Barts and The London Applicants 2012

I really like the article we've got to study.

I do have a question to ask, if you're given the article. Are you guaranteed to be asked about it? Because now I'm starting to do some interview prep, I'm starting to think that out of the 20 minutes, quite a bit of time may be spent talking about the article!

Also, how many questions do you reckon will be asked? According to the ISC interview book, each question should take you 1.5-3 mins each to answer? That's 20-ish questions at most! And the book has 150+ questions that I need to prepare for

At my interview, they spent the first half on the article and then the second half on the personal statement and the typical questions you would expect. So make sure you know ur personal statement inside out. The number of questions depends on if something in your personal statement interests them as they ask three or four questions around that. You will be fine as long as you ready through ur personal statement and prospectus and remember barts has the nicest interviewers

Thanks! i hope i do aswell

wow.... 710, thats amazing. I've got 570 so i guess it'll be a while until i hear from them

Ahh cool. I'm making my interview prep cards using my PS . First time I'm re-reading my PS since I sent off my UCAS . Didn't realise it was so bad.

Another quick question, are the interviews likely to try and pick holes in your personal statement, or are they more asking you to elaborate on some things in your PS?

This selection for interview process is so corrupt - there's a difference between being predicted 5A*s and actually getting them. If you get an interview and you've been predicted A*A*A*A*A* i think your offer should be your predictions to be honest.

Intelligence - or 'predicted' grades - does not make a good doctor.

Barts said nothing about this method of selection at their open day... so ****** off

OH MY! All of you seem to have like 650+ points
I only have 500 :'( (A*AAA)

"Only". Oh TSR

if it makes you feel any better I only have 580... no music quals but did manage to pick up points on AS quals and EPQ! I keep kicking myself - if I had done what mt school had suggested and taken 4 A2s I would have had 810, and perhaps an interview!!!

TSR polls and UCAS scores etc are scary for the average med applicant...

if it makes you feel any better I only have 580... no music quals but did manage to pick up points on AS quals and EPQ! I keep kicking myself - if I had done what mt school had suggested and taken 4 A2s I would have had 810, and perhaps an interview!!!

TSR polls and UCAS scores etc are scary for the average med applicant...

This selection for interview process is so corrupt - there's a difference between being predicted 5A*s and actually getting them. If you get an interview and you've been predicted A*A*A*A*A* i think your offer should be your predictions to be honest.

Intelligence - or 'predicted' grades - does not make a good doctor.

Barts said nothing about this method of selection at their open day... so ****** off

Yeah I don't think it's very fair, some school push up predicted grades regardless of whether they can get them... I'm only a few UMS away from being predicted an A* in biology, but my school's understandably strict policies mean I have an A predicted instead, and therefore 20 less UCAS points.

OH MY! All of you seem to have like 650+ points
I only have 500 :'( (A*AAA)

OH MY! All of you seem to have like 650+ points
I only have 500 :'( (A*AAA)

I've got 570 so i guess it'll be a while until i hear from them

I've got 570 too. I hope we don't have to wait that long for a reply

Hang on, you're saying if you did 4 A2's instead of your (assumed) current 3, you would have gained 230 points? Something's not right.

I'm doing the EPQ too, but our school doesn't predict grades for it so I get no credit for it.