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Combined Science for UK Medicine?

Hey, I am planning to do medicine next year in the UK and was wondering whether combined science and human biology would be accepted as my 7th IGCSE in applications. I have done all the sciences for IGCSE and A levels, so would that affect my application.
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My daughter’s school friend did GCSE combine science and she applied to medicine and got offers (Home Student), I’m not sure about international student tho, better to check the university websites.

Reply 2

What do you mean here? Do you mean you've already done IGCSEs in seperate Biology, Chemistry and Physics and you're considering taking Combined Science and Human Biology as well?

Reply 3

Original post by AsBr2008
What do you mean here? Do you mean you've already done IGCSEs in seperate Biology, Chemistry and Physics and you're considering taking Combined Science and Human Biology as well?

yea I've done all 5, and was wondering whether they will all be considered in my medicine application, or will the other two be cancelled out by the first three.

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Original post by xandr
yea I've done all 5, and was wondering whether they will all be considered in my medicine application, or will the other two be cancelled out by the first three.
I imagine combined science will definitely be cancelled out. Human biology probably would but I'm not 100% certain. Email whichever unis you're thinking of applying to.

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Original post by xandr
Hey, I am planning to do medicine next year in the UK and was wondering whether combined science and human biology would be accepted as my 7th IGCSE in applications. I have done all the sciences for IGCSE and A levels, so would that affect my application.

Hi there!

I would definitely recommend emailing each university as each one may have slightly different entry requirements so it is always best to check these out!

-Rebecca, University of Central Lancashire Ambassador
It's irrelevant as you've met any requirements for science GCSEs. That said those medical schools that score GCSEs I suspect won't score both combined science and the separate sciences...? If that's your question then I highly doubt they would accept that as effectively they're just resits of the same 2/3 GCSEs you already did.
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