MEDICINE - *RESULTS DAY 2015* - AS Level Results Discussion & Advice

Oh and got work experience in;
-hospital lab (1 week)
-hospital (surgery, gastro opd clinic, diabetes clinic)
-library working with young children
-teaching equestrian vaulting to children (aged 3-15) inc. children with disabilities
-volunteering at local primary school (children aged 3-5) again inc. children with disabilities
-bra fitter at m&s (maybe not so relevant, but you know, patient contact?)

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Help please

My AS results are;

Psych - A
RS - A
Bio - B
Chem - D
And I got 1A* 6A's and 5B's at GCSE

I was so close to an A in bio, just the unit 1 paper that let me down so I'm going to retake that! But my teacher said he thinks he'll predict me an A for A2 wooo 😭

I really wanted to drop RS but I ended up getting full marks so my school won't let me drop it and keep chemistry - I'm definitely going to retake it though and maybe take a gap year and do A2 chem if I can? But that'll mean I basically took 3 years to complete my a levels 😩

I'm really confused as to what I should do tbh, should I just look at something other than medicine? Maybe biomed?



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Oxford and Cambridge care much less about work experience etc as long you would have stuff to talk about at interview. I would say that with your GCSEs it's unlikely that you would get an interview at Oxford without an exceptional BMAT without meeting some of the other factors considered (you can look at statistics here). For Cambridge with the best 3 UMS average you stand a reasonable chance of getting an interview I would think but you would have to interview really well to get a place, the competition is so fierce. It really depends on if you want to take the BMAT and go down that route or stick to UKCAT universities and how much you want to go to Oxbridge. You have to decide how much of a risk you're willing to take.

Oxford and Cambridge care much less about work experience etc as long you would have stuff to talk about at interview. I would say that with your GCSEs it's unlikely that you would get an interview at Oxford without an exceptional BMAT without meeting some of the other factors considered (you can look at statistics here). For Cambridge with the best 3 UMS average you stand a reasonable chance of getting an interview I would think but you would have to interview really well to get a place, the competition is so fierce. It really depends on if you want to take the BMAT and go down that route or stick to UKCAT universities and how much you want to go to Oxbridge. You have to decide how much of a risk you're willing to take.

I think that if your school is relatively poor, then your UMS average would do. There's a graph somewhere which shows UMS score and % of applicants who got in with that score...

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Hmm, do you know your school's GCSE and AS and A2 statistics? Like % A*-A, A*-C etc?

Maths - 93 % ums
Chemistry - 90.7% ums
Biology - 94% ums
Further maths - 80.3 % ums

So my average ums is 89.5
And my best 3 ums average is 92.5
7 a*'s and 3a's at GCSEs
I'll probably be carrying on all 4 subjects and I'm 90% confident I can get my teachers to predict me A*A*A*A. I haven't got that much in the sense of work experience 1 week at a hospital a month or so at a care home and hopefully some tutoring in September. I did some charity and fundraising work once a week for a few months aswell. I also have medicine lectures I went to for 6 months I can mention. Should I bother applying to Cambridge? If not Oxford? Or should I just not bother. I don't know whether my school would fall in the bottom 30% is there anyway I can find out? Thanks





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good question i think it does not apply with medicine or you'll see a lot more students admitted due the current shortage of doctors in the UK. Plus it corst £250,000 of tax payers money to pay for a medical student through medical school.

Medicine is unaffected since the quotas are decided by the GMC

Which universities could I apply to with a UKCAT score of 2670 and AS grades AAAB?

GCSEs: 9A*s 2As

So I got AABD, with the A's in maths and biology, B in chemistry and D in Spanish, hopefully I can get predicted an A in chem and maybe an A* in maths but from what I've seen a lot of unis like Nottingham that don't look at your AS' look at your GCSE's quite a bit and I got 3A*7A3B.
However I did get 3020 on the UKCAT, so where do you think are the places that I still meet the minimum academic requirements for but put the most emphasis on that? Newcastle/Durham I'm definitely looking at
Thanks

I got AAbb for as level but the bs were in biology and chemistry. Do I stand a chance? I got 11 A*s at GCSE but I don't know what to do. I wanted to apply for imperial but I don't even know if I can anymore

I know that for A2 last year only 4% of students received AAB or higher with at least 2 facilitating subjects. Also last year GCSE only 56% of students received 5A*-C including English and maths.


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No, medicine never goes into clearing.