Redoing GCSE's as an adult?

[Spuddy]

This. You really need to be sure it is a career you'll enjoy. What have you done in terms of real hands on experience or shadowing?

7 years work experience on a general and plastic surgery ward.

also got to know a couple of the nurses very well during that time haha

In all fairness I aced the English because I can speak it properly and understand it. I did an Igcse with ICS but was difficult to find things on it as the syllabus is different for maths. I was getting Bs on the past papers I did but no good. I think a teacher would help me to understand it better as I can fire questions.

Ok thanks for your input man. I went into the college today and they're ringing me back next week as its half term and the head maths guy isn't yet back on campus. I can enrol for English though starting in September...

it doesn't make any financial sense to not do it - you're essentially costing yourself a couple of hundred grand or so

if you can get the grad course funded and you don't need to be distracted sitting GCSEs whilst completing your current degree then it seems like a no brainer compared with the undergrad option that you'll not get funded and will have to work part time... (maybe feasible in the first couple of years but medics tend to have a tough workload and you could easily regret being reliant on having to rely on paid work while studying)

I'd seriously consider this:



or a similar 4 year course at Leeds etc..

I wish I would be earning a couple of hundred grand a year. Moving away would also mean giving up things like my car, which I worked very hard for to be able to afford with zero finance so its mine. But living away from home without a job, no way could I afford to run it. Theres also family, friends and girlfriend all here too which I would be leaving behind.

I wish Leeds did offer a 4 year course as I would be applying instantly as its easily commutable.

The only way I can afford undergrad is if I stay in my hometown and continue working at the hospital on the weekends like I currently do and get a student loan (6k a year) to use against the fee's then make up the other 3k from my wages. The 5th year of undergrad is completely funded by the NHS, so I would only need to continue to work for the next 4 years if I wanted.

I am going to applying for HYMS undergraduate and then 3 graduate placements also when the applications open. Probably St George, Nottingham and Newcastle.

 

[dowie]

I didn't mean I assumed you're earning a couple of hundred grand a year now - I meant you would(in future) be earning a couple of hundred grand, at least... how much do you reckon a full qualified GP or hospital consultant will be on when you come to retire aged 60-something? You're not losing out on any years spent as a junior, you're going to have to do them regardless - delay another year and you're knocking off a year at the end of your career when you're earning the highest amount - that is going to cost you the equivalent of about a hundred or so grand at today's rates and probably a couple of hundred or so when you're retiring. that isn't to say that gap years etc.. aren't worth while but I reckon if you get into a 4 year course and can get funded then that makes more sense.