Ulster Uni GEM 2022 Entry

Out of curiosity was your GAMSAT less than 60?

I was offered an interview.

I’m from England, but I wouldn’t be surprised if UoU have introduced a system to have a lower GAMSAT cut-off score for Northern Irish applicants. The course website does emphasise that one of the goals is for the uni to produce Drs for NI and rural areas in particular.

My stats:
2:1 integrated MEng in Medical Engineering

GAMSAT: 66/60/63 - 63 overall regardless of whether s3 is given double or single weighting.

A levels: BBB in Maths, Physics, Economics.

I put a lot of time into S3. I hadn’t done biology since double award GCSE in 2009. My last experience of chemistry was my failed AS level in 2010.

My physics had stayed stayed sharp because of my engineering degree and career, but the exam is only ~20% physics. The thing about engineering is that the university theory exams are gruelling and problem solving/ graph reading/ numeracy based questions which transfer well to GAMSAT S3. My problem was my baseline knowledge, not the problem solving skills I think many candidates struggle with

Try to maximise marks with good exam technique. In the exam, work on the questions you’re comfortable with, skip the ones you don’t know. Guess every answer you don’t know. Don’t panic in the exam, it is a odd exam because a 50% raw score could give a good final score

I slammed all the theory with the Khan Academy college level courses. I chose which modules to cover using the unofficial GAMSAT s3 syllabus in the Griffiths Review.

I did all of the official ACER questions at least twice, first time to identify my weaknesses and areas to focus on. Second time to recap, check knowledge and build confidence. You can find worked answers to all the S3 practice questions on YouTube which helps. I also did a few of the Des O’Neil questions, but no more than an evening or two.

It was about 3 months of revision, but I didn’t really focus until there was 7 weeks to go. At the point of 7 weeks to go, I took a week off work and had 9 uninterrupted days (week+2xweekends) to really nail it down.

Thanks for that just doing research into this process

If you have the money I found gradmed really good, esspecially for s3. I got 63/58//68 and they were amazing for the science section

I have a 2:1 in genetics and A*BC at a level but I’m a English grad and was offered a interview with a gamsat of 64 overall. It does seem like the cutoff for English grads is higher overall this year

I’ll look into it, congratulations with your score absolute beast of an exam.

Rejection with 61 GAMSAT, 1st class biomed and distinction masters in biosciences. Quite surprised at this given the other applicants on here who received interviews 😕 good luck everyone who got them, however

Do we know for sure that Ulster only take degrees and GAMSAT into consideration?

I only say that because some unis like KCL are holistic so they don't set cut-off's, they look at each applicant individually.

When you say holistically, does that mean they have also already read the personal statements and reference yes? Thanks!

Depends on the uni, but generally yes. They would look at each applicant individually rather than setting cut-off’s for exams like UCAT or GAMSAT.

Hi there, just wondering, did you actually get a rejection email? Or just didn’t receive an invite? Did you email them to inquire?

Has anyone who emailed received a response regarding feedback yet?