Prepare for your interview with a detailed, Sixth Form-friendly guide to UK medical school interviews. You’ll find over 120 practice questions organised by topic—each linked to medical schools that evaluate that area—plus quick strategy tips.

You medical school may interview you online, especially with COVID-19. We look at how they might do this and how you can prepare.

What to do on A-level results day if you have not got the grades or offers for medicine. UCAS Clearing, Clearing+, Adjustment and deferred entry.

The MLA is a new medical exam introduced by the General Medical Council (GMC) which every medical student graduating in the academic year 2024-2025 will have to pass. So it is a few years away but is definitely in the pipeline.

This is the section most students appear to find the easiest but don’t get complacent. We go over several tips that you can use to maximise your UCAT Quantitative Reasoning score.

Situational judgement covers a large number of topics. A common source for examiners to create UCAT questions from is the GMC guidance ‘Good Medical Practice’. The first item this document mentions when describing what you will do as a good doctor is ‘make the care of your patient your first concern’.

This is a rather broad area but questions from this do crop up frequently on the UCAT exam and you need to know some rules and concepts so that you can answer questions quickly, accurately and confidently.

Your UCAS personal statement is your chance to show the university whether you have some of the skills and motivation to be a doctor. Here are some top tips to help you.

The case of Charlie Gard is again one that can come up in medical school interviews. The case raises ethical and moral dilemmas. Again I think they are less likely to ask you directly ‘what you know about the Charlie Gard’ case. However is it fair game to ask you questions in which your knowledge of the case would help you frame an evidenced based response to hopefully get you top marks.

Not every students route into medicine is the same. Whilst many students start the medical degree from college or sixth form, there are a number of students who choose to be a doctor later in life. We look at the options for graduate entry medicine