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About NIE:

UMAT: Wednesday 27th July 2011 - with over 20,000 candidates, now is the time to start.

NIE is a professional team of qualified and experienced tertiary educators with specific expertise and academic groundings in the areas core to the UMAT. Our professional staff are test preparation and UMAT specialists. NIE has over 12 years experience in successfully preparing students for UMAT.

The NIE UMAT courses are unique. No other provider offers:
Three full time staff (one for each UMAT Section)
24 Hour Support
Hardcopy Books
Face to face interactive workshops with personalised attention
Updated questions and tests every year
Flexible programs for all your needs

Do you enjoy personalised and prompt service?
Do you prefer to own and work from hardcopy books?
Would you like to work with a team of UMAT professionals who have all sat the UMAT, but are mature and expert educators with 12 years experience in UMAT prep?
Do you like to work with a flexible learning program that adapts to your needs?

If you answered yes to any of these questions then NIE is the ideal partner for your critical UMAT preparation. Now all you need to do is select the NIE UMAT program that is right for you. Click here to read more about the NIE UMAT Courses.

About Our Courses:

UMAT: Wednesday 27th July 2011 - with over 20,000 candidates, now is the time to start.

Enrol in the 2011 DLP or Premium Course and receive 3 books with early curricula and 900 bonus questions for free (valued at $390). Enrol in the 2011 Platinum Course during August and pay the 2010 price of $855 (save $40). Click here for more information.

NIE provide hardcopy books for each section of the UMAT and are the only UMAT prep provider to do this. Why is this important? Apart from the unrestricted access to YOUR books, the UMAT is a paper based exam, not taken online, so we believe this is the best way to prepare. The books included are: 1 Logical Reasoning, 2. Understanding People, 3. Non-verbal Reasoning, 4. Starter Pack, 5. Time Trial Tests, 6. Final Trial Paper, 7. Interview Techniques, and 8. Update Pack.

With teachers for each UMAT specific section: Logical Reasoning, Understanding People and Non-verbal Reasoning, we offer 24-hour support in the form of phone calls and emails. Send through lists of questions for student-specific explanations and/or call and speak to one of our teachers anytime. Use this service regularly for best results.

The Three full time teachers at NIE collectively have over 20 years of UMAT experience, far more than any other in the field, and with such diverse backgrounds and expertise can offer a far more rounded, more precise and far more effective program than any other. Meet the three teachers at our face to face workshops, and converse with them as needed along the way.

Our courses: Premium, Platinum, DLP and Concession all include the 8 new books, on-going 24-hour support, 3 teachers, 1500 questions (4000+ for the Platinum pack) and for the Premium, Platinum and Concession packs, the one day workshop.

New for 2011:

Enrol now for 2011!

Students purchasing the 2011 Platinum pack will receive the 2009 and 2010 section books, time trial tests, and final trial papers in the post as soon as they apply. The Starter Pack will be emailed immediately, the new books posted in December, and the update pack emailed at the end of April.

In 2008 NIE introduced the all new Starter Pack to kick start every enrolled students Prep instantly. Each year this document is the first to be upgraded and released offering all of the NIE students up to date and imperative information on the UMAT. As such, the Starter Pack forms an integral component of our balanced UMAT Prep programs containing critical information for aspiring Students, Teachers and Parents. Focussed on strategic information pertaining to the UMAT, Interviews, Universities and Preparation the NIE SP also contains a half UMAT practice exam with answers and initial prep hints and tips for each of the three UMAT Sections. The SP is supplied free with any NIE course or can be purchased independently for $50.

New this year is our UMAT Student & Parent Comments page. To get more of a feel for what you will be facing, read through some thoughts and comments from others in the same boat; those who have been through and those who are about to tackle: the ubiquitous UMAT.


If you are considering university applications or entrance for Medicine, Dentistry, Physiotherapy, Pharmacy or Optometry at either Australian or New Zealand Universities then in most cases the UMAT must be considered as an integral part of your preparation and planning.

Established in 1999 the National Institute of Education (NIE) conducts UMAT Preparation Courses aimed at developing the skills and strategies required to improve your UMAT score, and is the ONLY UMAT training provider to have Governmental Department of Education funding.

UMAT is no different to any other test, assessment or performance. In many cases, preparing for UMAT has proven to be the deciding factor in successfully being offered an interview. For future medicine hopefuls the UMAT exam may be the toughest and most important exam of their lives - be prepared!

We offer four courses across Austrailia and New Zealand which include our 8 book package containing thousands of questions and explanations, tips, tricks, and study methods, a teacher for each section of the UMAT (all having sat the UMAT themselves), 24 Hour on-going support, all new UMAT relevant questions each year, and for the Premium, Platinum and Concession courses, an intensive one day workshop which includes a trial UMAT exam under strict UMAT conditions.

The UMAT exam favours intelligence types, not intelligent people or even empathetic people. The whole process is unfair and unreasonable. Hence NIE has no ethical qualms in giving it’s students an unfair advantage.

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Check NIE's updated University UMAT requirements.

Important UMAT information that will assist you in choosing the right path..

On our UMAT page we have all the university requirements including the various combinations of UMAT, interview and enter / UAI scores required to gain entry into the degree and location of your choice. Use these resources as a guide to help you better structure your pathway into medicine.

New additions are:

1. La Trobe Uni's "Bachelor of Health Sciences (Dentistry) / Master of Dentistry" and "Bachelor of Oral health Science"

2. Oceania University of Medicine's "Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS)"

3. Flinders University "Undergraduate Medicine" pathway into "Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery"

Why is NIE best for you?

NIE - the LEADERS in UMAT PreMed preparation.

Over the past ten years NIE has successfully helped thousands of students to achieve their goals. Our students love the study material, the hard-copy take anywhere books, the fact that we have teachers for each section, and 24 Hour on-going support.

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