Dear Miss Begum,

Thank you for your request for information regarding A100 admission statistics - Overseas students. Your request was received on 24 August 2020 and is being dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. The reference number of your request is 3901.

We will aim to respond to your request within twenty working days. Please note this is calculated from the following working day from receipt of your request.

Please be aware that due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and following Government advice, the University has moved to online teaching and all staff are working remotely, this may mean that access to some information held locally or on certain systems may not be readily available at this time.

Where it becomes clear that the information you have requested is not available due to the current situation, we will of course write to you and advise you of this.

I hope that this is of help. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any enquiries regarding this email.

Yours sincerely

Catherine Allin

Information Compliance & Quality Officer – Freedom of Information,
Registrar’s Department
Web: www.nottingham.ac.uk/freedom-of-informat...
Email: [University of Nottingham request email]

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Good morning,

Thank you for your clarification.

As you have changed the parameters of your request this re-sets this as the day of receipt, we will respond within 20 working days.

Sincerely,

Information Compliance Team.

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Dear Miss Begum

I am writing further to your request for information regarding A100 Medicine Welsh applications. A search of our electronic and paper records has been completed and I can confirm that the information requested is held by the University.

In answer to the request and clarification that you only required information in relation to Welsh applications:

Please can you provide me with:
1) The lowest/minimum UCAT score accepted into the A100 course for the previous 3 years

2018: 2570
2019: 2450
2020: 2530

2)How the personal statement is used to differentiate between applicants and if a scale is used, can you please explain what it is

2018 and 2019:
Personal statements were marked to a total of maximum of 16 points using set criteria set out by the School of Medicine.

2020:
Personal statements were not scored. They were read after an interview had taken place and before an offer was made to ensure that applicants had completed work experience.

3)How work experience is used to invite applicants to interviews

Work experience wasn't used to invite applicants to interview. For 2020 only, applicants were required to provide evidence of work experience as this is a pre-requisite of an application. Applications were not assessed based on work experience, this was just to confirm they had completed work experience as they mentioned in their personal statements.

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

AS grades are not taken into consideration for this course.

If you are unhappy with the way in which your request has been handled and wish to request a review of our response or to make a complaint, please see the attached information sheet and form.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any enquiries regarding this email.

Yours sincerely,
Karen Page

Information Compliance Officer – Freedom of Information
Registrar’s Department

Web: www.nottingham.ac.uk/freedom-of-informat...
Email: [University of Nottingham request email]

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