MMI question: Reading data
Screening arithmetic
A test is 99 per cent accurate for a disease that affects 1 in 1,000 people. Somebody tests positive. How worried should they be?
- Category
- Reading data
- Stations that ask you to do
- Suits
- Medicine and dentistry
- Topic
- Screening arithmetic
What this kind of station tests
A table, a graph or a leaflet handed over at the station, where the mark is for what the candidate does with what it does not say.
Written by MedAdmit. No UK medical or dental school publishes the questions it asks at interview, so this is not presented as one a school asks. The model answers, and the follow-up questions an interviewer asks, are part of the interview programme.