King's College London Medicine Applicants 2012

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Solid I would say anything above 650 is solid. Anything above 700 is very good. Anything above 750 is

Yeah haha anyone who got above 750 must be some sort of wizard.

Fanks! I got 767.5

Not a wizard, unfortunately. Just plenty of practice and luck with questions asked.

Yeah I guess that's the general formula, you never can tell though, when I went to Sheffield open day I was told anything below about 720 is not worth applying with for them! Seems stupid to me but meh. Yeah haha anyone who got above 750 must be some sort of wizard.

Are the teaching standards as good as they make out they are?

mine is at 12, when is your friends?
it's horrific timing, the day after the BMAT

I think they are the dissection sessions are really useful mainly because you get to be taught by a doctor (ours is FY2 I think) and they go over the lecture material in more detail and quiz you to make sure you understand everything. Professor Ellis still helps with the teaching in dissections too.
I suppose it depends on how you learn but I'm not keen on pbl or being taught by other students via presentations and there isn't any of that so I'm happy. Some people can't learn from lectures, so all you have to keep in mind is that lectures do make up a lot of the teaching.

Are the teaching standards as good as they make out they are?

My 2nd-year medic brother-in-law showed me round the campus today as well as the interview area in preparation for my interview next week also sat in on two lectures on the thyroid and adrenal glands, must say the lecturer wasn't the most thrilling person haha, but all of this just made me love King's even more
Just need to make sure I don't mess up the interview...

Got given my Kings interview the day after I sent my UCAS (14th oct). Had pretty abysmal ukcat (<650) but they didn't seem to care! Guess I was lucky.

today i heard that kings do multiple mini interviews, so short interviews/ exercises at different stations. is this correct?! please tell me its not, as i have my interview next week.
is it just normal, with 2 medical related people and a lay by?

They don't even have our UKcat scores yet...those invited to.interview atm are people who's gcses are so good that their score won't matter.

Does that mean that the people who have already been invited for interview won't have their UKCAT scores taken into consideration at all? Or that they might still use them to decide between applicants after interview??