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[simranarmis]

(Original post by Einy)
Ill post it for you tomorrow. I cant remember it - so ill have to ask my mum and shes asleep atm. Ive looked on their website and the one you need isnt on there. Dont worry she asked me to see if i could get any others interested. Ive given it to the people at my school applying for medicine next year and i thought id offer it to student room.

so yeah ill tell you it tomorrow - ill probs send it thru private - dont want her getting spammed

Could you send it to me too? Just joined student room on account of this post! Would be really beneficial, thanks

[Natalie21]

(Original post by Einy)
Ill post it for you tomorrow. I cant remember it - so ill have to ask my mum and shes asleep atm. Ive looked on their website and the one you need isnt on there. Dont worry she asked me to see if i could get any others interested. Ive given it to the people at my school applying for medicine next year and i thought id offer it to student room.

so yeah ill tell you it tomorrow - ill probs send it thru private - dont want her getting spammed

Could you send it to me please? Thank you

[jaffacakes]

(Original post by Einy)
Ill post it for you tomorrow. I cant remember it - so ill have to ask my mum and shes asleep atm. Ive looked on their website and the one you need isnt on there. Dont worry she asked me to see if i could get any others interested. Ive given it to the people at my school applying for medicine next year and i thought id offer it to student room.

so yeah ill tell you it tomorrow - ill probs send it thru private - dont want her getting spammed

Could you please send it to me too?

[Dr.Acula]

I'll be re-applying this year. Hopefully 2013 will be my year!

[confused dot com]

(Original post by Dr.Acula)
I'll be re-applying this year. Hopefully 2013 will be my year!

Sorry to hear that you have to re-apply, but good luck for when you do. Which unis did you apply to this year?

[AtomicMan]

just above 8 months till application :O

[Dr.Acula]

(Original post by confused dot com)
Sorry to hear that you have to re-apply, but good luck for when you do. Which unis did you apply to this year?

Thanks.

Congratulations on your offers! Must be an amazing feeling knowing you'll be starting medical school later this year (grades permitting), and you must be pretty motivated to make sure you get the grades! (Something I'm having problems with lately..)

I applied to Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool and Sheffield. Got rejected post-interview from Manchester (was an absolute nervous wreck) and I'm withdrawing from the other three due to some stuff going on in life. I don't really mind tho, I'm looking forward to my gap year. ;D

Best of luck with exams and such!

[elsof]

(Original post by Einy)
Ill post it for you tomorrow. I cant remember it - so ill have to ask my mum and shes asleep atm. Ive looked on their website and the one you need isnt on there. Dont worry she asked me to see if i could get any others interested. Ive given it to the people at my school applying for medicine next year and i thought id offer it to student room.

so yeah ill tell you it tomorrow - ill probs send it thru private - dont want her getting spammed

I know your probably getting annoyed now, but I would appreciate it very much if you could send it to me too! Thank you x

[FootyMad123]

As regards to work experience, how long is sufficient?

Also, when will you guys do it?

[Vulpes]

(Original post by FootyMad123)
As regards to work experience, how long is sufficient?

Also, when will you guys do it?

1-2 weeks should be sufficient depending on the quality of your work experience. Many gap year / post grad applicants have over a month of work experience so there really isn't a limit.

[Nitronite]

Hello there everyone. Recently I've decided to pursue medicine as a course. I've told myself that I'll pursue it vigorously until June, and then depending on all of my results I'll decide, should I continue or not.
However, my case has a few intricacies. First of all my country of origin is Greece, and so I haven't done GCSEs, but I have done the equivalent Greek exams, on which I got almost all A*s, a few As in subjects like Greek Literature, and a B in Ancient Greek, which believe me you wouldn't want to do.
Second of all my predicted grades relative to my target grades are quite low, since my 6th Form decided that it would be too difficult to convert my Greek grades into equivalent English grades. But, having done quite well in the January Exams, I hope they'll raise my predicted grades, which are at the moment are an A for Maths (the teacher really likes me), a C for Physics (I'm sure I'll get an A for the exams), a C for Chemistry (I'm sure I'll get an A) and an E for Biology (again, I'm sure I'll get an A). In comparison my target grades relative to these are A,B,B,A,A, respectively. Btw, I also do Further Maths.
Right, now I have a couple of questions. Do you think my Greek Grades will be accepted in universities, or are GCSEs in general not really that important? Can teachers raise predicted grades, and if so, do you think I should talk to them after I get my results? Are predicted or target grades more important? And my final question is, is the UKCAT necessary for all universities? I mean, I know it isn't, but if, for example I didn't do it, but most other people did, and we applied to a university like Cambridge, having the same grades and work experience and similar results for the BMAT, would they have a higher chance of getting a place there?
Thank you for all your advice and help

[Nitronite]

Right, also, I forgot to ask, how are resits done during the same year looked at by Universities? I think I did really well in all my exams, but you know, just curious.

