT a bona fide student.

If ACER is made aware of a student who provides a false declaration, their results will not be released.

In 2010, ACER will check for "re-sit" students. If a student is found to have, in effect, signed a false declaration in 2009, his/her HPAT-Ireland 2010 results will NOT be released. Hence the opportunity to enter medical school will be denied.

So this is a definite NO!!!!!!!

amacachi

You can't do it in 5th year, and doing it twice would most likely make no difference to your prospects, it's not like you can study extra hard the second time.

yellowbutterfly

Hey!

Was just on the acer HPAT site and I ordered paid for and did the practice test they're selling. I'm just wondering if anyone knows how similair the practice tets is to the real thing, or has anyone done both?

Thanks!

MrPain

yellowbutterfly wrote: »

Hey!

Was just on the acer HPAT site and I ordered paid for and did the practice test they're selling. I'm just wondering if anyone knows how similair the practice tets is to the real thing, or has anyone done both?

Thanks!

On the day I found the real hpat a good bit harder than the practice test. I was shocked when I got in 90%ile.

Bicycle

Does anyone know where in Galway and Cork the HPATs are conducted?

I have a daughter who is planning to do it next year and we will have to overnight the night before.

And we also ordered our trial HPAT today as well :D:D

A Neurotic

yellowbutterfly wrote: »

Hey!

Was just on the acer HPAT site and I ordered paid for and did the practice test they're selling. I'm just wondering if anyone knows how similair the practice tets is to the real thing, or has anyone done both?

Thanks!

As far as I can recall, the first and third sections were broadly similar in the sample test and the real thing. Most of us (that I've spoken to, anyway) agreed that Section 2 was much trickier on the day of the exam than in the sample test. Many of the questions appeared to have more than one correct answer.

Piste

yellowbutterfly wrote: »

Hey!

Was just on the acer HPAT site and I ordered paid for and did the practice test they're selling. I'm just wondering if anyone knows how similair the practice tets is to the real thing, or has anyone done both?

Thanks!

I thought the practice test was way easier than the real thing. I think I got about 100 points more in the practice test!

dobh

Bicycle wrote: »

Does anyone know where in Galway and Cork the HPATs are conducted?

I have a daughter who is planning to do it next year and we will have to overnight the night before.

And we also ordered our trial HPAT today as well :D:D

my daughter did it in Cork last Feb. There were two centres in Cork. One in UCC and the other in Nemo Rangers Club in Blackpool . When she applied she was not given the option of choosing which one to go to. She was notified by e.mail.

dobh

I should mention that she also found the " real" test considerably more difficult than the practice papers . She had done five papers before the exam and still found it very tough.

Bicycle

Thanks Dobh.

Interesting times ahead

dobh

I should reassure you that, despite finding it tough, and tiring during the real exam, she did well enough to get her first choice course and was surprised at her percentile. She had anticipated a much lower score.

It is against the clock which brings its own pressures, without any break from beginning to end. As far as I remember they were not allowed to bring food into the exam which does not help the energy levels.

I dont mean to worry you. Just filling you in on a few of the facts .....

yellowbutterfly

Thanks for all the info guys. MrPain 90th percentile - amazing. V impressed. Hope all of ye enjoy medicine. Looks like I've got a lot of work to do!

drrkpd

Bicycle wrote: »

Does anyone know where in Galway and Cork the HPATs are conducted?

I have a daughter who is planning to do it next year and we will have to overnight the night before.

And we also ordered our trial HPAT today as well :D:D

Well Galway is the new stand in the racecourse-seriously!!

Bicycle

drrkpd wrote: »

Well Galway is the new stand in the racecourse-seriously!!

Wow!! How interesting.. (I presume FF won't have a hospitality tent for the waiting parents :D)

Thanks for the information.

drrkpd

Bicycle wrote: »

Wow!! How interesting.. (I presume FF won't have a hospitality tent for the waiting parents :D)

Thanks for the information.

No politicians to be seen- just worried parents!!!!

JSK 252

dobh wrote: »

my daughter did it in Cork last Feb. There were two centres in Cork. One in UCC and the other in Nemo Rangers Club in Blackpool . When she applied she was not given the option of choosing which one to go to. She was notified by e.mail.

Nemo rangers are in Douglas.:pac:

drrkpd

Bicycle wrote: »

Wow!! How interesting.. (I presume FF won't have a hospitality tent for the waiting parents :D)

Thanks for the information.

aplications for places open 4th november see-

http://www.hpat-ireland.acer.edu.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=4&Itemid=3

you need a CAO number before you apply.

Don't think RDS was people's favourite venue-perhaps others will comment!!

EXAM DATE- HPAT-Ireland will be held on Saturday 27 February 2010. This date is the only opportunity to sit HPAT-Ireland in 2010

dobh

My mistake. I meant Neptune stadium in Blackpool, Cork. Apologies.