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GCSE resits for medical school

Rn im in year 13 and have resat 4 of my GCSE from 6655 to 8899 , before i resat them i emailed the med school that i wanted to apply to, e.g imperial, ucl, kcl, manchester, queen mary and sheffield though they permit gcses but idk me resitting 4 gcses would be a big disadvantage for me?
and one question is that if I apply to some other degree like neuroscience would that forbidden me from applying to unis that dont accept gcse resits which they specifically mention for med program only? idk i kinda regret that ive resat this many but at the same time i dont.
and one last thing I am quite confused about, i asked many AI how med or dent unis treat no resits policy and google ai sound quite harsh saying if your application shows resits qualification then your application would be screened out automatically even if you met the minimum requirement first sitting anyways, however chat gpt and my other post in student room says something different.
can someone help me out pls
(edited 4 weeks ago)

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by vivilala
Rn im in year 13 and have resat 4 of my GCSE from 6655 to 8899 , before i resat them i emailed the med school that i wanted to apply to, e.g imperial, ucl, kcl, manchester, queen mary and sheffield though they permit gcses but idk me resitting 4 gcses would be a big disadvantage for me?
and one question is that if I apply to some other degree like neuroscience would that forbidden me from applying to unis that dont accept gcse resits which they specifically mention for med program only? idk i kinda regret that ive resat this many but at the same time i dont.
and one last thing I am quite confused about, i asked many AI how med or dent unis treat no resits policy and google ai sound quite harsh saying if your application shows resits qualification then your application would be screened out automatically even if you met the minimum requirement first sitting anyways, however chat gpt and my other post in student room says something different.
can someone help me out pls
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by vivilala
Rn im in year 13 and have resat 4 of my GCSE from 6655 to 8899 , before i resat them i emailed the med school that i wanted to apply to, e.g imperial, ucl, kcl, manchester, queen mary and sheffield though they permit gcses but idk me resitting 4 gcses would be a big disadvantage for me?
and one question is that if I apply to some other degree like neuroscience would that forbidden me from applying to unis that dont accept gcse resits which they specifically mention for med program only? idk i kinda regret that ive resat this many but at the same time i dont.
and one last thing I am quite confused about, i asked many AI how med or dent unis treat no resits policy and google ai sound quite harsh saying if your application shows resits qualification then your application would be screened out automatically even if you met the minimum requirement first sitting anyways, however chat gpt and my other post in student room says something different.
can someone help me out pls
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Original post
by vivilala
Rn im in year 13 and have resat 4 of my GCSE from 6655 to 8899 , before i resat them i emailed the med school that i wanted to apply to, e.g imperial, ucl, kcl, manchester, queen mary and sheffield though they permit gcses but idk me resitting 4 gcses would be a big disadvantage for me?
and one question is that if I apply to some other degree like neuroscience would that forbidden me from applying to unis that dont accept gcse resits which they specifically mention for med program only? idk i kinda regret that ive resat this many but at the same time i dont.
and one last thing I am quite confused about, i asked many AI how med or dent unis treat no resits policy and google ai sound quite harsh saying if your application shows resits qualification then your application would be screened out automatically even if you met the minimum requirement first sitting anyways, however chat gpt and my other post in student room says something different.
can someone help me out pls

don't ask ai your questions. if it doesn't know, it won't tell you it doesn't know, so it will just make up good sounding facts. email the unis directly.

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