*Everything HPAT and Medicine 2014*

Ka_yl_ei_gh wrote: »

I know two people who got above 190 :P

Yeah wow great scores . Can't say I'm not jealous

Got 173, so 83rd percentile, don't know how to feel really. Bit dejected, because I realise my chances are pretty low. However, I must say, that was without much practice, I did two exams in full and that was it!

LC will most likely not top 550 points, if it did I'd be surprised! Bit of a waste year really, came into it extremely confident, then slacked off to the point where serious study only started about two weeks before the LC. REGRETS! Aghhh!

How did you all score wrt sections? I'm trying to gauge where I performed and where I didn't.

Well what do you all think anyway, should I wipe Med off the CAO? Anyone in the same boat?

little sis... wrote: »

I have to admit thought I felt a bit of relief for getting over 100 :P

Anyway guys it's fine at least we can say we did our best.
The hardest thing to do will be taking off the first 5 courses from my CAO.

Yeah I got over 100. About 40 points off what is needed . Just kicking in now .
Hopefully nobody gets too upset or anything . You can always try again if that's what it takes.

Does anybody know if you can hold onto your leaving cert results from this year, 2014, in order to repeat the HPAT next March? Have they changed the rule yet? thanks.

Does anyone know when acer are releasing their annual bell-curve thing? Or is it already out?

Hi guys! This is my first time posting here, but I got a score of 184 which is the 93rd percentile and will hopefully get about 570/580 points. How good would you think my chancing of getting medicine in ucd would be?

saadsharif206 wrote: »

Hi, this is my first post, btw. I got 183, which is in the 93rd percentile, does that mean the overall points have in general decreased or anything?

The points for the HPAT have changed considerably, anyways. Last year I got 186, which was 83rd percentile; So you can see the drop in this year's results compared to last years for yourself.

How this will affect the points needed for entry in the various colleges is harder to tell, unfortunately.

NImed wrote: »

I got 230, 100th precentile, absolutly noo idea how, but over the moon as NI applicant so needed high score

Jaysus well done :eek:

scallway wrote: »

So does anyone feel like estimating what the minimum overall points would be this year in NUIG?

Well it was 741 last year. Normally the points go up by one or two each year for all colleges, however the drop in the HPAT results this year could mean they stay the same or maybe even drop.

A deal between NUIG and the Malaysian government that saw ~50 Malaysian students enter 1st med each year has ended recently, meaning there are more places available to Irish students coming through the CAO this year compared to previous years. I'd imagine this would decrease the points for entry as well but that's just me guessing.

Predicting the points for entry is always difficult, and sometimes not completely accurate as was the case last year when I was in your shoes.

It really is just a waiting game.

Just wondering what's the story with repeating the hpat? Is it necessary to repeat the leaving cert also? I know on the hpat website it says that leaving cert and hpat points must be counted from the same year but it seems that some people repeat the hpat without repeating the leaving cert?

ainedaly wrote: »

I was just adding up the number of CAO places available for medicine?
UCD 90
TCD 123
NUIG 120
UCC 100 (couldnt find and exact number)
RCSI 39 (not sure if this is right either)
In total thats 472 places?
Does anyone know if some of these places are allocated to Graduate and non EU students or are those spaces kept separate?

I think grad places are separate, on the qualifax website it says 39 cao places for rcsi and 15 for mature students

Is there any hope of getting in at all on the 85th percentile?! Just wondering - because otherwise I need to formulate a plan B and extinguish the hope for good! :P

I've been left dumbfounded with my result. I'm honestly in shock. While I was practicing for my Hpat I had been scoring pretty highly, and was consistently getting in and around the 80th percentile and on one exam I managed to get 202. I won't tell you my result, but you can imagine my surprise when I opened my results this morning to find my dream has been absolutely shattered. I honestly have no idea what to do with regards to my CAO now, and I really don't feel like repeating that awful Hpat again. Anyway, congrats to all of you in the upper quartile and I wish you all the best.

Guys I'm just going to say this- if you really want to do medicine theres a way to get it in to it. I got the points I needed in LC however repeated the HPAT this year and didn't get the score I needed. Ive accepted it and I'm preparing myself now to go to do medicine in a European college. I'm not repeating HPAT again, so I'm heading off in September, after 6 years I'll have the same degree as any Irish grad. Its the only way to go for me at this stage I think.