Newcastle Medical School 2016 Entry A100

Outstanding score! Good luck with it, I hope you get an interview.

With regards to QR, any tips for improving speed?

Hahaha! Thanks for this. Tbh I'm a graduate so I wanted 700+ but I had 5 years as an option so I'm not too upset.
For AR I'd practice as many as you can and get used to looking for certain patterns with certain shapes. I was usually very good at AR in mocks, especially Kaplan mocks I was scoring 700-770. But the patterns on the day wasn't as obvious at all and there was a lot of distractors shapes and the simplest box wasn't simple! I got 690 in it, wish I'd got higher but I wasn't lucky with my patterns.


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Hi guys. Just thought i'd pop on and say I'm at Newcastle and will be starting second year next month. If anyone has any questions about life here etc let me know! Happy to help

Hi, potentially applying to Newcastle for 2016 entry!
My stats:
GCSEs- 11A*s 1B (B in food technology)
AS- AAAA
UKCAT- Total: 3200 (average: 800)

So can I confirm that being above the UKCAT cutoff gets you an interview?

Hi there

These are my stats:

I have got 6A* and 6A in GCSE's
5A's in AS level
Predicted could be A*A*A in order in Biology,Maths and Chem (also A* in Further Maths)
UKCAT : 730, SJT Band2
Do you think my stats is Okay to apply to NewCastle(specifically my UKCAT).Also what A level results are they looking for?

Many thanks

Hey I'm pretty sure they would be fine very similar to my grades. Don't worry about A-levels 3As they want so concentrate on get them rather than worry about A*. After you have an interview academics are not given ANY weighting it is a level playing field and offers are given on interview performance

Is applying with a score of 702.5 (band 1) risking it?

I might, I don't think its such a risk. It's been above every past cutoff apart from 2014 which was the year everyone scored insanely high. Should be fairly safe.

800!? Are you mad Hun! That'll be over anywhere and for Newcastle 100% yes. Seriously guys for undergrad 700+ will 100% get you an interview


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Ah, great. But don't they look at other things such as PS/work experience/GCSEs etc?

Hey I'm pretty sure they would be fine very similar to my grades. Don't worry about A-levels 3As they want so concentrate on get them rather than worry about A*. After you have an interview academics are not given ANY weighting it is a level playing field and offers are given on interview performance

Nope they solely give interviews on UKCAT.


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Ah, great. But don't they look at other things such as PS/work experience/GCSEs etc?

Anybody like to make an educational guess for the cutoff this year for the interview?

Wild guess; 660-680. That's what it was around before the craziness of the past 2 years.

My guess, 695 as the same as 3 years ago! (It looks like the mean of this year would match with 3 years ago)

Hi
In 2014 the cut off was about 745 I think, should I be concerned because of that??

Thanks very much