Applying for medicine when I only took biology at A level, but not IGCSE???
As the title says..
I had my own personal reasons for not giving biology in igcse because I dropped it as my past self was stupidly irresponsible and just wanted to reduce workload.. and stuff. Very stupid ignorant selfish reasons.
Stuff happened in my life (long story short- an anime changed my life, turned it downside-up if you will haha) and I decided to take biology for A-level.
I already gave my A-level exams and got an A* (597/600) in biology alongside 3A*s for physics (600/600), chemistry (596/600) and math (591/600).. as for IGCSE I got 3A*s for physics, chemistry and math (solely thanks to online exams... would have failed otherwise most likely.) an A in English as a second language (count-in speaking) a B in computer science. No biology.
With all this information given (I hope they're relevant..), would i still be able to study medicine at university?
or does it depend on the university I'll be going to or something else that I'm unaware of??
Please help me with this. Thank you for reading, and thank you to those who help and advice me about this in advance. I appreciate it
TLDR: I didn't take biology in IGCSE due to personal reasons, but excelled in A-level biology and other subjects. Can I still pursue medicine at university?
I had my own personal reasons for not giving biology in igcse because I dropped it as my past self was stupidly irresponsible and just wanted to reduce workload.. and stuff. Very stupid ignorant selfish reasons.
Stuff happened in my life (long story short- an anime changed my life, turned it downside-up if you will haha) and I decided to take biology for A-level.
I already gave my A-level exams and got an A* (597/600) in biology alongside 3A*s for physics (600/600), chemistry (596/600) and math (591/600).. as for IGCSE I got 3A*s for physics, chemistry and math (solely thanks to online exams... would have failed otherwise most likely.) an A in English as a second language (count-in speaking) a B in computer science. No biology.
With all this information given (I hope they're relevant..), would i still be able to study medicine at university?
or does it depend on the university I'll be going to or something else that I'm unaware of??
Please help me with this. Thank you for reading, and thank you to those who help and advice me about this in advance. I appreciate it
TLDR: I didn't take biology in IGCSE due to personal reasons, but excelled in A-level biology and other subjects. Can I still pursue medicine at university?
(edited 4 months ago)
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