2010 applicants....APPLICATIONS, INTERVIEWS, OFFERS [Mark 2]

I would say pretty certain. I was doing lambings unassisted by the end of the first day, and i think everyone i've spoken to has said the same. But I'd advise reading up a little about lambing before you go, if you do go, cos someone I know wasn't actually shown anything. She was just shown to the shed and told to get on with it!!

I know what you mean there is no time for anything anymore since applying to be a vet!

thanks , i hope yours goes well , do you think it will be a lot different from your cambridge one ?

Yes. I really do. Which is why i'm worried about it. I don't know what to expect, e.g whether they will just throw all the vet issues at me and expect me to answer them

Sounds weird. Was she like a year 11/12 student on work experience?

Am I the only person on here not doing work experience at the moment ?

But the Cambridge interviews sound horrible! Surely the Bristol one will be lovely compared to the Cambridge ones.

But the Cambridge interviews sound horrible! Surely the Bristol one will be lovely compared to the Cambridge ones.

Play to your strengths . Although, i did mention how my cat had died from leukemia which was very silly because i hardly know anything about it, so when i got asked about it I just sort of sat there looking confused, but it obviously didn't matter too much

Erm...with these Bristol work experience questionaires:
Firstly I am uncertain of how to fill it in, and secondly, are we meant to send it back to them a.s.a.p? Or take it to the interview with us?

Thanks

who else is at Liverpool wednesday ?

Erm...with these Bristol work experience questionaires:
Firstly I am uncertain of how to fill it in, and secondly, are we meant to send it back to them a.s.a.p? Or take it to the interview with us?

Thanks

I'm at Liverpool wednesday kinda weird to think the next time I wake up (except tomorrow) I'll be waking up to get a train to Liverpool




It kinda says on the sheet but yeh I'm also one of those people that can never be bothered reading the instructions so I'll explain

You just write in the number of weeks/factions of a week (days) you've done at the practice/what ever animal handling place in the box, and you send it back to them ASAP...in the instructions it actually says the word "now" which make me laugh

if u havnt done lambing i wud do it, even if its to stop u looking like a bit of a twit when it comes to yr first lambing EMS, wel i dont no i guess if u dont mind turning up as a vet student to a sheep farm to do ems and not having a clue what to do, yes you will pick it up really quickly etc etc but i personally would want some previous experience. i've heard quite a few farmers that have been quite shocked and slightly disapointed when vet students turn up that have never touched a sheep before as some years they get a fairly well experienced vet student and another year a totally unexperienced it must make it pretty tricky for them, but if u have experience they will like u more and hopefully pay you and we all want a bit of money for EMS now dont we
enough rambling..

Cambridge interviews are scary and high pressure, but they aren't expecting you to know all the answers. You still feel like a fool when you don't though Also, I'd agree on not needing that much vet knowledge. I had to talk about lameness in horses, TB and a chicken disease in my PS, but none of them in too much detail. Lots of science questions instead.
I'd be more worried about a Bristol interview, I think, because I've heard they're big on LA experience and I have very little.

Good luck everyone

Yeah that is true, I was only asked about LA stuff at my interview, which didn't suit me at all. I definitely think I prefer being asked about vetty stuff rather than the A Level science syllabus, but I suppose everyone is different.