It is crucial that alongside your plans to study medicine and become a doctor, there are also plans to learn to drive! Driving is a skill most adults must learn to cope with commute burdens. This is more so the case for medical students who may start placement only a few months into their degree, …
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SCANS is an abstract reasoning mnemonic used to determine a specific pattern that shapes and elements are sequenced in. Each letter represents a potential element of the sequence, which i like to refer to as ‘pattern players’. It is typically used in abstract reasoning exams to quickly find relationships between shape objects in order to …
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The UCAT is an exam that medical and dental students must undertake in order to gain access to select UK and Australian Universities! I wrote tons of UCAT questions in the past to practice from and now I’m making them available for free on my website! The UCAT Tools Question Bank contains 200+ fresh UCAT …
The reason why you should be focusing on the VR subtest is it is consistently the test that pulls everyone’s grades down. An average score of 650 is considered pretty good for the UCAT as this will put you in 60+ percentile so you are already doing better than the majority of test takers. 650 …
To study medicine, you must have some sort of drive or reason, since the journey is quite arduous and borderline punishing. In the very least you must have a good reason to want to study medicine when asked by an admissions officer in an interview. Let’s cover some good, and bad reasons to want to …
There are 2 types of med school interviews. MMI and traditional interviews. You are only invited to an interview once you get through the selection process. You will likely still be competing against a huge proportion of candidates who originally applied so there are still no guarantees. MMI interview Format You are presented with around …
Med schools in the UK require that applicants have some kind of work experience within healthcare as part of their minimum entry requirements. This is usually to demonstrate an applicants passions for healthcare and to show them what they are in for. There are 4 simple approaches to getting work experience; the hard part is …
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I want this guide to be genuinely useful so I will provide a brief outline to what your personal statement should include, and reveal the do’s and don’ts. This is going to be long so buckle in! Remember the more doctored (no pun intended) your statement is, the less personal, so just write what you …
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Accessible Revision For All My main motivation and driving force for creating this site was to give students access to good quality revision materials without requiring them to give an arm and a leg! With so many training programs and courses popping up out of nowhere with absurd prices, I thought I would make a …
