TSR Graduate entry medics and applicants society!

How the hell do they manage to justify charging £240 for the GAMSAT? What a complete insult.

Reply 982

Fafthelibrarian

Horrorshow

Whilst the student loan company saga rumbles on, I appear to have just been given the first installment of the maintenance loan TODAY.......even thought i've not met the conditions of the offer....

Hmmm what to do......

I've just been paid mine too :s-smilie:

even though they've still got to do the assessment on my parents income :s-smilie:

After my rent's taken out of my loan I have £100 to live on from Sept til Dec...joy :rolleyes:

Reply 983

brokenangel

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Fafthelibrarian

I've just been paid mine too :s-smilie:

even though they've still got to do the assessment on my parents income :s-smilie:

After my rent's taken out of my loan I have £100 to live on from Sept til Dec...joy

Same here and i havent even returned the decleration yet!! Tho im going into the final year of my degree not a fresher

BTW - its me that has just subscribed to your blog

Reply 984

GodspeedGehenna

How the hell do they manage to justify charging £240 for the GAMSAT? What a complete insult.

It's the £192 plus the £50 late fee as registration officially closed yesterday.

When I booked mine I just went sod it tbh but I had just spent more than that on one pair of outdoor leather boots :ninja:

Also, it's a small sum for what it could lead to. Saying that, it's like the cost of OU modules. I was happily considering doing a couple to boost my pre-med admissions for the Cambridge entry but one of the modules they take is almost £1000 to study!

Reply 985

apotoftea

It's the £192 plus the £50 late fee as registration officially closed yesterday.

When I booked mine I just went sod it tbh but I had just spent more than that on one pair of outdoor leather boots :ninja:

Also, it's a small sum for what it could lead to. Saying that, it's like the cost of OU modules. I was happily considering doing a couple to boost my pre-med admissions for the Cambridge entry but one of the modules they take is almost £1000 to study!

Still, even without the late fee, £192 is a monstrous amount to expect a student to cough up. Why should they charge so much, especially compared to the UKCAT.

Reply 986

GodspeedGehenna

Still, even without the late fee, £192 is a monstrous amount to expect a student to cough up. Why should they charge so much, especially compared to the UKCAT.

Don't get me wrong - it is a lot of money. They must be making a packet!

Say 1000 students sit it in London alone - that's almost £200 000 for one day. Now, the rent/hire of x location won't even be a tenth of that, more like one hundredth. Publishing of the test itself and materials will be expensive but I doubt that'll make a dent either. Ok, so there is other costs like sending papers to Australia for triple marking etc which the UKCAT doesn't have. And don't forget that the UKCAT is just a computerised test run on a body of automated questions, which once made, designed (and updated when needed) won't have massive overheads.

I don't get why everything related to GAMSAT is expensive. Those gullible enough to pay for it?

Reply 987

apotoftea

Don't get me wrong - it is a lot of money. They must be making a packet though.

Say 1000 students sit it in London alone - that's almost £200 000 for one day. Now, the rent/hire of x location won't even be a tenth of that, more like one hundredth. Publishing of the test itself and materials will be expensive but I doubt that'll make a dent either.

I don't get why everything related to GAMSAT is expensive. Those gullible enough to pay for it?

I suppose if it's a paper exam you have to include the wages (minimum) of those marking them. I guess that would account for the discrepancy between it and the UKCAT. But still, not that much.

Reply 988

GodspeedGehenna

I suppose if it's a paper exam you have to include the wages (minimum) of those marking them. I guess that would account for the discrepancy between it and the UKCAT. But still, not that much.

See my edit but it still doesn't cover the gap of oh you know £150 000 :woo:

And there's what? 6 centres in the UK to sit it at?

Reply 989

Fafthelibrarian

brokenangel

Same here and i havent even returned the decleration yet!! Tho im going into the final year of my degree not a fresher

BTW - its me that has just subscribed to your blog

Maybe one of their dim-witted employees accidentally pressed the button marked "pay everyone's lones"? It wouldn't surprise me!

Congrats on being my first subscriber :p:

I've returned the favour

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I don't think I've even been sent a dec form. I certainly don't recall returning it.

Looking at my correspondance on the SLC website, they haven't sent me anything and it's not asking me for anything.

:dontknow:

Oh well.

Reply 991

salmon24l

Hi everyone,
:woo:

I'm new to TSR, My name is Laura and I am applying for 2011 entry as a graduate. I really (like everyone else here) want to study medicine and have been watching this forum for a while :cool:

If i dont make 2011, I will apply in 2012 i believe after taking Gamsat/UKCAT again!

I don't have amazing A level grades, English, Chemistry, Applied Business AS, Biology AS, and French AS. (BEbcee) I have fair GCSE's (AAABBBB) but I am predicted a good 2:1 in my BA English degree...

For work experience:

2 weeks working with disabled children, 4 weeks working in a school, for my PS i've tried to draw on my own experiences as a patient/visitor. I'm trying to arrange GP/hosp placement... its proving diff as I started in May and still dont have one... I'm giving it another week before volunteering in a care home...

I havent sat UKCAT yet (its in early sept) and cannot take GAMSAT this year (due to money) and as three of my four choices so far I'm applying to (depending on my ukcat):

Southampton - 4 year
KCL - 5 year
Newcastle - 4 year

Any ideas for a 4th choice? or anything I should know about my the choices I've listed/work exp? :confused:

Help is always appreciated, Thanks :smile:

xxx

Reply 992

brokenangel

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salmon24l

Hi everyone,
:woo:

I'm new to TSR, My name is Laura and I am applying for 2011 entry as a graduate. I really (like everyone else here) want to study medicine and have been watching this forum for a while :cool:

If i dont make 2011, I will apply in 2012 i believe after taking Gamsat/UKCAT again!

I don't have amazing A level grades, English, Chemistry, Applied Business AS, Biology AS, and French AS. (BEbcee) I have fair GCSE's (AAABBBB) but I am predicted a good 2:1 in my BA English degree...

For work experience:

2 weeks working with disabled children, 4 weeks working in a school, for my PS i've tried to draw on my own experiences as a patient/visitor. I'm trying to arrange GP/hosp placement... its proving diff as I started in May and still dont have one... I'm giving it another week before volunteering in a care home...

I havent sat UKCAT yet (its in early sept) and cannot take GAMSAT this year (due to money) and as three of my four choices so far I'm applying to (depending on my ukcat):

Southampton - 4 year
KCL - 5 year
Newcastle - 4 year

Any ideas for a 4th choice? or anything I should know about my the choices I've listed/work exp? :confused:

Help is always appreciated, Thanks :smile:

xxx

Good luck personnaly i would go for another 5yr if you can

Reply 993

Ama2007

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So when is the deadline for GAMSAT? and how much ar ethe normal fees? I am applying for 2012 but I need this stuff beforehand because I will be doing my pre-reg and wont have any time to look up things.

I am considering
Cambridge, St.George, Bristol, Newcastle

what do you think?

I want to go to uni that doesnt rely on your UKCAT results so is that the right choice?

Reply 994

brokenangel

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Ama2007

I want to go to uni that doesnt rely on your UKCAT results so is that the right choice?

Newcastle rank applicants by UKCAT for interview so no

Reply 995