Medicine admissions turn on the portfolio and the interview.
Grades get a student to the door. What happens after that depends on what they've done, how they write about it and how they talk to a panel.
Singapore
NUS reads an application through a patient-centred lens: who is this person, not only what have they done. NTU Lee Kong Chian looks hard at teamwork and leadership. Both interview. We help students document clinical exposure and reflect on it in writing, build a piece of research where it helps, and practise until the mock interviews stop feeling like mock interviews.
The UK and Australia
UK medicine adds the UCAT and a single October UCAS deadline. Australia has its own tests, ISAT and UCAT ANZ. We prepare students for each one, and for the interview formats they lead to.
One example
A student from Raffles Institution got into NUS Medicine with distinctions in H2 Chemistry and Biology. He did a hospital attachment and led a geriatric care service project.
Our guide to NUS and NTU medicine interviews is on the Insights page.
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