[Waterstorm]

(Original post by Einy)
Ill post it for you tomorrow. I cant remember it - so ill have to ask my mum and shes asleep atm. Ive looked on their website and the one you need isnt on there. Dont worry she asked me to see if i could get any others interested. Ive given it to the people at my school applying for medicine next year and i thought id offer it to student room.

so yeah ill tell you it tomorrow - ill probs send it thru private - dont want her getting spammed

Would you mind giving it to me as well

[Dr.Acula]

(Original post by Nitronite)
Hello there everyone. Recently I've decided to pursue medicine as a course. I've told myself that I'll pursue it vigorously until June, and then depending on all of my results I'll decide, should I continue or not.
However, my case has a few intricacies. First of all my country of origin is Greece, and so I haven't done GCSEs, but I have done the equivalent Greek exams, on which I got almost all A*s, a few As in subjects like Greek Literature, and a B in Ancient Greek, which believe me you wouldn't want to do.
Second of all my predicted grades relative to my target grades are quite low, since my 6th Form decided that it would be too difficult to convert my Greek grades into equivalent English grades. But, having done quite well in the January Exams, I hope they'll raise my predicted grades, which are at the moment are an A for Maths (the teacher really likes me), a C for Physics (I'm sure I'll get an A for the exams), a C for Chemistry (I'm sure I'll get an A) and an E for Biology (again, I'm sure I'll get an A). In comparison my target grades relative to these are A,B,B,A,A, respectively. Btw, I also do Further Maths.
Right, now I have a couple of questions. Do you think my Greek Grades will be accepted in universities, or are GCSEs in general not really that important? Can teachers raise predicted grades, and if so, do you think I should talk to them after I get my results? Are predicted or target grades more important? And my final question is, is the UKCAT necessary for all universities? I mean, I know it isn't, but if, for example I didn't do it, but most other people did, and we applied to a university like Cambridge, having the same grades and work experience and similar results for the BMAT, would they have a higher chance of getting a place there?
Thank you for all your advice and help

Hay,

About your Greek qualifications, I think it'd be best to email individual medical schools and ask them if they accept your qualification. Universities don't ask for your target grades, they will ask your referee for your predicted grades only. It would be best if you could get your teachers to raise these as you'll be quite disadvantaged with the grades you're currently predicted, AAA predicted grades would be best. And lastly, if a university states that they don't require you to take the UKCAT, then it will not be used when deciding to give you an interview/offer.

(Original post by Nitronite)
Right, also, I forgot to ask, how are resits done during the same year looked at by Universities? I think I did really well in all my exams, but you know, just curious.

As long as you take all your exams within two years, re-sits are fine.

Hope that helped, if you have any more questions then just let me know.

[Einy]

(Original post by Nitronite)
Hello there everyone. Recently I've decided to pursue medicine as a course. I've told myself that I'll pursue it vigorously until June, and then depending on all of my results I'll decide, should I continue or not.
However, my case has a few intricacies. First of all my country of origin is Greece, and so I haven't done GCSEs, but I have done the equivalent Greek exams, on which I got almost all A*s, a few As in subjects like Greek Literature, and a B in Ancient Greek, which believe me you wouldn't want to do.
Second of all my predicted grades relative to my target grades are quite low, since my 6th Form decided that it would be too difficult to convert my Greek grades into equivalent English grades. But, having done quite well in the January Exams, I hope they'll raise my predicted grades, which are at the moment are an A for Maths (the teacher really likes me), a C for Physics (I'm sure I'll get an A for the exams), a C for Chemistry (I'm sure I'll get an A) and an E for Biology (again, I'm sure I'll get an A). In comparison my target grades relative to these are A,B,B,A,A, respectively. Btw, I also do Further Maths.
Right, now I have a couple of questions. Do you think my Greek Grades will be accepted in universities, or are GCSEs in general not really that important? Can teachers raise predicted grades, and if so, do you think I should talk to them after I get my results? Are predicted or target grades more important? And my final question is, is the UKCAT necessary for all universities? I mean, I know it isn't, but if, for example I didn't do it, but most other people did, and we applied to a university like Cambridge, having the same grades and work experience and similar results for the BMAT, would they have a higher chance of getting a place there?
Thank you for all your advice and help

