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Coping With the Course

Robot Chicken

no, instead you'll have to come back a few weeks later and do another exam.
Push comes to shove you have to ask. Is it worth it?

It's more than a few weeks? It's in september and so you have about 3 months to revise, plenty to learn every single detail. But no, it's not worth it - it's going to ruin one's holiday!

Reply 21

RetiredAccount89

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darkenergy

It's more than a few weeks? It's in september and so you have about 3 months to revise, plenty to learn every single detail. But no, it's not worth it - it's going to ruin one's holiday!

well exactly. and its not like 1st year exams count for much. neither do 2nd year really.

Reply 22

Fluffy

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Robot Chicken

well exactly. and its not like 1st year exams count for much. neither do 2nd year really.

I'm guessing they count for a lot if you fail the year... :wink:

Reply 23

RetiredAccount89

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Fluffy

I'm guessing they count for a lot if you fail the year... :wink:

as with london schools, if you fail the year, you are a ******.
and yes, i don't care about the PCness of the word.

you get 2 sets of resits. they honest to god try to get everyone to pass. theres a tiny tiny minority who fail even one exam let alone all the resits.

Reply 24

Saffie

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Robot Chicken

as with london schools, if you fail the year, you are a ******.
and yes, i don't care about the PCness of the word.

you get 2 sets of resits. they honest to god try to get everyone to pass. theres a tiny tiny minority who fail even one exam let alone all the resits.

you're a what? Think I might need to know :eek:

Reply 25

wednesburywench

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we only get one chance to resit, but i do no ppl who resat the yr, but cus of special circumstances only i think. our exams do count cus we have to pass them all to go to next year. they dont count count cus we dont actually get graded.

Reply 26

RetiredAccount89

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Saffie

you're a what? Think I might need to know :eek:

re.tar.d.

Reply 27

Fluffy

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Robot Chicken

as with london schools, if you fail the year, you are a ******.
and yes, i don't care about the PCness of the word.

you get 2 sets of resits. they honest to god try to get everyone to pass. theres a tiny tiny minority who fail even one exam let alone all the resits.

We don't get two lots of resits. you can't resit an in course exam, and get 1 resit chance at pre clin end of years.

Reply 28

Saffie

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Robot Chicken

re.tar.d.

cheers spacka :>.<:

Reply 29

Renal

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Fluffy

We don't get two lots of resits. you can't resit an in course exam, and get 1 resit chance at pre clin end of years.

But fail that and you'll usually get a chance to resit the year.

Either way, you actually have to put some effort into failing a year and getting thrown out.

Reply 30

Fluffy

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Renal

But fail that and you'll usually get a chance to resit the year.

More people left our year than resat year 1 (not that that was many...)

Reply 31

RetiredAccount89

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Fluffy

We don't get two lots of resits. you can't resit an in course exam, and get 1 resit chance at pre clin end of years.

yeh i should have clarified there. you meant cambridge. dunno about oxford.

Reply 32

No Future

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Renal

Nobody should have any difficulty passing medical school, the hardest bit is getting in.

Really?

Reply 33

Renal

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No Future

Really?

Yes really.

Clearly I've got away with being the laziest (academically) I've been since two years of sick leave. I go to what I need to, I learn what I need to, I revise what I need to and I do decently.

Whether that changes in clinical remains to be seen (well, of course it gets harder), but seriously, I put far more effort into A-levels and GCSEs than this!

Reply 34

elgarde

Renal why do i get the impression that you are one of those incredibly brainy people who find most things an absolute breeze?!?!
I hope what you said about the Alevels being harder is true, i'm finding them such a bitch at the moment, i just can't find the energy to revise. So annoying that when i doactually study i forget what i learnt a day or two later... grrr