MMI scoring: what Australian medical schools actually publish
Interview season runs September-October. Here is what each graduate-entry school publishes about how much the interview counts - the weights, the schools where it decides almost everything, and the station-level detail none of them publish.
50%
the interview's published share at most schools
70%
Wollongong's published MMI weight
0
interview in Sydney's metro stream
0
published station rubrics, anywhere
Interview season is the least evidence-based part of GAMSAT-cycle preparation, and it does not have to be. Universities publish very little about how MMI stations are marked - but most of them publish something far more decision-relevant: how much the interview is worth. That number changes what you should be doing this month, and it differs enormously between schools.
Everything below is quoted from what the schools and GEMSAS publish, with the source on each row. Nothing here is a cut-off, a prediction, or an inference about how you will be ranked.
Applications closed
29 May 2026
Interview invitations
from early Sep
Interviews
Sep–Oct
Course offers
from end Oct
The cycle you are in
GEMSAS publishes that applications for 2027 entry closed on 29 May 2026, that interviews run September-October, and that course offers follow from the end of October. So the interview is the last variable in a process where every other input - GPA, GAMSAT, in some cases CASPer - is already fixed and submitted. Whatever weight your school gives the interview is, right now, the only weight you can still move.
The only weight you can still move
What every school publishes: the weight, not the rubric
Almost every graduate-entry school states, in its GEMSAS school entry or its own admissions guide, the percentage split it uses to rank applicants for an offer. That is the useful fact. What essentially none of them publish is the station-level rubric: how many stations, what each one scores, how assessors are calibrated, how a domain like "ethical reasoning" is converted into a number.
The published interview weights, school by school
Read this as "what the school printed", not "what will happen to you". Weights are for the cycle we verified; pathways (rural, bonded, Indigenous, and each school's own streams) frequently use different splits, and every school reissues its guide each year.
| School | Interview format | What is published about the interview's weight | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Melbourne | MMI | Final offer: GPA 25% / GAMSAT 25% / interview 50% | GEMSAS school entry |
| Deakin | MMI | Final offer: GPA + GAMSAT + adjustment factors 50% / MMI 50% | GEMSAS school entry |
| Griffith | MMI | Final offer: interview-selection rank (GPA + GAMSAT) 50% / interview score 50% | GEMSAS school entry |
| Western Australia | MMI | Final offer (non-rural): GPA 30% / GAMSAT 20% / interview 50% | GEMSAS + UWA |
| ANU | Online interview in two parts (not officially labelled an MMI) | Final offer: GPA 25% / GAMSAT 25% / interview 50% | GEMSAS school entry |
| Macquarie | MMI | Final offer: GPA 50% / interview 50% (the program is full-fee only) | GEMSAS school entry |
| Notre Dame (Sydney & Fremantle) | MMI | Interview selection: GAMSAT 30 / GPA 30 / CASPer 30 / bonus 10. Final offer: composite 50% / interview 50% | GEMSAS + Notre Dame |
| Wollongong | MMI | GPA and GAMSAT are hurdles only. Interview selection: CASPer 50% / UOW bonuses 50%. Final offer: MMI 70% / bonuses 30% | UOW + GEMSAS |
| Flinders | Panel interview, not an MMI | Final rank: GPA, GAMSAT and interview "equally weighted" - the numeric split is not printed | Flinders admissions guide |
| Queensland (UQ) | MMI | Interview selection: GPA 50% / GAMSAT 50%. No offer-stage weighting is published | UQ + GEMSAS |
| Monash (graduate entry) | MMI | No GAMSAT at all: undergraduate WAM selects for interview, then WAM + MMI decide - split not published | Monash |
| Sydney (standard metropolitan) | No interview | Ranks on GAMSAT section scores; the standard metropolitan stream does not interview | Sydney admissions guide |
Read the table as “what was printed”
Where the interview is nearly everything
Wollongong is the clearest case in the country, and it is routinely misunderstood. GAMSAT and GPA there are eligibility hurdles - clear them and they stop counting. Selection for interview is published as CASPer plus the university's admissions bonuses, and the final offer as 70% MMI plus 30% bonuses. A valid CASPer is mandatory; without one you are ineligible regardless of your scores. If Wollongong is on your list, interview practice is not one of several priorities - it is the priority.
- 1
GAMSAT + GPA
Eligibility hurdles only — not ranked.
- 2
CASPer
Mandatory; without it you're ineligible.
- 3
Interview selection
CASPer 50% + UOW bonuses 50%.
- 4
Final offer
MMI 70% + bonuses 30%.
Where it is nothing
At the other end, Sydney's standard metropolitan stream publishes no interview at all and ranks on GAMSAT section scores, which is why a single weak section limits you there more than elsewhere. Monash's graduate-entry program does not use the GAMSAT at all - it selects on undergraduate WAM and then interviews, and it is open only to graduates of its own degrees. Two schools, opposite extremes, and neither behaves like the "GPA + GAMSAT + MMI" model most candidates assume is universal.
Two format facts worth knowing before you rehearse
Not every interview in the system is an MMI. Flinders publishes a panel interview - one conversation, not a circuit - which rewards sustained development of an answer rather than a fresh three-minute impression eight times over. ANU's is an online interview in two parts that its published material does not label an MMI. Rehearsing a station circuit for a panel interview, or a panel for a circuit, is a preventable mismatch.
What nobody publishes - and what to do about it
No Australian school publishes its station rubric, its assessor training, or the domain weights inside the interview score. Anyone who tells you the exact criteria your assessors will tick is describing a reconstruction, not a published document, and you should treat it as such. What follows from that is liberating rather than frustrating: since you cannot optimise against a rubric you cannot see, the only defensible preparation is the general one - structured thinking out loud, under time, on unfamiliar prompts, with feedback on your reasoning rather than on your phrasing.
Nobody publishes the station rubric
That is also the answer to the most common interview-prep mistake, which is memorising answers. A scripted response is optimising against a guessed rubric; a rehearsed approach survives whatever the station actually is. If you want reps, Aptavia includes timed interview-station practice with feedback on your structure - and our MMI preparation guide covers the station types and how to structure an ethical answer.
- 1
Structure out loud
Tension → stakeholders → both sides → position.
- 2
Under time
Practise to the clock, not to perfection.
- 3
Unfamiliar prompts
Novel scenarios, not a memorised bank.
- 4
Feedback on reasoning
Not on phrasing — phrasing is not the score.
The honest caveats
Every figure above is what a school or GEMSAS published for the cycle we checked, on the date shown in Sources. Schools reissue guides annually, weights differ by pathway, and published averages of interviewed or offered applicants - which several schools do release - are descriptions of a past cohort, not thresholds you can clear. Before you plan around any number here, open your own school's current guide. If you find one of these rows out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
Corrections welcome
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Key takeaways
- Schools publish the interview's WEIGHT, not its rubric — plan from the weight.
- At most GEMSAS schools the published interview share of the final rank is 50%.
- Wollongong publishes GAMSAT/GPA as hurdles only, then MMI 70% + bonuses 30%; CASPer is mandatory.
- Sydney's standard metro stream publishes no interview and ranks on GAMSAT section scores.
- Flinders publishes a panel interview, not an MMI; ANU's isn't labelled one either — rehearse the right format.
- No school publishes station rubrics, so rehearse an approach, never a scripted answer.
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