Medicine 2012...(hopeful entrants) !!

Aww can you please give me an overview of what it's like? I couldn't go and I'd love to know!!

Btw guys, Ive reached my 47 lines and I've typed up my PS with everything in it... but its 4636 characters long with spaces?! what do I do?

In other news... I never knew I was so terrible at maths!! I can't do ANY of these questions in 30 seconds!! x

It seems like people doing the UKCAT early are getting such fantastic scores which worries me as mine's late september wondering if i should change my date now

You need maths upto GCSE level.

Apparently the 600 Q book's QR is harder than the real test, so don't panic too much. :P

I got A* maths and A* stats for GCSE and A for maths module in Jan...

I don't know why I find these so difficult!!

Maybe you need to brush up on your mental arithmatic.

Seems that way!! x

I'm the same, A*'s at GCSE, predicted A for AS, but still finding this simple maths somewhat tricky lol

This. I would much prefer AS style questions and proper algebra.

Ahhh my voluntary work is going to pot! I can't get it anywhere! I've tried and tried through volunteer scotland and then gave up and tried via old folks homes in my area and i can't get anything :/ disaster! As for the ukcat, i cannot do verbal reasoning :L but for some odd reason i am good at abstract reasoning i just hope to god that i get the results i need to even apply

I'm in the same boat about the volunteering. Who knew it is so difficult, I mean I WANT TO WORK FOR FREE And I still can't get in anywhere.

oh thank god someone else is too. Yeah it's insane! And also if you manage to find a voluntary work placement it might not even end there because if it's to do with working with people then you have to go through disclosure which is an absolute pain in the bum! :L and takes ages :/ The easiest place is a charity shop but there's no point me getting it in there because i work in boots as a healthcare assistant anyway and it's the same sort of thing :/ so i have no idea what to do :L

All the charity shops in my town have really big waiting lists, I manage to sort some volunteering out at the hospital but I want some more so I'm trying care homes tomorrow. I've just googled care homes and going to ring all the ones near my area. Hopefully I will get somewhere. I'm also trying to get some paid work but with no relevent experience in retail it is impossible.

Basically, I just cant ****ing do itno matter how hard I try

Did you manage any of the 4 BMAT q's brah? The chemistry one is well weird

Chemistry?

PM me it?

Seriously :O? A lot of them in my town have plenty of spaces! Ah how did you manage to get it at the hospital ? LIke what do you do when you volunteer at the hospital ? I have tried a carehome close to me and they said they'd send me out the disclosure forms, that was a week ago and i've heard nothing since so i'm beginning to feel like this is another letdown. I know once i go back to school that i'll be volunteering in a disabled primary school but that is a bit too close to the time where we need to write our personal statements :/ well i hope you get somewhere too oh yeah it is hellish at the moment to get a job in retail. I ended up getting into boots as a christmas temp last year which was really hard to do and then i was one of the lucky ones that got kept on. So now they're training me on healthcare so that i can listen to the customers symptoms and recommend them medication etc

Basically, I just cant ****ing do itno matter how hard I try