HPAT – Ireland results will be released to UL applicants and mature candidates in mid to late April. All the other candidates will receive their results in late June 2023.
Once your results are ready, you will receive an email from the HPAT-Ireland Office. You will then be required to login into your ACER account to access your results.
Common questions
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Applicants are considered mature if they are 23 years old on or before 1st January 2023 (i.e. born on or before 1st January 2000).
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You will receive an email from the HPAT-Ireland Office when your results become available. You will then be required to login into your ACER account to view your results.
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Contact us via the contact page on this website. Please include your HPAT-Ireland ID, full name, date of birth, test venue and date of test in your enquiry.
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A Statement of Results will be generated and you should print and save it for your records. The HPAT-Ireland Office does not issue physical certified hardcopy of your results.
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ACER will provide the CAO with a copy of your HPAT-Ireland scores. It is important that you update your CAO number on your HPAT account as soon as you have it.
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If you have changed your email address, please email the HPAT-Ireland Office at hpat-ireland@acer.org immediately or use the contact us page, so that we can send your result notification to the correct email address. Verification of your identity will be required in order to confirm the change.
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Please check all your email addresses to find out which one received the Confirmation of Registration email from ACER. This will be the username for your ACER account.
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For HPAT – Ireland, rigorous, best-practice psychometric techniques are used to transform test raw scores (the number of questions a candidate has answered correctly) and place them on a measurement scale. The transformed scores are called scaled scores. Compared to using raw scores this approach has a number of benefits. In particular, it is a vital equity measure that allows fair comparison of candidates who take different versions of a test.
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The process of scoring HPAT-Ireland is complex. The maximum score a candidate can achieve is 300. Each of the three HPAT – Ireland scores is expressed on a scale of 0 to 100. These are not percentage marks. You will receive a score for each of the three sections, together with an overall score and an overall percentile ranking to give you an indication of how well you performed against other HPAT – Ireland test takers sitting in the same year as you. The overall score is a weighted aggregate of the three section scores.
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For Irish leaving certificate test takers please refer to the Undergraduate Entry to Medicine guide.
For EU students presenting qualifications other than the Irish Leaving Certificate, equivalent qualifications are required. Please refer to the CAO guidelines.
Currency of results
Results are considered current for one year.
HPAT – Ireland scores can be used for admission to a course ONLY in the same year in which the course is due to commence. For example, results from HPAT – Ireland 2023 can be used for courses beginning in 2023 but not 2024.
Don’t register for HPAT – Ireland 2023 unless you are planning to apply for a course commencing in 2023 and meet the eligibility criteria for that course.
Appeals
Candidates are advised that HPAT – Ireland results are released only after careful calculation and extensive checking.
For this reason remarks for any component of the test including Written English are not offered. For psychometric reasons there is no possibility of reviewing or giving special consideration to test results, such as adjusting results for any perceived or actual disadvantage. This is so, whether the actual or perceived disadvantage arises from any incident on the sitting day or any wanted adjustment to sitting conditions.