HPAT Ulster 2012

When I emailed to enquire about applying for SLT, the lady told me that a high score on the HPAT was their "main criteria". Seems a bit lazy to me, probably just saves them from sorting through all the applications they receive TBH. It's not like doing well on a random test means you'd make a good speech therapist or physio or whatever.

I presume the reason they focus so much on the HPAT is that Northern Ireland is too small a place to be holding interviews in. The chance that somebody interviewing you or reading your personal statement might know you is higher than in mainland Britain.

That's just a guess mind. Certainly it's the main reason why a UCAS type system could never work in the Republic.

The republic of ireland does have a UCAS type system its called CAO (http://www.cao.ie/).

I know that. I went through it (I'm from the South). The CAO differs in that there is no subjective element at any stage, no Personal Statement, no interviews, just a straight points race. In some ways it's fairer than UCAS but I think UCAS encourages students to put a lot more thought in to picking a career and a college.

Oh sorry it just because i was considering a down south university but never got as far as actually starting an application because i would have required a GCSE in a lanugage which was not english , so as much as i had seen of it, it seemed very much like ucas only a little bit more confusing because of the fact it was in leaving certs. And i don't think either queens or university of ulster do interviews because i got an offer for queens for pharmacy without an interview and an offer from colerine (lol i can't spell it) for biomedical without an interview and then my radiography doesn't require an interview only the H-PAT. But the two i applied to in britan (england and wales) require an interview for pharmacy.

i applied for a number of unis in southern ireland and i had to send a personal statement, i am a mature student mind, maybe its different for me. They dont give u as much guidance through cao like i have had to email a number of people from the uni to get an idea of when i might hear from them, its way later than ucas so i will have to firm a offer for leeds when i would actually still quite like to go to cork.

I got into SLT! So happy.

i applied for a number of unis in southern ireland and i had to send a personal statement, i am a mature student mind, maybe its different for me. They dont give u as much guidance through cao like i have had to email a number of people from the uni to get an idea of when i might hear from them, its way later than ucas so i will have to firm a offer for leeds when i would actually still quite like to go to cork.