huh..ok officialy freaked out

[Ameena]

just read somewhere..that the bottom 15% after first year exams are chucked out. and that they took 380 people this year compared to an averge 326..so theyre more keen to chuck people out..so therefore exams will be harder...

also i need to know for personal reasons, cos im helping organising something for nov 9th, im getting stressed by it...do you cover a lot of work upto the middle of november...

and apparently you have mocks in november...is that true...

and also what is the pass grade? please do tell...its just eases my mind a bit...

[Axlpose]

Yeah..... they usually cull up to 10/15%

[Ameena]

are you a second year student, if so please..answer the other questions...srry for being an annoying git.

[crazyperson]

well that's just brilliant.
Also heard the pass mark was 70%. Looks like my secret plan to not turn up at lectures is not such a genius idea after all.

Guys we've just finished our a-levels! I realllly don't feel like working again!

[Ameena]

hehe ..same thing going on here man...but i wanna study medicine for more than one year..so i guess we gotta work a leetle bit more than we thought, huh..

[BeCuZ_iT_rOcKs]

I just did our first yr and didnt hear of anyone getting chucked out for mocks - i missed almost every lecture during my frist term and then had a renaissance where i started lectures during 2nd term and realised that cuz the lectures are on the net - i can cover more in my room than in the lecture theatre;

naturally i ended up spending all my time listening to music and messing around - during the next holidays i caught up most stuff - missed all my 3rd term lectures to do the room study thing again - only this time i did - at the end i scrabbled and grappled and and it all worked out great

mock exams u cannot get chucked out of - ure first 2 weeks u do no work and then u will inevitably miss almost every lecture in first term

so dont worry - we were all there and most of us survived!

[beans]

oh noooooooooooooooo that means im actually going to have to do work this year? that suckkkkkks!!!

and people get chucked?! yeh, i kinda wanted to do medicine for a bit longer than 1 year too. aarrrrgggh.. ive become sooooo lazy since.... well, ive always been lazy but that isnt the point, its gonna take me so long to get back into the swing of like, work (eurgh!).

*sigh*

[iwantostudymedicine31]

Hi ppl,

Okay, right, this is not about the original thread (although i'm pretty struck by what was said!!) but it's kinda on the same lines.

This might sound ultra geeky but is there any, say...... reading ..... we ought to do before the course just to get the momentum going before session starts so we dont get so surprised by the level of work that we end up ....... (use your imagination !!).

Also, which texts are ACTUALLY worth buying cos apprently you don't end up reading every one on the book list they give you plus it's a waste of money.

cheers.........!!!!

[med_x1]

people, please just enjoy the fact that you have been accepted to the best medical school in the country and enjoy what is left of the summer. you will have more than enough time to settle in and ask these questions (and receive answers that may resemble some form of truth) when you get here. the amount of rubbish that circulates on this forum is unbelievable! you will find your first term pretty relaxed to start with and the work load stepped up with time. but yes you will need to work - you are at med school not art school!!! those that say they don't work are lying (and have not yet grown up from work denial at school). you are also not spoon fed - go figure! turning up at lectures is a good idea i assure you - yes the content will be made available at a later date so that you can work through it yourself if you please but people if you wish to miss being taught by some of the most pre-eminent figures in science and medicine from three of the best teaching hospitals in the country and the one of the best science faculties in the world you are deranged and it is your loss. your mock is likely to be in january. yes, they throw people out, people that fail strangely enough! you must achieve 75% to gain an adjusted 50% pass. 380 is not a likely number. all this does not mean you are meant to be a slave to the books, we will introduce you to a world of play that you could never imagine...

[BeCuZ_iT_rOcKs]

amen to med_x1 tho the message is a bit overly........ angry??

lol - as to the questions - buying books?!?!?! - guys, all first yr books are in multiple nos in the 5 libraries Imperial has - and they are obsolete after first yr - i never bought a single one all yr - just kept taking them out and returning when i was done

This school is reaaaaaaly fun as med_x1 and joking aside some work is needed - if u want to skim along at the bare minimum and pass u can skip a fair number of lectures and learn from the lectures on ure own

u want to do well? then u go to about 60-70% of lectures and catch up what u miss - a sensible amount of work basically