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*Everything HPAT and Medicine 2012*

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  • #2902
    kellogskelly
    Registered Users Posts: 27 ✭kellogskelly


    Saracarroll wrote: »
    Has anyone heard from UCC yet?

    nope haven't heard from them yet! thought i was the only one but my friends haven't either! think we're meant to get a letter from them before the 4th :)


  • #2903
    BarnhallBull
    Registered Users Posts: 297 ✭✭BarnhallBull


    kellogskelly wrote: »
    nope haven't heard from them yet! thought i was the only one but my friends haven't either! think we're meant to get a letter from them before the 4th :)

    They're busy sorting out us Gradmed folk, we start on Friday, sorry lads :cool:


  • #2904
    Saracarroll
    Registered Users Posts: 64 ✭✭Saracarroll


    BarnhallBull wrote: »
    They're busy sorting out us Gradmed folk, we start on Friday, sorry lads :cool:

    I was just worried that i had pressed the wrong buttoned on the cao *roll eyes*


  • #2905
    BarnhallBull
    Registered Users Posts: 297 ✭✭BarnhallBull


    Saracarroll wrote: »
    I was just worried that i had pressed the wrong buttoned on the cao *roll eyes*

    And I was just offering an explanation as to why you might not have been contacted :rolleyes:


  • #2906
    JamJamJamJam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,394 ✭✭✭JamJamJamJam


    BarnhallBull wrote: »
    They're busy sorting out us Gradmed folk, we start on Friday, sorry lads :cool:

    Boo-urns! I want my letter! :P

    The first round CAO deadline was Monday so hopefully UCC spent today sending out the registration packs and we'll get them tomorrow :D ............ That's probably a little optimistic :P


  • #2907
    BarnhallBull
    Registered Users Posts: 297 ✭✭BarnhallBull


    JamJamJamJam wrote: »
    Boo-urns! I want my letter! :P

    The first round CAO deadline was Monday so hopefully UCC spent today sending out the registration packs and we'll get them tomorrow :D ............ That's probably a little optimistic :P

    We got our offers on the 2nd of August and had to accept by the 9th. I don't think we heard from UCC for nearly another week! Since I had my first letter from them, I've had something new pretty much every day, so it seems they're slow to get moving but once they do, they're very good :)


  • #2908
    yellow hen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,030 ✭✭✭yellow hen


    Does anyone know if there is a public listing off the total number of medical places available via undergraduate and graduate entry in ireland?


  • #2909
    ashh
    Registered Users Posts: 7 ✭ashh


    Any second round predictions?...S:


  • #2910
    hollingr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 486 ✭✭hollingr


    I doubt we'll see much movement ashh.. Seems so tight this year already.

    TCD, UCD, and Cork are already on random selection from 1st round, if random selection disappears for TCD/UCD we might see some slight movement in the other medicine courses but personally I am not holding out any hope for anything more drastic than a point or two!

    Good luck to anyone who is close enough to be in with a shot..

    edit: here's last years changes (thanks to queen of leon for compiling)

    There have been 2nd, 3rd and even further rounds for most colleges in the last few years. Last year the points were:

    Trinity 741* (739* on 2nd round)
    UCD 738 (735 on 2nd round)
    UCC 734 (no 2nd round, 733* final)
    RCSI 733* (732 on 2nd round)
    NUIG 729* (729 on 2nd round, 728* final)


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  • #2911
    ashh
    Registered Users Posts: 7 ✭ashh


    Thanks hollingr, 2 points off UCD so not expecting anything! Such is life. P:


  • #2912
    hollingr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 486 ✭✭hollingr


    better to be pleasantly surprised than utterly disappointed!


  • #2913
    Mad Shark
    Registered Users Posts: 53 ✭✭Mad Shark


    hollingr wrote: »
    better to be pleasantly surprised than utterly disappointed!


    Wise owl...


  • #2914
    niamh1994
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭niamh1994


    Just wondering has anyone gone into Trinity to get the screening yet? I've an appointment tomorrow but I can't find my immunisation card from childhood, does this matter or can I do without?


  • #2915
    jammiedodge
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭jammiedodge


    According to the CAO website, there's been no second round offers for medicine, except at RCSI, which went down from 741 to 740*.....

    from what I can remember, all the universities offered a few second round places last year.


  • #2916
    hollingr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 486 ✭✭hollingr


    yeah nasty stuff.. the margins are super tight now no room to breathe whatsoever. hard luck to anyone who is on random selection and didn't get an offer must be heartbreaking


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  • #2917
    DrShredded
    Registered Users Posts: 8 ✭DrShredded


    There is a "RCSI Med Class of 2017" page on facebook now.......just in case any one was interested.

    http://www.facebook.com/groups/410869392302643/


  • #2918
    speeding
    Closed Accounts Posts: 252 ✭✭speeding


    DrShredded wrote: »
    There is a "RCSI Med Class of 2017" page on facebook now.......just in case any one was interested.

    http://www.facebook.com/groups/410869392302643/

    There's a link to another one set up by the international students http://www.facebook.com/groups/197582560353941/

    2017 doesn't seem that far off really !!


