How To Study for the HPAT // tips for best results // study medicine in Ireland

[@bhargaviyarlagadda4634]

You are doing great job orla guiding ,helping ,wish u all the best.

[@orlacoffey814]

Thank you

[@martinaemma7096]

Could you show us the sheet you wrote with the vocabulary you learnt during mocks? It would be super helpful

[@eniggma9353]

Lovely material. 🎉

[@greatbornofficial]

Bro you’ve just broken my heart, mine is in two weeks and I’m just starting now😭😂 and I’m deff not this serious

[@orlacoffey814]

You do you my friend 👍

[@greatbornofficial]

@@orlacoffey814 I thought you was gonna like encourage me 😭

[@ines-oy2vy]

@@greatbornofficial hey !! I wanna know how you did was it ok or too difficult to start 2 weeks before the revisions?

[@greatbornofficial]

@@ines-oy2vy bro u need to start like 5 months 😂 prior or at least asap because I did well but we’ll isn’t enough u have to be one of the best, unfortunately I missed out on medicine even after enough CAO points

[@ellawalsh4526]

would you recommend sitting mocks this year if they’re happening right before my hpat date? Or just to purely focus on the hpat for that time? Thanks so much☺️

[@orlacoffey814]

Depends on how confident you are leading up to both. Ideally I would actually do the mocks too because last minute cramming for Hpat isn’t very effective and it would change your focus right before the hpat to something else, also helpful practice for June

[@ellawalsh4526]

Thanks so much, also I was just wondering what raw score should I be aiming for in my practice exams, I seem to be stuck around the 70/110 area and I really want to improve. Thanks so much again☺️

[@tomanzd.]

Practice 1 year ahead Me seems like good idea Ah it's tomorrow? Whelp guess 16 hours is good enough

[@Mingaile.lukosiute]

Great video! Im just wondering which package did you get from medentry

[@asfahsabrie6207]

Hello, always nice content as always. By the way are u allowed to use a calculator in the hpat just wondering.

[@orlacoffey814]

Nope I don’t think so it all has to be mental or hand written calculations but the maths in it is straight forward to do without a calculator

[@Lola-ex1dt]

How many times/hours a week did you dedicate to the hpat? Also, would you recommend just doing hpat related tasks each day?

[@orlacoffey814]

About 2/3 at the start of the year and then 5/6 in January and feb. I would always do it in the middle of my normal subjects study day to mix things up a bit

[@Lola-ex1dt]

@@orlacoffey814 Thanks so much!

[@enzobogni9303]

Hi orla I am wondering what package did you get for medentry hpat. I am nott looking to spend 1500 euro on the dianond package. What will be good for me to just get into the 80 percentile. Does the packages really matter. Btw I am starting this course in 5th year as I want to guarantee that I ace it. Lol studying for 2 years

[@salmasalihmoh]

Thanks for the video. Could I start preparing if I am 2nd year ?

[@yaelyup]

hi! thank you for this video. I’m 27 and would like to enroll in two years as a mature foreign student (EU-citizen), do you know any preparation institution (such as medentry or else) who provide help with applications given I’m not familiar with the irish academic system?

[@alisonhaworth4196]

I am just deciding now I want to get into OT and need 50 percentile. I have just over 2 months is it enough time if I had dedicated full time on HPAT prep?

[@orlacoffey814]

Definitely, 50th percentile is very doable on aptitude alone and if you prepare you would hopefully do better than your raw aptitude. For medicine you need 80/85th minimum so it’s far more competitive and needs more preparation but you should be ok if you understand the exam, practice a bit and have a decent mindset suited to it💖

[@preciousalawiye2244]

Hi, I just recently properly started my HPAT preparation, and I've just been thinking that maybe it's too late. What do you think?

[@orlacoffey814]

It’s doable but would definitely take lots of work, also would depend on how good you are with it to begin with so how your baseline level is starting off

[@milan8071]

Would I be late if I start practicing for the HPAT exam at the end of December? If so, how much time would you recommend me to spend on the HPAT practice exams per day?

[@orlacoffey814]

A little late perhaps but if you are naturally good at the style of questions it would still be possible to do well. The time you spend is honestly up to you and depends on how difficult or otherwise you find the preparation

[@balasubramanianm6572]

Hi Orla, how do I score a acer practice test ? for instance on the Test 1 I got the following percentages: 61%, 90%, 50%. by the 40/40/20 rule, i get 211. But i guess i need to take this with a pinch of salt.. can you please guide me here? Thanks!

[@orlacoffey814]

Hey, be cautious that Acer ones are easier than the real thing. Also, your score for each section isn’t a percentage of the amount you got right, it’s a score which is itself weighted based on which questions you get right rather than just how many and how many everyone else gets right too. So I wouldn’t even try to work out an overall score from Acer exams because you can’t apply the same method :)

[@balasubramanianm6572]

That makes sense. Thanks 🙏

[@balasubramanianm6572]

I plan to prep using medentry diamond package. So at the actual exam did you find any questions or types from any section that were strikingly similar to the practise ones you did?

