7th August 2025
Attention Parents: 5 Ways to Help Your Son or Daughter Get Into Medicine
Great things never come easy. Medicine is an incredibly rewarding, secure, well paid and respected profession in Ireland. It's also the hardest course to get into. Furthermore, the final years of secondary school are a stressful and demanding time for your son or daughter, and the need to sit HPAT places additional pressure on them during this time. Thankfully there are ways ...
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24th July 2025
Why Is HPAT So Hard?
Most current medical students and doctors would agree that HPAT is probably the hardest and single most important test they ever sat in their career. Many students, especially those who do not prepare effectively, are shocked by the difficulty of HPAT. Some who do prepare become disillusioned by the difficulty of HPAT. So why is HPAT so hard? And what can you do about it? Read on! ...
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2nd December 2024
Why You Should Be Studying For the HPAT Right Now
Are you all aboard the express train to Procrastination Station? Are you experiencing a motivation crisis? Are you just about ready to give up? There may be many reasons why you’re feeling this way and they may be impacting on your will to study and prepare for HPAT. You may be feeling tired, overwhelmed, stressed. You may have many other social, academic and extra-curricular com ...
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5th November 2024
HPAT 2025 Test Session Bookings Now Open! Here Are 3 Tips
Test session bookings for HPAT 2025 are now available! Full instructions on how to register and book a HPAT 2025 test session are available in the 2025 HPAT Information Booklet. HPAT 2025 will take place online from Friday 14 February to Monday 17 February, over various timeslots. Students with technical issues will be able to test after this testing wi ...
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15th August 2024
Medicine – The Big Picture
So you’re going into your final year of schooling, and you’re super duper set on being a doctor. There are lots of ways you can keep hold of medicine as a big picture throughout this long and sometimes arduous year. By putting some of these points into action now, you will increase your chances of getting straight into med, pump up your motivation over the year, and be an awesome d ...
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16th February 2021
Maximise each HPAT practice question (and your study time!)
So you’ve decided to spend x hours per week preparing for the HPAT. Well done on making a commitment! But it doesn’t end there. The next step is to squeeze as much as you can get out of those HPAT preparation hours. One way of doing this and making the questions work for you is to carefully review solutions. When going through HPAT practice questions, it’s very tempting to avoid reading the so ...
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16th February 2021
5 Things I Wish I Had Known Before UMAT
Rosanna sat the UMAT five times, and with the help of MedEntry is now studying medicine. In this video, she shares five things she wishes she had known about UMAT. Note: UMAT is the same as HPAT and was used in Australia prior to the change to UCAT.
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1st December 2020
When Will Registrations Open For HPAT 2021?
Registrations to sit HPAT Ireland normally open in early November each year. HPAT normally takes place in paper and pencil based format in large testing centres in late February. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in many changes to educational testing across the world, and it is very likely that HPAT 2021 will be delivered in a different manner to previous years. ACER have confirmed ...
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21st March 2016
Interview Tips and Advice (Part 1)
In preparing for something as mammoth as a medical school interview, there are a lot of things to consider. When preparing you have to understand what type of language the interviewers might use, what to include in your answers and how you can respond both verbally and through your body language. General advice for medical interviews Walk into the room with a big smile. ...
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21st March 2016
What Interviewers look for in prospective medical students (Part 1)
Many of the personal qualities that the HPAT aims to assess in prospective medical students are the same qualities that are required to be a good doctor. Whilst the HPAT can only assess what you put on a paper in multiple choice format; the medical interview that will follow, can look for these qualities in person. Your choice of words, body language, attitude and way of thinking will all b ...
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