Medicine without biology?

Hi there, actually, you could get into Oxbridge without A Level Biology! Granted, you may find the course/interview a little difficult so would need to brush up on your GCSE biology knowledge and perhaps do some wider reading, but most universities only really require A Level Chemistry for their medicine courses. Do some research online or email the admissions teams of universities you'd like to target.
Best of luck!

Hi there, actually, you could get into Oxbridge without A Level Biology! Granted, you may find the course/interview a little difficult so would need to brush up on your GCSE biology knowledge and perhaps do some wider reading, but most universities only really require A Level Chemistry for their medicine courses. Do some research online or email the admissions teams of universities you'd like to target.
Best of luck!

I do chem, maths and psych and I have quite poor GCSEs (with a 5 in biology), and I have my first medicine interview next week. It is definitely possible if your try hard enough!

Hi, i’m in year 12 and i do those exact alevels!!! Although I did get a better biology grade. Did u find not doing biology disadvantage you in the interview and where did u apply? Well done on recieving an interview

Is there any chance I could apply for medicine at uni with good grades in A level Chemistry, Physics and Maths.
If so which unis? I'm assuming there's no hope of getting into Oxbridge or a Russell group without biology.

I do chem, maths and psych and I have quite poor GCSEs (with a 5 in biology), and I have my first medicine interview next week. It is definitely possible if your try hard enough!

I do chem, maths and psych and I have quite poor GCSEs (with a 5 in biology), and I have my first medicine interview next week. It is definitely possible if your try hard enough!

There is barely any biology knowledge in the interview, and if there was anything it was very low level (a toddler would get it)! Also managed to get a med offer at ARU so I'm gassed w that too

I really want to do dentistry or medicine

i dont think u can do dentistry without chemistry AT all and even medicine i’m almost certain for the small amount of unis that dont need chemistry you need either maths or physics instead i.e a second science pls dont let that put you off med and instead take a gap year and teach yourself all of chemistry a level!

Yes I was planning on taking gap year and doi Chemsitry but idk how to but I was thinking just leave it and apply for foundation yrsrs

again, there’s only a few foundation years and i don’t think there’s any that only need a single science but i might be wrong; you can teach yourself chemistry a level by doing AS content right after august till around October time and then December-April do A2 content and simultaneously do past papers when learning the content, then all of April-June can be spent going over all the content and doing lots of past papers which will guarantee you an A as long as you’re disciplined; you can also apply that same year and put a level chemistry as a pending grade and write in your reference that you’re learning it yourself and get a predicted grade for it.

i dont think u can do dentistry without chemistry AT all and even medicine i’m almost certain for the small amount of unis that dont need chemistry you need either maths or physics instead i.e a second science pls dont let that put you off med and instead take a gap year and teach yourself all of chemistry a level!

Yes I was planning on taking gap year and doi Chemsitry but idk how to but I was thinking just leave it and apply for foundation yrsrs

that’s great news then i apologise i wasn’t aware of these other options!