From Plateau to 3310 UCAT: Why Year 12 Doesn’t Have to Be Hell - Rithika Ramesh | Medical Student Interviews #12

How do you navigate a school where half the cohort wants to do medicine? Can "gaslighting" yourself through SACs actually work? What if the real secret to UCAT success isn’t doing more questions, but doing them differently?

In Episode 12 of the Medical Student Interviews series, we sit down with Rithika Ramesh, a first-year Monash Medicine student, UCAT tutor, and MacRob graduate who scored a 99.50 ATAR and 3310 on the UCAT. From moments of doubt to major breakthroughs, Rithika shares how she transformed VCE stress and UCAT stagnation into confidence, clarity, and success

In this episode, we cover:

• MacRob Realities: competition, camaraderie, and blocking out the noise in a selective school
• VCE Mindset: SAC setbacks, “gaslighting” yourself, and making mistakes work for you
• Subject Selection: why passion some ...