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Allocating your study time during year 12

Though “ACER and the UMAT Consortium universities do not recommend or endorse any commercially available courses offering UMAT preparation”, UMAT Prep courses are available to aid the UMAT candidates with as much training as is necessary to familiarize them with the style of the UMAT questions. The additional practice allows students to adopt the pattern of thinking which will be useful at the time of the UMAT.
However, some UMAT candidates choose to undertake UMAT preparation on their own and this is also recommended as an alternative to running into the hall late on the day of the UMAT, suffering the consequences of a previous night-out.

During Year 12, the UMAT candidate is faced with a multitude of stresses: pressure from family and teachers to perform well in assessments, pressure from him/herself to work consistently, raging hormones at their peak, and all the usual punches life throws at this most inconvenient time. The UMAT preparation arises as an unfamiliar situation which the UMAT candidate has never been faced with before. UMAT2008 will be held on Wednesday 30 July 2008, and UMAT2007 was held on Wednesday 25 July 2007. The UMAT candidate therefore does not have a whole year to prepare for this assessment.

Around July the mid-year exams arise and assignments are pouring in. The student is left to decide whether they will have enough time to do all the necessary preparation for their academic subjects as well as the UMAT. If this is physically impossible to do, the UMAT candidate must make sacrifices in the appropriate places. It should be known that in most medical schools around Australia, the academic results form only a third of the overall selection criteria, and in some universities even a quarter.

This is not to say that they are not worth studying for. Some universities have ENTER score cut-offs, such as the University of Melbourne and Adelaide, where the UMAT candidates are not even considered if their ENTER does not surpass 96. However since it was introduced, the UMAT has played an increasing role in the selection of the new generation of doctors. UMAT candidates are awarded interviews at most medical schools based on their UMAT scores, and the University of Newcastle places a particular emphasis on well-balanced scores throughout the three sections of the UMAT. Ideally, the UMAT candidate should spend an hour minimum a day practicing for the UMAT. Consistent work will gain satisfactory results!

Hint: come interview prep time, sample Section II UMAT questions are a great source of possible scenarios the interviewers may spring on you on the day.

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