University of Nottingham Medicine (A100) 2020 entry

Blimey! I’m so confused. Just spoke to Nottingham to try to establish whether threshold score 50 from FOI for last year was out of the 56 (GCSE/UCAT Max). Was on phone some time talking to couple of people who really nice and tried to be helpful but bottom line is with my score (48) should def go for it. Apparently 50 score last year may have been based on different criteria to what we will be using for 2020 entry as some suggestion PS could have factored in there. Person I spoke to suggested I do a FOI to get clear breakdown to be sure.

How certain are you? I score 48/49 at the moment

Hi @Sososnake 100% sure ps was scored last year but a good point was kinda raised here that scores for each element might be different from last year. Pretty sure you could score up to 16 points for ps last year.

I suppose medical schools not huge fans of FOI requests because of the second guessing etc it causes potential applicants who then rule themselves out based on criteria when the following year they may well have been accepted. Understandable however when we are all working so hard on so many levels (academics, volunteering, extra-curricular, UCAT/BMAT prep) that we will want to be as well informed as we can be so we optimise our own strengths/weaknesses. As much as I would love to apply to Nottingham, I want to become a doctor first and foremost. Really hope we can get to bottom of this so that some of us don’t err and either apply or not apply because not fully in the picture. Only seems fair.

I don’t think so. I’ve been over this thread and it seems the 45-49 scores were Pathway applicants etc. The posters who received interviews seemed to be getting 50/51 scores etc. The SJT2 cost me dearly. But tbh, even if I’d scored a band 1 I’d still only have just met last years threshold. Just can’t afford the risk when I can apply to UCAT heavy uni’s with greater certainty or any which credit A* predictions such as Exeter and Cambridge. Sad about it though 😥

According to a FOI shared by @GANFYD last years cutoff was 50/56 for an interview

Pretty gutted. 😥Nottingham my first choice and now not an option. The way they score UCAT means that even with decent UCAT (757 -SJT2) I only score 48 as I also lose point for GCSE’s, and for 2019 entry the cut off for non contextual was 50. Back to the drawing board with regard choices. Currently looking at Newcastle, Bristol and either Cambridge or Exeter. Plan to check out Sheffield, Liverpool and possibly Manchester now. Soooooooo disappointed.....

I understand now that interviews were offered after PS were scored alongside UCAT/GCSE score. So the ‘50’ threshold for non-contextuals last year to receive interviews was out of the max possible score of 72 (made up of 56 Max UCAT/GCSE and 16 PS)? So advice from various people that score of 46 plus for UCAT/GCSE should be fine seems to stand. I suppose the unknown bit this year is how that number may be affected without PS counting towards interview. Thoughts @GANFYD please whether in your opinion they like to be subject to move greater than usual? Or is that a bit unfair of me to put on you 🤪?

I wonder why the academic points dropped from 45 to 34 between 2018 and 2019. Was this because of the Lincoln pathway?

In any case, I was scared off by the 50/56 cut off mentioned earlier and cancelled my train tickets this morning. I was intending to go to their Open Day in September but will now give it a miss.

I find it very confusing when it says on their website they are no longer scoring personal statements but it turns out they actually still are!

I wonder why the academic points dropped from 45 to 34 between 2018 and 2019. Was this because of the Lincoln pathway?

In any case, I was scared off by the 50/56 cut off mentioned earlier and cancelled my train tickets this morning. I was intending to go to their Open Day in September but will now give it a miss.

I find it very confusing when it says on their website they are no longer scoring personal statements but it turns out they actually still are!

I understand now that interviews were offered after PS were scored alongside UCAT/GCSE score. So the ‘50’ threshold for non-contextuals last year to receive interviews was out of the max possible score of 72 (made up of 56 Max UCAT/GCSE and 16 PS)? So advice from various people that score of 46 plus for UCAT/GCSE should be fine seems to stand. I suppose the unknown bit this year is how that number may be affected without PS counting towards interview. Thoughts @GANFYD please whether in your opinion they like to be subject to move greater than usual? Or is that a bit unfair of me to put on you 🤪?

Are you certain? It does seem like 50/56 is very high even for prospective medics

It is 50 out of 72

How sure are you?

Great post. Thank you. In answer to your question, not hugely 🤣 Score of 48 but need to think about this some more. Glad the uncertainty here resolved though regarding thresholds. Appreciate your help.

Possible I suppose that they ruled out too many with ucat/gcse score the year before of 45, as they then only needed 7/16 for PS that year to get interview (totalling score of 52 as threshold). So perhaps they dropped to 34 last year which had effect of allowing so many more to the PS stage that only those with full score actually made the cut off (50/72) interview. 🤔

Hi based on last years cut off, what do you think the cut off will be for this year? Is it likely to increase by much?

I wonder why the academic points dropped from 45 to 34 between 2018 and 2019. Was this because of the Lincoln pathway?

In any case, I was scared off by the 50/56 cut off mentioned earlier and cancelled my train tickets this morning. I was intending to go to their Open Day in September but will now give it a miss.

I find it very confusing when it says on their website they are no longer scoring personal statements but it turns out they actually still are!