Medics (and applicants) general chat thread Mk IV

I did 2 resits overall.
It's quite fair usually, you can have an off day and just want a safety net. I didn't even need the resits, in the end, but it's safer and I don't think it made it easier, you still have to sit the exams.

Have you already resat most of the modules already?


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I epitomise the failure of A Levels

I ended up taking bloody C2 about 4 times

No I only re-sat one Chem module once, and never done resits in any other modules or subjects. My teacher remarked that its not entirely fair that I never done any re-sits in Biology and got a B, whereas someone else could re-sit few times and scratch up to an A and not many people would kniw the difference
I will re-sit the synoptic modules only, because they were the ones that tripped me up - why I don't understand, sinse I worked hard on those, asked plenty of questions to my teachers, done wider reading, and generally understood the content. The only thing that could have played a part I think was my short attention span

Also AVAM if you want to resit anything and you were on the old spec I think only the A2 modules are available for the final time in January.

I ate two different fruits yesterday

And my first apple of the year! It was quite nice

Love apples, they rock. I also like Citrus fruit I tried growing an orange from a pip, but it wilted Pomegranate and a fig are still doing well though

Actually I ate a citrus fruit yesterday, it felt like cannibalism

Does a glass of orange juice count as one of your five a day?

Exactly, I know many that have done that.

I think it does ! i always get my 5 a day

I often have more than five a day, but they're not as healthy as fruit

Five shots you mean, you naughty cannibal citrus

Um, yeah, maybe

And by the law of the fruit bowl, if the fruit has been picked it may be eaten

the law of the fruit bowl in my house is that the fruit which is easiest to eat is eaten first- so citruses, mangoes, and passionfruit languish at the bottom until all the apples, pears, bananas and stone fruit are consumed

I dislike resits. Mainly because I never took one, and yet if I had cocked up one of my exams in June so I ended up with a B, I wouldn't be allowed to resit it and reapply to some Unis (as they have policies that qualifications must be obtained within two years), yet someone who had come a cropper earlier and resat would have been accepted. It just smacks of double standards.

Also, I know somebody who started off on an E and just solidly kept sitting down and resitting until he managed to drag his mark up to an A, simply by virtue of the papers being pretty much the same. Should that A be worth the same as one obtained first time?

Personally, I think that any resits should have to be declared along with grades. So you can get a direct comparison rather than them all seeming the same. And also it would mean you could explain your situation if you had mitigating circumstances, so it wouldn't discriminate against you.