HPAT

shamoono

SarcasticFairy wrote: »

Em, I'm not completely sure how it works, but like 10-15% of places are kept for non traditional students, like mature students and HEAR applicants. I'm pretty sure there must be some form of competition between the HEAR applicants, because otherwise they wouldn't require so much info and the personal statements (or is personal statements TAP?! I don't know). I doubt if you apply through HEAR and just get the requirements you are automatically eligible for a place, I assume there's some competition, although not necessarily based on the points you get.

Hmm, I assume they calculate how much of a point reduction you get based on your financial situation, and therefore the worse off you are, the more likely you are to get a place. I don't even know if that makes sense, I'm just speculating.

Oh, I see. Thanks for all of that info.

MrPain

Anybody else get their HPAT reminder today, it gives directions to the test centre etc. But they screwed up the directions for Trinity anyway

From the south (New Haven, New York, etc.): Take I-91 north to I-84 west, then follow the directions "From the east."
From the north (Springfield, Bradley Airport, etc.): Take I-91 south to I-84 west, then follow the directions "From the east."
From the west (NYC via I-84, Danbury, etc.):
Take I-84 east to exit 48, Capitol Avenue. At the traffic light at the end of the exit ramp turn left. Go to the first traffic light (at Washington Street) and turn right (at statue of Lafayette on horse). Proceed straight ahead on Washington Street for 8 traffic lights (total of 1.1 miles), passing hospital complex on left. At 8th light, turn right onto New Britain Avenue. Go .3 miles to the next traffic light at Broad Street. If you want to reach buildings and parking areas in the southeastern part of the campus (e.g., Austin Arts Center, Ferris Athletic Center), turn right onto Broad Street, look for the Trinity College gate, and turn left into the driveway. If you want to reach the western and northern areas of campus (Admissions and other administrative offices), proceed on New Britain Avenue to traffic light at Summit Street. Turn right, between the brick gateposts, into campus.
From the east (Boston, etc.):
Take I-84 west and keep to the right once you reach Hartford and travel through a short tunnel. After tunnel take exit 48, Asylum Avenue. At the end of the exit, turn left onto Asylum Street. Staying in the righthand lane, follow the roadway to the right, hugging Bushnell Park. Bear right through the brownstone arch onto Trinity Street. Staying in the left lane, go to the second stoplight. The Bushnell Memorial Hall will be on your left, the State Capitol on your right. Turn left past the statue of Lafayette on horseback onto Washington Street. Proceed straight ahead on Washington Street for 8 traffic lights (total of 1.1 miles), passing hospital complex on left. At 8th light, turn right onto New Britain Avenue. Go .3 miles to the next traffic light at Broad Street. If you want to reach buildings and parking areas in the southeastern part of campus (e.g., Austin Arts Center, Ferris Athletic Center), turn right onto Broad Street, look for the Trinity College gate, and turn left into the driveway. If you want to reach the western and northern areas of campus (Admissions and other administrative offices), proceed on New Britain Avenue to traffic light at Summit Street. Turn right, between the brick gateposts, into campus.
When leaving campus: To get back to both I-84 and I-91, take Broad or Summit Street to New Britain Avenue, turning left on New Britain Avenue and then left onto Washington Street. When you reach the intersection with Capitol Avenue (Lafayette's horse will be on your left, the Capitol will be straight ahead), turn left, following the signs for I-84. Staying in the right lane, follow Capitol Ave. The entrance ramp for I-84 west is on the right. Proceed a little further and turn right onto Broad Street to reach the entrance ramp for I-84 east, which leads to I-91 north and south.
BY PLANE
Bradley International Airport, serving Hartford, Connecticut, and Springfield, Massachusetts, is approximately 30 minutes from the College by car. Car rental agencies are available at the airport.
BY BUS AND TRAIN
Peter Pan Bus Lines and Amtrak Train stations are located at One Union Place in Hartford. For schedules and fares, please call Peter Pan Bus Lines at (800) 343-9999 or Amtrak at (800) 872-7245.

As you see if I followed these directions Id end up on the east coast of the US, I know perfectly well how to get to Trinity but it seems bad form to make a mistake like this. Its like they googled how to get to Trinity and posted the first set of results they found.

Piste

Yeah the whole HPAT seems very badly organised to me. Forst of all they didn't include a space for you to put your CAO number on the original application form, then they sent people the wrong links for their admission tickets. Poor show ACER!

Ice-Dragon

Hey I know im rly cutting this short but does any1 know how to answer question 86 or 95 in sextion 3 from the Institute's 'practice test'.....the one they gave us after the first day??? PLZ HELP!! It's wreckin my head here!!!

Adventure

Yeah its quite badly organised... hopefully the don't mess up the transfer of HPAT scores to the CAO!

Also is everyone going to bring a bag with them to the test centre or not?

