does taking triple science matter if i want to do medicine at imperial?

(edited 10 months ago)

Reply 1

No, it really doesn't matter. It is quality of grades rather than quantity. Even for medicine.

I would concentrate on making sure you can recall the basic facts and also do past papers and make them, to learn how the exam board thinks.
Cognito provide past paper questions here: https://cognitoresources.org/

Reply 2

artful_lounger

Universities Forum Helper

No, Imperial medicine doesn't score GCSEs and only has minimum grade requirements for GCSE English otherwise.

I'm not aware of any medical school that requires triple science. I don't even think doing it would give you any "bonus points" at unis that score GCSEs on specific subjects (e.g. Birmingham) as I believe they score the best two science GCSEs among the other specified ones, so whether you do combined or triple science assuming you got the same grades you would get the same score for the GCSE part of the shortlisting.

Reply 3

anonymoussse

No you don't need to bother with doing triple
Just focus on studying double and get a 7 or maybe an 8 if you can
It's more about your ucat or bmat exam score and your interview score that matters

Reply 4

omeleto63

Original post by totallyfine

thanks! i was just unsure because since they get so many AAA a level result students they would have to differentiate between them someone and someone who did triple with an extra gcse might be higher than somoene who did double.

Reply 5

omeleto63

Original post by artful_lounger

No, Imperial medicine doesn't score GCSEs and only has minimum grade requirements for GCSE English otherwise.
I'm not aware of any medical school that requires triple science. I don't even think doing it would give you any "bonus points" at unis that score GCSEs on specific subjects (e.g. Birmingham) as I believe they score the best two science GCSEs among the other specified ones, so whether you do combined or triple science assuming you got the same grades you would get the same score for the GCSE part of the shortlisting.

hi sorry ik this is late but what are the gcse eng lang requirements?

Reply 6

artful_lounger

Universities Forum Helper

Original post by omeleto63

hi sorry ik this is late but what are the gcse eng lang requirements?

You really need to be able to do this kind of extremely basic research if you're going to apply to medicine (or any uni degree realistically):

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/study/undergraduate/medicine-mbbs-programmes/schoolinfo/

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/study/courses/undergraduate/medicine/

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/study/apply/english-language/

It's available on basically every webpage relating to their medical degree which you should be already looking at if intending to apply there. Took me about 20 seconds to find this by searching "Imperial medicine GCSE English language requirement".

It's a B/6 or above in GCSE English language.