Oxford A101 Graduate Medicine 2016

Hi, I haven't submitted my application to oxford yet. Was just wondering whether people are making their personal statement, that is sent directly to oxford, substantially different to their UCAS personal statement?

Thanks

I as literally just talking to someone about that! I kept mine the same but put an extra paragraph at the end explaining why I want to go to oxford over other medical schools. Not sure if that's what they want but it's too late for me no

Ah thanks for your help! I feel I will go with a similar approach. I'm also panicking about the BMAT. I have only just decided to sit it (registered on the deadline) and so have yet to start preparation. How much prep are you planning to do? I will have ~3 weeks and so am praying that will be enough!

I got as far as flicking through the bio section of assumed knowledge, I'm such a procrastinator!

Haha I'm so glad I'm not the only one with this issue! I'm hoping biology won't need much work (I study Genetics) but will definitely need to top up physics, maths and chem!

Biois no probs (medical science grad) and chemistry meh I did a lot for the gamsat. The maths arrrrgh. Triangles? ****. what are those again? (gcses were 14 years ago...)

I just saw a post you made on the general GEM thread regarding oxford references... You said you need two academic and one work exp/volunteering reference. I interpreted it as three academic and so my references are all from staff at my university, do you think I need a work experience based reference?

I as literally just talking to someone about that! I kept mine the same but put an extra paragraph at the end explaining why I want to go to oxford over other medical schools. Not sure if that's what they want but it's too late for me no

Does anyone have any idea on what kind of BMAT scores are good enough for an interview?

I've looked through the admission statistics available but they are only for the A100 course. If anyone is interested, the A100 stastistics they can be found here
http://www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/study/medicine/pre-clinical/statistics

It says that the mean BMAT score for A100 interview is 64%- does anyone know how they convert the BMAT score into a percentage?

no clue. im wondering if it is similar? it has to be since it is the same tutors and similar things they are looking for....

They are looking for similar traits but I'm assuming that, on average, graduates have a significantly higher BMAT score than undergrads? And also I think a lower proportion of grad applicants are selected for interview, which would also indicate BMAT scores would need to be higher for A101 than for A100

I'm hoping I'm not judged on my % A* GCSEs. It seems ridiculous to do so nearly 10 years after I completed them!

Though I'm yet to know my BMAT score so that could be terrible too...