applying to med with low grade in maths

d07k

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what are my chances/can i still get into med skl with a 5 in maths??

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TSR Hippocrates

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Reply 2

Guythtsbored

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Original post by d07k

what are my chances/can i still get into med skl with a 5 in maths??

You still do have a chance, but majority of places want you to have at least a 6 in maths.
I would recommend retaking gcse maths (because thats what I did, as I got the same grade as you).
Hope this helps!

(edited 11 months ago)

Reply 3

McGinger

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As above, either find 4 choices where you meet the Maths GCSE grade, or ask you school about retaking it alongside your A levels. This would not disadvantage your application, and if successful, any offer would just include the GCSE grade as an extra condition.

Reply 4

Hxsna_st

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Original post by Guythtsbored

You still do have a chance, but majority of places want you to have at least a 6 in maths.
I would recommend retaking gcse maths (because thats what I did, as I got the same grade as you).
Hope this helps!

Did you retake in November of yr 13 or start of yr 12 bc im in the same position to resit my maths and i didnt think abt resitting before and now i wanna retake in November however im scared that i wont be able to manage both my subjects and revision for maths

Reply 5

Hxsna_st

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Original post by Guythtsbored

You still do have a chance, but majority of places want you to have at least a 6 in maths.
I would recommend retaking gcse maths (because thats what I did, as I got the same grade as you).
Hope this helps!

Also if u do retake in November yr13 doesn’t most interviews occur during November and some December I don’t know if they would give u an interview after u received ur grade or before

Reply 6

Guythtsbored

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Original post by Hxsna_st

Did you retake in November of yr 13 or start of yr 12 bc im in the same position to resit my maths and i didnt think abt resitting before and now i wanna retake in November however im scared that i wont be able to manage both my subjects and revision for maths

I did it start of y12

Reply 7

Guythtsbored

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Original post by Hxsna_st

Also if u do retake in November yr13 doesn’t most interviews occur during November and some December I don’t know if they would give u an interview after u received ur grade or before

Yes, you are correct; thats why I would recommend doing it at the start of y13.
Hope this helps!

Reply 8

Hxsna_st

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Original post by Guythtsbored

Yes, you are correct; thats why I would recommend doing it at the start of y13.
Hope this helps!

Thank you so much! Yes I didn’t think about retaking maths bc I didn’t know if I wanted to do med and didn’t think abt retaking at yr 12 so I’m gonna retake in yr 13 November hopefully I get the grade this time, did you end up doing med ? Idk if ur a uni student

Reply 9

Xbdndkn

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Original post by d07k

what are my chances/can i still get into med skl with a 5 in maths??

Zero

Reply 10

Xbdndkn

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Original post by d07k

what are my chances/can i still get into med skl with a 5 in maths??

No you’ll have to retake maths since there will be other applicants with certainly higher grades than you

Reply 11

Guythtsbored

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Original post by Hxsna_st

Thank you so much! Yes I didn’t think about retaking maths bc I didn’t know if I wanted to do med and didn’t think abt retaking at yr 12 so I’m gonna retake in yr 13 November hopefully I get the grade this time, did you end up doing med ? Idk if ur a uni student

I’m gonna be in y13 September so fingers crossed I do get into medicine; likewise to you.

Reply 12

Hxsna_st

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Original post by Guythtsbored

I’m gonna be in y13 September so fingers crossed I do get into medicine; likewise to you.

Oh same ! Thank you Good luck to you too :smile:

Reply 13

artful_lounger

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Original post by Hxsna_st

Also if u do retake in November yr13 doesn’t most interviews occur during November and some December I don’t know if they would give u an interview after u received ur grade or before

There's a lot of misinformation in this thread. Firstly to answer the above - as you need to list the pending resit in UCAS when you apply, they will see you are resitting and thus may invite you to interview and even make an offer - which will be conditional on achieving the required grade in GCSE Maths if they have minimum requirements.

For medical schools that just use minimum requirements and don't score GCSEs (e.g. Imperial. UCL) it DOES NOT matter what grade the maths GCSE is as long as its higher than the minimum. It is not the case that someone with a higher grade would be preferentially made an offer - that would only be the case for medical schools which formally score GCSEs for shortlisting and would also depend on your ither GCSE grades (as they compare the overall results and not individual grades). I would suggest against applying to those kinds of medical schools anyway.

If you find 4 medical schools with minimum GCSE grade requirements of a 5 in GCSE Maths and they don't score GCSEs, you could just apply without resitting. I suspect you won't find 4 such medical schools and will have more options if you do resit and get a 6 though so would recommend aiming to do that.

While resitting earlier may be more convenient for you I don't think it will influence whether you get invited to interview provided you list the pending resit in UCAS (which you have to do anyway if resitting).

Reply 14

d07k

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Original post by Xbdndkn

Zero

Update I got in!

Reply 15

Hxsna_st

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Original post by d07k

Update I got in!

OMG congratulations so happy for u! I decided to retake my maths and got 8 when I retook so im glad I retook can I just ask what were ur other GCSEs like ? Bc maths is now my highest gcse and the others are 777655 and 4 in french im not sure if i have a chance still

Reply 16

d07k

OP

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Original post by Hxsna_st

OMG congratulations so happy for u! I decided to retake my maths and got 8 when I retook so im glad I retook can I just ask what were ur other GCSEs like ? Bc maths is now my highest gcse and the others are 777655 and 4 in french im not sure if i have a chance still

My GCSEs are very similar to urs just 5 in french

Reply 17

vondutches333

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Original post by Hxsna_st

OMG congratulations so happy for u! I decided to retake my maths and got 8 when I retook so im glad I retook can I just ask what were ur other GCSEs like ? Bc maths is now my highest gcse and the others are 777655 and 4 in french im not sure if i have a chance still

did you apply in retake it in November? and put it as pending i'm thinking of resitting too as i need to get to an A for bristol but am unsure whether they want me to get it before or if they will allow me to put it as pending

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