depends entirely on how confident you are with your remaining 10 units. If you KNOW you will nail them, then by all means drop. If you are uncertain as to whether you can perform optimally in those 10 units, then keep legal studies
The nature of the degree requires a high academic level actually. Trust me when I say that the content you learn in medicine is on the whole much more challenging than the hsc imo, and as such you need to demonstrate a fairly high level of intelligence.
well when you get your UMAT back you will have scores for each of the sections. There are three sections. When UWS considers your score from the UMAT, they take your full score for sections 1 and 2 into consideration, but only half of your section 3 score
not if you take into account the 1:1:0.5 weighting
as a guide my scores were along the lines of 64, 60 and 60. So my weighted score was 154 and I was called for an interview
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For medicine, I do not think bonus points apply. However if you live in the Greater Western Sydney region (check UWS' site to see if you do), then you get a lower ATAR threshold (93.55 rather than 95.55) and a lower UMAT threshold for being called to the interview.
UWS calls students...
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Each state should be rated for the support it gives foreign students to head off a loss of confidence in the education system, such as when Indian students were perceived as the victims...