King's College Medicine applicants 2014 entry

WOO!
Just working as a HCA, volunteering at a primary school and singing and piano lessons and having a life in my spare time. Got a trip to Europe planned next year - backpacking with two of my best friends! What've you got planned for your gap year?
Oh so quite northern-y unis! (I'm as far down south as you can go so anything above London is north for me haha!)
Omg I saw that after all the giddy happiness and then it hit me that I'm going to have to prepare really hard for this! Stupid essays!


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WOO!
Just working as a HCA, volunteering at a primary school and singing and piano lessons and having a life in my spare time. Got a trip to Europe planned next year - backpacking with two of my best friends! What've you got planned for your gap year?
Oh so quite northern-y unis! (I'm as far down south as you can go so anything above London is north for me haha!)
Omg I saw that after all the giddy happiness and then it hit me that I'm going to have to prepare really hard for this! Stupid essays!


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What will happen on the day

You should report for your interview at least 40 minutes before it starts. When you arrive you will be registered and given two preliminary tasks

Task 1: You will be handed a brief ethical case study to read and consider, you will be asked about this as part of the interview and selection process

Task 2: You will be given an essay question to answer, this essay will not be marked on the day but may be taken into consideration later to differentiate candidates who score very similarly in the interview. The essay question will be about the values and attributes of doctors, you will not need any advanced knowledge or preparation.

You will have 15 minutes to complete each of these tasks. As it is important that interviews run to time, late arrival may reduce the time available for completion of the preliminary tasks. Your interview will be with members of clinical and academic staff and will last around 15-20 minutes.

What will happen on the day

You should report for your interview at least 40 minutes before it starts. When you arrive you will be registered and given two preliminary tasks

Task 1: You will be handed a brief ethical case study to read and consider, you will be asked about this as part of the interview and selection process

Task 2: You will be given an essay question to answer, this essay will not be marked on the day but may be taken into consideration later to differentiate candidates who score very similarly in the interview. The essay question will be about the values and attributes of doctors, you will not need any advanced knowledge or preparation.

You will have 15 minutes to complete each of these tasks. As it is important that interviews run to time, late arrival may reduce the time available for completion of the preliminary tasks. Your interview will be with members of clinical and academic staff and will last around 15-20 minutes.

Thanks for that :-)

Also, did you get any sort of forms you have to fill out? Like extra-curricular/work experience reference contacts?

Is this new for this year? esp the essay writing, and 15 mins to write an essay?

What will happen on the day

You should report for your interview at least 40 minutes before it starts. When you arrive you will be registered and given two preliminary tasks

Task 1: You will be handed a brief ethical case study to read and consider, you will be asked about this as part of the interview and selection process

Task 2: You will be given an essay question to answer, this essay will not be marked on the day but may be taken into consideration later to differentiate candidates who score very similarly in the interview. The essay question will be about the values and attributes of doctors, you will not need any advanced knowledge or preparation.

You will have 15 minutes to complete each of these tasks. As it is important that interviews run to time, late arrival may reduce the time available for completion of the preliminary tasks. Your interview will be with members of clinical and academic staff and will last around 15-20 minutes.

Does anyone have any idea what order they're giving out interviews? I only have 9A*s so i thought maybe it was highest GCSEs first but people with less/the same have started getting interviews I know i should be patient but as re-applicant its hard not to worry! any ideas?

Kings has started interviewing

What will happen on the day

You should report for your interview at least 40 minutes before it starts. When you arrive you will be registered and given two preliminary tasks

Task 1: You will be handed a brief ethical case study to read and consider, you will be asked about this as part of the interview and selection process

Task 2: You will be given an essay question to answer, this essay will not be marked on the day but may be taken into consideration later to differentiate candidates who score very similarly in the interview. The essay question will be about the values and attributes of doctors, you will not need any advanced knowledge or preparation.

You will have 15 minutes to complete each of these tasks. As it is important that interviews run to time, late arrival may reduce the time available for completion of the preliminary tasks. Your interview will be with members of clinical and academic staff and will last around 15-20 minutes.

lol they started nearly 2 weeks ago! :P

For first-time, post-grad applicants?

Nope, nothing of that sort.
Got a criminal record disclosure form though.
There's an interview letter pdf which doesn't open/ opens a blank pdf.

Every time i click submit to accept the invite to interview it doesn't submit either-.-



Yeah, it's for this cycle :L

undergraduates...7 people in my college have kings interviews but they all have ukcats above 800!

hey have you already got an interview? I thought it was an ethical article and a questionnaire(with several basic questions)? are you sure its an essay? btw where did you get this information from?

Sorry, this may have been asked before but I've just joined this thread - do you know if this is the same for GEM or are you just referring to school leavers?

Thanks

Yeah, this was on the pdf saying about interview stuff. Am i allowed to just copy everything from there? It's not exactly confidential.. :s



No idea, sorry I'm not applying GEM :L

The this is, there are invites for people with ukcat of 780 whereas people I know have higher are still waiting. It's more complicated than simply a ukcat ranking IMO. It seems like they're taking BOTH top GCSE candidates and top UKCAT. Gappers are maybe getting earlier interviews as well.