Access course (health science) pre reading?

Thanks so much!

Good luck with yours, when do you hear?

Sorry, I wrote a long reply and then lost it so tried to summarise it! I was asking where you'd applied and when you knew where you were going to go. I'm finding all the decisions I need to make quite daunting, so just trying to go one step at a time which is at odds with how I usually work.

I'm hoping to hear from the college about the access course today, I've been studying a distance learning thing at level 3, so if they make me redo the GCSE level over an extra year I'm going to be really annoyed!

Yeah they are, but not in the last 5 years. I'm brushing up, I'm hoping they take my word for it that my literacy and numeracy skills are suitable, I've had my writing published in magazines, run my own business and completed my own tax return, and am also willing to work longer to brush up anything extra. I'm not willing to take another year though, I don't have the time or money to drag out my education over too long a period!

September is a long way away, and I wondered if there's any good books I can read to prepare me, or what text books are most commonly used on the course.

I have some self study GCSE guides in chemistry, biology and maths and have studied some biology at level 3.

Any advice?

I'm hoping to hear from the college about the access course today, I've been studying a distance learning thing at level 3, so if they make me redo the GCSE level over an extra year I'm going to be really annoyed!

So many people intend to read textbooks but so many people fail to live up to those intentions.

For some degree courses GCSE equivalents are accepted in place of GCSE which is why there is a GCSE level access course. For pharmacy they don't accept these and as long as you already have them at C's then that's good enough. My GCSEs are ancient and I'd long since lost the certificates but it didn't affect anything.



This! I'm exactly the same.