Nottingham Medicine 2017 Entry

I feel that. I am thinking Cambridge (if head of admissions says it is realistic, We had like 4 people go there for medicine two years ago from school so they know what is required), Nottingham, Birmingham and my fourth really depends on my UKCAT (if I do really well then Kings or Edinburgh, if not then UCL or Imperial)

wbu?

Good luck everyone! If anyone of you need any help with personal statements and interviews or just advice in general I'll be more than happy to help. (I'll be starting Nottingham Med school soon)


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Oooh how was the summer school? What college did you stay in? I wanted to go on one but didn't meet conditions for Sutton or UniQ and didn't want to pay 3500 aha as just went on GapMedics that's a good sign! Yeah it's all been a mess really! After reading your response I am really reconsidering my life choices aha. I will only apply to Edinburgh I think if I really ace my UKCAT (750+) as otherwise it's too risky and I will just apply to unis that suit my strengths more like Birmingham. Nottingham is beautiful though and good for my strengths I think (with the scoring system) so hopefully it's a good choice for us aha

go for Cambridge! don't let anyone put you off! and i'm thinking of similar aswell. Kings, Bham, Nottingham and Manchester. I'm guessing you are doing the Bmat?

It was great, and I was at Selwyn
Yeah Nottingham seems pretty good for me too! It's just so scary how quickly we've got to apply now!

Oh nice! And it really is, literally less than a month oh my days

Hey guys!Haven't been on the forums for a while but thought I'd show my face again!I'm currently at Nottingham med school, going into my third year.

Feel free to ask me any questions!

Hi,
What has your experience at Nottingham been like? Do you think the teaching, facilities, student experience etc has been good?
Thanks!

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go for Cambridge! don't let anyone put you off! and i'm thinking of similar aswell. Kings, Bham, Nottingham and Manchester. I'm guessing you are doing the Bmat?

My overall experience has been good.
It's difficult to say how it compares to other medical schools, ofcourse, but I enjoy it and I believe others in my year do too.

Something I will mention is that I've been struggling to concentrate in lectures. But rather than that being a fault of the staff, I think it's more me being a bit useless at learning through lectures haha. Luckily most lectures are recorded and put online, along with the slides etc so I've actually been doing a lot of my learning over the last year without attending all lectures.

The vast majority of students I know have found the experience of lectures fine though! So don't let me discourage you.

I loved the full body dissection, being so hands on and seeing everything as it is in the human body really helped my understanding and learning. Anatomy involves a huge volume of things to remember and I'd definitely say the full body dissection really helped.

The facilities overall are fairly decent. I can't really compare to any other medical school because I didn't look round many haha.

Student experience is great. Lots of societies to join, both medsoc societies and general uni societies are great.

Feel free to ask me any specific questions, a lot easier to answer when they're specific :P

Is 38/46 okay to apply or is it too low?? Please be honest. Its not going to be my first choice so im okay with yu tellin me its too low

Last year's Home/EU score to get to the second sift where they examine your PS was 46/55. Assuming the lower end cut off included an average UKCAT score in the range 601-700, then this year's equivalent would be 39/46 because UKCAT has one less marked component. So a score of 38 will be borderline for second sift dependent on how many apply and with which grades and UKCAT scores.

If it is enough to get to second sift then you need a strong PS to drag you into the top 50% of the candidates who got this far (the PS score is added to your academic score to give an overall total). Last year the lowest scoring people getting to second sift needed to score 10 out of 16 on their PS to get an interview.

Hope that helps

Hey Guys, I've just read the criteria for selection at Nottingham and its really stressing me out!!

At GCSE, I got 5A*s and 9As but at AS i got 2 Cs but I got As in all units but 2 so I am resitting these.

Doing my UKCAT on Thursday, another thing, how do you do a mock test for your UKCAT and getting the scores out of 900 instead of just a percent?