Hi guys! I am an Alevel student who is going to be sitting for AS in October. I would like to enquire about interviews. I have already taken my UKCAT and IELTS, getting a 767.5 average and a band 8 respectively.

I am applying for Cambridge, Imperial, Kings and Manchester. Can fellow medical students shed some light on the interviews, your experiences and advices?

You will have to sit for the BMAT too. Regarding interviews, different universities interview differently. Check out threads in The Student Room.

didnt know Asia Metro has med too

i'll say AIMST out of the list. Quality wise, i'm not too sure if they differ much. And it's hard to get into AIMST due to their allocations for their own foundation students.

Asian Metro is formerly Masterskill Medical.

Asia metro is previously known masterskill.....

If you want to apply to oxbridge and imperial and ucl, you will need to sit for bmat too.....

That is why some people just avoid applying to these 4 med schools.....

Yup, I am aware of that. I initially wanted to go with Kings,Manchester, Edinburgh and Bristol. But then, I decided to give those schools a try as I would need to get into those schools to qualify for a JPA Overseas Scholarship.

Any advice on the interviews?

your ukcat scores is very good, although some med schools also look at individual section scores....

just be yourself, be confident, do think through some common issues and have a stand, and reasons for these stands....

Sorry for barging in but Imperial and UCL interviews are conducted in the UK, in case you didnt know.

Can you apply for both Cambridge and Oxford? For my college, they only allowed one and not both.
I've heard news from my juniors in Taylors that JPA has cancelled off Imperial from the list but i need more clarification about this matter.

You have a good UKCAT score. If you're not facing financial difficulty, why not go for your initial choices?
Medical schools in the UK tend to be very competitive and getting into one of the top unis would be difficult but not impossible.

As for interviews-wise, you can check out this link. It's kinda helpful.
http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/wiki/:What...chool_interview

All the best and good luck!

Yup, Imperial and UCL interviews are in Jan till March, and imperial have cut off points for BMAT, i also noticed from the admission statistics that if you do get an interview at Imperial, you have an 80% chance of getting an offer.

Yup, either cambridge or oxford. Cambridge empahsises on your UMS, while oxford looks at percentage of A* obtained at GCSE. I did hear about a spm top 50 student being rejected from a JPA overseas scholarship despite gaining admission to imperial last year, reason being imperial is not recognised by malaysia's medical council, malaysia recognises degrees from university of london, and since imperial has parted with ulondon less than a decade ago, I guess the malaysian government has yet to update the recognition status in the Medical Act 1971. It is in the JPA list which came out last month though.

I am able to afford Kings at most, Cambridge and Imperial are off the charts, costing up to 1.2 million ringgit just for the tuition. YOLO, so I decided to give all the top schools a try and hope that JPA would be kind enough to sponsor my tertiary education.

Thanks for the link! I will check it out in my spare time.

This post has been edited by michaelting90: Sep 17 2013, 01:34 AM

Haha, good luck then.

As what parents would say, education is an investment, especially medicine.
Just make sure you have the sufficient tuition fees and living cost amount to survive there, in case JPA rejects you.

Where are you taking your A Levels? Looking at your statement of UMS, i guess you should be taking Edexcel unless you're not studying in Malaysia.
CIE doesn't have UMS so as long you get perfect predicted grades, you would be fine.
The interviews are the ones that are most challenging.
Cheers!

Hi! I am taking my ALevels at Sunway College. CIE does have UMS but it is only required by one university, which is Cambridge. Others would just look at your grades(A*).

Haha, my parents would prefer me studying dentistry, due to the better job prospects (which is a better investment in most cases). I initially thought about changing to dentistry, but I decided not to as I had no prior attachment work at dental clinics, and also I had gone too far down the road of applying to medical school to turn back. I just hope that I won't go jobless after graduation, in view of the current crisis of overpopulation of doctors here in Malaysia. Maybe things would turn out the same for dentists in the near future, as everyone is jumping on the dentist bandwagon.

Anyway, the government has already informed public universities that housemanship is no longer guaranteed in 2 years and graduates may have to fend for themselves from hospitals.

This post has been edited by cckkpr: Sep 17 2013, 06:48 PM

Cool. i don't know how they calculate UMS for CIE. We only got our percentile marks shown. :/

Ah, as long you have the passion for it, you will be fine.
You just have to work hard and do well. Then, you will never be jobless haha.
Are you planning to stay in the UK or coming back to Malaysia for your housemenship?

even when there is a surplus of doctors, there will still be a need for about 3000 new doctors....

in an ideal world, the best 3000 will find work....

however, this is msia, and other factors will come into play....

Minister Idris Jusoh said today that Malaysian students studying medicine, dentistry and pharmacy in Egypt can transfer credits to local universities, one year below current level.

Even then, are they up to par?

So I guess it can ONLY mean that they actually know the standard in Egyptian unis are much lower than local unis, but sent them there anyway!

How is the education standard in Egypt compared to that in Russia?

This post has been edited by onelove89: Sep 18 2013, 07:41 PM

I have no idea, but I do know there are a couple of decent (international) medical schools in Russia, but can never remember the names. Perhaps those who have worked alongside with some would share their opinions, as they can gauge objectively.

Country to country strategic co-operation.
They did the same thing to the Malaysian students in Indonesia during the earthquake and placed some in UCSI and they struggle all the way.
Some brave ones went back assuring themselves that another earthquake will not strike at the same spot!