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little sis... wrote: »Yeh I'm aware of all that its just I'll end up with a score of like 150 MAX in the hpat and that leaves me with NO CHANCE of getting medicine even if I got 625 (or 565 adjusted)
They're making the hpat seem wayyyyy more important that the LC but it shouldn't be as its not a taught subject and you havnt spent 3 years practicing for it
Have you taken up the course with ME or any other HPAT revision course?0 -
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Skinhead Kane wrote: »Apologies. I must've forgot. Are you on the platinum package? And no not yet, like besides questions I've found on Google but noting serious yet, I sort of like them kind of questions though (if you get me), HPAT style questions is sort of something I would try do for fun because I love riddles and doing IQ tests but I've yet to actually do it, so I don't know yet..
Not sure really, someone did it for me :rolleyes:
Well at least you're motivated!
I USED to like riddled and IQ tests and all that UNTIL the hpat came along and just confused me....
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little sis... wrote: »
Not sure really, someone did it for me :rolleyes:
Well at least you're motivated!
I USED to like riddled and IQ tests and all that UNTIL the hpat came along and just confused me....
What part do you find the hardest?0 -
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Skinhead Kane wrote: »What part do you find the hardest?
All of them are challenging to be honest haha I think I just suck at it in general :rolleyes: 0 -
little sis... wrote: »
All of them are challenging to be honest haha I think I just suck at it in general :rolleyes:
Very optimistic and confident I see lol0 -
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Can I get maybe a few insights into what colleges people will be hoping to get to do Med, I know that a lot of people will automatically think Trinity but I'd like to get an unbiased opinion from people on whether or not they're just choosing their college based on which is the highest points or whether they have some other genuine reason for picking one over another
:P again thanks everyone for keeping the thread so relevant to the topic 0 -
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Cupertinokiid wrote: »Can I get maybe a few insights into what colleges people will be hoping to get to do Med, I know that a lot of people will automatically think Trinity but I'd like to get an unbiased opinion from people on whether or not they're just choosing their college based on which is the highest points or whether they have some other genuine reason for picking one over another :P again thanks everyone for keeping the thread so relevant to the topic
Trinity for me but only because i live a 10 minute bus journey away. I'd do it anywhere really besides Cork because the points are higher for Cork than they are for Galway and I'd much rather go to Galway than Cork. I'll put UCD down number 2 but I probably won't end up going there anyway, seeing as it's only 1 point less than Trinity, odds are I wont get exactly that amount of points, so it's most likely either Trinity, Galway or my 4th choice. What about you, and what are you going to put down after medicine?0 -
pdhpat2014 wrote: »Trinity for me but only because i live a 10 minute bus journey away. I'd do it anywhere really besides Cork because the points are higher for Cork than they are for Galway and I'd much rather go to Galway than Cork. I'll put UCD down number 2 but I probably won't end up going there anyway, seeing as it's only 1 point less than Trinity, odds are I wont get exactly that amount of points, so it's most likely either Trinity, Galway or my 4th choice. What about you, and what are you going to put down after medicine?
Interesting that you would mention that in fact as i was considering the realization today that I may in fact NOT GET MEDICINE (God forbid!!! :eek: ) and i think its up to all of us to consider that option too. I know many people, friends and relations who simply didnt get enough points and just put down the first thing that came into their head as a second option, not a good idea! One should consider their second option as meticulously as they did their first as there is a limited number of places in med, and we cant all get in ! As for me I think a good second option would be Radiography in UCD although i would be gutted if i didnt get med, i would at least be working in the same field, plus the hours are better, no on-call and you cant really take your work home as the job would involve prepping patients for chemo therapy and radiotherapy and producing the results, from then on its up to the doctors to decide the best route of care 
. As for a college, I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place between TCD and UCD, as I do think these are the leading colleges and although Trinity has the prestigious reputation I think UCD has perhaps surpasses Trinity in the last few years :P its hard to tell but anyone who's done med in either the two of these or other institutions might shine a bit of light on the situation for me? :cool: So what is everyone else considering as a second option?...and on a slightly off topic note is anyone heading up to the TCD open day on 2nd December? 0 -
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Cupertinokiid wrote: »Interesting that you would mention that in fact as i was considering the realization today that I may in fact NOT GET MEDICINE (God forbid!!! :eek: ) and i think its up to all of us to consider that option too. I know many people, friends and relations who simply didnt get enough points and just put down the first thing that came into their head as a second option, not a good idea! One should consider their second option as meticulously as they did their first as there is a limited number of places in med, and we cant all get in ! As for me I think a good second option would be Radiography in UCD although i would be gutted if i didnt get med, i would at least be working in the same field, plus the hours are better, no on-call and you cant really take your work home as the job would involve prepping patients for chemo therapy and radiotherapy and producing the results, from then on its up to the doctors to decide the best route of care . As for a college, I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place between TCD and UCD, as I do think these are the leading colleges and although Trinity has the prestigious reputation I think UCD has perhaps surpasses Trinity in the last few years :P its hard to tell but anyone who's done med in either the two of these or other institutions might shine a bit of light on the situation for me? :cool: So what is everyone else considering as a second option?...and on a slightly off topic note is anyone heading up to the TCD open day on 2nd December?
Radiographers take pictures.
They literally take pictures.
They take the X-Rays and give them to the doctors to interpret.
Also, don't know where you got the idea that UCD has surpassed Trinity. Do you know anything about the Medicine courses in either college?0 -
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Anyone know where I can get the answers to practice test 1? I have the paper but no answers or marking scheme. Thanks.
When you register to sit the hpat practise booklet one is made available to download as a pdf from the acer hpat Ireland website http://www.hpat-ireland.acer.edu.au/ The solutions are in this pdf along with the booklet.0 -
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fewtinsoffroth wrote: »Yeah was gonna say. Does that not expire in like, March.
Yes it does and I now feel extremely stupid. :mad:
I rang them there and they said if you conatct head office they should be able to organise something. Fingers crossed I didn't just waste 400 euro...
I'm definitely suited to studying medicine what with my great logical reasoning :rolleyes:0 -
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