retaking gcses 4 medicine ?

i'm nearly done with my gcses and i'm expecting mostly 7s, maybe a handful of 8s and 6s but i want to apply for medicine after alevels would it be worth retaking them next year?

i'm nearly done with my gcses and i'm expecting mostly 7s, maybe a handful of 8s and 6s but i want to apply for medicine after alevels would it be worth retaking them next year?

i'm nearly done with my gcses and i'm expecting mostly 7s, maybe a handful of 8s and 6s but i want to apply for medicine after alevels would it be worth retaking them next year?

As long as you have a 6 in English, math, sciences. Universities will not care what you get for gcse. Don’t waste ur money getting new GCSE’s.

Yess, medicine/dentistry is VERY competitive, They DO care about your GCSEs. Don’t worry I’m in year 11 too and I’m thinking of retaking Eng language, Eng lit, maths so by the time I apply my grades will (hopefully) be 999999988777
Some people who replied to my posts state that if you really want to retake and improve your grades, do it. You will regret it later. Plus most medical/dental school (except oxbridge) consider gcse resits especially if they are due to extenuating circumstances. Honestly it is worth the money.

hey!!! i got 4/4 med offers this year and if it helps to know i have got 998777755 which i thought was gonna be WAYYY too low but everything turned out ok !!
unis i applied too did not care ab gcses that much, i know some weight them more than others. but overall the most important thing by far for your application will be the ucat not gcses.

hey!!! i got 4/4 med offers this year and if it helps to know i have got 998777755 which i thought was gonna be WAYYY too low but everything turned out ok !!
unis i applied too did not care ab gcses that much, i know some weight them more than others. but overall the most important thing by far for your application will be the ucat not gcses.

hey!!! i got 4/4 med offers this year and if it helps to know i have got 998777755 which i thought was gonna be WAYYY too low but everything turned out ok !!
unis i applied too did not care ab gcses that much, i know some weight them more than others. but overall the most important thing by far for your application will be the ucat not gcses.

hey!!! i got 4/4 med offers this year and if it helps to know i have got 998777755 which i thought was gonna be WAYYY too low but everything turned out ok !!
unis i applied too did not care ab gcses that much, i know some weight them more than others. but overall the most important thing by far for your application will be the ucat not gcses.

hey!!! i got 4/4 med offers this year and if it helps to know i have got 998777755 which i thought was gonna be WAYYY too low but everything turned out ok !!
unis i applied too did not care ab gcses that much, i know some weight them more than others. but overall the most important thing by far for your application will be the ucat not gcses.

hey!!! i got 4/4 med offers this year and if it helps to know i have got 998777755 which i thought was gonna be WAYYY too low but everything turned out ok !!
unis i applied too did not care ab gcses that much, i know some weight them more than others. but overall the most important thing by far for your application will be the ucat not gcses.

hi!!! sorry for the mega late reply (just finished my a-levels ahhhh!!!)
but im very happy to share all my application stats and knowledge as i know when i was in your guys position last year i wanted to hear ab as many peoples experinences as possible.
so my a-level predicted grades were A*AA, with the A* in biology and the A's in chem and maths. honestly, as long as you meet the entry requirments i feel like your predicted grades are not that important.
my ucat was 2870 band 1 and i used medify!!! i started my prep after my year 12 mocks were over (so about this time last year i wanna say???)
my ucat was at the end of august which worked perfcetly for me, i prioritised ucat prep over everything and really locked in for the final two weeks running up to it, then i got to relax and go on holiday w/o having to worry.
my advice is dont do too much in the beginning or you will end up burnt out.
i applied and got offers from Manchester, Newcastle, QMUL and Glasgow. i can talk more about interviews if anyones interested but i feel like thats deffo something to think about in the future rather than now.
ive firmed manchester for entry this september.
i switched my uni choices so much (legit put QMUL on right before pressing apply LMAO) so its worth thinking ab early on. the only regret i have in my application is not applying to kings bc i thought id have zero shot of getting in. now with 4 offers i feel like i shouldve taken the risk so maybe bear this in mind.
i chose manchester purely because i felt like it was the right uni/city for me. oh and everyone i met at open days/interveiws here were so lovely. i hardly looked at rankings bc we all end up at the same stage post-graduation so might aswell choose somewhere you will feel happiest for 5 years
aside from all that, i did a whole range of random super-curriculars although the majority of them i never got to mention in interview/ps sooooo not sure how useful they were. id say deffo get as much exposure to the profession as possible though because even if its not directly benifictical to your application, its still a great experience.
i feel the need to note here that im also not the convential medicine applicant. i went to state school and growing up i was never super smart or anything. i decided on med at the middle/end of year 11 rather than wanting to pursue it my whole life but that does not mean im not 100% firm on my choice at all. in yr12 i even had some teachers tell me not to apply to med bc of my stats, but its really completely possible and i encourage anyone who is cautious for these reasons just to go for it!!! you will never know what could happen unless you try!!!
if anyone has any other q's pls lmk im MORE than happy to help and good luck to all of you <3333