[@balasubramanianm6572]

Hi Orla are there any private tutoring service to help to bump the score by a some percentage points?

[@Tariqwazir564]

And can you join medine directly after 6th year or do u also have to do a bachelors degree before entering medicine

[@itsfiona1173]

hi i was wondering if there's anyway i could get pictures of all your hpat notes if you dont mind!

[@orlacoffey814]

Hey, sorry I can’t send them on to you because my notes are basically just the Medentry notes rewritten, which aren’t mine to pass on x

[@Arham-ps8tj]

Do you recommend changing subjects in 6th year ? From physics to business ? Do you think I’ll be able to cover 2 yrs worth in an year ?

[@orlacoffey814]

Not sure I would recommend it but it’s probably possible. Business is very straightforward but also extremely content heavy and would take a massive amount of time to catch up on. On the other hand If you nail a few areas of physics you have most of the exam covered (like the atom for example).

[@Tariqwazir564]

Which medical college you got admission in

[@louisxix3271]

Great video! Its so nice to know how other people's experiences were like. I'm sitting mine in 10 days.. What overall percentile did you end up getting though?

[@LK-on6rw]

How did it go?

[@louisxix3271]

@@LK-on6rw 90th%, so pretty good! Good luck with yours if you're sitting it.

[@purpleshampoo0591]

thats an amazing score! well done !! may i ask when did you start preparing ?

[@louisxix3271]

@@purpleshampoo0591 Thanks! As far as I recall, I started proper preparation in mid December thereabouts, i.e. I did a 3 hour practice test most weekends.

[@purpleshampoo0591]

@@louisxix3271 oh same ,I started preparing around dec too. My exam is in 10 days so pretty nervous 🫣. If you don’t mind me asking - would you say the medentry percentiles are similar to what you got in your hpat ?

[@lojanenada5512]

Is the real exam harder than the practice ones?

[@orlacoffey814]

Some Q’s were harder but some were way easier. (In comparison to Medentry’s ones, but Acer ones are way easier than the real thing) The question stems in the real thing we’re shorter I thought too

[@Sukiii420]

i know this was a while ago but i hope youll reply ! would i be late to study now? im in 6th year (: thank u

[@lucascoyne6426]

do you recommend starting prep at the start of 5th year?

[@orlacoffey814]

It’s probably a bit unnecessary but if you feel like it would help you, you could just do a small bit of research on the exam and know what the process is

[@janag2488]

do you think the hpat will be held online again next year?

[@orlacoffey814]

No idea, would depend on the pandemic situation but it’s probably an option

[@kiss1and]

were your scores high from the beginning? ( when doing drills, practice exams etc. ) I hope you don’t mind me asking, just wondering how big of a jump is possible!

[@orlacoffey814]

I got 85th percentile in my first one, a few in the 90s and all above 70s apart from one I randomly got 46 or something

[@SamAlva-z5i]

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[@diosavvides429]

Hi there, would you say the official ACER practice materials are sufficient preparation for the HPAT? or are the MedEntry packages more useful in terms of getting you ready?

[@orlacoffey814]

I only did 1 Acer practice exam and I found it way easier than both the real thing and all of the Medentry practice ones I did. I would recommend Medentry but that said it’s not a necessity so if you think the Acer materials are helping you then just stick with those.

[@diosavvides429]

@@orlacoffey814 Understood. Thanks!

[@Anna-ri8cg]

What percentile did you got when you did your first full length hpat exam?

[@orlacoffey814]

85th percentile in my first one

[@favor1823]

Hi, do u know anythjng about career service cause i got that since my guidance councillor gave us a promo code but i dont know if i madde a mistake getting it cause a lot lot of ppl seem to be doing med wntry what are ur thoughts

[@orlacoffey814]

I don't know anything about it so can't really comment on it, I just know the Medentry one I did was great. Once it's working for you don't stress about it what other people are doing though

[@sanjibkoirala5055]

Hello Doctor. Your video is really informative. I am an MBBS graduate from Nepal. I am taking USMLE exams. Could you please tell me how can I do postgraduate in medicine (internal medicine or pediatric or family medicine or GP) using my USMLE scores. In addition, can u please provide which websites will have authentic informations about it. Thank you very much!!

[@mattfitzy7042]

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[@emmahoneyman3103]

How did you get on in your first exams ?

[@orlacoffey814]

The ones I mentioned in this were my first few… 85th, 74th we’re my first and second x

[@shann4967]

@@orlacoffey814when you started studying for it what was the first thing you did ?

[@musairfan6]

Did you study for the mocks when you were preparing for the hpat?

[@orlacoffey814]

We didn’t have mocks because we were on lockdown when they were supposed to happen so I had time to just focus on hpat

[@rmeravigli1894]

So you started when you were still at high school, right ?

[@mattfitzy7042]

showing that sheet after you did the test is soooo cringe. zero sum game mentality. i'm on that alpha male skrategies abundance mindset. #AMS