[AtomicMan]

(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

Oh my god, your UKCAT and BMAT scores are aboslutely great, 8.2 in S2 ? :O :O

[theytookmyuke]

Hey there, I'm hoping to study medicine in 2013 at Dundee. I'm currently in S5, the highers I have taken are Biology, Chemistry, English, Maths and Physics. I am hoping to take Advanced Higher Biology and Chemistry. I would also like to take a higher such as Geography or French. I am swithering about taking AH Physics as well, as I think it might be too much. Would my subject choices be acceptable for applying to medicine? Also would I need to take Advanced Higher maths?
If anyone could help, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

[TooSexyForMyStethoscope]

(Original post by theytookmyuke)
Hey there, I'm hoping to study medicine in 2013 at Dundee. I'm currently in S5, the highers I have taken are Biology, Chemistry, English, Maths and Physics. I am hoping to take Advanced Higher Biology and Chemistry. I would also like to take a higher such as Geography or French. I am swithering about taking AH Physics as well, as I think it might be too much. Would my subject choices be acceptable for applying to medicine? Also would I need to take Advanced Higher maths?
If anyone could help, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Maths is not a required subject. Universities encourage students 'to fully experience sixth year' which is pretty much code for three Advanced Highers. If you only do 2 AHs, I would recommend doing at least 2 Highers to ensure you get a good predicted grade score.

I chose to do 3 AHs and a Higher in sixth year. It was challenging but if you get in then odds are you will get an unconditional offer...and so it would no longer be necessary to burn yourself out to get top grades in all four if you don't want to.

[bethanyyea]

(Original post by Einy)
Hey, just wanna say to those apllying for this next year. Something i did for my UCAS form was write articles for a medical company on a range of subjects. it was certainly one of those things that made my form stand out a bit, because it was something no one else had done If anyone would like i can give you their email address and you can get in contact.

Hello, could you possibly send the email to me to? I also joined the student room because of this thread it seems really helpful on here!

[Einy]

(Original post by AtomicMan)
Oh my god, your UKCAT and BMAT scores are aboslutely great, 8.2 in S2 ? :O :O

Thanxx

Ok yeah a little edit on my earlier statement - some of the questions in section 1 and 2 are deliberately written to catch you out (wel;l in my opinion) - so that you think your being asked one thing and actually theres a little bit youve missed. Be especially careful with percentages, ratios, genetics and make sure you know K.E. = 1/2 mv^2.

[Natalie21]

(Original post by Einy)
Thanxx

Ok yeah a little edit on my earlier statement - some of the questions in section 1 and 2 are deliberately written to catch you out (wel;l in my opinion) - so that you think your being asked one thing and actually theres a little bit youve missed. Be especially careful with percentages, ratios, genetics and make sure you know K.E. = 1/2 mv^2.

Ok im just going to post the email address here (i trust you not to spam her) kate@valuemed.co.uk

Hey did you get my pm?

[Einy]

I also wanna add, for the UKCAT, if i had my time over again id work much harder on verbal reasoning. I thought this would actually be my highest scoring section ( it was on both of the practice papers), but i foudn the real thing much more difficult. I think it might partly be to do with the fact that its the first section and so i was a little nervy - but id really recommend getting as much prep of that as possible. Indeed in my test i was very surprised there were actually words i didnt know the meaning of :/ Which took me by surprise because that wasnt the case in the practises - so anything you can do to expand your vocabularly is good ( i mean it improves your diction anyway - so its all gain)

[Vulpes]

(Original post by Einy)
Ok im just going to post the email address here (i trust you not to spam her) x

Bad idea to post the email address here. Non-members and site crawlers can easily pick up that email address for spamming which I am sure she will not appreciate.

[IAmMclovin]

(Original post by Einy)
I also wanna add, for the UKCAT, if i had my time over again id work much harder on verbal reasoning. I thought this would actually be my highest scoring section ( it was on both of the practice papers), but i foudn the real thing much more difficult. I think it might partly be to do with the fact that its the first section and so i was a little nervy - but id really recommend getting as much prep of that as possible. Indeed in my test i was very surprised there were actually words i didnt know the meaning of :/ Which took me by surprise because that wasnt the case in the practises - so anything you can do to expand your vocabularly is good ( i mean it improves your diction anyway - so its all gain)

For the article writing for valuemed, did you have to have references to show you had done it at any med schools? And could the woman you emailed be the reference if you need one? thanks

[AkDo]

If any of you need advice from someone who is already in message me! or ask me here =)

[Einy]

(Original post by IAmMclovin)
For the article writing for valuemed, did you have to have references to show you had done it at any med schools? And could the woman you emailed be the reference if you need one? thanks

Yes - shes prepared to reference anyway who does it regularly

[sfitz1]

Hi,

I'm currently in my penultimate year studying Neuroscience at UCL and have decided I would like to do medicine starting in 2013. I have read that you take the UKCAT on the year starting the degree, but I thought that we had to take it before we apply (in oct 2012) which woul mean i'd have to take it this year, right?...

