At Monash, if you fail OSCEs by a great margin, you can't sit the (supplementary) exam. (i.e. fail year automatically)
If you fail by a small margin, you get another shot a couple weeks later.
Also OSCEs are only held at the end of the year.
Sydney test centre (homebush) last year was much noisier/packed than Melbourne test centre (Caulfield Racecourse)
S1 pretty normal, few tricky ones which I ran out of time on. This year seemed a little more time consuming.
S2 easier than last year I reckon, virtually no hard vocab and more...
I can't answer the question in OP's case, but in general, no, you do not have to be that intelligent.
The high criteria to get in is a testament to the desirability and competition for the course, not the intelligence level required to be a medical student.
I know ATAR is not a reflection of...
Well, once you do get your P's won't your parents know you took the test without their permission? Cos it'll be pretty obvious once you start taking the car out of the driveway by yourself after you get the licence.
I know this sounds kind of naive but as a general rule, given your financial/family situation is fine, would you take interstate unbonded or bonded to your home state?
wow, good job, those marks are ridiculously high. (let alone for a rural student)
good chance of getting upgraded, as they normally limit the no. of first round offers and quite a few people reject.
Monash-20th
Queensland-none
Une-none (unless predicted less than 93.4 but actual atar over 93.4
Uws-none (unless predicted atar less than threshold but actual over)
Uadel-sometime in mid jan (from admissions guide)
Use the term median please. It's more accurate. Ie if you consider the average raw, it's probably about 65 (people may get in with raws of like 73 dragging the whole average up). However if you look at raw average percentile, it would probably be about 96. ( ie taking the average or 93, 97 or...