Medicine 2012...(hopeful entrants) !!

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Grade 12 Co-op: 96% (worked in the Day Surgery Department at a local hospital)

And I have work experience in a doctor's office and at a local hospital. I am also going to shadow a dermatologist and a GP next week.

The UKCAT is designed to test innate ability, so there's little reason why your daughter couldn't sit it this year and therefore vastly widen her choice of university. I realise that people have now figured out that revision does improve scores, but I sat it back in 2007 and got over 700 without ever having seen the questions before, so it is certainly possible to achieve a decent score without a lot of work beforehand. The Pearson test centres should still have slots left for UKCAT tests before October, and she can then decide whether to change her uni choices based on her score - all you have to potentially lose is the cost of the test.

any ideas where i can find the departmental admissions info for leeds and lancaster ?

Thing is, after attempting the questions in the 600Q book, I convinced myself I was going to do terribly

So, i just did my UKCAT yesterday, and did surprisingly well (3150 total, 787.5 average). Thing is, after attempting the questions in the 600Q book, I convinced myself I was going to do terribly and so only visited universities that put very little emphasis on the UKCAT score. So now I don't have a clue where to apply! I'm thinking Birmingham ('cause this was my favourite out of the ones I visited), King's (though I havent visited), Cardiff (visiting this week) and either Edinburgh or Newcastle...

vr - 640
qr - 800
ar -730
da - 800

So, i just did my UKCAT yesterday, and did surprisingly well (3150 total, 787.5 average). Thing is, after attempting the questions in the 600Q book, I convinced myself I was going to do terribly and so only visited universities that put very little emphasis on the UKCAT score. So now I don't have a clue where to apply! I'm thinking Birmingham ('cause this was my favourite out of the ones I visited), King's (though I havent visited), Cardiff (visiting this week) and either Edinburgh or Newcastle...

Thanks, Becca-Sarah. I'll talk to her when she returns. She was psyched up for the BMAT, as she'd planned for Biomed. She may not want to take on the UKCAT as well. I'll leave it up to her. Had she been around this summer hols, it wouldn't have been an issue. She is considering 4 of Oxford, UCL, Imperial, Birmingham and perhaps Bristol (going to the open day in September), so this may be enough. She doesn't want Liverpool as it's PBL, although her cousin is loving the Graduate Medicine course there. She won't be putting a 5th alternative choice.

My sister wasn't sure of she was going to apply for medicine until she got her AS results. She got a couple of books from Amazon and did OK in her UKCAT which she took at the end of September . She got offers from Cambridge and Nottingham (a UKCAT uni).

I was the same, well to an extent I didn't completely decide until after my Higher results.

That being said there is nothing wrong with being ambitious from the age of 12+ or whatever, as long as that doesn't overshadow their education at the time

My sister wasn't sure of she was going to apply for medicine until she got her AS results. She got a couple of books from Amazon and did OK in her UKCAT which she took at the end of September . She got offers from Cambridge and Nottingham (a UKCAT uni).

Thanks for the positive post! I think my daughter will be OK with the 5 possible med schools that will require BMAT or no further test. However, should she get no offers, she can take the UKCAT next year, whilst having a gap year. I'll see what she thinks when she gets back towards the end of the month though. She really loved Birmingham, (no test), so would be thrilled to get an offer from there.

So, i just did my UKCAT yesterday, and did surprisingly well (3150 total, 787.5 average). Thing is, after attempting the questions in the 600Q book, I convinced myself I was going to do terribly and so only visited universities that put very little emphasis on the UKCAT score. So now I don't have a clue where to apply! I'm thinking Birmingham ('cause this was my favourite out of the ones I visited), King's (though I havent visited), Cardiff (visiting this week) and either Edinburgh or Newcastle...

Hello! I find myself in EXACTLY the same position with the 600Q book!! Do you think it's easier or more difficult than the actual thing? I swear some of the AR Q's in it are near ridiculous!

Can you give a very rough gauge as to what percentage you were scoring in the 600Q book?

Congrats by the way, awesome score

Thanks

I found the questions in the book much more difficult than the real thing, at least for QR and AR. In the mock in the book I scored: QR - 420 AR - 606 VR - 553 DA - 674
I was also spending much longer than I should've on each of the practise questions, and still ended up getting half of them wrong!