Advising someone who messed up an exam.

What do you say to people if they screw up an exam? I know this person isn't the type to just say that it went badly, and I think poor BMAT/UKCAT scores rules out a lot of his opportunities.

A cliche response like saying it's not the end of the world doesn't really work when his life is set on medicine. Telling him the scores will be scaled up if everyone's done badly also won't cheer him up. I don't really know what to say.

I'm a sucker for giving bad advice.

Reply 1

PlaystationStudies

8

I can't think of any advice you could give, your friend will have to cope. There's always resits anyways.

Reply 2

Jolae

You'd be better actively trying to help him with his next choice. If they mess up an important exam, they will still have oppurtunities, so if you can sit down and discuss their options as apposed to just simply comforting them, i'm sure they would appreciate that more.

Reply 3

Laevis

13

Tell him you hear Al Qaeda are planning to rob a batch of today's BMAT papers and you have an inkling that his will be one of "the chosen ones".

If that fails tell him the Admissions Tutor at his favourite Uni phoned you thinking it was him and offered him a place right away! Though, that's only a short term solution :hmmmm:

If he, somehow, doesn't get a place anywhere he could always take a gap year and reapply- spending the whole of the summer holidays practising for the BMAT second time around.

You could also try putting it in context by telling him that nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names, so even if he scored 0 in the BMAT at least he will have been able to write his name on the cover booklet*!

*Assuming he isn't one of the aforementioned 1 billion.

Reply 4

invicta

Laevis

Tell him you hear Al Qaeda are planning to rob a batch of today's BMAT papers and you have an inkling that his will be one of "the chosen ones".

If that fails tell him the Admissions Tutor at his favourite Uni phoned you thinking it was him and offered him a place right away! Though, that's only a short term solution :hmmmm:

If he, somehow, doesn't get a place anywhere he could always take a gap year and reapply- spending the whole of the summer holidays practising for the BMAT second time around.

You could also try putting it in context by telling him that nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names, so even if he scored 0 in the BMAT at least he will have been able to write his name on the cover booklet*!

*Assuming he isn't one of the aforementioned 1 billion.

i absolutley love it :tsr2:

Advising someone who messed up an exam.

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