Also if applying to a BMAT university am I correct in thinking this is taken after applications.

Thanks for any help x

[Natalie21]

(Original post by sfitz1)
Hi,

I'm currently in my penultimate year studying Neuroscience at UCL and have decided I would like to do medicine starting in 2013. I have read that you take the UKCAT on the year starting the degree, but I thought that we had to take it before we apply (in oct 2012) which woul mean i'd have to take it this year, right?...

Also if applying to a BMAT university am I correct in thinking this is taken after applications.

Thanks for any help x

Hey you'll have to take the UKCAT between July and October this year, and the BMAT in November

[Wickersham]

Word of advice from a 2012 applicant:

Don't listen to people when they tell you you can't prepare for the UKCAT! Start preparing for the UKCAT from now. Like the gullible fool that I am, I believed them (and the UKCAT website as well!) and went into the test with very little knowledge about how it'd be like. I just managed to scrape a 660 point average. A friend of mine prepared for it for like months and managed to get something like 760.

So study, study, study from now. It'll make a huge difference to your application.

[Ronove]

I suppose I'll post here... I'm not quite applying for Grad Med as I left uni a year before I finished due to no longer wanting to be there and graduate in my chosen degree. I'm moving to Denmark (where there is no such thing as Grad Med anyway) and will be applying to the University of Copenhagen, hopefully by the deadline for 2013 entry which is mid-March 2013.

I'm currently teaching myself A-level Maths (required for Danish medical degrees) and once I move I'll do Physics and Chem 'A-levels' (in Danish!). It's pretty weird how different the required subjects are. To go to most/all Danish med schools you have to have Maths A, Physics B and Chem or Biotechnology (not Biology) B. In Sixth Form over there you can do subjects at level A, B or C so I'm not quite sure what level my Maths A-level will equate to. I'm aiming for an A* just to try and make sure it appears to be equivalent to Maths A.

[Nitronite]

Hello there. How did everyone's exams go? Well, mine didn't go as well as I had hoped and I got a few Bs, along with As. My question is this. If I were to resit those failed modules in June and get As would I have to write those January results in my UCAS application? UCAS is fairly ambiguous about this, only writing that if you are going to resit in the future that you should write a result as pending.

Any advise or help as to whether to resit or not?

[Ronove]

(Original post by Nitronite)
Hello there. How did everyone's exams go? Well, mine didn't go as well as I had hoped and I got a few Bs, along with As. My question is this. If I were to resit those failed modules in June and get As would I have to write those January results in my UCAS application? UCAS is fairly ambiguous about this, only writing that if you are going to resit in the future that you should write a result as pending.

Any advise or help as to whether to resit or not?

AFAIK you still do not need to put unit results on UCAS. Therefore it is (still) the case that only universities which separately request UMS scores will know that you resat if your resits take place during the two years in which you complete your A-Levels. I know Cambridge do this but otherwise I have only heard mention of one other uni (it may have been UCL but I'm not sure) that asks for the scores (and details of all resits).

So if you need to resit you might not want to apply to Cambridge or the other uni (UCL or otherwise). With some Bs in the initial exams it might be safest not to apply to Cambridge anyway, though I can't claim to know for a fact that a bit of a miss in AS exams will significantly disadvantage you in a Cambridge application.

[Mathlete 4 the win]

(Original post by Nitronite)
Hello there. How did everyone's exams go? Well, mine didn't go as well as I had hoped and I got a few Bs, along with As. My question is this. If I were to resit those failed modules in June and get As would I have to write those January results in my UCAS application? UCAS is fairly ambiguous about this, only writing that if you are going to resit in the future that you should write a result as pending.

Any advise or help as to whether to resit or not?

No I don't think you would need to put it down at all unless you specifically wanted to. Although some universities ask for module scores, if this happened you will probably have to say but this is very rare. The only real problem to my knowledge of resitting is when it either the entire year or entire course, resitting modules is fine with most universities.

Just to be sure (Don't take this post as absolute fact, more reassurance) you're best ringing any universities you're applying to and asking about module resits.

[EKJM]

Hey guys! hahahaha enthusiastic lot. UCAS doesn't even open for a couple of months!
Just a word of good luck to you all! Hope to see those who intend to apply for SGUL in 2013!

[Hippokrates]

When do people start their personal statements?