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Okay I just want to settle this once and for all?
..Instead giving myself false hope then realise I don't have any options infront of me because I followed a dream out of my league. I want to become a surgeon :/ but I messed up my GCSEs but I won't give any excuses I just did not concentrate because of my friends however the last year of school I tried my best in all exams however it did not bump my grade up in science. I managed to get 5 C's at GCSE in Maths, English Lang, Lit, PE and History, however D's in additional and core science so I decided to retake them at college because thats how determined I was but because of getting a D at school they had to put me in for foundation papers and eventhough the official mark scheme for science coursework is not out my teacher told me i got 24/50 for the coursework which disheartened me and I realised I will only get a maximum C grade in all the sciences I came to retake however I think I could do better at the exams if I was doing higher because of my ums marks. So I just wanted to know if this is good enough to do medicine? :/ No mean comments please because when I realised what I actually want to do it was too late.
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- 8 years agoFavorite Answer
Short answer: Yes
Long Answer: You'll need to get good enough grades to get into the A-Levels required. I've just had a quick look at "Medicine and Surgery MB BS Honours" at Newcastle University. They require a minimum of:
"AAA including Chemistry and/or Biology at A or AS level and excluding General Studies and Critical Thinking. If only one of Biology and/or Chemistry is offered at A or AS level, the other should be offered at GCSE grade A (or Dual Award Science grade A)."
After that you can do your masters, then doctorate .
You can always retake GCSE's if you're not happy with the outcome. Hard work pays off, but it will take a long time and require dedication.
- RoaringMiceLv 78 years ago
All of the programs I know of in medicine require a B in GCSE math.
To get into medicine, you need good GCSE marks, a B in maths at GCSE, and AAA on your A levels, with A levels including chemistry and biology.
If your marks don't end up being strong enough to get you into medicine, you could either take a different path - there are a ton of courses and careers in medicine that you may be eligible for - or you could try for an alternative entry route into medicine.
There are some graduate options for medicine in the UK. You'd do your first degree in another field related to science, and then if you got very good marks in it, you'd do a grad entry into medicine. So that's one option for you.
Another is the program run by University of West London. You'd go there as part of their "pre medicine" program. Do a year or so there, and then you'd transfer into a program in medicine at another uni. I don't know if other unis beyond U of West London offer such a program, but this is also an option for you.
