Medicine in Russell Group Universities

i am assuming your in year 12 rn, i dont know why you wouldn't be happy about your results because your results are amazing, i got 5 9's and 3 8's and 2 7's aand a 6 in language so my grades where pretty much like yours, and let me tell you, the unis do not care about your GCSE's, i have applied for med i am in year 13 and i have had 2 interviews so far and let me tell you the only thing they care about is (personal statement some dont even care about this, UCAT score, SJT score,A level predicted and work experience/ volunteering), and i dont know why you mean Russell group because unless you really want to go to like cambridge or oxford for example it doesn't matter what uni you go to, Medicine unis have their on teir list and some unis arent even russell group ones but they are really good medicine unis, so the "russell group" sterotype only matter if your applying for a normal course, No matter where you study your gone come out of the uni with the same course certificate and get a job in the NHS as you dont need to worry about what uni you go to as, your not gone be applying for a job if that makes sense.
hope that helps
Anything else feel free to ask

Hi,
I was passing by and wanted to ask you what a levels and work experiences you have done, cause i am not really sure of what to do and how long i should be doing them for? Also I would say my weakest subject would be English language and Maths - What grades did you get on them( GCSE) and what did you do to get them? Also if you don't mind what unis did you applied to?

Hey guys, does anyone know what grades would be sufficient enough to get into med school (specifically Russell group unis). This is what i got.
Biology: 9
Economics: 9
Arabic: 9
English Literature: 8
Maths: 8
Chemistry: 8
Physics: 8
Design and Technology: 8
History: 8
Further Maths: 7
English Language: 6
I was on track for a 9 in english lit, lang and DT, but unfortunately did not get those grades due to external factors. I’m not happy with my grades overall but I’m glad that they arent extremely bad either.
Please do be 100 percent honest! Any suggestions will help

So i assuming your in GCSE's and dont worry i had the same worries back then not having a clue what i have to do to actually become a doctor.
Let me do my stats first
A levels i am currently doing:
Biology (A* predicted)
Chemistry(A* predicted)
Maths (A predicted)
GCSE's:
English lang 6
English lit 8
Maths 9
bio 9
physics 9
chem 9
further maths 8
DT 7
computer science 7
Statistics 8
Business 9
Ucat:
score: 2180/2700
SJt: Band 2
Medical schools applied to:
sunderland(interview done)
UEA(interview done)
Aston(waiting)
Keele(waiting)
Work experience i have done for medicine:
I am a personal assistant for a a autistic child and i them out do activities on the week ends and i have done almost like 80 hours of that for couple of hours each weekend
i had work experience placement at diabetic ward at the hospitals and got to go on ward rounds and do other things in the ward
done volunteering at a care home for few days ( just being there for the patient who are lonely need someone to talk too and help them in anyway)
I am a tutor for a student at school every week i tutor him for GCSE
and then during my interviews and application i just expand on this and talk about what skills i have learnt and see and things like that.
Starting with work experience/volunteering you dont need to necessarily do 80 hours like i did but some medical schools do want a lot of hours in volunteering so do look out for that, but most dont but it is great to have a good amount of this as then you have a lot to talk about so trying getting some volunteering done even if this is like working at a cafe or working at a food bank or any sort of volunteering where you helping a cause and you can link to medicine.
My weakest subject was also definitely english language i hated it i hated going to the lessons and everything related to it, it was mainly because english was a second language for me and so i missed a lot of primary school and so i struggled with my grammar and just writing, but that comes with practice i shouldn't be advising on lang with my grade , but all i can say is practice ,practice, practice language is all praticing like the creative writing for example watch youtube vedieos these really helped me in lang and lit like Mr everything english he is great! And Maths it is ALL about pratice just do as many questions are you can really, do all the past papers like 1 every 2 weeks or somethign just practice my teacher always used to say " dont practice until you get 1 right practice until you cant get 1 wrong " so keep that in mind and ones you do the paper go and pratice the topics you got wrong this is what i did.
The unis i applied to are not the best, but i applied too these as my UCAT score wasnt great it is in 70th percentile and so i applied to the ones with lowest ucat requirements so i have a good chance
hope this helps anything else feel free to ask

Thank you so much for such a detailed reply — I really appreciate you taking the time to explain everything. It was really helpful and reassuring.
Similar to you, English is also my second language, and I started in the UK around Year 8, so I’m still improving. Honestly, your results overall are really impressive in my opinion.
I’ll definitely come back to ask you more questions when I get closer to applying after my GCSEs. Once again, thank you so much, and good luck with your interviews!