Blogs

10th September 2020
THE NEW MEDENTRY HPAT ONLINE PLATFORM IS HERE!
Our IT engineers have been working hard to deliver the most intuitive, personalised and effective HPAT platform available. We are excited to have launched this platform for our students sitting the HPAT in 2021. Some of the LMS resources have moved around. Here is a summary of where they can now be found: HPAT Structured Learning Curriculum MedEntry’s HPAT guides and HPAT video guides are ...
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14th June 2020
3 Resources to Read Over Summer to Improve your Section 2 HPAT Score
Going back to school may feel like months away but the summer break provides a great opportunity to hone vital HPAT skills to ensure you are best prepared for the HPAT exam. The 3 sections in the HPAT must be prepared for differently as each are designed to measure a specific skill. Whereas Sections 1 and 3 test your abilities in logical and non-verbal reasoning respectively - Section 2 will a ...
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6th November 2019
New Partnership With the Dublin Academy of Education
MedEntry is delighted to announce our new partnership with the Dublin Academy of Education. The Dublin Academy of Education is the largest provider of part-time second level courses in the country. It now also offers a full time school for 5th year, 6th year and Repeat Leaving Certificate students. The Dublin Academy of Education’s values align with MedEntry’s: both organisations are passion ...
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30th December 2018
ACER Practice Test 4
ACER released a new practice exam, called 'HPAT Practice Test 4'. Like some other HPAT practice tests released by ACER, they do not include solutions. Therefore, it is difficult for students to know why they may have got a question wrong, and how to arrive at the correct answer efficiently and accurately. MedEntry has recently made available to students high quality, fully worked solutions to ...
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25th May 2018
It's Time to Plan Your HPAT Preparation
By finding this blog post, you have already realised that, despite what many people tell you, studying for the HPAT is possible. I was also sceptical prior to using MedEntry’s HPAT tuition course. However, my final score in the 100th percentile, more than 30 percentiles higher than my first trial paper, would not have been possible without it. The MedEntry resources will give you everything yo ...
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13th March 2018
Planning time for HPAT Preparation
Unsure how to fit in HPAT prep with your school study? Florence scored 100th percentile in UMAT ( the equivalent to HPAT in Australia/New Zealand) and shares her tips.
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13th June 2017
HPAT: WHY PRACTICE DOESN’T NECESSARILY MAKE PERFECT
In life, we are told that ‘practice makes perfect’. The more you practice a particular skill, whether it be playing the piano, swimming or writing essays, the better you become at it. So, in theory, it should be the same in HPAT – the more practice questions you do, the better you are at HPAT – right? Not necessarily. Just like any skill, to do well in HPAT you first need a basic understandin ...
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13th June 2017
New Features - Feedback by Question Type and Exam Retries
In addition to viewing your exam results by section (Logical Reasoning and Problem Solving, Understanding People or Non-verbal Reasoning), you can now view more detailed results by specific question types. There are 2 ways to view your feedback: 1. Go to the Check Progress page to see a summary containing all of your drill/exam question attempts: 2. On each exam page, you will ...
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1st June 2017
SHOULD I GET A TUTOR FOR HPAT OR ATTEND WEEKLY HPAT CLASSES?
Some students who are preparing for HPAT wonder if they should get a private tutor for HPAT or attend weekly HPAT classes. Often this is because that is what they are used to doing in high school. But HPAT is very different to school and therefore requires a different approach. Here we suggest a much more effective (and much cheaper) way of preparing for HPAT: group study. The benefits of g ...
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