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    #1502
    Just Like Heaven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,132 ✭✭✭Just Like Heaven


    Best of luck tomorrow everybody :)


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    #1503
    AverageGirl
    Registered Users Posts: 15 ✭AverageGirl


    Good luck everyone :) we've all done everything we can by now, it's time to just relax! If its meant to be it'll happen :)

    Hopefully we'll all be halfway through our first year of med next year!!! :D


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    #1504
    spsw1994
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭spsw1994


    Does anyone know where i could get a hold of the hpat Practise Booklet TWO solutions???


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    #1505
    Hermione Granger
    Registered Users Posts: 169 ✭✭Hermione Granger


    weirdspider wrote: »
    Could anyone please tell me if we are allowed a watch?


    You're allowed to bring in a watch as long as it's not digital and that it doesn't beep on the hour or is a stopwatch or anything. . . I did the HPAT last year and it has to be a wrist watch you can't have it on the table..


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    #1506
    Hermione Granger
    Registered Users Posts: 169 ✭✭Hermione Granger


    Burkie94 wrote: »
    Hey all, long time lurking on this thread, just wanna thank everyone for advice and knowledge they've shared throughout!

    Secondly, good luck to everyone on Saturday, sure it'll be over before we know it and we can go out and get jarred!
    Quick question for ye: How do you feel that sample tests from your prep-courses/ME tests measure up to the ACER samples?
    Difficulty wise and all that jazz?

    I've only gone through the samples and a few different aptitude tests for certain questions that are in the same style and I was just wondering what's in the difference?


    With ME the Section 1 and 3 are the same and the Section2 is supposed to be more ambiguous in the real thing . . .


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    #1507
    Hermione Granger
    Registered Users Posts: 169 ✭✭Hermione Granger


    spsw1994 wrote: »
    Does anyone know where i could get a hold of the hpat Practise Booklet TWO solutions???


    Acer don't provide solutions but I know that some prep courses do . . .


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    #1508
    spsw1994
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭spsw1994


    Hermione Granger wrote: »
    Acer don't provide solutions but I know that some prep courses do . . .


    Does anyone have the solutions for the second practise booklet? :(


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    #1509
    Glitt_123
    Registered Users Posts: 70 ✭✭Glitt_123


    in exam 8,section 1 for q22, i dont get where they get the 56% in the explanation from? could anyone explain?


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    #1510
    Eurovisionmad
    Registered Users Posts: 1,160 ✭✭✭Eurovisionmad


    It's the 2nd of March on the ME LMS in Australia ahhhhh this is getting scary now!


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    #1511
    0mega
    Registered Users Posts: 850 ✭✭✭0mega


    Eurovisionmad wrote: »
    It's the 2nd of March on the ME LMS in Australia ahhhhh this is getting scary now!

    Bring it! :D


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    #1512
    The Pheasant
    Registered Users Posts: 372 ✭✭The Pheasant


    Just did the first of the two free full tests you get when you register...
    I got
    Section 1: 24/44
    Section 2: 33/36
    Section 3: 18/30
    Total : 75/110
    How many CAO hpat points does that work out to?


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    #1513
    SeanKobe
    Registered Users Posts: 9 ✭SeanKobe


    Just letting people know that the HPAT isn't as strict as you might think. Last year when I did it in the UCD O'Reilly hall I had a analog wrist watch that I had to borrow of my dad because I thought digital watches weren't allowed, two pencils and an eraser. I looked around me to find almost everybody with a digital watch and tones of highlighters even though they're not permitted. On top of that there was some guy with a stop watch that beeped really loudly every two minutes and no staff tried to take it off him.


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    #1514
    Eurovisionmad
    Registered Users Posts: 1,160 ✭✭✭Eurovisionmad


    Yeah apparently it depends on the examiner!

    I presume a mechanical pencil wouldn't cause any trouble, I'll bring both that and a normal one in case they kick up a fuss!


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    #1515
    borrch
    Registered Users Posts: 248 ✭✭borrch


    Good luck everyone :) there's no point killing yourself today with exam papers. I've taken today off as I want to be fresh for tomorrow. What will be will be..!


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    #1516
    waiting4
    Registered Users Posts: 89 ✭✭waiting4


    whats a mechanical pencil??


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    #1517
    The Pheasant
    Registered Users Posts: 372 ✭✭The Pheasant


    waiting4 wrote: »
    whats a mechanical pencil??
    The clicky ones


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    #1518
    Eurovisionmad
    Registered Users Posts: 1,160 ✭✭✭Eurovisionmad


    waiting4 wrote: »
    whats a mechanical pencil??

    Yeah as The Pheasant said the clicky ones, it's a personal preference you don't spend any time paring them!

    20603-7005-1-2ww-m.jpg


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    #1519
    0mega
    Registered Users Posts: 850 ✭✭✭0mega


    This time tomorrow lads ;)


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    #1520
    Scuid Mhór
    Registered Users Posts: 2,326 ✭✭✭Scuid Mhór


    I'm so excited!!!!


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    #1521
    chocice94
    Registered Users Posts: 27 ✭chocice94


    Admission ticket printed out, currently doing some final prep work. HPAT ... COME AT ME BRO ! (AGAIN :p )


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    #1522
    waiting4
    Registered Users Posts: 89 ✭✭waiting4


    ah sure @eurovisionmad you've thought of everything ! yeah im starting to get really excited!


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    #1523
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,202 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Best of luck to everyone tomorrow.


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    #1524
    Mr.Fun
    Registered Users Posts: 164 ✭✭Mr.Fun


    Try not to fart in the halls guys


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    #1525
    Slow Show
    Registered Users Posts: 4,248 ✭✭✭Slow Show


    I'm both excited and terrified right now. I wish I felt a little bit better (bit sick at the moment) but sadly that really can't be helped and I'll have to get on with it, and hope it doesn't affect my performance! I'm a lot more liable to mental fatigue but hopefully the adrenaline will pull me through!

    I'm just bringing a wristwatch, hope stopwatches (like, ones that beep) aren't allowed in my centre tbh, that'd really annoy me.


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    #1526
    JDOC1996
    Registered Users Posts: 445 ✭✭JDOC1996


    Best of luck guys!


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    #1527
    The Pheasant
    Registered Users Posts: 372 ✭✭The Pheasant


    What kind of pencil do you need again?


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    #1528
    0mega
    Registered Users Posts: 850 ✭✭✭0mega


    The Pheasant wrote: »
    What kind of pencil do you need again?

    Not that it really matters, but it says HB.

    Good to see everyone's not freaked out. :)


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    #1529
    The Pheasant
    Registered Users Posts: 372 ✭✭The Pheasant


    0mega wrote: »

    Not that it really matters, but it says HB.

    Good to see everyone's not freaked out. :)
    Hmmm I have a 2h, will that be grand or?....


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    #1530
    Eurovisionmad
    Registered Users Posts: 1,160 ✭✭✭Eurovisionmad


    The Pheasant wrote: »
    Hmmm I have a 2h, will that be grand or?....

    Well it's a computer which reads the answer sheets, the reason they specify 2B or HB is because they're darker and easier for the computer to read. Having said that I'm sure if you're heavy enough when you're filling out the answers there shouldn't be a huge problem!


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    #1531
    EternalGeek
    Registered Users Posts: 236 ✭✭EternalGeek


    Best of luck tomorrow everyone!!

    Remember a positive attitude is key!! :):):) You will all do great!


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