13th November 2026
The Casper Test – What You Need to Know
Entry to medical courses remains extremely competitive. Faced with huge numbers of prospective students, universities are constantly developing new tests and assessments to best determine which candidates are a good fit for the medical degree and the medical career that follows. Among these is the Casper test, a test that is being implemented by some Australian universities as a component o ...
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13th October 2026
Monash Interview Rounds Explained
Since Monash university offers the only undergraduate medical degree in Victoria, entry into Monash is extremely competitive. If you're applying for medicine at Monash University, understanding how the interview selection process works is an important part of your application strategy. At Monash, interview offers are released in stages depending on various criteria. This blog will ...
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29th September 2026
How Will Medical and Dental Schools Use Interviews? Here's a Summary
So, you've sat the UCAT and now you're working hard on your final exams. But what about your medical interview? Interviews are perhaps the most under-recognised part of the medical admissions process. Every year, highly capable students with excellent UCAT scores and ATARs miss out on a place in medicine simply because they didn't prepare properly for the interview. Most interviews for 2027 ...
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28th September 2026
Interview Offers Are Being Released
Getting into medicine and dentistry is a complicated process. Part of this includes navigating the various university interview offers that are released at different times. Below is a table of the various universities offering interviews for medicine and dentistry undergraduate courses around Australia and New Zealand, the interview type, interview invitation dates and actual interview da ...
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22nd September 2026
Medicine Prerequisites: What are the Requirements for Studying Medicine at each University?
Entering medicine can be a confusing and complicated process, particularly if you are applying to multiple medical schools. If you wish to study medicine, you will need to ensure that you are studying the right subjects, and that you achieve certain minimum academic scores. The table below summarises the prerequisite subjects and minimum scores required for medical and dental courses across ...
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14th September 2026
Everything You Need to Know About Interviews and MMIs
Congratulations on having made it through the UCAT! Having taken the UCAT, the first step of your medical application process is now over and you are heading towards interviews where your comprehension, problem-solving and situational judgement skills will also be assessed just like the UCAT, but in a more up-close and personal manner. Interviews are an opportunity to see a part of you that ...
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14th September 2026
Medical School Preferencing
Applications to study at most undergraduate medical courses close at the end of September. To apply, you will need to visit the Tertiary Admissions Centre for each state. MedEntry recommends that you apply for as many courses as possible, in order to maximise your chances of obtaining a place. For details about how to apply to medicine, check out our dedicated blog. Most states offer mul ...
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13th September 2026
Types of Medical School Places in Australia
In Australia, there are many different types of medical school places: Commonwealth Supported places Bonded Medical places Full fee paying places International places Special access scheme entry places Extended rural cohort places It can be confusing to navigate all of these types of places, and know how to preference them in your university applications. In this blog we ...
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13th September 2026
The Bonded Medical Program
The purpose of the Bonded Medical Program is to meet the demand for doctors in areas which have workforce shortages, that is, in regional, rural and remote areas of Australia. The Government provides students with a Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP) in medicine, in return for a commitment to work in areas of need for three years after they graduate. This is called a 'return of serv ...
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9th September 2026
Final UCAT ANZ 2026 Test Statistics and Percentile Calculator Released!
The UCAT ANZ 2026 percentile calculator and final statistics have been released, which will help students to interpret their UCAT 2026 scores. The UCAT consortium has developed a UCAT score to percentile calculator that will help you to convert your 2026 UCAT scaled scores into an estimated percentile ranking. You can find it on the UCAT ANZ test statistics page. The UCAT 2026 summary ...
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