CURRENT YEAR 13s-Hopeful Medics (Mk. II)!

I got negged. </3

Is anyone else really hitting a brick wall when it comes to Abstract reasoning, i'm practising quite a bit, but just don't seem to be getting any better, anyone have any ideas or similar experiences ?

I feel exactly the same. Sometimes it's very obvious, but anything beyond that and I just freeze and blow it. I've exhausted my whole supply of questions and I have gotten slightly worse since I started

The worst part is that by percentage, I am actually better at AR than anything else. I suvk at the UKCAT.

Yeah, i mean a lot of them i just get and then that's fine but there's still quite a few where i could stare at them for hours and just not get any further.

Seriously ? Like no-one is best at AR, AR is the worst. Even DA ? I've always thought DA was by far and away the easiest.

I just really want my results now, so I can plan ahead. I'm tired of living in this uncertainty!

hopefully that will never happen, but I get where you're coming from. Hang in there mate!

Thats exactly what I thought

Yeah, i mean a lot of them i just get and then that's fine but there's still quite a few where i could stare at them for hours and just not get any further.

Seriously ? Like no-one is best at AR, AR is the worst. Even DA ? I've always thought DA was by far and away the easiest.

by the way... best thing i ever did was not get into medicine at a young age, applying as a mature/graduate applicant has allowed me to do so many things with my life

ahh try to stop thinking about it. Keep busy.

pharmacy at highly competitive universities would be rejected too actually.

It's a hard one. It depends on the competitiveness of the course and how strong your application is. You don't really want to be fussing about how you can make your medical personal statement related to something else - that'd result in pre-interview medicine rejections. I know some of the applied healthcare courses at specialised places like St George's, eg. radiography would probably take you on. I've heard people getting optometry places, podiatry etc.

I've been thinking about slightly related engineering courses, biochemical engineering at UCL looks good for example, but I think I'd probably get rejected from that too because it's so competitive (most applicants have a personal statement geared towards it) and the admissions process is so variable with a sort of visit day where they ask questions (how would I show I cared about that course?). Medical Materials (eg. at Queen Marys) is an option, and of course biomedical sciences and in most places, biochemistry.

I think personally, I know I would always reapply during a gap year if I got 4 med rejections. I think I just want a 5th choice non-medical insurance to apply for the mental boost it'd give me if every one of my medical options rejected me. I worry I won't have any motivation to do well in my A2 exams if I know I have no university that would take me.



don't do that, you'd get rejected from the access courses anyway, that'd just risk your 4 medical offers for an extra certain rejection.

There were two practise questions where I just gave myself zero and looked at the answers, because I studied them for 15 minutes and didn't get anywhere.

I'm awful at DA. It's incoherent and nonsensical Its my worst along with QR. I'm very mediocre (as in below average) in VR and AR but I'm ever so slightly better at AR. How much of that is lucky guesswork I don't know, im not confident in any of the sections. The only reason why I'm good at AR basically is that I'm so unbelievably crap at everything else....

so where do we sign up for the BMAT?

Hi, I have secured a 6 month voluntary placement in a hospital starting from November 2012-April 2013, is this worth writing in my personal statement?

That was me.

by the way... best thing i ever did was not get into medicine at a young age, applying as a mature/graduate applicant has allowed me to do so many things with my life

AR, QR, VR, DA

Hardest to easiest obviously.

VR is my bitch

I don't know why, but I just find it really easy.

For me, it goes: AR, DA, QR, VR (hardest to easiest)

I've just done a set of AR questions where I only got 4/13 of the patterns right....

Do you do the 'read the question first, then skim the text' method for VR?