hey guys
i did a number of courses, ever since year 11 in fact haha
the first course i did was dallus gibson's course (my brother did it a few years prior too). my brother and i both found his course terrible. he was really disorganised (e.g. forgot the key to the place and left students in the blistering cold for half an hour, made us students set up the room, made us then rearrange the room and move all the chairs to the opposite side of the room etc etc). By the time we had actually started we were already an hour into the course. On top of that, he was just plain rude to students and even made one student cry. He insulted a boy who had told him he was aiming for a perfect score. He insulted asians and indians. All in all, i found his course offensive and his method offputting. Rather than helping, he intimidated and i left without feeling i gained anything.
I also did the NIE course. Although they were good at the time, I found their material not to match the real umat questions later on. And a lot of the time, their answers got corrected my students... :S. When students questioned the right answers, they often did not have evidence to back it up so I was a bit lost a lot of the time!
I did AMEPP as well and I found that similar to NIE. Once again, their practise material was not at all similar to the real questions in the umat. i only discovered that later, AFTER sitting the umat which sucked!
I did Medentry in year 11 and 12 and I found that to be the most useful course of all. I did their course for actual UMAT prep and interview prep (as I had been told they were very good by older years). Their practise questions were surprisingly similar to the real umat questions (in fact i recall about 4 of the exact same ones...). They taught good techniques regarding how to approach questions.
So all in all, I would recommend Medentry and then AMPP/NIE and then, if desparate ( :P) Dallas Gibson.
Hope this helped!
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