Everything we wish we knew in HSFY.
Exam strategy, paper-by-paper guides, and the honest playbook for getting through Otago Health Sciences First Year. Written by the students who made the cutline.
Auckland pre-med: the MMI and Casper
the trainer →Sourced from UoA’s own pages and its applicant webinar. The full guides live at cutline.nz/mmi.
The Auckland MMI is asynchronous now: the Kira Talent format, explainedWhat actually happens at a station, second by second, and why most prep pages describe the wrong format.Auckland MMI 2026: the date, the day, and what to have readyOne sitting, one time, everybody at once. The dates and the device rules in one place.What the Auckland MMI actually scores you onSeven domains, eight attributes, and the rule that three are marked per station without telling you which.How to structure a 3 minute recorded MMI answerNo interviewer to prompt you, no second take. What a three minute answer has to do differently.Auckland is dropping the UCAT: what changes for 2027 and 2028 entryGPA stops being a ranking lever, UCAT disappears, and Casper arrives at half the weight.The MMI is not only for medicine: pharmacy, optometry, imaging, audiology and dieteticsSix programmes, one interview, and roughly 2,500 applicants a year nobody writes for.Casper versus the MMI: what each one is actually measuringFrom 2028 you sit both, weighted equally. They reward almost opposite things.The Auckland MMI, answered: applicants’ real questions from the UoA webinarNotes, marking, the platform, ID, finishing early, results. The applicant questions from UoA’s own webinar.How to prepare for the Auckland MMI without paying anyoneThe free options are real and we will name them. Then we will be straight about what we add.Casper test NZ: Auckland medicine from 2028Half of the 2028 ranking, and what is still unknown.
Otago HSFY
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