Studious
Hey Studious,
So the most important thing you need to know is that every university works in a different way. So even the provisional entry pathway is different at every uni but you can generalise the requirements to ATAR + UCAT + Interview (there are unis that just take ATAR as well etc.). To answer your question, the postgraduate pathway also differs across unis but considering you put this thread within the QCE forums, I'll focus on the QLD unis (which is also the ones I'm best at 😅):
- For UQ graduate pathway, you can do any bachelor degree you like as long as you tick three criteria: specific subject prerequisites (like anatomy, pathophysiology etc.), a competitive GAMSAT score (min. 50 in each section) and a GPA of 5 (but obviously you'll need more to be competitive). These all criteria is to determine if you get an interview which I believe it is an MMI. Along with everything else, that will determine your place in graduate med. Just to be clear, when I say GPA, I mean that you have to finish the whole degree.
- The above is very similar for Griffith med.
- For JCU, it works a little differently where they will create an equivalent score for your degree and allow you to do med without GAMSAT (there is most likely an interview and written application but don't quote me).
- Bond: just need that bachelor degree with a competitive GPA and lots of money.
To generalise like above, a lot of unis take GAMSAT and uni GPA as their graduate entry. If you do that well and keep your uni GPA up then you've got access to most graduate entry unis. However, there are also unis that take you if you do UCAT 2 or more times (e.g. UNSW). I want to highlight, though, that UQ and Griffith DO NOT take multiple-time UCAT takers (UQ just doesn't like them and Griffith has nothing to do with the UCAT).
Anyways, hope that helped. Feel free to ask any more questions.
