Cutline is a question bank for Health Sciences First Year at Otago. Every paper below is broken down lecture by lecture, and each lecture gets exam-style questions with worked answers, so what you practise is the material you were taught that week. Mock exams run before the tests. You can start free, without a card.
We're recent Otago medicine and dentistry students who sat these papers, so here's the honest answer to what everyone asks first: the real multiple-choice exams are never released, which means nobody can sell them to you. Here is what does exist.
A public sample. Your selection stays on this page and is not saved to an account.
HUBS191: L6: Joint ClassificationCorrect answer: B
Worked solution
Practice questions for all of first year, plus the common 8th-paper options. Pick a paper to see what is inside.
Four core papers, February to June.
Three core papers, July to October.
One of these sits beside the core seven. Never a semester paper.
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See Auckland MMI practiceQuestions sit under the lecture that taught them, so you can practise Monday's lecture on Monday and know exactly what you've covered.
Every question explains why the right option is right and why each of the others is wrong, because a letter on its own doesn't teach you much.
Full-length papers in the real format and timing, so the first time you sit one under pressure is not the day it counts.
Answers are tracked per concept, so the material you keep getting wrong surfaces instead of hiding behind an overall percentage.
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Yes. Cutline is a question bank built for Health Sciences First Year at Otago, written lecture by lecture rather than topic by topic, so the practice lines up with the course you are sitting. It covers the semester 1 and semester 2 core papers and the common 8th-paper options.
CHEM191, HUBS191, CELS191 and PHSI191 in semester 1; BIOC192, POPH192 and HUBS192 in semester 2; and the 8th papers STAT115, MATH130 and MAOR102. Each paper has its own page listing the lectures whose worksheets are published so far.
Only partly. The written sections of past HSFY exams are released through the university library, but the multiple-choice sections, which carry most of the marks in papers like HUBS, CELS and BIOC, are not. That is the gap a question bank fills.
No, and nobody honest can offer you those. Real HSFY multiple-choice questions are never released. Every question in the bank is written from scratch against the lecture learning outcomes, in the format and difficulty the exam uses.
Recent Otago medicine and dentistry students who sat these papers themselves, working from the current lecture material. Every question carries a worked explanation rather than a bare letter.
Yes. You can start without a card and practise a daily allowance of questions in any paper. The current paid plans are listed on the HSFY page, cutline.nz/hsfy.
Start free, without a card. A pass opens a whole paper.
