Medicine 2012...(hopeful entrants) !!

thanks for updating the stalking page

i don't really know how to prepare though cause its a multiple mini interview and its brand new for leicester this year

do you know when you'll hear back? and everybody always thinks things went worse than they actually did

Pshhh its ite

Just prepare for it like you would for lancasters or st. geroges, you've got plenty of time so there's no excuse of not getting an offer How's the kings prep coming along?

It's weird having an interview because all your years of hard work, stress and pain, actually being there suddenly makes everything seem real..

The prospectus say "a small number of people may be offered a place earlier but the majority of decisions will be given at the end of the interview cycle" which is end of feb/early march This just makes it worse and that's the thing, I don't know if I did bad, ok or good :\ I think it might have been that I did ok, but not good enough perhaps..who knows..

Pshhh its ite

Just prepare for it like you would for lancasters or st. geroges, you've got plenty of time so there's no excuse of not getting an offer How's the kings prep coming along?

It's weird having an interview because all your years of hard work, stress and pain, actually being there suddenly makes everything seem real..

The prospectus say "a small number of people may be offered a place earlier but the majority of decisions will be given at the end of the interview cycle" which is end of feb/early march This just makes it worse and that's the thing, I don't know if I did bad, ok or good :\ I think it might have been that I did ok, but not good enough perhaps..who knows..

You just need to try to realise what could have gone better, work on it if you get any more interviews, and then try to put it behind you. Nothing you can do now except try to improve for next time.

As a certain penguin said, a trip to the pub could do nicely

theres a written task

its going okay, im doing a couple questions a night and am trying to research a few articles i can talk about. my mock went almost exactly the same as the last one, i talked too fast and needed to smile more, which is bad cause im meant to be improving

exactly! its just this wierd feeling like, after all the years of hard work we're finally gonna see if it was worth it in the end

you'll get an offer, just you wait it doesn't really matter when it comes, as long as it does

theres a written task

its going okay, im doing a couple questions a night and am trying to research a few articles i can talk about. my mock went almost exactly the same as the last one, i talked too fast and needed to smile more, which is bad cause im meant to be improving

exactly! its just this wierd feeling like, after all the years of hard work we're finally gonna see if it was worth it in the end

you'll get an offer, just you wait it doesn't really matter when it comes, as long as it does

Fingers crossed for you

Was it a 'grill my personal statement' kind of one, cos that could make you forget to smile. I'm sure when it comes to the interviews, it'll come rushing back

Lets hope the hard work is worth it for the both of us eh? I really hope so

You're always bound to remember the bad points, much more so than the good. Do you often find that when you come out of an exam you think "urgh I did sooo badly on X, Y and Z questions waaaah" and then end up doing really well? It'll be the same type of thing so don't forget you'll have been really good in your interview too

somedays i feel really positive, like "im gonna work really hard, and try my best, and thats all i can do" whereas other days i just feel like im gonna bomb it all and end up one of those people that apply every year for the next 50 years and still never get in

nope, just your regular interview questions. i relaxed halfway through it, and started to smile and laugh and stuff, but i have to work on doing that in the first few minutes so that i make a good first impression

and my tutor made an interesting point - the faster you talk, the more questions they'll ask, to fill up the time, and the more opportunity you have to make a mistake

thank you. been stressing over all the things i forgot to say/said but were idiotic in mine.

That's exactly how I felt, we're so alike

At least you know your www's and ebi's from your practises (see reply to Normandy114 to see what those are )

and that's a good point, wish I'd known that prior to my interview

Don't worry about it too much if you can. I thought I'd done terribly in my interview last year but in my feedback I'd actually done really well in the interview it was mainly my ukcat and lack of grades that put me below the offer threshold. Anyways, if you managed to fit in everything you ever wanted to say into one little interview, then you obviously wouldn't have had that much to say

In my interview the other week I nearly hit one of the interviewers whilst what I can only describe as moulding an imaginary shape in my hands whilst trying to overcome a complete mind-block and then again when trying explain something haha I hope they viewed it as enthusiasm haha

yeah, i just wish i knew how to stop making those mistakes

it probably went amazingly, you've just deconstructed it so much! and even if they did push you and grill you, chances are its because they liked you and wanted to see how far you could go

Practice and stay calm

I hope you, PSQ, my sister, my friends and everyone in this planet is right

how was st andrews???

were they nice? still haven't heard a peep out of them since the acknowledgment

St. Andrews I am in love with the place and the uni and just everything about it The interview went ok-ish but there were loads of things I could've and should've explained better and when asked about the course my mind went completely blank so much so I had to admit that too them haha but they were lovely. They do try and bring the best out in you, if you're maybe struggling a little bit they'll try and help you along. Ahhhh I just love it!

Don't worry, they'll be giving out interviews for a long time yet! I got mine on 17th Jan last time for an interview in March so you've got agessssss. You have realtively similar to the academics I had when I applied first time round and a far better ukcat. So as long as your ps checks out (which it should, you've got two interviews already :P) you'll hopefully! get an interview You'll need to let me know!

i talk really fast normally, so i don't know when im talking really really fast

i hope im right too

My friend had the same problem. I told her to fix it by recording herself speak so she can train herself to slow it down.

its so pretty

is the article difficult to interpret or is it around a level content?

i hope if i do get called to interview, they give me enough notice to get cheap deals on train tickets, coming from london may work out a tad expensive

did it work?? i may just try this!