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Hi,
Recently I just sat my UKCAT and received 573. A terrible score. My AS grades are ABBB and my predic: AAA. I was not going to apply to medicine as I know there would be no chance of me getting a place.

But I wanted to ask, to apply to medicine in a gap year, would you need to have applied to medicine and had 4 rejections in the first place? Would that look better as it shows that you're determined?

Thanks

i was reading about a requirement for medicine was medical screening? does anyone know if this includes drug testing?

on the newcastle site, it says its needed when converting, yet the UKCAT site itself says it doesnt! im so confused! which do i believe!

Not usually. It means filling in an occupational health form and doing blood tests for various blood borne viruses.

If someone gets worse than a 2.2 is there any other way to get into Medicine?

By worse than a 2:2 do you mean a 3rd?

Yes, or failed.

How does this work? Does the university sort the CRB check out once they have given you an offer or do you have to sort it out for yourself? If it's the latter, how would you go about doing this?
Thanks

I already have an undergraduate degree, and have worked in the field for a bit. But I've start re-taking my A' levels with the intention of getting into medical school.

I'd like to know:
~What my chances of getting in are, and
~What exactly I'd have to do to facilitate the process.

Thanks.

They sort it for you - send you the forms to fill in and you send them back. Sometimes you have to pay though, depending on the uni!

Approximately....64.23%.

For medicine.

Are UCL and Cambridge the only medical schools which consider A2 module re sits as bad?