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Advice for medicine

So I do a level biology chemistry and psychology and in year 12 hours so serious I would like yeah I’m just gonna get through this and I ended up getting predicted BCD despite knowing my predicted grades I know that I won’t be able to apply for medicine but still I sat the UCAT as a practice and I was being inconsistent with it and I ended up getting 1590 B3 which I know that is really bad and obviously I’m in a situation where I don’t know what to do obviously with my predicted ways I can’t apply to any other courses without a foundation year but I do really wanna do medicine and now I’m thinking of I shouldn’t apply for any uni any course this year and I should really work hard and get the grade and take a gap here redo my UCAT and save some money for uni, but I don’t know if it’s gonna work because imagine on results today I end up getting really bad ways again but I don’t know anymore so I need some advice on what to do.

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by Alysha27
So I do a level biology chemistry and psychology and in year 12 hours so serious I would like yeah I’m just gonna get through this and I ended up getting predicted BCD despite knowing my predicted grades I know that I won’t be able to apply for medicine but still I sat the UCAT as a practice and I was being inconsistent with it and I ended up getting 1590 B3 which I know that is really bad and obviously I’m in a situation where I don’t know what to do obviously with my predicted ways I can’t apply to any other courses without a foundation year but I do really wanna do medicine and now I’m thinking of I shouldn’t apply for any uni any course this year and I should really work hard and get the grade and take a gap here redo my UCAT and save some money for uni, but I don’t know if it’s gonna work because imagine on results today I end up getting really bad ways again but I don’t know anymore so I need some advice on what to do.
My advice to you would be to first see if you’re eligible for any foundation year/ gateway courses for medicine. If you are try to convince your school to predict you BBB-BBC. However your UCAT score may be an issue. Leeds is a good university to apply to if you have strong GCSE’s (mostly 9s and 8s) as they interview based on GCSE’s rather than UCAT. Universities like Sunderland and keele also have lower UCAT requirements however 1590 can be a challenge.
Secondly focus on getting AAA in your final A-levels.
Take the gap year, you sound like you are really keen on medicine. Your priority at the moment is securing your final A-level grades you can always re-apply to medicine.
I hope this helps a little :smile:

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