GAMSAT March 2021 Results

bigfathampster wrote: »

I did chem and biology for the leaving cert but before this I hadn’t touched them for 4 years. All of the Chem questions were about organic chemistry so I thought that I wouldn’t be able to answer them, but I read over the questions and I started to treat them as pattern questions rather than actual science questions and that seemed to help a little. As for the physics, I learnt off the logarithm rules because the past 3 GAMSAT have all had them as a question and they’re so difficult to do without a calculator. Finally for biology, it was mainly graphs and bar charts so I didn’t really need any prior info for them. I think the most important thing is to just keep doing problem questions because it’s not really what you know, it’s if you know how to apply it.

Over on the GAMSAT Reddit page, a lot of people said that they think that the courses are just a money racket and are actually outdated at this point. I have some prep materials that I could send you if you wanted? (All acer papers, ozimed , and Des O’Neill)

hcoben111 wrote: »

Did anyone here get an offer from Derry yet? IF so what gamsat score did you have?

What are people doing about accommodation ? i have applied for on campus in UL but i am on a wait list.

im sitting on a score of 58, so historically thats been good for UL, i tried contacting CAO and UL directly and keep getting fobbed off.

As its been said in other threads on here, point are fairly consistent year on year. One could reasonably assume it will be simular this year.

That sounds... dispiriting, to say the least 😕 Considering that fees are 15k a year lumping the majority of the course online can hardly be justified.

Yeah exactly, Harris has been at pains to get the message out there that it'll be business as usual on campuses come September! Hopefully the Uni is just trying not to get hopes up by presenting a downbeat picture. Maybe in a few weeks then they'll have a rethink about campus activities and in-person classes and lectures with the view to expanding the number taking place each week. Incidentally, as someone who started the program last year, do you have any advice on accommodation? Like the no. of weeks we'll need to be renting for the academic year; on-campus accommodation v private housing and rentals etc? Any tips would be appreciated 🙂

Cheers Ma003! I'll be sure to take a nosey at Cappavilla and Quigley. Luckily I have my own car. But coming from Donegal unfortunately commuting is not an option 😂 Thanks for the input 🙂

We just had one 2 hour clinical skills session and an hour of anatomage (using the anatomy tables). Clinical was compulsory, a lot of people didn't go to anatomage and i don't think they got in trouble. As regards the day, depends what group you were in. In the first semster both mine were on a thursday but in the second semester my clinical was on a mon and anatomage on a thurs, some people did swap groups if someone was willing to swap with them. Our other clinical session was online last year but i think now it might be face to face so that would be another day, but they only said they were hoping to do that one face to face. I've heard Cork gems is 100 per cent back face to face so i dunno if UL will change their mind in the next few weeks or not!

I'm just trying to keep my mind off it as much as I can but I am really excited/nervous! 😬 I'm hoping GAMSAT cutoffs don't shift too much... they're already quite high across all the respective colleges. Hoping everyone gets the outcome they want 🤞 Then it's just the little matter of studying medicine to contend with after that...wee buns 😉 Go n-eírí go geal Libh! 🍀

Yes can’t believe it’s only 5 days away as of writing this. Been a long time coming. Best of luck everyone on Thursday!!

10 am Irish time I believe ☺️

its very difficult to focus on anything :D 21 hours away from life changing (ish) news.

Anyone think 56 will be enough?

Perhaps take some comfort in this, for the last 8 or 9 years a score of 56 has been sufficient for UL. I went to the UL open day just before COVID and the campus is quite impressive.

Nothing yet! I'm actually so nervous now and the fact there's nothing released yet is making me anxious now 😬 Best of luck everyone.

This makes me feel a lot better! Hopefully there's just a delay 😭

No they are out guys, I know people who have gotten offers

People with 58 didn’t even get offers

This is such a brutal process. I got my offer at 10 am on the dot so I don’t think they’re slow with offers unfortunately

UL 58*

UCC 61*

UCD 62*

RCSI 63

referenced from the CAO media and statistics section on CAO website, Boards.ie will not allow me to post links

Thanks for that!

sitting on 58 myself :(

7th september at 14:00

Just for anyone hoping for a second round offer, they just come out randomly, the 7th of Sep isn't actually the second round. I got an offer from the cao 6 days after the offers came out last year so it could be anytime after the deadline for accepting first round offers! Best of luck guys! Really sucks that the points jumped but theres still hope!

The points are an absolute joke. So disheartening - so sorry to anyone who didn’t get an offer. I got offered cork and am pretty deflated was dying for UCD but one point short. Hoping for second round offer.

They told me that last year too, thats why i was so surprised to get a text 6 days later! Its likely you'll hear before then to be honest especially since ul start on the 30th of August! Most later offers were given out before the first round last year and there was a few throughout sep but its likely once the first round offers are accepted or rejected more will come out!