Is medicine no longer an option?

Thanks, just trying to decide between Exeter and Keele tbh, I like that Exeter score the predicted grades then rank ukcat scores (can't remember where I read this, hopefully it's true) but then again Keele doesn't consider applicants with ukcat in the lowest 20% of the ukcat scores so I was thinking Keele's cut-off might be slightly lower…maybe it would be more of an advantage to apply to Exeter because of my high ish predicted grades. Was thinking of applying to Barts, Imperial and UCL for my other choices Where are you thinking of applying to??

If you're predicted A*A*A*AAB (excluding general studies and critical thinking) then most definitely apply to Exeter. Last year A*A*A predictions got you an interview.

apply to keele as well - your ukcat will not be in the bottom 20%. Bottom 20% is around 2320 forlast year.

Definitely apply to Barts - with an exceptionally high UCAS tariff like yours based on A*A*A*AAB predictions you will get an interview no doubt

If you wanted to apply to imperial and UCI just bear in mind you'll have to do a bmat

Thanks, just trying to decide between Exeter and Keele tbh, I like that Exeter score the predicted grades then rank ukcat scores (can't remember where I read this, hopefully it's true) but then again Keele doesn't consider applicants with ukcat in the lowest 20% of the ukcat scores so I was thinking Keele's cut-off might be slightly lower…maybe it would be more of an advantage to apply to Exeter because of my high ish predicted grades. Was thinking of applying to Barts, Imperial and UCL for my other choices Where are you thinking of applying to??

I applied last year so I'm off to Imperial to study Medicine in October it's very exciting!

I think Exeter and Keele would both be great options for you, and the others are all great universities - obviously I'm going to love Imperial because I'm going there so I'm a tad biased. You do need the BMAT for UCL and Imperial, personally I found the BMAT hard but OK but it's definitely harder than the UKCAT. Your predicted grades are fine for both UCL and Imperial though.

Wow congrats!!! I have always wanted to go to Imperial for years so I'm biased towards it too! How did you prepare for the BMAT??

I had a book called 400 BMAT Practice Questions - similar to the 600 Practice Questions one for the UKCAT. The BMATs designed to be difficult to revise for, but I did find that that helped me familiarise myself with the sort of questions I'd be facing. I also got out my GCSE science revision guides (Which conveniently I still had because my youngest brother is sitting his GCSEs this year so I kept them for him) and looked at the GCSE topics not covered at A level. That's useful if you dropped physics and maths too - I hadn't but those are asked about in the BMAT so it's worth revising them if you haven't done them for a while. Finally, I read one of the Oxford very short introduction books - the one about Medical Ethics - to prepare for the essay section.

I know other people prepared differently, and you know how you revise best, but that worked for me

Thanks! Yep I did physics, maths and further maths this year, do you remember any topics not in your A level syllabus but in the bmat?? Thank you so much for the advice and good luck at Imperial!!

Thanks! Yep I did physics, maths and further maths this year, do you remember any topics not in your A level syllabus but in the bmat?? Thank you so much for the advice and good luck at Imperial!!