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"I am having difficulties starting writing my personal statement - how do I structure it?"

Starting to write a medical personal statement can be tricky. Some students find it especially hard trying to get a good balance between highlighting their skills and experiences whilst also explaining why w...
MS
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Why do you want to go to Cambridge?

Put yourself in the interviewers shoes. They have a limited number of spaces, so they are trying to pick a candidate that can firstly put up with the workload of Cambridge, but after they have cleared the be...
RH
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What are good reasons to want to become a medic?

There is no one right answer to this but the main thing is the student doesn't say anything that is factually incorrect regarding the job and is able to defend their reasoning in an interview (interviewers w...
RC
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How do neurons know when to fire?

This is actually an interview style question and a good question to get the candidate to work through themselves from their A level biology knowledge - getting them to practice vocally working things out fro...
RC
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How should i structure a medical/dental personal statement?

A lot of statements that are aimed towards subject based degrees come with the recommendations that 70% should be why you wish to pursue that subject further through higher education, and 30% about who you a...
SP
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