do a trace of the postings......he thinks doctors will earn more money than pharmacists.......even considered law, accountancy etc........if they could earn more money......

i believe someone said earlier somewhere.......those that fails the eos tends to be the scholars........that observation certainly seems to be supported by recent results......

there are 2 sets of gov scholars........the jpa scholars....and the mara scholars......and they have different standards......

those who get past the eos2 will generally be okay....... weeding out process happens in eos2.....

the as is never used for entry.........the final a2 results is required........however, unis often gives conditional offers based on you as, subjected to meeting that requirements at a2.......so in your case, imu wants ABB at a2......

getting AAA is very easy at a-levels.....some 20-30% of students at top colleges will attain that, it probably corresponds to the oz ter of >93 0r 94( which some 25% of sam students will achieve)........most uk unis will want AAA for medicine entry........

to it's credit, imu continues to insist of a formal pre-u qualification for entry, and never embark on its own 'foundation' courses, unlike many other ipts med schools.......

i suspect this is an issue with the pms, who will insist students crossing over be suitably critically selected........

it makes little difference whether you go through a-levels or sam/ausmat.........while the subject matter is more thoroughly covered in a-levels, the 1st 2 sems are foundations 1 and 2, and at the end, everybody will have caught up.......

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Added on February 9, 2009, 4:26 pmyou are confusing everyone else, but you are confused yourself.........


This post has been edited by limeuu: Feb 9 2009, 04:26 PM

hmmm..........another from trinity who didn't get direct entry......last year of undergraduate dentistry, cut off something like ter 99.5?.........

it pretty easy to track any forumer's posting history.......and hence background........

http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/337367?author=genejere

nothing freaky..........just one click of the mouse.......see the little sentence at the top of your post?........'show posts by this member only'.........click it...... .....you entire posting history in this thread.......... ...........dating back to 2007, when you were wondering if you need AAAA to get into imu........

This post has been edited by limeuu: Feb 17 2009, 12:19 AM

you did poorly in sam internals last year, perhaps from some illness, resulting in a poor overall ter.......no you will not make the cutoff for imu........

so did you get any offer from pmc or mmmc?........or gonna repeat pre-u?

ABB = ter 91 or so.......that was me108 cutoff

AAB = ter 94

AAA = ter 96+

i think wise decision......good luck this time.......

the calibre of any med school is pretty obvious from the admission policy.......and taking people with ter 80 into a 'premed' year shows how desperate they are for students.......that is what turns me off from pmc.......and the fact that the degree is NOT recognised by smc and gmc..........

you are wise to repeat sam, instead of doing the 'pre-med'.........

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Added on February 18, 2009, 11:27 amas for cost, the previous uni melbourne undergraduate entry mbbs cost rm 1mil in fees, and yet there are hordes of international students wanting to get in........

uni adelaide fees is rm650k alone, and there are 600 international students fighting for the 16 places available.........they have no shortage of students, and they can choose from the best.......

so why does msian ipts med schools have to accept such poor quality students?........

This post has been edited by limeuu: Feb 18 2009, 11:27 AM

you are joining in aug, and you don't know what is a cut off grade?

so what was your pre-u result, and what was you offer........?

they are accepting you into their home programme, and probably, you will stay and treat people there.......so their overriding concern will be, are you qualified and bright enough to be on par with their home students.........and is your english good enough to weather the course, and communicate with patients there......

at least that would be my concerns, if i were the person whom is tasked with selecting students by my university.......i will look for people with ielts 8.0 and above.....who entered with AAA or ter>96........and average B and above through the eos's.......

but i suspect every pms also have to accept one or two borderline students......maybe out of 4 places, they can choose 3 and the 4th be assigned to them by imu........otherwise those at the bottom of the pecking order will find no pms want to accept them.......

eca will play a minor part, but if there is a student with ielts 8.5, ter99, in the dean's list throughout, is president of the student body, a national player in tennis, and puts my uni as 1st choice........i will grab him/her......

trust me, they will look at all aspects........i will definitely look at the pre-u results, as they, and we all know, the selection criteria is NOT the tightest in the world......there is really only 2 eos to look at.......the last one is too late as matching will have already been completed before the exam itself.......

that's what happens when law and order fails........when law enforcement agencies rather shoot chemical laden water at ceremah than chase after rempits and robbers........

the history of oxford and cambridge is a very interesting one.......

it started in the 12th century, where learning is part of the clergy (church).......this was given a boost when students in france (then the center of learning) were recalled by the english king in 1167, and they mostly settled in oxford...........

some 50 years later, there was a conflict between the students and the town people, and they chased the students away, and the students then traveled east and settled in an old town called Granta bryg (Granta Bridge)........and founded a new university in 1209........changes in the lettering eventually become cambridge (cam bridge!).........

if anyone ever visits uk, it is worth making a detour to these university towns and savour the rich history of academia and academic excellence.......

it gets more interesting......

the 'pilgrim' from england who settled in the new colony of massachusetts bay at plymouth, in the new land of the americas in 1620, decided to set up a college in 1936 with endowment from a rich man called john harvard of charlestown, a young minister who, upon his death in 1638, left his library and half his estate to the new institution.

no prize for guessing what this college is now called........

the campus is sited in a town in middlesex county, within the greater boston area........and the town is called........



















cambridge!

and the small city of cambridge, massachusetts (population smaller than bintulu sarawak) is home to two of the world's most renowned universities......harvard, and mit..........