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So I got a 2:2 in biomedical science. I really flipped my exams this year as I was unmotivated due to personal reasons and didn’t realise the severe impact doing poorly in the exams would have on my degree classification so please refrain from judgement. I have always really wanted to study medicine, if I did a masters degree and really put my head done and worked my hardest and got a 2:1 or 1:1, would I still be able to get into a medical school in the UK or abroad? I am currently 21 and was going to sit the UKCAT and GAMSAT this year but following my 2:2 I am going to study masters instead. Do I have a chance of getting in or is it the Bachelors degree that is solely focused on? I have worked in a variety of care setting for the past 3 years and am going to start Care shifts in the hospital soon as a Band 2 carer.

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Original post by Biomed student

So I got a 2:2 in biomedical science. I really flipped my exams this year as I was unmotivated due to personal reasons and didn’t realise the severe impact doing poorly in the exams would have on my degree classification so please refrain from judgement. I have always really wanted to study medicine, if I did a masters degree and really put my head done and worked my hardest and got a 2:1 or 1:1, would I still be able to get into a medical school in the UK or abroad? I am currently 21 and was going to sit the UKCAT and GAMSAT this year but following my 2:2 I am going to study masters instead. Do I have a chance of getting in or is it the Bachelors degree that is solely focused on? I have worked in a variety of care setting for the past 3 years and am going to start Care shifts in the hospital soon as a Band 2 carer.

Some GEPs accept 2:2s, some accept 2:2s with a master's degree, some don't accept 2:2s at all. There is a lot of variation so there might not be a need to do another degree. Check the requirements.

Assuming your master's degree is done separately to your undergrad degree it won't be graded according to the honours classification system (i.e. you won't get a 1st, 2:1 etc - there is no such thing as a "1:1" btw).

If you're happy to study medicine abroad I would skip the master's and just go for it now, I suspect a 2:2 would be okay for non-UK medical schools.

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