2021 Medicine application requirements

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Miss Begum
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Dear Newcastle University,

Please can you provide me with:
1) The lowest/minimum UCAT score accepted into the A100 course for the previous 3 years
2)How the personal statement is used to differentiate between applicants and if a scale is used, can you please explain what it is
3)How work experience is used to invite applicants to interviews
4) Whether AS grades are going to be a factor into inviting applicant for interviews for 2021 entry as they were not able to sit exams

Yours faithfully,

Miss Begum

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nrecman,

Good afternoon Miss Begum,

Thank you for your request for information dated 22/08/2020, please see below for our response to your request.

Q1) The UCAT thresholds for previous years can be found on this page of our website:https://www.ncl.ac.uk/sme/study/undergra...

Q2) The personal statement is not used to determine which students are invited to interview. We only review the personal statements at the point when we are about to make offers to students post interview.

Q3) We do not use work experience to determine which students are invited to interview. Please see the webpage referred to in answer to Q1 for more details regarding the admissions process.

Q4) We do not consider GCSEs or AS levels. We only look at A-levels.

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Information Security & Governance Team
Newcastle University
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