GCSEs Grades required for medicine

**eCLipZe** · 20-09-2007, 12:51 AM

Hello, I waqs just browsing through entry requirements of different universities and came across Birmingham which said 8 GCSEs, normally 5A*s required. what??????? is this true??

**Captain_Carrot** · 20-09-2007, 12:54 AM

yes. see the faq.

**Muffin2** · 23-09-2007, 07:38 PM

your going to need about 7-8A*'s now. I applied for entry in 2006 and didn't get in because i only had 5A*'s and need 6, even though i was told by the admissions tutor on the open day the 5 was all that was needed. So this has likely to have gone up.

**Busker** · 23-09-2007, 07:57 PM

8 A*s???? that's just mental.
nobody told us back in the old days of 05 that a*s were really necessary. I got 4 (but one was PE so i'm sure that doesn't count)

i'm sure your stack of A*s is dictated almost completely by what school you went to anyway, so i can understand why oxbridge would be arsy about a*s because they just want "their own sort" but birmingham?

hey, but at least we have risk assements yeah

**Anisha patel** · 23-09-2007, 08:07 PM

WHAT...I got 1 A and 9 B'S....let alone A*'s
Does this mean that i have a really tough chance of getting into medical school?
Or if i get really good A - Level grades it won't effect that much?

**Captain_Carrot** · 24-09-2007, 01:26 AM

cause so many people apply its a quick discriminator. See threads passim.

**iceman_jondoe** · 24-09-2007, 01:44 AM

Originally Posted by Anisha patel

WHAT...I got 1 A and 9 B'S....let alone A*'s
Does this mean that i have a really tough chance of getting into medical school?
Or if i get really good A - Level grades it won't effect that much?

You may be pinned to the post at say birmingham, however if perform well inr your alevels and apply after a gap year your likely to stand a much better chance at some of the best unis. That said bare in my medicine is the same no matter where you study it

**Anisha patel** · 24-09-2007, 07:49 PM

ok i see thanks...
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**dsn** · 25-09-2007, 02:18 AM

Originally Posted by iceman_jondoe

your likely to stand a much better chance at some of the best unis. That said bare in my medicine is the same no matter where you study it

Birmingham's good. I doubt it's the same... the end product is similar, but the experience is going to be different at different places. Apart from the universities themselves, it's quite obvious that the some of the patients you may see in Birmingham or London may never appear at the UEA or Peninsular. I know this about the UEA as a fact having spent a great deal of time at their main teaching hospital.

**iceman_jondoe** · 25-09-2007, 02:30 AM

Originally Posted by dsn

Birmingham's good. I doubt it's the same... the end product is similar, but the experience is going to be different at different places. Apart from the universities themselves, it's quite obvious that the some of the patients you may see in Birmingham or London may never appear at the UEA or Peninsular. I know this about the UEA as a fact having spent a great deal of time at their main teaching hospital.

Yes of course the experience may differ, but the end result is pretty much the same. These unis are training you to be good junior docs, which all end up sitting the same exams in the foundation years..so surely the content or skills you pic up will be pretty much the same?