Bonjour my fellow students:)
So Sunday was my last HPAT class with John Maher. What.A.Ledge. That guy is probably the most supportive, enthusiastic, motivational and genuinely most suited man to do the job. What we did yesterday was our practice test, i scored 54/110 so I got 49.09% which was average on the day, man was I disappointed, I guess I’ll have to practice every week,,,one person got 77%! Basically he just said that the score we got on the day can defo be improved and we shouldn’t linger on it. I thought the whole experience was great, I timed myself perfectly and had about 5 minutes at the end of each section to look over my work. I found Section 1 to be the hardest, 2 was tricky but 3 was my strongest. I honestly gained so much from this course I can’t even explain. I am way more confident in myself and know I can perform well. I would totally reccomend this course to anyone who wants to do medicine in Ireland and needs to do well in the HPAT. Most people won’t get the 600 points (my self included) so the HPAT is a great thing and it could be the reason you enter med school. So really just again, stay positive, buy the HPAT practice booklet online (ACER/ HPAT website) practice every saturday morning to get your mind set on that certain time, time yourself, see where your weak and work on those parts. Make sure to build your aptitude,read more, do more puzzles etc that test your mind, silly and basic things that make the difference. All in all I wish you all the best of luck doing your HPAT and hope you get into the course you want 
Its a competitive choice alright but if you work hard at it im sure it would be much easier…
And on that note … have a good week enjoy your Tuesday off, lament the fact that Jedward have gone or in my case have a party and celebrate ( hey maybe they’ll go back to school now and i might see them on Saturdays…FAT CHANCE:D).
and… I’m seeing new moon again tomorrow :):):):)
Glad the mock tests went well! Hopefully you’ll get it! RCSI? Wow!!! Tough isn’t it?
Ian
24 Nov 09 at 2:19 pm
I know i got a taste of reality, like not everyone will get into med…its really worrying,but i suppose we can only do our best…i just think im still not trying hard enough
Ally
24 Nov 09 at 10:42 pm
49% aint dat bad at this time of d year so go u!! Med all da way!!
Zach
25 Nov 09 at 1:28 am
Thanks Zach yeah your prob right,ill get more practice questions in there and hopefully bring up that mark
ditto to that ^__^ GL to you too! 
Ally
25 Nov 09 at 10:01 pm
I was on the same course!
The highest was 74% if it makes you feel any better…
Also think of it like this there was a whole other half of the class lower than you, average isnt bad!
name? :D
27 Jan 10 at 8:33 pm
I did the same course – isn’t he fantastic?!
I got 72% in the practice test but I don’t imagine that I’ll do anywhere near as well in February unfortunately! But time will tell!
S
28 Jan 10 at 11:09 pm
hey, i was on that course, got 77%,which was the highest apparently, how did evryone get on with the scores out of 300 he sent out?
Sh
31 Jan 10 at 7:30 pm
scores? sent out??
when ? where?
i think im missing something…XD
huh
3 Feb 10 at 6:35 pm
ioe sent out a score out of 300 along with the average score from the whole class,a few weeks after the course along with another sample hpat paper.
Sh
3 Feb 10 at 7:49 pm
I just finished the last course with John and he said that they weren’t sending out any /300 scores anymore because they weren’t very accurate due to such a small and dedicated number and they just panicked people!
Ally don’t worry, on my course the highest score was a MIGHTY 88% and that made my (what I thought was average!!) 66% feel so small and crappy so dont worry about it, we’re all in the same boat =]
Áine
9 Feb 10 at 6:21 pm