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Liverpool dentistry questionnaire

Is it allowed to include some bits of your personal statement into the answers for Liverpool non academic questionnaire because the content of PS and questions overlap heavily.
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Reply 1

I would imagine so. I dont know why they don't jusy use the PS tbh. But for me I wasnt that happy with my PS answers as didn't feel it gave me enough words to say eveything so quite pleased to have another go at it to include more but will be using some bits from PS where relevant also. Best of luck.

Reply 2

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by surfergirls
I would imagine so. I dont know why they don't jusy use the PS tbh. But for me I wasnt that happy with my PS answers as didn't feel it gave me enough words to say eveything so quite pleased to have another go at it to include more but will be using some bits from PS where relevant also. Best of luck.

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Reply 3

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by rssg
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Make sure you do the form very well. It's a 60/40 weighting for interview ie 60% weighted towards the NAF form and 40% to UCAT

Reply 4

Hi. May i know if the question says that you could include more than one experience example, is it better to include as much experiences as you can or just focus on one and write more detail about that one experience. Because there is word limit. Thanks

Reply 5

I dont think you can use the word limit from the other two examples to make one longer example. The word limit is set at 125 per example and no more. So I would imagine its better to include as many examples as you can.

Reply 6

Do you think you have to relate the volunteering experience back to dentistry as well, specifically, as finding it really hard to do so withing the 125 word count?!? I ve said what Ive gained from it which relates to qualities of a dentist but not been like . . . and in dentistry this will help because . . .as simply dont seem to have the words available to do that!

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by Fishywy
Hi. May i know if the question says that you could include more than one experience example, is it better to include as much experiences as you can or just focus on one and write more detail about that one experience. Because there is word limit. Thanks

Sorry think I misunderstood. Ive only included one example per experience as you say not really the word count to do multiple.

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by surfergirls
Do you think you have to relate the volunteering experience back to dentistry as well, specifically, as finding it really hard to do so withing the 125 word count?!? I ve said what Ive gained from it which relates to qualities of a dentist but not been like . . . and in dentistry this will help because . . .as simply dont seem to have the words available to do that!

Same problem. Word count is not enough

Reply 9

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by surfergirls
Sorry think I misunderstood. Ive only included one example per experience as you say not really the word count to do multiple.

yes because i am aware that there is word limit so not sure should i just focus on one example only and show more detail, or should i include as many examples as possible but only talk briefly each

Reply 10

I just gave one scenario/example but then talked about what I had learnt from it (more than one thing) and how that related to dentistry (again more than one way) But it was a real challenge, even then, to stay under that word count.

Reply 11

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by Helpotis and
Make sure you do the form very well. It's a 60/40 weighting for interview ie 60% weighted towards the NAF form and 40% to UCAT

I know, wish it was the other way round!

Reply 12

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by rssg
Is it allowed to include some bits of your personal statement into the answers for Liverpool non academic questionnaire because the content of PS and questions overlap heavily.
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they don't look at it for shortlisting so id say probably

Reply 13

Can I just check, where it says 200 or 250 words etc, that is a Word count as opposed to a Character Count? It was 4000 character count for the Personal Statement but the Liverpool questionnaire is based on a Word Count per section.

So am I correct in saying that I just go by the Word count, in a MS Word document?

Reply 14

Yes, it's word count

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by sarahgalway
Can I just check, where it says 200 or 250 words etc, that is a Word count as opposed to a Character Count? It was 4000 character count for the Personal Statement but the Liverpool questionnaire is based on a Word Count per section.
So am I correct in saying that I just go by the Word count, in a MS Word document?

exactly that - still not enough words tho!

Reply 16

Thanks so much for your help, always hard to keep it to the limits. Best of luck with it.

Reply 17

are the only two questions hobbies/interest and teamworking? thanks!

Reply 18

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by rssg
Is it allowed to include some bits of your personal statement into the answers for Liverpool non academic questionnaire because the content of PS and questions overlap heavily.
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has anyone got an interview

Reply 19

Don't think we will hear till mid Dec.

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