Dear Lois,

I refer to your request of 12 September 2024. As consultations necessary to make a decision on your request are such that a response cannot reasonably be given within the original time limit, the University has extended the time limit for your request under section 15A(1)(b) of the OIA. The new maximum time limit for the University’s response is 24 October 2024; we will respond to your request as soon as reasonably practicable. You have the right to make a complaint to an Ombudsman if you are dissatisfied with this extension.

Yours sincerely,

Landon Watt
Legal Advisor
Office of the Vice-Chancellor
Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland 

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Dear Lois,

 

I apologise for the long delay in responding to your request of 12
September 2024. The University’s response follows.

 

“I'm requesting a breakdown of how GPA is calculated for graduate entry
into the MBChB program (particularly from a 3-year bachelors degree).

 

I would appreciate if the response answers the following questions: Are
papers excessive of 360 points counted? Are papers weighed according to
first/second/third year?”

 

Under the University’s Limitation of Entry Statute 1991, the MBChB Part II
is a limited entry programme with selection criteria. Information about
all limited entry programmes and their selection criteria is published at
the following webpage:
[1]https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/intranet/t...

 

The selection criteria for the MBChB Part II, for applicants in the
Graduate General category, as set out on our website, is as follows:

 

“Graduate Entry

Applicants in the Graduate category may apply once only for each
qualification attained which meets entry requirements.

 

In order to be eligible for consideration, applicants must have:

o completed a degree, a postgraduate degree or a postgraduate diploma
qualification, normally in the minimum academic time from a New
Zealand university within the last five years with a GPA of 6.0 or
higher, and
o completed the University Clinical Aptitude Test (UCAT-ANZ) in the year
of application.

 

Interview places will be offered on the basis of a ranking derived from
the cumulative GPA from the qualifying programme. If final grades are not
available at the time of interview ranking, an interim grade (highest
possible grade) will be temporarily assigned. Official final results will
be used for the final selection. 

 

Unless there are exceptional circumstances applicants unable to attend
their interview on the relevant date will not be considered further. 

 

Following interview, a rank order of applicants based on their academic
performance (the final grades achieved in the qualifying programme),
performance in  the UCAT-ANZ test and interview performance is established
at a meeting of the Medical Admissions Subcommittee. 

 

Places will be offered to the highest-ranking applicants until the limit
is reached.

 

NOTE: Graduate applicants who are due to complete their degree in the year
of application, must provide finalised results no later than 30 November
in the year of application.

 

Applicants (domestic or international) who have received a conditional
offer of a place for 2025 entry, in either the Year 1 or Graduate entry
category, that specifies the completion of any of the core courses of CHEM
110, BIOSCI 107 or POPLHTLH 111 will be required to complete the Clinical
Selection Test for that course/s if the University is unable to offer an
in-person examination of that course under invigilated examination
conditions in 2024. “

 

To answer your specific question, for General category Graduate
applicants, GPA is calculated using all courses assigned to the qualifying
programme. There is no weighting applied within the qualifying programme,
and no courses assigned to the qualifying programme are excluded from the
GPA calculation.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Landon Watt
Legal Advisor
Office of the Vice-Chancellor

Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland  

 

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