Interview by university
The Newcastle JMP interview, and how to prepare for it.
University of Newcastle – UNE Joint Medical Program interviews as an MMI. This page is what is particular to Newcastle JMP: the shape of the interview, when it falls, who is invited and what the school says it marks. The method for the format is on its own page, linked below.
The facts
- Program
- Bachelor of Medical Science and Doctor of Medicine
- Length
- 5 years
- Campus
- Newcastle (Callaghan) or Armidale
- Interview format
- MMI. The Multiple Skills Assessment, which the university describes as its name for the multi mini interview: six stations, each a scenario or an activity with an assessor, with a two minute break between stations.
- Delivery
- In person
- UCAT
- Required.
- Other tests
- Personal Qualities Assessment, an online test sat alongside the interview.
- Who is invited
- An aggregate of the UCAT ANZ verbal reasoning, decision making and quantitative reasoning subtests. The situational judgement subtest does not count.
- When
- Late in the year, in person at Newcastle or Armidale.
- Invitations, 2027 entry
- By mid November.
- Interviews, 2027 entry
- 30 November to 11 December 2026, in person at Newcastle or Armidale, for applicants from NSW, the ACT and Queensland and all rural applicants. Other interstate applicants are invited to a January session.
- Offers, 2027 entry
- 8 January 2027, in UAC’s January Round 1. Applicants through the Miroma Bunbilla program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants hear in December Round 2, on 23 December 2026.
- What they say they mark
- The capacity to thrive in the program, the ability to make everyday and important decisions without certainty of the outcome, interpersonal and communication skills, and the desire and driving force to be a doctor.
Checked against newcastle.edu.au (opens in a new tab) on 3 October 2026. Dates from the school's key dates (opens in a new tab). Offer dates from uac.edu.au (opens in a new tab). Thresholds and dates move between cycles, and the school's own page for this year is the one to trust. Every school's dates.
When will I hear back from Newcastle JMP?
Offers for 2027 entry: 8 January 2027, in UAC’s January Round 1. Applicants through the Miroma Bunbilla program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants hear in December Round 2, on 23 December 2026. The offer is the answer. Newcastle JMP publishes no date for telling you how the interview went, so hearing nothing in between is normal.
Every school's offer dates, and why the wait is so long.
My note on Newcastle JMP
The JMP calls its interview the Multiple Skills Assessment, and some of the stations are activities rather than questions. Prepare for it as an MMI. I do not coach for the Personal Qualities Assessment, which is an online test of a different kind.
Preparing for an MMI
Each station is marked on its own, so the two skills that matter most are reading the prompt for what it is really asking and leaving a bad station behind in its room. Both can be practised, and both are what the stations on this site are for.
What to work on
Newcastle JMP publishes “interpersonal and communication skills”, “the desire and driving force to be a doctor” among the qualities it assesses. These are the marking domains that covers, and the ones its stations most often turn on.
- Communication Do you answer the question that was asked, clearly, at the right length, and can you be understood by someone who is not a doctor?
- Self-awareness When you talk about a failure, is it a real one, and do you know what it taught you?
- Motivation for medicine Is your reason yours, is it specific, and does it survive the follow-up question?
Expect to be asked why Newcastle JMP in particular. How to answer “why do you want to study here?”
Question themes to know for Newcastle JMP
Stations to run first
These cover the areas Newcastle JMP says it marks, or the areas its stations most often turn on. Thirty seconds to read each question, two minutes to answer it out loud.
Other schools that interview as an MMI
- Western Sydney University MMI. Late November.
- Charles Sturt University MMI. Late November.
- Monash University MMI. Rounds in December and January, on Zoom.
- University of Queensland MMI. Mid to late November.
- University of Adelaide MMI. Late in the year, after UCAT results.
- University of Western Australia MMI. Late November to mid December.
- Curtin University MMI. Early December, then two rounds in January.
- Bond University MMI. March, after the psychometric round.
Other guides
- Start here What the interview is testing, and how the cycle runs.
- Timeline planner Put in your interview date and get a week by week plan.
- Pathway planner The whole road from school to consultant, drawn around your choices.
- Practice stations Real MMI stations with a two minute reading phase and a station clock.
- By university The interview at every undergraduate-entry school: format, timing, and what is marked.
- What is marked The six things every station marks, and how to practise each one.
- How to answer The questions every panel asks, what each is testing, and the follow-ups to expect.
- Question themes The subjects questions come from, from rural health to the profession, with prompts.
- Interview dates When each school sends invitations, holds interviews and makes offers this cycle.
- When you hear back Every school’s offer dates, and why the wait after the interview is so long.
- Formats What an MMI and a panel interview each are, and how to prepare for each.
- Interview soon? Days to go? What you can still book at short notice, and the prices.
- For parents Who your child is working with, and what I will not promise.
If you want a session
Thirty minutes, $40, online, and it comes off any package you go on to book. Tell me where you are applying and when the interviews are.