and health science courses, as well as the highly competitive nature of entry into such courses, there has been some controversy regarding the UMAT's relevance, structure and necessity. ACER do not release their marking and scaling procedures. As well as this there are a number of different test booklets, with many of the questions uniquely appearing in one. From other tests administered by ACER (e.g. the Programme for International Student Assessment, PISA), it is known that ACER likes a simple version of item response theory presumed to correct for varying item difficulties. The accuracy of this scaling is, however, disputed. See also International Student Admissions Test (also created by ACER) GAMSAT (also created by ACER) List of admissions tests References External links Australian Council for Educational Research ACER UMAT Medical education in Australia Standardised tests in Australia Standardized tests in healthcare education