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Graduate Medicine and Module Marks

I'm a first year Neuroscience student hoping to go into graduate medicine, however, I've slacked this year, epically. And although my coursework marks are decent, I think I will be scraping a 2.1 for a few of my modules if I somehow manage to put in an insane amount of work over the next week or so.

So it got me wondering, how important are first year module marks anyway? Providing I manage to average a decentish 2.1 and perform much better in second year (aiming for a first), will it impact my application very greatly?

Finally, I was wondering if all universities ask applicants for their module marks/transcripts, I know Oxford, Bristol and Nottingham do, but I was wondering which others do as well.
Original post by Le Masquerador.
I'm a first year Neuroscience student hoping to go into graduate medicine, however, I've slacked this year, epically. And although my coursework marks are decent, I think I will be scraping a 2.1 for a few of my modules if I somehow manage to put in an insane amount of work over the next week or so.

So it got me wondering, how important are first year module marks anyway? Providing I manage to average a decentish 2.1 and perform much better in second year (aiming for a first), will it impact my application very greatly?

Finally, I was wondering if all universities ask applicants for their module marks/transcripts, I know Oxford, Bristol and Nottingham do, but I was wondering which others do as well.


Most GEPs won't care about your individual module scores. If you're "scraping" a 2:1, that's fine - no medical school in the country will think to themselves "oh she only got a 61 for Intro to Cell Biology and this other applicant got a 65 so they will clearly be a better med student so we'd better reject her right away"; that's not how it works.

I think Liverpool may also ask for a transcript, at any rate they ask for a "good" 2:1 (i.e. 65+) iirc.

In short: try to relax and try your best, they're first year exams so even if they don't go exactly to plan you'll still have many other opportunities to make amends :h:

Hope that helped
Original post by Democracy
Most GEPs won't care about your individual module scores. If you're "scraping" a 2:1, that's fine - no medical school in the country will think to themselves "oh she only got a 61 for Intro to Cell Biology and this other applicant got a 65 so they will clearly be a better med student so we'd better reject her right away"; that's not how it works.

I think Liverpool may also ask for a transcript, at any rate they ask for a "good" 2:1 (i.e. 65+) iirc.

In short: try to relax and try your best, they're first year exams so even if they don't go exactly to plan you'll still have many other opportunities to make amends :h:

Hope that helped


Thank you so much, that's really exactly what I needed to hear; I had my first exam today and it did not go nearly quite as well as I'd hoped :redface: If I'm honest, at this point, I'm just hoping for a decentish 2.1

Do you know if the medical schools that don't ask for transcripts still want first year overall results (on UCAS, if there even is a place), or do they just go by your predicted classification?
Original post by Le Masquerador.
Thank you so much, that's really exactly what I needed to hear; I had my first exam today and it did not go nearly quite as well as I'd hoped :redface: If I'm honest, at this point, I'm just hoping for a decentish 2.1

Do you know if the medical schools that don't ask for transcripts still want first year overall results (on UCAS, if there even is a place), or do they just go by your predicted classification?


Prediction should be fine, I was never asked for a transcript or anything except my degree classification :smile:
Original post by Democracy
Prediction should be fine, I was never asked for a transcript or anything except my degree classification :smile:


Brilliant, thank you! Could I ask where you applied to, and are studying at now?

Also, how did you find the whole graduate medicine application process? I think over the past couple of months I've been leaning more and more towards just applying for the 5 year course, I don't think I could hack the competition for GEP :s-smilie:
Original post by Le Masquerador.
Brilliant, thank you! Could I ask where you applied to, and are studying at now?

Also, how did you find the whole graduate medicine application process? I think over the past couple of months I've been leaning more and more towards just applying for the 5 year course, I don't think I could hack the competition for GEP :s-smilie:


The application process wasn't too bad, it really only got to the pulling-out-my-own-hair stage of stress during the interval between doing my interviews and waiting for offers/rejections. That was a pretty stressful three weeks, ngl.

As for whether or not you should apply for the five year degrees, well that depends, can you afford to fund it by yourself?

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