"UMAT" is the Undergraduate Medicine and Health Science Admission
Test. It is "a
test of general reasoning ability designed to provide a measure of your aptitude for the study of medicine and the health professions."
A 2.5 hour
test held at a predetermined location, the UMAT is basically a large gathering of
people (who regard themselves as) of above average intelligence who want to be a doctor, or whose parents want them to be doctors.
Overrepresentation of the Indian, Sri Lankan and general Asian populations.
"I have the UMAT tomorrow, I'
m so stressed I really want to be a doctor I've been doing heaps of medentry practice stuff but i can only ever get like 95% aargh I'
m going to
fail and then cos my UAI
will only be like 99.65 I won't be able to be a doctor and then I'll be the disgrace of my family."
"Dude, there's like a thousand
people here. And another thousand this afternoon. Only a handful are actually going to get in."
"Oh look, there's Neha, Puja, Aditi, Amit, Suresh, Prianka, Raj, Ramesh, Sangeeta, Anil and Manish."