Your journey starts here
Jessica Bulluss
Mentor
Students who attempt the UMAT without adequate guidance feel as if they're taking a test in a foreign language. The MedStart program is your dictionary to the UMAT and the friendly team here, who have all gone through the same journey as you, will give you the support you need to achieve total fluency.
Jessica is a self-professed doggo meme fanatic. She also loves travelling, dancing and eating copious amounts of ice-cream and/or soft serve.
After realising she wanted to pursue Medicine in Year 10, and surprising everyone (most of all herself) with a 100 Percentile in the UMAT and a 99.95 in the 2015 HSC, she found herself at Sydney University. While she finds that studying Medicine is a scary thought, it is certainly a rewarding journey. She's sure that if you're starting to prepare for the UMAT and are thinking of becoming a Doctor, that you feel the same way.
Qualifications
- 100th percentile in UMAT
- ATAR: 99.95
- Aspiring Neurologist
- Bachelor of Science (Adv.) and Doctor of Medicine at the University of Sydney
Top Three UMAT Tips
- 1Consistent, but not too frequent, UMAT study during year 12. The HSC is important too, so don't spend a disproportionate amount of time on the UMAT and focus on it during times where you have no immediately upcoming year 12 assessments.
- 2Treat UMAT practice papers as the real deal, and space them out over the several months leading to the UMAT. Concentrating for three hours is very different from doing a few UMAT questions here and there, so make sure you gain experience in tackling full length papers.
- 3Use worked solutions and explanations to help fill gaps in your understanding, even for questions you got right. The UMAT is a multiple choice exam, so just because you got a question correct doesn't mean you've fully mastered that concept. There's always room for improvement!
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