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    #962
    Slow Show
    Registered Users Posts: 4,248 ✭✭✭Slow Show


    Ha, looking back through my boards posts, easy to see when I'm procrastinating anyway, the length of my posts vary in direct proportion to the level of work I am attempting to put off. :p


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    #963
    outnumbered
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,696 ✭✭✭outnumbered


    Slow Show wrote: »
    Ha, looking back through my boards posts, easy to see when I'm procrastinating anyway, the length of my posts vary in direct proportion to the level of work I am attempting to put off. :p
    :P


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    #964
    Hermione Granger
    Registered Users Posts: 169 ✭✭Hermione Granger


    amicus wrote: »
    I prefer the hpat system like otherwise you would want to be getting 610..?


    What about for the people who actually got this but still didn't get in ?


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    #965
    Hermione Granger
    Registered Users Posts: 169 ✭✭Hermione Granger


    Just did an ME exam today and there seems to be a new layout for the review with a button at the bottom called save the state of the flags. Anyone know how to revert to the old layout ?


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    #966
    amicus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 301 ✭✭amicus


    Hermione Granger wrote: »


    What about for the people who actually got this but still didn't get in ?
    Ye obviously they should .the systems terrible


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    #967
    0mega
    Registered Users Posts: 850 ✭✭✭0mega


    Slow Show wrote: »
    S1 98, S2 40, S3 41. My worst S2 performance, that was the oddest one for me. And it's probably bad that I'm delighted with 41st in S3. :pac:

    Snap, so far anyway.. :P


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    #968
    spasmaster
    Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭spasmaster


    Important note here, last year at the start of the test we were allowed to look though the paper for a few minutes to see if there were any pages missing. Be prepared for this just in case. Maybe have a look at the first question for a bit to settle the nerves.


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    #969
    KristineKJ
    Registered Users Posts: 145 ✭✭KristineKJ


    ^

    was hoping for that.


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    #970
    Hermione Granger
    Registered Users Posts: 169 ✭✭Hermione Granger


    Thought you guys might find this interesting. Funnily enough they didn't actually say what he got in his HPAT . . .

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/education/2012/0228/1224312479289.html


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    #971
    Eurovisionmad
    Registered Users Posts: 1,160 ✭✭✭Eurovisionmad


    Hermione Granger wrote: »
    Thought you guys might find this interesting. Funnily enough they didn't actually say what he got in his HPAT . . .

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/education/2012/0228/1224312479289.html

    Ironically I think I recognize him as the guy who gave us a talk in the morning of our ME course, and if it is him the score he got in the real think was 100th percentile owing to the fact that he got 100th percentile in S2, while his other two sections weren't amazing his S2 score got the overall mark up.


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    #972
    Just Like Heaven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,132 ✭✭✭Just Like Heaven


    A couple of us are going on a pub crawl. I’ll still be studying tomorrow though.

    Sure he's obviously not a real human anyway.


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    #973
    Traderdc
    Registered Users Posts: 32 ✭Traderdc


    Hi guys - I am a mature applicant and will be sitting hpat. I work full time at the moment and am only beginning to prepare for the HPAT now which seems very late having looked at the posts on here! Just a couple of quick questions that I would really appreciate some answers on. I am going to do a prep course, seems like alot of people have done ME or CS. There is a CS one on in Cork on 11 Feb which I think I will do as it is much more convenient for me than heading to Dublin. Which is better? The ME one is a lot more expensive obviously. I have the 2 acer practice tests but is there anywhere else I can get good practice tests with worked solutions? I have read alot of you are doing "drills", what are these exactly and where can I access them. Apols for all the questions but i'd really appreciate some help and feel free to direct me to where these questions have been answered already. Thanks alot.


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    #974
    Just Like Heaven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,132 ✭✭✭Just Like Heaven


    The drills are part of the ME online package. I thought CS was pretty good. Overall ME is better because of the amount of material they supply you with, but the day course was only alright. If you're working full time CS might provide you with as much material as you can use anyway.

    ME gives you about 70 drills (approx 15-20 questions each) and 12 full mocks all online + the mock you sit at the course.
    CS gives you about 400 questions, a mock + the full test you sit on the mock day.

    Both companies provide you with solutions to practise booklet 2.


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    #975
    Traderdc
    Registered Users Posts: 32 ✭Traderdc


    Thanks very much for the info fewtinnsoffroth - sounds like I might be better off getting the online package from ME as they seem to give a lot more practice materia and you seem to suggest that the actual day course was only ok. Thanks v much.


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    #976
    Slow Show
    Registered Users Posts: 4,248 ✭✭✭Slow Show


    0mega wrote: »
    Snap, so far anyway.. :P

    You got 98th in S1 too? Heh, I just checked and I see that I have been knocked down to 97th, perhaps I have you to blame for that? How'd the rest of it go? :)


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    #977
    En
    Registered Users Posts: 61 ✭✭En


    Slow Show wrote: »
    You got 98th in S1 too? Heh, I just checked and I see that I have been knocked down to 97th, perhaps I have you to blame for that? How'd the rest of it go? :)

    Out of curiosity how do you check your percentile? I'm assuming this is some online course


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    #978
    Fiddles44
    Registered Users Posts: 140 ✭✭Fiddles44


    I'm sure some of you have seen the petition going around facebook and heard the talks on RTE Radio.

