A level choices and career hopes- care to share?

Aaah, then I'll apply to both CSI is cool :L my sister is doing Psychology with a minor in Criminology so like BeAhvioural analysis is cool :P those fifth choices are awesome though :P they will look at them but they won't hinder you, and yep! I hate it when people become complacent

Mashallah! You mean you're going to do History AS and Business AS early in year 11?! Biology is interesting to study but difficult to memorise I think. Languuages are really useful to have but be prepared to spend a lot of time on French. German took up a lot of my time and I really wanted to concentrate on sciences and maths and in the end I didn't actually revise for German! I'm multilingual so languages are easy for me but too much time is spent on it >.< Don't take further maths, Uni's consider maths and further maths as one A level so save yourself the stress and just stick to maths Yeah Welsh bacc is compulsory for me too, but I think it's a waste of time, I'm not particulary interested in Politics and I recently had to do a presentation on Obesity..
What do you want to be again? Thanks! My results are alright, I could have done better looking back at it now..but ah well I'm just praying that they're good enough for Cambridge and that i get all A's in the summer! Inshallah you'll get high grades, you seem smart so just stay focused and study hard and Allah will reward you

Hi, just wanted to straighten out some things. You're completely correct in saying that many universities don't consider further maths as an A level once you already have maths, but I don't think you're in a position to be telling people not to take it.
Many people fail to get into medicine and in this situation an extra level in a rigorous subject like maths will be hugely advatageous, also they may just like maths!

In the converse, I saw you asked another member why they weren't taking maths. Maths is definitely not needed for medicine, I haven't used anything i learnt in my Maths A level at university. I know many people who did not take maths and are doing fine.

It's good that you're trying to help others, but be careful what you're advising, and check things first.

Yeah do it, It's worth downloadin the Cam prospectus off their website or order it! It's really useful Oh right, where's your sister studying? Yh my friend's doing criminology....seems interesting! Meh fifth choices are a pain to choose :L haha and yeah just got to get good grades in my AS in the summer and get good scores in my UKCAT and BMAT exams! Good luck with your exams

Ah right okay, yes you're right, sorry. Thanks for letting me know

what as in Civil Engineering or like cars?
In 6th form I'm taking Maths, physics and further Maths too Also I'm taking Art, Design and Tech. I'm hoping to get an apprenticeship in Civil Engineering afterwards

I shall do that then she goes to Glamorgan University :P fair enough! What exactly is in the UKCAT and BMAT?

Haha, it's ok. Give it 5 years and you'll be where I am, telling a GCSE student how it all works!

Also let me know if you have any questions about the applications process/Birmingham uni - Same goes to other prospective medics

Ah right, is she in her first year, or second..third? I got friends at Glamorgan Uni UKCAT is the UK Clinical Amplitude Test and BMAT is Biomedical Assessment Test! They're both Medical Exams and I've been told that the BMAT is the hardest out of the two >.< I think for Chemical Engineering at Cambridge you need to sit the Thinking Skills Assessment (TSA)

What kind of questions.s do they ask??? And I think I'll need to do STEP..

I don't know about STEP but the guy I said who did Chemical Engineering at Cam said the TSA was pretty easy... I know the UKCAT is really random cos I did a practise one online and I was like WTH, this has nothing to do with Medicine :L but the BMAT is more science related which is maybe why it's 'solid'

Haha yeah we'll see, hopefully in 5 years I'd be a Junior Doctor :P
Aw okay thanks, you study at B'ham I take it? Did you sit the UKCAT/BMAT? i've been told the BMAT is 'solid' and I was wondering if you could give me tips on how to study for these exams. I did a practise UKCAT online...and it's sooo random :L I'm going to order the 2012 study books off Amazon....
Thanks so much!

Awww, maybe then... And what questions are in there? Like actual questions? Is it unfair for people who sit certain boards and that?

If you're in year 12 it'll be 6 years...

Yeah, Birmingham is awesome

I only did the UKCAT. I just used a book a friend gave me and the online tests. Didn't really do much prep as I don't think it's the kind of exam you can revise for.

Oh really? In the 2013 prospectuses it says the A100 course for Med is 5 years.... I didn't know it's been changed Birmingham want minimum 7A* right? I just got that :/ so don't think I can apply there as Medicine is very competitve! What uni's did you apply to? Yeah I'll get the books for both, I just don't like the fact that you have a min for each Q of the UKCAT. What is a good score??

Yes, I will be entering the UKMT next year I just missed it this year, but my teacher made me sit the paper anyway, and I got a 93 - which apparently was a couple of marks into qualifying for BMO apparently? I'm not entirely sure though, I'm just going off what my teacher said have you ever entered into anything?

Umm they give you an extract of a peice of text and then you have a number of questions to answer based on the text, some are true and false and you have a minute for each question. I haven't done a BMAT practise test so dunno what comes up...I don't think so, it's like general knowledge so don't think it has anything to do with boards...