  • #2919
    penguin_p
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭penguin_p


    Congratz to those who has been offered a place to study Medicine :) just wondering if any of you got in through DARE?


  • #2920
    spasmaster
    Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭spasmaster


    Anyone been asked to register at the my.tcd.ie yet?


  • #2921
    Dicksboro_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 414 ✭✭Dicksboro_man


    spasmaster wrote: »
    Anyone been asked to register at the my.tcd.ie yet?

    not me anyway, their new online system is a joke.


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  • #2922
    spasmaster
    Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭spasmaster


    Well we collect our id cards on the last day so maybe we'll get it tomorrow as the 9th is the last day


  • #2923
    Nazata
    Registered Users Posts: 142 ✭✭Nazata


    spasmaster wrote: »
    Well we collect our id cards on the last day so maybe we'll get it tomorrow as the 9th is the last day

    ID cards? Today is the last day? :confused:


  • #2924
    spasmaster
    Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭spasmaster


    Still has no one been asked to register?


  • #2925
    karkarpops
    Registered Users Posts: 18 ✭karkarpops


    spasmaster wrote: »
    Still has no one been asked to register?

    Think they've started the batches today, spasmaster, but most likely we'll be one of the last batches :( So we might get the invite tomorrow or Friday? I wanna see our timetable so bad!


  • #2926
    Slow Show
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,248 ✭✭✭Slow Show


    Hey HPAT veterans, question. Did you find there was much mathematical-based questions in Section 1 of the real test? There seems to be quite a lot of that ilk on med-entry and like, it's not that I'm bad at maths but I just cannot do most of those types of problems in eighty seconds. But I just flicked through the sample papers and didn't come across any sort of mathsy problem on a quick glance-through...so yeah, I was just wondering. Also do Codes ever come up? Are the questions as crazy as some of the med-entry questions, I dunno if anyone else has it but problem-solving drill 2 and both the clocks and the test-rigging one...giant meh, barely had the time to comprehend working them out and I still went over twenty minutes. Bleh.

    Also, while I'm here...is it just to be accepted that you'll never have enough time to complete S1 to the best of your ability? Any helpful strategies one could use? Also did anyone who did med-entry find parts of the real thing to be easier/harder?

    *breathes*


  • #2927
    Mad Shark
    Registered Users Posts: 53 ✭✭Mad Shark


    speeding wrote: »
    There's a link to another one set up by the international students http://www.facebook.com/groups/197582560353941/

    2017 doesn't seem that far off really !!


    it seems that once the CAO results came out for med for 2012 that everybody stopped using this board - its a shame after all that anticipation and build up - it felt i was getting to know ye guys !!! Missing all that chat!! Anyway the very best of luck to ye all.....


  • #2928
    qazokm
    Registered Users Posts: 13 ✭qazokm


    hi guys i was wondering if there is anyone who wants to team up to get the ******** group discount??


  • #2929
    Just Like Heaven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,132 ✭✭✭Just Like Heaven


    Mad Shark wrote: »
    it seems that once the CAO results came out for med for 2012 that everybody stopped using this board - its a shame after all that anticipation and build up - it felt i was getting to know ye guys !!! Missing all that chat!! Anyway the very best of luck to ye all.....

    We have a graduates forum for people who have completed the leaving cert, you can still hang out with us if you want :p PM Queen of Leon or Randy for access.


  • #2930
    Just Like Heaven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,132 ✭✭✭Just Like Heaven


    Slow Show wrote: »
    Hey HPAT veterans, question. Did you find there was much mathematical-based questions in Section 1 of the real test? There seems to be quite a lot of that ilk on med-entry and like, it's not that I'm bad at maths but I just cannot do most of those types of problems in eighty seconds. But I just flicked through the sample papers and didn't come across any sort of mathsy problem on a quick glance-through...so yeah, I was just wondering. Also do Codes ever come up? Are the questions as crazy as some of the med-entry questions, I dunno if anyone else has it but problem-solving drill 2 and both the clocks and the test-rigging one...giant meh, barely had the time to comprehend working them out and I still went over twenty minutes. Bleh.

    Also, while I'm here...is it just to be accepted that you'll never have enough time to complete S1 to the best of your ability? Any helpful strategies one could use? Also did anyone who did med-entry find parts of the real thing to be easier/harder?

    *breathes*

    Hey I can't really remember a lot of maths based questions but I think there was a code one (although I'm not sure exactly what you mean).

    I scored in the high 70s in this years hpat (think it could have been 80s actually, was the only one that wasn't a disaster anyway) in section 1 and I finished comfortably in terms of time, but section 1 has always been the only one I don't completely hate, so different courses for different horses perhaps?

    I actually did that same drill you're talking about today, and whilst I managed to get the clocks one right, I for sure don't remember anything as difficult as that test leaking master key bananas question.


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