    Everyone interested in medicine and may not have had any experience yet should really listen to these doctors talking to Joe Duffy today

    http://www.rte.ie/radio1/liveline/


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    #979
    Fiddles44
    Registered Users Posts: 140 ✭✭Fiddles44


    En wrote: »
    Out of curiosity how do you check your percentile? I'm assuming this is some online course

    When people are talking about percentiles its from exams they have done on with ME online


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    #980
    0mega
    Registered Users Posts: 850 ✭✭✭0mega


    Slow Show wrote: »
    You got 98th in S1 too? Heh, I just checked and I see that I have been knocked down to 97th, perhaps I have you to blame for that? How'd the rest of it go? :)

    Yes and sorry about that :P

    I've got 84 in S2 (very happy with that, marks an end to my rapid decline) :).


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    #981
    KristineKJ
    Registered Users Posts: 145 ✭✭KristineKJ


    Fiddles44 wrote: »
    I'm sure some of you have seen the petition going around facebook and heard the talks on RTE Radio.

    Everyone interested in medicine and may not have had any experience yet should really listen to these doctors talking to Joe Duffy today

    http://www.rte.ie/radio1/liveline/

    it shouldn't be allowed to work past 24 hours. I hope this will improve in the near future. We have the same problem in Norway. It's a danger for doctors as well as patients.


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    #982
    Eurovisionmad
    Registered Users Posts: 1,160 ✭✭✭Eurovisionmad


    KristineKJ wrote: »
    it shouldn't be allowed to work past 24 hours. I hope this will improve in the near future. We have the same problem in Norway. It's a danger for doctors as well as patients.

    Ireland is technically breaking EU in allowing this as the Working Directive says no more than 48 hours per week, but of course none of the hospitals have near enough doctors to achieve that!


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    #983
    Hermione Granger
    Registered Users Posts: 169 ✭✭Hermione Granger


    0mega wrote: »
    Yes and sorry about that :P

    I've got 84 in S2 (very happy with that, marks an end to my rapid decline) :).

    What exam are you guys talking about


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    #984
    0mega
    Registered Users Posts: 850 ✭✭✭0mega


    Hermione Granger wrote: »
    What exam are you guys talking about

    #5 on ME. :)


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    #985
    SDCards
    Registered Users Posts: 58 ✭✭SDCards


    Eurovisionmad wrote: »
    Ireland is technically breaking EU in allowing this as the Working Directive says no more than 48 hours per week, but of course none of the hospitals have near enough doctors to achieve that!

    Well, if the pay got better and they stopped cutting so much while working doctors so hard, maybe they'd have a better chance of having more doctors. And fewer doctors would be under so much pressure to keep the job that they DO have... :/


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    #986
    amicus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 301 ✭✭amicus


    0mega wrote: »
    #5 on ME. :)

    what were your scores in each section?


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    #987
    KristineKJ
    Registered Users Posts: 145 ✭✭KristineKJ


    SDCards wrote: »
    Well, if the pay got better and they stopped cutting so much while working doctors so hard, maybe they'd have a better chance of having more doctors. And fewer doctors would be under so much pressure to keep the job that they DO have... :/


    I'm surprised it's not better payed. In Norway they'd be striking/protesting then and then the state would have to negociate because healt care system would fail if doctors refused to work. Such striking is allowed every second year, and last year it was the school system and teachers that striked until they got better wages.

    Anyhow, I heard all the protests and complaints about the IMO on radio and the conditions are seriously dangerous. I had no idea it was this bad in Ireland. Are there similarities in the UK?


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    #988
    0mega
    Registered Users Posts: 850 ✭✭✭0mega


    amicus wrote: »
    what were your scores in each section?

    I've only done S1 & S2, which are 98 and 84.

    I'll do S3 tomorrow.


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    #989
    amicus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 301 ✭✭amicus


    ah cool.i got same in section 1 and 98 in sc 3 .ill do 2 tomoro.duno bout that score tho ha


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    #990
    0mega
    Registered Users Posts: 850 ✭✭✭0mega


    amicus wrote: »
    ah cool.i got same in section 1 and 98 in sc 3 .ill do 2 tomoro.duno bout that score tho ha

    Two 98th percentiles? That's unreal, particularly your S3 one!

    Any tips on how you do so well in that sec?


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    #991
    amicus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 301 ✭✭amicus


    0mega wrote: »
    Two 98th percentiles? That's unreal, particularly your S3 one!

    Any tips on how you do so well in that sec?

    section1 was a bit flukey id say.ehm for section 3 just try fly through the sequence ones giving you more time for the middle ones as they are the most difficult


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