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I'm hoping to get into UNSW. If, say, I were expecting an ATAR of ~97, I'd need around a ~90 percentile umat mark to score an interview, am I right? So going by that, what type of raw marks should I be aiming for?

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From UNSW's website (https://med.unsw.edu.au/selection-criteria-local-applicants):

"UNSW uses the actual scores for the three test components, not the percentile rank. Minimum UMAT score required for interivew selection is 150 (total raw score - there is no required score minimum for test components)."

I'm not sure what raw marks will give you a total raw score of 150 though.
 
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So when I'm doing practice papers, how am I meant to know how well I'm doing? If, for example's sake, I get a 40/45 for a section 1, how am I meant to know how that translates to their "overall score" and if I'm doing well or not?
 

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It would be hard to determine how well you're doing as different practice papers have varying difficulties. Hence a 40/45 in one paper could be an amazing mark, but in another exam it could be an average mark. Based on what company's paper you completed, you can approximate how well you should be doing. For example, ACER's practice exams are considered easier than the actual UMAT, and so you should be getting high marks in them, while on the other hand, MedEntry's practice exams are thought to have sections which are harder in difficulty than the actual UMAT (especially in Exams 11-15), so what might seem like a low score in those exams could actually result in a high percentile.

To know if you're doing well, you could ask other people and compare their results to yours. If you're doing exams online and are provided with percentiles for each sections upon completing the exam, that indicates how well you're doing compared to everyone else who did the exam. However, be sure to realise that people who do online exams from a company are usually more dedicated to doing well in the UMAT, and hence they can skew your perception of what a good score is.

I don't think you can directly calculate the approximate total raw mark for a real UMAT exam from what you get in a practice exam, so your best bet would be to aim as high as you can. Examine the questions you incorrectly answered, and determine how difficult they are. If you're getting a lot of the easy questions in a specific section wrong, then that indicates that you might not be doing well in that particular section, and should actively try to improve.
 
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I'm hoping to get into UNSW. If, say, I were expecting an ATAR of ~97, I'd need around a ~90 percentile umat mark to score an interview, am I right? So going by that, what type of raw marks should I be aiming for?

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Just to throw this out there, if you *just* score an interview it would be very hard to actually be accepted. You need fantastic everything to get in. If 97 atar is what you're going to be getting, then I think a good UMAT percentile would need to be above 95 (like 97) to be competitive.

If you want to know what type of raw marks to aim for, check out the other thread I posted in... it had my raw marks and such when I did practice papers (I scored 95 umat for reference)
 

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