Medicine 2012...(hopeful entrants) !!

Oh I see, you had a look at the sections? Which you find hardest? And fair enough You mean total score right? That doesn't sound too bad

i'm keeping away from PBL...

i'm sorry but i want guidance, i want deadlines, i want someone who is an expert to teach us all.

Yeah, I agree that PBL in itself isn't a bad teaching method- but it was designed for mature students and graduates, not school leavers who had essentially been 'spoon-fed' their A' Levels and then 'thrown in at the deep end' with PBL, to quote one admissions tutor.
The Manchester student I met did say that they were planning to change their course, due to negative student feedback.

Yeah total score but after they use it as a cut off, everyone past that point gets scored depending on how far they are above it..
I think maybe the maths because of timing, but that might be because I've practised it the least. You?

I only one I am worried about is Maths because I effed up my C1 and S1! Chemistry will be fine don't worry, boundaries will make up for difficulties

Wait, your do OCR right, did you do the one with the impossible question? Lol well iA it went fine! Hopefully we'll get our 4A's.

I expect you do get deadlines, I phrased that wrong. What I meant is that you have the scope to get into as much or little depth as you want with certain subjects (within limits), arguably more so than LB courses.



According to Trust Me I'm (Still) a Doctor, the majority of that money doesn't actually go towards being taught. Not sure why you think being sat in a lecture theatre is work £9k anyway. With PBL you pay to use the library, online resources, your supervisor etc so it's not exactly a rip off. And a uni being PBL doesn't mean no practicals.



I'd rather get patient contact early- patient contact doesn't mean you're going to be inserting catheters and diagnosing them early. It means you get to talk to them and appreciate how what you're learning links in to the wards.



I'm sure they'll be gutted to hear that.
Add Liverpool, Glasgow, Peninsula, Barts, Manchester to that list.




With PBL you can get lectures... like with Barts, you get quite a few lectures with the PBL- depends on the uni.

I do yeah, and haha I wish, but nah, I read the bloody question wrong on both C1 and S1! However I had the impossible 1 mark question on my Bio Unit 1, so hopefully the grade boundaries will be ramificated after the time wasted because of that question C1 after looking at the MS on TSR apparently I got 66/72, and C2 I think 71/72 (must have lost a silly mistake somewhere init), but my S1 would be low after reading that question wrong, which means I'll get around 62-66/72, just hoping the total of the three will be above 270 now And iA, don't think that should be a prob.

Wait, your do OCR right, did you do the one with the impossible question? Lol well iA it went fine! Hopefully we'll get our 4A's.

that was not a unbiased opinion

I do yeah, and haha I wish, but nah, I read the bloody question wrong on both C1 and S1! However I had the impossible 1 mark question on my Bio Unit 1, so hopefully the grade boundaries will be ramificated after the time wasted because of that question C1 after looking at the MS on TSR apparently I got 66/72, and C2 I think 71/72 (must have lost a silly mistake somewhere init), but my S1 would be low after reading that question wrong, which means I'll get around 62-66/72, just hoping the total of the three will be above 270 now And iA, don't think that should be a prob.

That's because an unbiased opinion is logically impossible.



Yeah but it's unfair to people considering PBL when they see your post which exaggerates the bad points and misses out the good points. That's why I bothered replying.



Link me to the video please?



Cool, but spoons come in different shapes and forms.



Good luck, surprise yourself!

Don't worry too much if your S1 mark drops a bit, one of my friends got 100ums in C1, C2 and C3 (and probably C4 too) but she dropped to something like 83/100ums, a lot of people don't do as well on their applied modules as core.

You're right, if people do consider it and read my post, of someone who has not even done pbl, they may swap their descision

i just wanted to write what i felt, anyone silly enough to make vital descisions based on a random guy on a forum, and not research is a bigger fool than me - and that's saying something!

Thanks a lot for the re-assurance But my C1 mark isn't too great either But it annoys me how if I read the question I would have been fine, but because if it dropped me by about 25 UMS Provided C1 and C2 as I predicted, I should have my A* prediction (our school requires an average of 90 in the 2 core modules), but just worried if Cambridge see it as bad as they look at your UMS scores.

Dude, you've got to stop putting yourself down! Seriously.



Thanks, looks good.

I'm supersitious in the sense that if i say anything good about myself, i lose it.

if i tell you my grades, i'll get bad ones

if i say i've done well i'll do badly

if i say i want to get in, i won't

if i say i want to apply to x y z e universities, i won't get in

irrational, but yeah.
i just don't want anyone to be put down, even though no-one will be put down by my well below average qualifications...

I heard that they were going to change some aspects of the course (not sure), due to complaints. There's actually quite a good blog about manc, written by a med student:

http://thelittlemedic.blogspot.com/2008/07/reflections-on-5-years.html

It basically discourages anyone from ever applying to manchester