Fad

Piste wrote: »

Yeah the whole HPAT seems very badly organised to me. Forst of all they didn't include a space for you to put your CAO number on the original application form, then they sent people the wrong links for their admission tickets. Poor show ACER!

While they might have experience in the actual tests, getting an Australia based company may have been a bad idea.

Do they use the same in the UK?

MrPain

In relation to the admission ticket, at the bottom it asks for the number on your ID, in the case of a driving licence is it refering to the 'driver number' or the 'stock number'?

Piste

Dunno, doubt they really care to be honest!


Does anyone know are we allowed to bring in calculators?

Adventure

Piste wrote: »

Dunno, doubt they really care to be honest!


Does anyone know are we allowed to bring in calculators?

No only 2B pencils....everything else is forbidden!:pac:

MrPain

Im afraid not:

All centres will begin the exam at 10.30 am, candidates will need to report to their designated centre by 9.30 am to complete pre-test procedures.
If you report to the centre after all candidates have been admitted to the testing room you may not be admitted.No latecomers will be admitted once the test has started.
When you report to the test centre, you must bring with you your:
• HPAT-Ireland Admission Ticket (with required details completed on the back)
• photo-bearing identity document (current passport or driver’s licence) or certified letter of Identification
• pencils (medium soft 2B or HB, preferably 2B), and eraser.
Note: Mobile phones, calculators, dictionaries, audio or recording devices of any kind, food (unless permission is granted by the HPAT-Ireland Office based on medical reasons) and bags will not be permitted in the test room. We will endeavour to provide storage facilities for candidate property during the testing at the test centres, but you are advised to bring only essential items to the test centre with you.
Bottled water is permitted.
You are advised to have a light meal before reporting to the test centre, as you will be occupied for a number of hours and no food is permitted without prior permission.

From HPAT Ireland website

Piste

Gah I hope nothing to do with numbers comes up I do mental arithmetic reeeeeeally slowly so that'll slow me down somewhat

poppy08

umm i read the email this morning but was in a rush, think i deleted it:o

any thing i should have absorded from it? (i'm in RDS)

thanks

gotabi

Trust me, if you havn't been to a prep course you sooooo screwed.

amacachi

gotabi wrote: »

Trust me, if you havn't been to a prep course you sooooo screwed.

Heh, thanks for that. You'd make a good doctor.

coggser01

you dont need a course to be prepared for this. i did two practice ones laready and wit 40mins to spare on each on i scored higher than my mate who did the institute course and who i would consider smarter than me.




p.s. does anyone here us tw center? the layout is unbelievably simlar

Piste

Oh dear I always bring a bag of junk with me everywhere, how will I survive?

MrPain

Hey, what are people doing for last day revision? I dont want to hurt my brain too much today by overtdoing it wiith the sample questions.

Piste

I'm getting an early night!



I can't believe I paid €1.45 for a 2B pencil today.

coggser01

erm do sample questions, sleep early, geta full breakfast in the mornin and take some omega 3 or something, maybe some valium to calm you (joking) and piste, have a cup of tea, have a cup of tea

phasers

future doctors eh?

/searches thread for husband...

Dubs

bed early tonight boys and girls. i'll be the one with a breakfast roll on the dart tomorro morning and good luck to us all sure... off to buy a stack of 2b pencils and rubbers now

amacachi

Tonight I'm gonna stay up all night, get on a bus at 7 in the morning. Might take some ecstacy around 4 so I don't need to piss or feel hungry during the test, just to be safe ya know?

coggser01

phasers wrote: »

future doctors eh?

/searches thread for husband...

"hi and welcome to board.ie, the new dating service for L.C. students everywere who study to much to find a partner, im your host coggser who is happily married due to this website, try it"

te ecstacy idea isnt bad, except the drooling n your test and getting up and dancing after awnseringevery question

amacachi

coggser01 wrote: »

te ecstacy idea isnt bad, except the drooling n your test and getting up and dancing after awnseringevery question

I don't dance thankfully.

bythewoods

Piste wrote: »

I can't believe I paid €1.45 for a 2B pencil today.

I bought two.. they cost a whopping €1.55 each! €1.55!!!
I also bought a rubber, an amazing one. And today somebody threw it out the window! Whinge whinge whinge.
But it's fine.. because I stole his instead. Hmph.

I also bought myself a manly looking digital watch. Because otherwise I'm sure I'll run out of time. And the women's digital watches were like.. €80. Whereas I got myself a nice butch one for €28.

I think I'm prepared. I think.

Anyone else getting the jitters? Bahhhh.

Dubs

haha yous are getting ripped off with your pencils! just paid 2.80 for 3 and a rubber. got them under the tree at spar.

cant get to sleep :mad:

bythewoods

Dubs wrote: »

haha yous are getting ripped off with your pencils! just paid 2.80 for 3 and a rubber. got them under the tree at spar.

Damn you!

Anyway, as I'm leaving the interweb I'd just like to say:
Good luck everyone!

Here, hopefully we'll all survive anyway. And hopefullllllllly we'll all be seeing each other in September!

