Medicine 2018 Entry Gap Year Applicants

Hi there!

Sorry to hear that you didn't receive your offers!

Our best advice would be to look at boosting your UKCAT by preparing early - make sure you leave around 6 weeks of preparation time and complete lots of practice questions and timed mocks (we have over 2,500 questions as well as a timed mock exam on our UKCAT Question Bank). Keep working on each individual section to pinpoint your weakest areas, and work on those.

We have a range of free UKCAT resources that might help you in your preparation:

- UKCAT Guide (with detailed pages on preparation as well as each of the UKCAT sections)
- Free UKCAT Questions - sign up and get 50 UKCAT questions for free!

You could also take a look at our blogs on how to make the most of your gap year and gain more medical work experience to boost your application:

- Didn't Get an Offer? Take a Medicine Gap Year!
- Reapplying to Medical School
- 5 Things To Do on Your Medicine Gap Year

If you'd like more help on the UKCAT, we have a one-day UKCAT Course, an Online UKCAT Course - and we also offer bespoke one to one UKCAT Tutoring.

Hope this helps - good luck!
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No i didnt haha, but i got 3 other offers. And i changed like a couple of lines which included by gap year stuff and extra voluntary work.
Change it according to what unis you are applying to. So for example if leeds really liked it, dont change it too much if you are gonna apply there. But if you were bordeline conisder making improvements.
What unis you looking at for next year?

My AS's weren't the best so I'm applying for neuroscience instead of medicine this year. This is just to be on the safe side incase I don't get the grades to do medicine. Hopefully I get good A2 results and can take a gap year to do medicine in the 2018 entry.
If I am taking a gap year, I'd like to earn and get some work experience done.

I also highly recommend gap medics I did it over the summer in Tanzania and it was absolutely amazing, worth every penny in my opinion.


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How are your A2 exams going, particularly biology, and what grades are they asking in your offers, Demi.Star?

Guys I'm in an urgent situation. I got 5A at higher but BBC at advanced higher and am taking a gap year for medicine.

Where on earth do I apply now and what do I do? ANYBODY KNOW ANYTHING!?

I spoke to Aberdeen and they said if I take 2 more highers and get A's then I might have chance of interview if I go college and do this???

Not confident on basing 1 year on some fishy info from a 10 minute call!?


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Bro dont worry as a last resort if ya personally dont hink ya got the grades for a medical school in the UK you can go abroad and do it in Czech republic ive already got a place as a back up i didnt even apply here this year cos i wasnt sure what to apply for but after work exp i decided for medicine

Hi all, I'm a 4th year Med student at Barts and the London. I'm offering 1-to-1 support for any student considering Medicine 2018 entry. This can be assistance with personal statement editing according to what Med schools are looking for, guidance on the Universities best suited for your application, help on getting the right work experiences in a short time if needed, support with formatting your application to maximise your chance of an interview, and so on. I've helped previous prospective Med students who have now received offers, if you're interested get in touch! Good luck.

Hey guys

My stats: GCSE 7A* 4As
A levels (achieved): A*AA in maths, chemistry and biology (A in psychology AS)

my UKCAT is in a few days but last year I got an average of 620 so I don't think it will change much this time around

which unis should I think of applying to with low UKCAT? (my ps is quite strong as I have a lot of work experience/volunteer work)