tbh, although the BMAT looks easier than UKCAT, I promise you its not. BMAT section 1 is just awful. Ive never done critical thinking and i understand why most people who did it in my year last year failed it. Section 2 is easy. I loved section 3 when preparing for it. I occasionally lay on my bed and spent half an hour writing about some obscure rubbish - it was just my sort of thiung. But doing it after an hour and half of the brain numming section 1 and 2 is soooo soooo different from doing it lying on your bed. So my advice would be when preparing for BMAT do the whole paper as one, dont just prepare for the individual section seperately.
I dont really know about UKCAT, because i did very little revision for it. all i did was those two practice papers, but be aware that they are far more difficult than the real thing. Especially quantitive reasoning - all the questions i got on that were just one line long each.

Good luck

[Natalie21]

(Original post by Einy)
tbh, although the BMAT looks easier than UKCAT, I promise you its not. BMAT section 1 is just awful. Ive never done critical thinking and i understand why most people who did it in my year last year failed it. Section 2 is easy. I loved section 3 when preparing for it. I occasionally lay on my bed and spent half an hour writing about some obscure rubbish - it was just my sort of thiung. But doing it after an hour and half of the brain numming section 1 and 2 is soooo soooo different from doing it lying on your bed. So my advice would be when preparing for BMAT do the whole paper as one, dont just prepare for the individual section seperately.
I dont really know about UKCAT, because i did very little revision for it. all i did was those two practice papers, but be aware that they are far more difficult than the real thing. Especially quantitive reasoning - all the questions i got on that were just one line long each.

Good luck

Thanks for that - very useful

Congrats on your offer btw

[confused dot com]

(Original post by Nitronite)
Hello there everyone. Recently I've decided to pursue medicine as a course. I've told myself that I'll pursue it vigorously until June, and then depending on all of my results I'll decide, should I continue or not.
However, my case has a few intricacies. First of all my country of origin is Greece, and so I haven't done GCSEs, but I have done the equivalent Greek exams, on which I got almost all A*s, a few As in subjects like Greek Literature, and a B in Ancient Greek, which believe me you wouldn't want to do.
Second of all my predicted grades relative to my target grades are quite low, since my 6th Form decided that it would be too difficult to convert my Greek grades into equivalent English grades. But, having done quite well in the January Exams, I hope they'll raise my predicted grades, which are at the moment are an A for Maths (the teacher really likes me), a C for Physics (I'm sure I'll get an A for the exams), a C for Chemistry (I'm sure I'll get an A) and an E for Biology (again, I'm sure I'll get an A). In comparison my target grades relative to these are A,B,B,A,A, respectively. Btw, I also do Further Maths.
Right, now I have a couple of questions. Do you think my Greek Grades will be accepted in universities, or are GCSEs in general not really that important? Can teachers raise predicted grades, and if so, do you think I should talk to them after I get my results? Are predicted or target grades more important? And my final question is, is the UKCAT necessary for all universities? I mean, I know it isn't, but if, for example I didn't do it, but most other people did, and we applied to a university like Cambridge, having the same grades and work experience and similar results for the BMAT, would they have a higher chance of getting a place there?
Thank you for all your advice and help

With both the UKCAT and BMAT, practice is vital. I really sucked when I started, getting around 20%, but using the books and free resources on the internet, it gets a LOT easier. Definitely don't underestimate the power of a good score in either as I honestly feel that the relatively high scores I was lucky enough to get really helped in my application.

[confused dot com]

(Original post by Natalie21)
Thanks for that - very useful

Congrats on your offer btw

What Einy said was basically what I feel too, except the bit about Section 2 being 'easy'. It's definitely a challenge, but if you go through GCSE science relatively well it gets considerably easier IMO.

[IAmMclovin]

(Original post by Einy)
Ill post it for you tomorrow. I cant remember it - so ill have to ask my mum and shes asleep atm. Ive looked on their website and the one you need isnt on there. Dont worry she asked me to see if i could get any others interested. Ive given it to the people at my school applying for medicine next year and i thought id offer it to student room.

so yeah ill tell you it tomorrow - ill probs send it thru private - dont want her getting spammed

could you please send it to me as well , sorry for the hassle