Cambridge Medicine Students and Applicants

Hey,

I'm just looking for a bit of advice really. I shall be applying to read medicine for 2010 entry and have chosen Clare College

I've searched the forums but can't seem to find any information on the emphasis Clare put on applicants' BMAT performance? I'm very anxious about the BMAT as it looks extremely difficult with the given time limits for each section!

I was pleased with my GCSEs and hopefully, fingers crossed, I am looking at getting 4 A's in my AS levels. However, the BMAT is slightly putting me off applying to Cambridge

Any advice would be really appreciated

Nope, no Saturday lectures at all in second year now, but yes I am doing Part II Path at the moment thus the Saturday lectures!

The advantage to Saturday supervisions/lectures though is that it stops me sleeping until way past brunch - so far this year I've found that I can wake up, go to lectures, go to the gym, and still make it for brunch in college...

Hey,

I'm just looking for a bit of advice really. I shall be applying to read medicine for 2010 entry and have chosen Clare College

I've searched the forums but can't seem to find any information on the emphasis Clare put on applicants' BMAT performance? I'm very anxious about the BMAT as it looks extremely difficult with the given time limits for each section!

I was pleased with my GCSEs and hopefully, fingers crossed, I am looking at getting 4 A's in my AS levels. However, the BMAT is slightly putting me off applying to Cambridge

Any advice would be really appreciated

Apply to Clare! It's awesome. I've no idea about BMAT though (we didn't take it back in my day) - I would hazard a guess that it IS important but not as important as at some other colleges. But that's really vague and not very helpful, so I'd say the best advice I can give is to apply if you think it's somewhere you'd like to come, and then work really hard on practise papers etc.

Do you have 2 interviews- one science based and a general one?
I hope they interviewers are nice I get a bit flustered when put on the spot with challenging questions but I usually come to some sort of conclusion once I think about it!

Did you enjoy your time at Clare? Is there a lot to do in terms of going out/night life aside from all the societies students at the open days/conferences seem to be very enthusiastic about. Not that that's a bad thing especially with ice cream eating societies

Mine were both pretty scientific to be honest, and I think that trend has continued, but the interviewers now are a completely different set from the ones I had, so I can't comment on them (although they are nice to me, the same may not be true to interview candidates!)


Yes, I've loved being at Clare and although most people are very happy with whatever college they go to, I can definitely recommend it still! There's as much social scene as you want - all the usual student nights out, plus Clare cellars which is arguably the best student bar in Cambridge and has lots of events on.

Bit late, but haven't yet heard of anyone really with neuro short answer question answers. But everything you need to answer those questions is in your notes, usually in almost the same format as how the questions are phrased...

HR - probably have answers around somewhere but not completely sure of their accuracy.

No Pass/Fails up yet! Weird eh.

Pharm's been up since yesterday...

on camsis or up by the labs?

Not camsis, noticeboard outside Pharm dept. Path will be up in Path at about 2pm today and probably before that (1pm or so) at Senate House. Pharm should be on Senate House too.

MoDA (I think) is at Senate House now as a full list, in case you're feeling nosey. It's on the board outside the railings as Senate House is closed for some mysterious reason.

MoDA (I think) is at Senate House now as a full list, in case you're feeling nosey. It's on the board outside the railings as Senate House is closed for some mysterious reason.

I think there's some visit or something (lots of police cars around!), I asked when it'd be reopened and they said something along the lines of maybe after 5, and maybe until 6 (was a little vague!), but that it'd be open tomorrow morning.

BOD pass list is on the door of the Path department (was there around 12.30pm when I was there)...

Prince Philip was coming to visit Clare (amongst other things, I presume) today so that might be why. Hope it goes well for all of you! I just had my last written Finals paper, which was fairly unpleasant but hopefully did enough to pass...just have the OSCE next week to worry about now.