Applying to Medicine as a Mature Student

Hi all, I currently work in the NHS and have been working my way towards Medicine for a while - I am resitting my GCSE Maths and English in order to get them at a Grade B (currently have C's). After, I am completing an Access to Medicine course before applying.

My main wonder is if anybody else has done it this way? I know it shouldn't worry me but my current time frame I will be 30/31 by the time I graduate at least. How did you find the studying as a mature student? I've been quite confident up until this week I have started worrying more and more about it all!

Thanks.

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TSR Hippocrates

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tllewellyn

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Original post by Conor Parker

Hi all, I currently work in the NHS and have been working my way towards Medicine for a while - I am resitting my GCSE Maths and English in order to get them at a Grade B (currently have C's). After, I am completing an Access to Medicine course before applying.

My main wonder is if anybody else has done it this way? I know it shouldn't worry me but my current time frame I will be 30/31 by the time I graduate at least. How did you find the studying as a mature student? I've been quite confident up until this week I have started worrying more and more about it all!

Thanks.

Hello,

Slightly different in that I am start veterinary medicine in September . This will be 5 days before I turn 41!
Therefore I will be nearly 46 before I graduate. I studied a degree before this and found the study a lot more enlightening than at 18!
I also think my drive was so much more at a mature age with less arrogance that I would simply pass by just reading a book!
Good on your for following what you want and good luck 🤞

Reply 3

Conor Parker

OP

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Hi, thanks, I've worked in the NHS for 3 years now (4 when I apply), I find it so much more interesting and absorbing than when I was at college, I am more worried about not passing my GCSE resits and having to do them again. The difficulty with my college classes are that I am the only person who has English as a first language so the teacher spends most of the time explaining basic stuff which I feel is setting me back as I need the B/6 whilst the class are aiming for a C/5 I think it is.

Good luck with your studies!

Reply 4

tllewellyn

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Original post by Conor Parker

Hi, thanks, I've worked in the NHS for 3 years now (4 when I apply), I find it so much more interesting and absorbing than when I was at college, I am more worried about not passing my GCSE resits and having to do them again. The difficulty with my college classes are that I am the only person who has English as a first language so the teacher spends most of the time explaining basic stuff which I feel is setting me back as I need the B/6 whilst the class are aiming for a C/5 I think it is.

Good luck with your studies!

I’m sure that’s frustrating.
I had to retake my physics GCSE from online tutoring. The online short videos helped a lot as a revision tool. I’m sure you will surpass your expectations!

Good luck

Reply 5

KyanPheonix

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Age doesn't matter. Speaking of Access to Medicine courses, I would recommend the College of West Anglia. In my class of 2021/2022, all of us scored 45 distinctions and 15 non graded passes.

Teachers at the College of West Anglia, want you to do well, from the sense of satisfaction it gives them and the College's reputation.
All exams are vetted by an external member of the exam board to ensure the teachers are not being too generous with the marking. Relocating, if you earn under £30,000 the College can contribute up to £450 to your rent during term time. 8/9 got into medical schools such: Edinburgh, Kent and Medway, Brighton and Sussex, Exeter, Liverpool, Lancaster and Cambridge.

As for GCSE's, I did mine as a private candidate, so I learned at my own pace. I retook seven, English Language, English Literature, Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Spanish and Maths.

I am entering my second gap year and am going on 28, born in 1995.

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