Medicine 2012...(hopeful entrants) !!

Exactly! and it doesn't help that i'm slow at maths

Surely if it's to gauge your aptitude, you should be able to grab a calculator. You'd have access to one if you were working as an actual doctor! XD

Well, one thing which irks me about the standard one, is that you can't use your keyboard to type in the numbers. So if I had to type in 38768.6 on the keyboard, it would take me 1-2 seconds, but if I had to do it manually with the mouse on the computer, it would take 5-6 seconds, and QR is the most timepressed one, so I need those extra seconds.

Alright I think you?
Well I find it the easiest out of all of them- hope I haven't jinxed it or anything :P eek my exam is on Tuesday :/

Where does it say that you can't use the keyboard to type into the calculator? In a standard on-screen calculator, you can use the keyboard.

That's great and same here
And don't worry sure it will all go fine

Cool thanks, I'm sure yours will too

If you pm me the unis you know, then I'll do the ones I know. Then I'll ask for knowledge of the unis that other people know, and produce a table.

So far I know;

Leeds - optional mark available if you attain 2800, and are one below the interview criteria

Leicester - graded out of 30, 3000+ is 30, 2900 is 29, 2100+ is 21, etc. Combined with academics (also out of 30) as initial filtering to remove the bottom end of candidates

Sheffield - cut off, 717.5 average last year. Changes every year but usually around that mark.

Barts have a cut off, don't know what but apparently it was much lower than usual this year

Kings combine it with GCSE grades

All I know is:
Newcastle rank the top 1000-1200 applicants by UKCAT and interview them;
Sheffield do something similar I think;
Leeds at the open day told me that they only use the UKCAT on borderline decisions, which is different to what you have said;
Edinburgh use it as only 8% of your application alongside everything else.

Alright I think you?
Well I find it the easiest out of all of them- hope I haven't jinxed it or anything :P eek my exam is on Tuesday :/

Alright I think you?
Well I find it the easiest out of all of them- hope I haven't jinxed it or anything :P eek my exam is on Tuesday :/

On the UCAS form, under additional information, you can list the activities in preparation for higher education, for example summer schools, Medlink/Medsim etc. I was just wondering if you didn't have any would you be at any disadvantage - like is it actually a criteria a uni may mark on?

On the UCAS form, under additional information, you can list the activities in preparation for higher education, for example summer schools, Medlink/Medsim etc. I was just wondering if you didn't have any would you be at any disadvantage - like is it actually a criteria a uni may mark on?

Definitely not. All Medlink/Medsim prove is that you have money to burn, that's a quote from a Notts admissions tutor, which is even more significant because Notts run Medlink/Medsim.

Now if you went on a summer school, like the ones that Oxford/the Sutton Trust run (I'm not financially eligible), that would be impressive and perhaps something they'd consider, but still unlikely.

When I saw this section on the UCAS and didnt have anything to put.. it did depress me slightly
Buutt.. from what I can gather it doesnt matter.. its just like an optional extra type thing... (although I'm not too sure)