*Everything HPAT and Medicine 2014*

cian casey

What order do people have them in ??

woopah92

UCD (no chance, but I just left it down)
RCSI
UCC
NUIG

No Trinity down on my CAO. Hopefully optimistic, maybe too much so, for RCSI.

micoshea

TCD
UCD
RCSI
UCC
NUIG
Fingers crossed

cian casey

Is anyone fairly confident they'll get their first choice ?? :P

kb98

Just writing to ask if the HPAT is as hard as everyone makes it out to be? I will be doing it in 2016 and just wondering if it is nearly impossible to get 80th/90th percentile. How hard is it to get a score that will get you a place on a course? I think i can get around 560-585 so that is 552-557 so i would need around 170+?

EoghanIRL

kb98 wrote: »

Just writing to ask if the HPAT is as hard as everyone makes it out to be? I will be doing it in 2016 and just wondering if it is nearly impossible to get 80th/90th percentile. How hard is it to get a score that will get you a place on a course? I think i can get around 560-585 so that is 552-557 so i would need around 170+?

Why don't you wait 2 more years when there is a hpat 2016 thread .
Take a chill pill and relax before hard decisions do come .
I think people are preoccupied with this years hpat atm .

scallway

How can you make sure you get offered premed and not first med? I'm confident I'm going to get an offer but not doing first med 😛

aiaiclor

If you get offered first med you can just drop down easily enough 👍

Namzi

kb98 wrote: »

Just writing to ask if the HPAT is as hard as everyone makes it out to be? I will be doing it in 2016 and just wondering if it is nearly impossible to get 80th/90th percentile. How hard is it to get a score that will get you a place on a course? I think i can get around 560-585 so that is 552-557 so i would need around 170+?

Your a bit early, but after all that bird gets the worm. The best thing is not to fall into the trap of using up countless sample materials and not correcting yourself ( Me last year and I came out with 75th percentile in 2013). This year I got 91st percentile, by doing the sample papers then carefully correcting myself with the solutions, improving my mental maths, you have to be able to divide, find percentages and multiply quickly. Work on timing is a last minute affair not the main focus, and do not write off section 2, it can be your saviour or your worst nightmare. Best of luck.

Namzi

micoshea wrote: »

TCD
UCD
RCSI
UCC
NUIG
Fingers crossed

My exact order also. But now I hope for anywhere but Dublin lol

kb98

Namzi wrote: »

Your a bit early, but after all that bird gets the worm. The best thing is not to fall into the trap of using up countless sample materials and not correcting yourself ( Me last year and I came out with 75th percentile in 2013). This year I got 91st percentile, by doing the sample papers then carefully correcting myself with the solutions, improving my mental maths, you have to be able to divide, find percentages and multiply quickly. Work on timing is a last minute affair not the main focus, and do not write off section 2, it can be your saviour or your worst nightmare. Best of luck.

Thanks!
I'm just trying to prepare myself for it over the next year so that i will be ready because i would rather get the high score the first time but as people like you prove you can come back stronger and improve! Well done on that score!

back to back

yo! i got 733 and hoping for ucd i know i have a small chance but im like totally trippin some major balls here so like i was just wondering if other people are the same as me or if anyone had any cheeky predictions floatin around ?

woopah92

back to back wrote: »

yo! i got 733 and hoping for ucd i know i have a small chance but im like totally trippin some major balls here so like i was just wondering if other people are the same as me or if anyone had any cheeky predictions floatin around ?

You'll be close I'd say! I think UCD will be around 734/735..

imsocool chillininda pool

nah i think 733 could get tcd this year 15 point drop isn't totally unrealistic

back to back

kwl thanks hombre

Ryan95

back to back wrote: »

yo! i got 733 and hoping for ucd i know i have a small chance but im like totally trippin some major balls here so like i was just wondering if other people are the same as me or if anyone had any cheeky predictions floatin around ?

I'd say you're fairly boarder line for UCD like you may scrap it in tomorrow or else get it in the 2nd round so I'd be fairly optimistic !

back to back

awesome although i dont have trinners down till my third choice after rcsi haha dunno why i did that

woopah92

RCSI though... :-P Could see ya there buddy...

HugsiePie

GTFO OUT OF HERE AND GO TO THE AWARDS CEREMONY

back to back

hope so ill ask around for a 'woopah'

woopah92

My awards time was last year... I don't know these new people

woopah92

back to back wrote: »

hope so ill ask around for a 'woopah'

You could find out my real name either and then, I suppose, ask for that

HugsiePie

Just go for the bants like

Join in

Namzi

kb98 wrote: »

Thanks!
I'm just trying to prepare myself for it over the next year so that i will be ready because i would rather get the high score the first time but as people like you prove you can come back stronger and improve! Well done on that score!

No prob and thanks!

D3mand123

Praying for a 19 point drop

HugsiePie

LADS

RELAX

THERES NOTHING YEE CAN DO BAR WAIT

SO WHY NOT RELAX

AND ATTEND AN AWARD CEREMONY WHILE YOU WAIT

I hightly reccomend this http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057271590&page=9 :pac:

imsocool chillininda pool

is anyone else having extreme difficulty explaining to family and friends how med will drop this year? all mine are sh!tting a brick and think i'm proper crazy talking about the definite reduction

back to back

anyway good luck to everyone tomorrow. not to get too sappy but like if youre on boards.ie 6 hours before cao deadline then youre most likely really ambitious and bright nd **** so like whatever happens tomorrow just go with it. theres millions of ways of getting medicine outside of the cao and regardless its pretty insignificant in the grander scheme of things. last year missed medicine by 5 points and was pretty torn up, then went on to do a year of biomedical science in ucd and had the best year of my life so like whatever you get tomorrow just say **** it! and eat some cereal:)

micoshea

*munches cheerios

sal18c3

back to back wrote: »

anyway good luck to everyone tomorrow. not to get too sappy but like if youre on boards.ie 6 hours before cao deadline then youre most likely really ambitious and bright nd **** so like whatever happens tomorrow just go with it. theres millions of ways of getting medicine outside of the cao and regardless its pretty insignificant in the grander scheme of things. last year missed medicine by 5 points and was pretty torn up, then went on to do a year of biomedical science in ucd and had the best year of my life so like whatever you get tomorrow just say **** it! and eat some cereal:)

Did you repeat hpat this year? I think I will have to do the same