QueenOfLeon

O god...startin 2 panic....has any1 got any last minute advice? all iv done is the sample book cos my careers teacher didn help us at all and sed that wud do...wot shud we be doin now d night b4 it?

deex

good luck everyone! oh man im terrified... going to bed anyway! to dream of problem solving, empathy and stupid patterns filled with dices and hearts and numbers in seemingly random order =D how fun!

deex

anne marie - you'll be grand! honestly no matter what they say about doing fancy courses and stuff i dont believe it'll help you that much.. you can look up UMAT (the aussie hpat) online if you want and look at some questions but i'd say the best thing you can do is go to sleep! you cant improve much late night cramming! good luck tho!

theowen

are people actualy going to bed now :eek: methinks that getting 12 hrs sleep could be a bad idea

deex

im going to bed now, yeah, at 9, but i'm getting up at 6:15 and dont think im gonna sleep well so im taking all the bed-time i can get!

QueenOfLeon

thanks deex!! i can only imagin how panickd evry1s guna be 2moro!! is any1 else goin 2 d sligo centre? it filled up really quick so hopefully thers not 2 many ther!! it says on all the hpat and acer websites that no preperation courses will help...hope thats right!!
:D

QueenOfLeon

yno on the email they sent, sayin you must bring your HPAT-Ireland Admission Ticket (with required details completed on the back)

are those just the id details?

deex

no prob :P i'm really panicky too but i guess theres nothing i can do about it so i'm trying to take it easy.. not really working!
i'm in the UCD blackrock, my main worry is not being able to find it even with my map and directions haha! and then not being able to find the room im supposed to go to! there'd better be LOADS of signs! :P
i do think prep courses wont help much... my friend got the same average results before and after her courses so i dont think theres much difference!
what kinda scores are you guys getting for section 1 btw? im getting about half them right every time.. i havent got a clue if thats good or not!!

Camih

I'm absolutely terrified for tomorrow!!! going to bed soon though cause just finished two weeks of mocks - not good timing:P what average in the practise test is everyone else getting?

deex

i was wondering that myself!! i've nothing on the back of mine, just the ID details under it.. and i probably have those filled out wrong since im using an ID letter! :S

amacachi

Anne-Marie!! wrote: »

yno on the email they sent, sayin you must bring your HPAT-Ireland Admission Ticket (with required details completed on the back)

are those just the id details?

Yup. If youre bringing your passport just write down your passport number.

And chill out, seriously. There's no point panicking.

deex

i'm getting about 50% in section one, about 90 - 100% in section 2, and about 55 - 60 % in section 3! what about you guys?

Camih

I'm using my provisional license or passport(havent decided) you just fill in your passport number/license number and country it was issued from in that section i think!

Camih

erm cant remember details exactly but it worked out at 222 overall

QueenOfLeon

Tanx!!
iv ben gettin round 80% in A, 90% in B but only about 50% in C....but thats been spaced out, iv nevr sat down for 2 nd a half hours...but iv timed each section seperatly nd itz been ok:P
how bout ye?

Camih

yup that works out bout the same as mine only mine was about 70, 92,60%(I think)

sillymoo

Good luck to all you doing the HPAT tomorrow! Thinking of you and hope it goes well

shamoono

my average was something like 50, 90, 85 ..... %

Anyway I'm feeling lucky cause I got some of my anti-anxiety medication that work for a long time. :D:D:D I can only use it on special occasions, like tomorrow.

Any way, good luck every body, looks like I will see some of you tomorrow at Trinity but won't know who is who.

QueenOfLeon

oohhh 1 more thing...my ticket wasnt printd in a colour printer so itz black and white nd looks photocopied...dat ok? god im really panickin over the tiny little things nw!!

amacachi

Anne-Marie!! wrote: »

oohhh 1 more thing...my ticket wasnt printd in a colour printer so itz black and white nd looks photocopied...dat ok? god im really panickin over the tiny little things nw!!

CHILL OUT!

I'm fairly sure it's just grey on white anyway, that's how it looks on my screen.

coggser01

bolox, test tomorro, rds cener, i was tinking, does any1 kno how many people are takingthe hpat? and how many places 4 medicine? just a thougt, if the difference was slim it wuld pu my mind at a fuk load of ease.:D be good 2 know. gd luk all nyway, ****!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

amacachi

coggser01 wrote: »

bolox, test tomorro, rds cener, i was tinking, does any1 kno how many people are takingthe hpat? and how many places 4 medicine? just a thougt, if the difference was slim it wuld pu my mind at a fuk load of ease.:D be good 2 know. gd luk all nyway, ****!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If ya look a few pages back there's a difference of 3000 between the number someone got when they registered early, and mine which was about a week before the closin date, so over 3000 doing the test anyway. Sorry I can't put your mind at ease.

Piste

I think it's something like 10 people for every place GAH I had not thought about a watch...bollox....