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Tell us your results and then everyone else will tell you how useless they are, etc...
Maths : A
Only did that exam. I do the rest next year.
And you?
Maths : A
Only did that exam. I do the rest next year.
And you?
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Conclusion: We're all stupid.
Hedfix wrote:
> Depends on the GCSEs. As I said, if you hit their targets for the
> important ones there shouldn't be a problem.
>
> "Hmmm, he was crap at CDT therefore he can't be a doctor".
>
> "Curse my lack of ability with solder and vacuum formed plastic
> moulding!!!111"
I'm not disputing that, but Cs most definitely won't be enough. As and possibly Bs in the core subjects with the odd slip might be alright, but you wouldn't stand a chance with Cs in English/Maths/Science.
> Depends on the GCSEs. As I said, if you hit their targets for the
> important ones there shouldn't be a problem.
>
> "Hmmm, he was crap at CDT therefore he can't be a doctor".
>
> "Curse my lack of ability with solder and vacuum formed plastic
> moulding!!!111"
I'm not disputing that, but Cs most definitely won't be enough. As and possibly Bs in the core subjects with the odd slip might be alright, but you wouldn't stand a chance with Cs in English/Maths/Science.
I don't really know about Scottish universities. I'm basing this on people who want to do Medicine here (Queen's, NI) or in Oxbridge etc. I know someone who applied last year and got turned down with something like 5 A*/4 A at GCSE and AAAB at AS level. A lot of people here apply to Glasgow/Dundee as a backup because the grade requirements are lower.
Memorandum! wrote:
>
> Quibbles with GCSEs might mean you never get to go to an interview :
> )
Depends on the GCSEs. As I said, if you hit their targets for the important ones there shouldn't be a problem.
"Hmmm, he was crap at CDT therefore he can't be a doctor".
"Curse my lack of ability with solder and vacuum formed plastic moulding!!!111"
>
> Quibbles with GCSEs might mean you never get to go to an interview :
> )
Depends on the GCSEs. As I said, if you hit their targets for the important ones there shouldn't be a problem.
"Hmmm, he was crap at CDT therefore he can't be a doctor".
"Curse my lack of ability with solder and vacuum formed plastic moulding!!!111"
Memorandum! wrote:
> munn wrote:
> Interviews and personal statements all the way.
>
> They look at the personal statement/AS-level results/A-level
> predictions/GCSE results/references to decide who gets invited to
> interview, then from that decide who to make offers to. Medicine is
> REALLY competitive.
Not necessarily, two of my mates got offers Glasgow and Dundee to study medicine without interviews, fair enough one of tehm got 8 1's, 5 A's and was the school Dux, but neither of them had even studied Biology at Standard Grade level, they both studied it as a crash course in 6th year (and both of them got into their courses).
Now, I've no idea if those Uni's are any good for Medicine, but being two of the 4 best in Scotland, I'd assume they are.
> munn wrote:
> Interviews and personal statements all the way.
>
> They look at the personal statement/AS-level results/A-level
> predictions/GCSE results/references to decide who gets invited to
> interview, then from that decide who to make offers to. Medicine is
> REALLY competitive.
Not necessarily, two of my mates got offers Glasgow and Dundee to study medicine without interviews, fair enough one of tehm got 8 1's, 5 A's and was the school Dux, but neither of them had even studied Biology at Standard Grade level, they both studied it as a crash course in 6th year (and both of them got into their courses).
Now, I've no idea if those Uni's are any good for Medicine, but being two of the 4 best in Scotland, I'd assume they are.
RoJ wrote:
> Hedfix wrote:
> Not at GCSE: Get C's in English, Maths and the Sciences and you're
> sorted.
>
>
> Not really, a girl I know tried to do medicine and because of the
> amount of students applying with high A level grades they looked and
> their GCSE results and used those to choose.
Must've come down to the wire then.
As I said: a decent interview ought to sort out any GCSE quibbles.
I did a set of A-levels that were completely alien to my interviewer at uni but we had a good intelligent discussion and I was a dead cert to get in because of it.
> Hedfix wrote:
> Not at GCSE: Get C's in English, Maths and the Sciences and you're
> sorted.
>
>
> Not really, a girl I know tried to do medicine and because of the
> amount of students applying with high A level grades they looked and
> their GCSE results and used those to choose.
Must've come down to the wire then.
As I said: a decent interview ought to sort out any GCSE quibbles.
I did a set of A-levels that were completely alien to my interviewer at uni but we had a good intelligent discussion and I was a dead cert to get in because of it.
Hedfix wrote:
> However if you're clearly not a complete 'tard in the interview
> that'll go a long way to getting past any quibbles they might have
> with some GCSE grades.
Quibbles with GCSEs might mean you never get to go to an interview : )
> However if you're clearly not a complete 'tard in the interview
> that'll go a long way to getting past any quibbles they might have
> with some GCSE grades.
Quibbles with GCSEs might mean you never get to go to an interview : )
Hedfix wrote:
> So considering you were referred to both GCSE books and A-levle ones
> oyu must've been confused as anything (because if the correct A-level
> answer is given to answer a GCSE paper it might get marked wrong
> because you learned the wrong info even though it's actually going to
> be correct at a later stage!)
>
> Absolutely mental system.
Nope, because I never studied anyway.
I learnt what was taught in class and that is it.
But I assume the GCSE stuff they were referred to (mind that I never kept on with the course at Adv Higher, I dropped it because I had a quadruple period on Mondays (awful), and I wasn't all taht fussed about the subject, so I chose something I'd prefer), was stuff taht wasn't in the A-level course. Stuff that people doing A-Level would refer to as "easy", but I could say teh same about some of the stuff learnt at A-Level because I learned it during Standard Grade.
> So considering you were referred to both GCSE books and A-levle ones
> oyu must've been confused as anything (because if the correct A-level
> answer is given to answer a GCSE paper it might get marked wrong
> because you learned the wrong info even though it's actually going to
> be correct at a later stage!)
>
> Absolutely mental system.
Nope, because I never studied anyway.
I learnt what was taught in class and that is it.
But I assume the GCSE stuff they were referred to (mind that I never kept on with the course at Adv Higher, I dropped it because I had a quadruple period on Mondays (awful), and I wasn't all taht fussed about the subject, so I chose something I'd prefer), was stuff taht wasn't in the A-level course. Stuff that people doing A-Level would refer to as "easy", but I could say teh same about some of the stuff learnt at A-Level because I learned it during Standard Grade.
Memorandum! wrote:
> Hedfix wrote:
> Not at GCSE: Get C's in English, Maths and the Sciences and you're
> sorted.
>
> If you apply for competitive courses at competitive unis with only a
> few Cs, they'll laugh at you and send out a nice rejection letter.
I only mentioned those as they are the important subjects to have Cs in.
> For medicine, which was my example, most of the top unis have strict
> requirements for GCSE as well as A-levels.
However if you're clearly not a complete 'tard in the interview that'll go a long way to getting past any quibbles they might have with some GCSE grades.
> Hedfix wrote:
> Not at GCSE: Get C's in English, Maths and the Sciences and you're
> sorted.
>
> If you apply for competitive courses at competitive unis with only a
> few Cs, they'll laugh at you and send out a nice rejection letter.
I only mentioned those as they are the important subjects to have Cs in.
> For medicine, which was my example, most of the top unis have strict
> requirements for GCSE as well as A-levels.
However if you're clearly not a complete 'tard in the interview that'll go a long way to getting past any quibbles they might have with some GCSE grades.
I thought about it but I couldn't be bothered with an interview.
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