*MEGATHREAD* - The GEM "Am I Good Enough?" General Questions & Advice Megathread

I registered for GAMSAT, and haven't registered with UCAS yet. I don't remember being asked for a UCAS code?

I registered for GAMSAT, and haven't registered with UCAS yet. I don't remember being asked for a UCAS code?

They did ask for it, the option to provide an ID number wasn't marked by an asterisk. i.e it wasn't a mandatory part of the registration.

Balls... I haven't registered for UCAS this cycle yet, I used my old UCAS ID. Guess we'll find out what's gonna happen...

I registered for GAMSAT, and haven't registered with UCAS yet. I don't remember being asked for a UCAS code?

I feel like I was but maybe I'm being stupid. Should probably find out pretty sharpish.

I'm talking about tuition fees in that post but as for living costs, I have about £12k in savings and I would probably try and save my maintenance loans from my first degree so that I can use that to live on for GEM too. My parents probably wouldn't charge any rent or food costs etc and they have said they would try and help with living costs if i want to still do medicine later.

I really hope this remark works, it would save so much time, money and stress

If it's any help, last year when I registered I didn't have a UCAS ID. Just before the results came out all candidates were sent emails requesting the ir UCAS IDs so the results could be passed on to the universities we had applied to. Hopefully it'll be the same this year.
Goodluck !

Thanks , but you know what would be even more helpful? Sitting the test for me? Let me know if you can, in exchange I offer you whatever is on my desk, which atm is a pen and a broken laser pointer.

Basically, I have been to university previously to do a degree in an arts-based subject. It was a four year Master's degree. However, two years into the degree, I decided not to continue, and I therefore graduated after two years with a Diploma of Higher Education instead of a degree.

Now, this may well be a stupid question, but it needs to be answered nonetheless: should I apply for graduate entry medicine, or just the conventional A100 course? The reason I ask is that I am unsure if graduate entry is for all graduates in general, or more specifically those who have graduated with degree level qualifications?

I will be applying to Glasgow if this helps.

Glasgow doesn't offer graduate entry medicine anyway Only certain unis do. Even if it did, I am almost certain you need a degree level qualification (and for most a science based one) for GEM

But at post graduate level, would it be better for me to do a chemistry degree or a biomed degree?

I graduated with an undergraduate Masters in Computer Science but have now decided to go on and do medicine. I will be doing Highers in Chemistry and Biology over the coming year (and I already have an A in Higher Physics). I was planning on applying to the normal 5 year course at Glasgow, Dundee, Edinburgh and Aberdeen but I wondered about using one of my choices to apply to the GEM course at KCL.

Do you think that for a non-chemistry or biology graduate it would be better just to apply for the normal 5 year course and forget GEM? I was a bit worried that if I did get on the GEM course that I would be behind everyone else because I come from an unrelated degree.

Thanks

If you're Scottish I don't think you get the GEM funding, in which case you'd be better off sticking to Scottish 5-year courses.

Oooh didn't know that. Thanks for the pointer. I will stick to the 5 year course in that case. Thanks