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Flinders runs a panel interview in person.

10:00Our chunk

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OUR CHUNK10:00
  • RESPOND

The ten-minute chunk is ours — Flinders publishes one long conversation, not stations

Your first chunk of the conversation is read by two AI readers, no card — receipts and process facts, no rating.

Continuing with Google creates your free account — or signs you into the one you already have — and your first station is read by two AI readers, with no credit card and nothing charged. By continuing you agree to the Terms and the Privacy Policy, and to receive emails about your account: practice reminders, streak nudges and a weekly progress recap (unsubscribe in one click).

Sign in, choose Flinders, and the first station runs on this clock.Use email instead— the sign-up form asks for its own agreement.

Flinders publishes the window as “SA: Monday 21 September to Friday 2 October · NT: Monday 21 to Thursday 24 September”

Flinders does not publish how many stations, the station timing and how many assessors read each station.

A panel is one long conversation, not stations. On this path no rating is produced here: the reading is receipts and process facts only, because a panel is one occasion and a rating of one occasion is a number pretending to be a measurement.

What Flinders publishes

Flinders

Panel interview · in person

One conversation, not a circuit.

Share of offer not published

SA: Monday 21 September to Friday 2 October · NT: Monday 21 to Thursday 24 September

In Flinders’s own words

  • “Interviews will be conducted by a small panel.”
  • “Interviews normally last approximately 45-50 minutes.”
  • “Applicants must pass the interview to be considered for selection”
  • “Feedback on interview performance cannot be provided. Only scores are recorded. Any notes taken by the interview panel during the interview are destroyed.”
  • “Interviewers are not provided with any information about applicants, other than applicant names.”
  • “Interviews are conducted under examination conditions.”

A station, read the way Flinders words it

Flinders publishes the qualities it says it looks for. The mapping from those words to what our two readers read for is OURS, and it is shown as ours. We don't take stations from students — sending us one could cost you your offer.

Station · reading

The seat at the community lunch

A hall in a country town runs a lunch every Wednesday for people who live alone. There are twenty-two seats and a waiting list of nine. For a year, Lorraine has come each week with her mother. Her mother has now moved into a care home in the regional centre, an hour away, and Lorraine drives out to see her on Wednesday afternoons. Lorraine rings you, because you keep the list, and asks whether she can keep coming on her own. She says the drive back is the hard part, and Wednesday is the only day she speaks to anyone. The first name on the waiting list is Peter. He has been waiting four months, and he has rung twice in that time to ask where he is up to. There are no spare seats, and no spare volunteers to run a second sitting. Record your answer to two questions. What do you say to Lorraine on this call? What do you then say to Peter?

10:00 to answer

This is one chunk of a conversation the school runs whole, and a reading of one chunk is a reading of one chunk.

What Flinders names — and what we read for (our mapping)

“Quality of motivation”
our mapping: Motivation
“Learning Style”
our mapping: Scholarship
“Communication skills”
our mapping: Communication
“Pro-social attitude”
our mapping: Empathy, Collaboration
“Approach to decision-making”
our mapping: Problem solving, Ethics

What this station reads for

  • Empathy — Flinders words it “Pro-social attitude”
  • Communication — Flinders words it “Communication skills”
  • Equity — not a quality Flinders names

Fair questions

What this is, and what it is not.

Will practising here raise my interview score?

No, and nothing on this page will say otherwise. Coaching was ineffective in improving MMI scores, with coached candidates actually having a significantly lower score — Griffin, Harding, Wilson & Yeomans, Medical Journal of Australia 189(5):270–273 (2008). What this buys is rehearsal on the clock your school publishes — or UQ's, named on the screen, where your school publishes none — and a transcript of what you actually said, which no school gives back.

Whose clock does a station run on?

Your school's, where your school publishes one. Where it does not, the station runs on Queensland (UQ)'s published clock — two minutes to read the scenario in silence and seven to respond — and the screen says so by name rather than presenting a number we chose as your school's.

Do I get a mark, and where does it come from?

Not on this path. A panel is one long conversation, and a number on a chunk of one would be a number about nothing — so no rating is produced here at all. What you get is the receipts: what you said, quoted back, and the process facts of how you said it. Two AI readers, from two different engine families, read what you said — more readers than the real interview gives you, and none of them is a person. The scale itself is published in full on our MMI practice page, and it is ours: no Australian medical school publishes its rubric, scale, anchors or pass mark.

Are these real stations from a university?

No. Every station is written in-house. We do not take stations from students, and we ask you not to send us one — the schools that run these interviews bind candidates to confidentiality, and sharing a station could cost you your offer.

What does it cost to stand at a station?

Your first chunk of the conversation is read by two AI readers, no card — receipts and process facts, no rating. The next chunk's reading is produced and shown veiled — your own work, not somebody else's sample — and then the plan decides. Beyond the floor the Station is part of Pro, and a free trial of Pro starts only when you tap to start it, with no card and nothing charged.

Is my answer recorded, and who can read it?

Your typed transcript is saved to your account so you can read back what you said; it is yours, it travels in your data export, and it is deleted with your account. We keep no recording, and with spoken stations switched off there is no audio at all — a station here is typed. Your answer is never shown to another student and never becomes a station.

My school says Casper is required — is that the same thing?

No. Casper is a separate online situational-judgement test, sat before the interview and run by another company; the schools that require it say so on their own pages and our cards carry that cell with its source. Nothing here is a Casper practice test, and no station on this page is scored the way Casper is.

Is there a free mock MMI I can do online right now?

Yes — on each school's page there is a station you can stand at in your browser, with no account and no sign-in: one of our own scenarios, run on that school's published clock where it publishes one and on UQ's, named on the screen, where it does not, with your own answer back at the buzzer beside the scale we publish. Nobody reads that one; a reading is what an account adds.

Do I need a Google account?

No. Google is one tap and no typing, but the ordinary sign-up form works too: you confirm your address with a 6-digit code, sign in, and land on the same station.

Related schools

Stand at one chunk of Flinders' conversation, on our clock.

Your first chunk of the conversation is read by two AI readers, no card — receipts and process facts, no rating.

This will not raise your interview score — the only Australian study of coaching found none. What this buys is rehearsal on the clock your school publishes — or UQ's, named on the screen, where your school publishes none — and a transcript of what you actually said, which no school gives back.

Two AI readers, from two different engine families, read what you said — more readers than the real interview gives you, and none of them is a person.

Continuing with Google creates your free account — or signs you into the one you already have — and your first station is read by two AI readers, with no credit card and nothing charged. By continuing you agree to the Terms and the Privacy Policy, and to receive emails about your account: practice reminders, streak nudges and a weekly progress recap (unsubscribe in one click).

Aptavia is not affiliated with Flinders University — Doctor of Medicine; every fact above is quoted from the school's own pages, dated.