UKCAT for 2017 Entry to UK

my prediction will be A*,A*, A/A*. My UKCAT is 750. But my GCSE's arent great; 4 A*, 5A, 1 B. Applying for dentistry. Which unis are best to go for?

Hi guys, please can someone help: I have UKAT average of 653 sjt band 1.

1A* and 6A's and 2 b's . My AS levels were not brilliant, B in economics and C's in biology and chemistry and maths. but I'm determined to do well at A levels. Is there any university options or is it a lost cause to try and apply this year?. If there's any chance of getting in please can give me some suggestions for uni's. I would really realy appreciate any feedback.
I should say I want to do medicine.

i really don't understand whether people are being sarcastic or not when they say "i got like 5 A*/A's..., i know they're really bad". As long as you've got the requirements i'm pretty sure you're good.

I sat my UKCAT and got:
VR: 600 (didn't go too well)
AR:680
QR:790
STJ Band 2
So my overall average is 690

I have 11 A*s at GCSE, 4 As at AS and am predicted 3A*s at A level. I was thinking of applying to Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds and Oxford but am concerned about Manchester and Birmingham because my UKCAT score is a little low. Any advice?

I have similar stats to you:
GCSEs:9a*s 2as
As level: 3as Chem bio maths
Predictions: 3a*s
Ukcat: 690 avg band 2
VR:540 (yeah lol...)
QR:740
AR:790
I was worried about my ukcat being too low as I'm applying Birmingham, Manchester, kings & Nottingham but our GCSEs will balance it out esp with bham as they are 30% academic so don't worry!

Birmingham have a points system to see if you're worthy of interview. The maximum overall UKCAT score (2700) is taken and split up into 5 equal portions of 540.

Each portion is one point, so any score from 0-540 is one point, 541-1080 is two points, 1081-1620 is three points, 1621-2160 is four points and any higher is five points.

The points you've gained from your UKCAT will be added to your 'global' score of your whole application, and the highest scores are those who get interviews. So even if you don't do too well in your UKCAT, as long as it's not horrible, and your other sections check out, you'll be fine.

This was explained to me by the admissions tutor, and he said that it was because Birmingham had only recently started using it. They don't take your Band for SJ into account.


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Another wannabe medic here!

GCSE: 6A* (English x2, French, German, Biology, Chemistry)
7A (Maths x2, Physics, History, Drama, Dance, Music)
A2 predictions: AAA (but could probably be pushed to A*AA)

UKCAT: VR - 670
QR - 800
AR - 640
(2110 total and 703 average)
SJT - Band 2
Unsure where to apply - I feel like my UKCAT is better than average, but not quite good enough for the really UKCAT heavy unis

I'm aware that a lot of uni's want like 7 A's minimum at GCSE but seriously there are people on here with 9 A*'s saying " i haven't got great GCSE's"

Thank you that's great I'll be a graduate but applying mostly for normal 5 year course
Newcastle
Queen Mary
Warwick
Newcastle (4 years)
Just hope I do good in the ukcat as Newcastle is fairly ukcat heavy as I would love to go there and I live near and me and boyfriend have a house so would be awful


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Hello,*

Hope you don't mind me asking, why are you a graduate but applying mostly to 5yr courses?

Thanks*

thats fine erm well i really really want to go to newcastle so applying for both 4 and 5, i think i have more of a chance getting onto the 5 year courses obviously depends on my ukcat score but then they usually look more at gcses and a levels etc which mine are rubbish. plus theres more places for 5 year course so more of a chance

But as grad students there is not much funding help at all. Good luck :-)

true but i would rather get onto the course with minimal funding then not get on at all aha ill see what my ukcat is like first

is it worth applying for medicine for a Ukcat average of 590? I did it today and it went horribly wrong for some reason.... practiced sooo much but don't know what happened

GCSE's: 5 A*s, 4 As and 2 Bs
AS levels: As in biology and chemistry, B in ICT (maybe I'll get that remarked and push it to an A) and a C in maths which I'm retaking all the exams for this year

true but i would rather get onto the course with minimal funding then not get on at all aha ill see what my ukcat is like first

I'm so sorry to hear your test did not go well. I'm sorry I cant comment on the UG scores required. But you never know it may be a good score :-)

what universities usually have the lowest ukcat entry requirements?