Did anyone on TSR got into medicine with a UKCAT score of less than 600?Which uni?

PenguinMafia has a point.

IMO competitive unis should be ranked on

1) Quality of applicants
2) Amount of applicants

Surely the higher calibre applicants will be applying to medicine. The UKCAT score backs that up a little bit as the averages are slightly lower in dentistry.

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mouse_mat

ukcat 543 (after taking out abstract reasoning)

2 interviews and 2 offers keele and sgul

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mouse_mat

ukcat 543 (after taking out abstract reasoning)

2 interviews and 2 offers keele and sgul

I dnt understand when you say 'without AR'?

If thats teh case then my average goes upto 600 if i take out AR?

But isnt AR part of the whole total?

Reply 68

The reason people say "if I take out AR" is because last year there was a cock up on the exam so AR was taken out.

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Isometrix

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SilentGirl

I dnt understand when you say 'without AR'?

If thats teh case then my average goes upto 600 if i take out AR?

But isnt AR part of the whole total?

apparently there was a problem with the AR section of the ukcat for last year's applicants so they decided to not count that section when calculating the average. might not happen this year.

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OP

Actually i hope there is no problem, if there is a problem n other sections...

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nas7232

The reason people say "if I take out AR" is because last year there was a cock up on the exam so AR was taken out.

Iope this year its all fine

Reply 72

I've seen some sites use our lowest score. That means someone with 780 may get ranked the same as a 390 lol

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nas7232

I've seen some sites use our lowest score. That means someone with 780 may get ranked the same as a 390 lol

Whoa ! What do you mean?

That would be good in a way. The unis could compare 3 applicants with scores 790, 690 and 590 and their love for medicine.

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At Leicester (i think) it's the lowest score out of all 4 they use. Some other schools use the ukcat this way too. That would make my 580-> 540 which I don't mind too much. Would you want that appenin to ur scores too?

ooo n im getting stressed as i dunno if I should replace cambridge with durham although durham has a 600 ukcat cut off and cambridge want a level chem which I haven't got. Which 1 shall i usee, there is no more schools that I can apply to =(

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ThisLittlePiggy

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nas7232

PenguinMafia has a point.

Surely the higher calibre applicants will be applying to medicine.

Nope, all the dental students that I have met have 4 plus A's at Scottish higher and advanced highers at A and B.That is some serious quality.Also schools such as Glasgow only have 80 places and that = some serious competition for a space.

UKCAT tells you nothing about grades and quality.

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Yeah of course Dentists are quality applicants. Medics just imo tend to have the higher grades. The ukcat don't show much but does show something in a large sample of data.

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ThisLittlePiggy

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nas7232

Yeah of course Dentists are quality applicants. Medics just imo tend to have the higher grades. The ukcat don't show much but does show something in a large sample of data.

I just don't believe that medics do have higher grades.Aren't the req'd grades for both courses mostly the same? ie AAA,AAB,ABB etc

I've always seen them in the same light.

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theatrical

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nas7232

Yeah of course Dentists are quality applicants. Medics just imo tend to have the higher grades. The ukcat don't show much but does show something in a large sample of data.

In your opinion? So not based on anything then...

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