bigcheese Posted April 13, 2017 Report Share Posted April 13, 2017 I have heard that McMaster drops your best and worst station but this was on the 2011 forum, does this policy still hold. Thank! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mckenzie93 Posted April 16, 2017 Report Share Posted April 16, 2017 They used to drop 2 stations because they had 2 "extra" stations, but they cut the stations down to 10 so, now, all 10 stations are scored and used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Organomegaly Posted April 16, 2017 Report Share Posted April 16, 2017 they don't drop stations, I emailed about this when I was an applicant and wendy told me they use all of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigcheese Posted April 17, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2017 Thank you! Say you do extremely bad on one station but every other one was relatively fine, would you still have a shot at getting in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justwannabeadoc Posted April 17, 2017 Report Share Posted April 17, 2017 Thank you! Say you do extremely bad on one station but every other one was relatively fine, would you still have a shot at getting in? Definitely not EDIT: i'm joking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Organomegaly Posted April 17, 2017 Report Share Posted April 17, 2017 Thank you! Say you do extremely bad on one station but every other one was relatively fine, would you still have a shot at getting in? yes thats the point of the MMI. it affords you one or two bad stations if your overall performance still shows you are a strong candidate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whyKD Posted April 20, 2017 Report Share Posted April 20, 2017 I had a related question for MMI scoring. When grading, do the assessors have to rank the interviewees? For example, does each assessor have to give out half their scores below 5/10 and the other half above 5/10? Basically, I'm curious if randomly being in an exceptionally strong circuit can really hurt your chances. Also, does anyone know if assessors are interviewers in just one circuit, or multiple throughout the application cycle? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mckenzie93 Posted April 22, 2017 Report Share Posted April 22, 2017 I had a related question for MMI scoring. When grading, do the assessors have to rank the interviewees? For example, does each assessor have to give out half their scores below 5/10 and the other half above 5/10? Basically, I'm curious if randomly being in an exceptionally strong circuit can really hurt your chances. Also, does anyone know if assessors are interviewers in just one circuit, or multiple throughout the application cycle? Thanks! Nope, they're not required to rank you or hand out a certain number of any score. Assessors also generally interview for a full day, seeing more than one circuit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmorelan Posted April 22, 2017 Report Share Posted April 22, 2017 Nope, they're not required to rank you or hand out a certain number of any score. Assessors also generally interview for a full day, seeing more than one circuit. probably still some statistical checking in the background for outliers, but I will say that is similar the other schools I have worked with. Ranking for one thing is just really hard to do - you have to wait until the end of the day to normalize things which means remembering something from "ages ago". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intrepid86 Posted April 23, 2017 Report Share Posted April 23, 2017 Basically, I'm curious if randomly being in an exceptionally strong circuit can really hurt your chances. Assessors are encouraged to use the entire grading scale if possible. However, this isn't always possible when there happens to be an exceptionally strong (or an exceptionally weak) circuit. In those cases, grades may cluster in the top or bottom half of scale respectively. It's not common though, because there is typically a normal distribution in which there are better, average, and poor performing candidates. If you happen to be average in a group of above-average candidates, then you're going to look worse by comparison. If you're average in a group of below-average candidates, then you're going to look better by comparison. Ultimately though, your answers will still be graded on their own merit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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