Graduate Entry Medicine: 2016 Entry

Story of applying to medical school I'm afraid!
there are people with science degrees that struggled with the GAMSAT (even the science part) and there are arts students that bombed sections 1&2 and then aced section 3.
Medical school is very different to a science undergrad (I've been told by my friends I'm an arts grad at med school) as the learning is totally different, you aren't looking at science on a molecular basis you learn a little about a LOT (most of it is a memory test)! Some uni's are just ridiculous and think that you need a science degree to do it... Which many of us have proved not, and it's also to stop 1000's of people applying i recon.

Since a lot of people seem to say ''you only need one offer'' and ''you have to apply tactically'', what are people's thoughts about applying to ONE med school and no others?

Its very risky. Yes, you only need one offer but you need to maximise your chances of getting that offer. Putting all your eggs in one basket is really risky with medicine applications. Is there a reason you would only apply to one?

I think if all four of my options were realistic then I'd consider it risky to only apply to one but I personally feel as though three of my options aren't going to work out for me, at least not for 2016. One requires UKCAT, the others require GAMSAT. I feel okay about UKCAT and I've sat it before so I know what I'm facing but I'm really not okay with GAMSAT. I think with a years worth of prep I'd probably be okay (although not supremely confident) but I've had 2 months prep and I feel out of my depth. I think if I sit the GAMSAT this September it will be a waste of time and money and it's likely to dent my confidence because I'm not prepared. With all that said, I still want to apply...which leaves me with my one UKCAT option.

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I love the new sig... but won't you finish in 2019?

Thanks, need to find a smaller image; it is unnecessarily big

Well I'll be graduating in 2020, though you're not the first to ask that... I might amend it.

I think if all four of my options were realistic then I'd consider it risky to only apply to one but I personally feel as though three of my options aren't going to work out for me, at least not for 2016. One requires UKCAT, the others require GAMSAT. I feel okay about UKCAT and I've sat it before so I know what I'm facing but I'm really not okay with GAMSAT. I think with a years worth of prep I'd probably be okay (although not supremely confident) but I've had 2 months prep and I feel out of my depth. I think if I sit the GAMSAT this September it will be a waste of time and money and it's likely to dent my confidence because I'm not prepared. With all that said, I still want to apply...which leaves me with my one UKCAT option.

Sit the GAMSAT in Sept. if only to get to know the beast. Familiarity will help calm your nerves a lot and should be easier the second time around if only because you'll be quicker at settling in.
Biology factual knowledge is actually quite minimal, all of the biology questions have the information in the text. Chemistry is something you should focus on but I'm pretty sure you could get through AS level Chem and Bio in a week, maybe two.

I've met a few arts grads at offer open days who smashed S1 and/or S2 and brought their averages up. Though officially S3 is double weighted, SGUL and Notts use both S3 weighted and equal weighting averages and use the higher one. Swansea always use the official average.

To be honest it would be a shame to not try for the 3 additional unis simply for lack of confidence.

Sit the GAMSAT in Sept. if only to get to know the beast. Familiarity will help calm your nerves a lot and should be easier the second time around if only because you'll be quicker at settling in.
Biology factual knowledge is actually quite minimal, all of the biology questions have the information in the text. Chemistry is something you should focus on but I'm pretty sure you could get through AS level Chem and Bio in a week, maybe two.

I've met a few arts grads at offer open days who smashed S1 and/or S2 and brought their averages up. Though officially S3 is double weighted, SGUL and Notts use both S3 weighted and equal weighting averages and use the higher one. Swansea always use the official average.

To be honest it would be a shame to not try for the 3 additional unis simply for lack of confidence.

I'm in the same position as you. Ukcat does seem like the easier option and the uni I really want looks for it, but I'm worried about messing it up on the day and ruining my chances, so I'm taking the gamsat as well. It's easy to get bogged down with gamsat prep, it appears to be designed to scare the hell out of you, but try not to lose your confidence. Most people feel the same way.


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Ahhh do they have a really late graduation or something?

Are you excited? Not too long to go now.

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Well no, unless I'm mistaken everyone who enters GEM in 2015 will be graduating in 2020...

Excited? Understatement of the millennia.
I'm getting tired of this waiting. Received my last rota though and it feels so good to see no shifts to my name after Sept 6th

Now I'm just confused. Or are you counting end of fy1 as graduation?


When do you start? Are you giving yourself a break before you start?

Haha I think I have my numbers wrong... It's 2019 that is the end of the course.

I have the last two weeks of work down as annual leave, but realistically most of that will be spent moving. Going to spend a weekend away and maybe a day here and there to visit friends before I start.

Lol, I wondered if I was missing something that delayed it for a year.

I just added 4 years to 2015 and assumed it was the 19/20 academic year I would finish on.

Though I'm not sure how I managed to make sense of it when someone else asked me before, or maybe I was sleep deprived like most other days...

I'm not going to lie, a small part of me is slightly sad that we don't graduate 2020. I just really like rounded numbers...