Subhan
University of Southampton
Medicine
2nd Year
DBS
33About Me
A very diverse background. Was born in Pakistan, where I studied till Grade 6. Afterwards, I moved to Saudi Arabia, completing my IGCSE’s there. Now, I have been in the United Kingdom for just over 5 years. Here, I completed some of my GCSE’s and sixth form. Currently, I am in my Y2 Medicine (A100) BM5 course at the University of Southampton. This background would allow me to help students mind-map/ trace their steps in life and in guiding them to plant and craft a story for their UCAS application, rather than just writing a personal statement.
I love interacting and talking to people, and having re-applied for Medicine, I appreciate that a student needs to be confident in answering questions, rather than just trying to cram all the interview hot topics in their head. I believe that the interview is very straightforward – you just need to be yourself! Everyone has heard this a million times, but not many replicate it in their journey. I hope to take my students in a journey with me, where I can highlight to them that: yes, that MMR story and Harold Shipman were important parts of history, but no more important than the hand signals, eye contact, smiling face you try to maintain during your interview!
Re-applying, this is the mindset that I went in with for my online MMI. With Southampton doing traditional interviews, I was just myself! I smiled, I laughed, I used my hands to signal/ signpost, I nodded. I actively listened. I did things that I would have done in a normal conversation with my friend. And, in the end, I could tell that I transferred all my energy to them. They were buzzed!
I hope to use this experience and reflection as a tool to TEACH – NOT TELL, where I can dig out the hidden personalities all these students, all these people, all these minds have!
Personality = interview offer.
My teaching style
Past papers/ questions are the best way to go forward, as a lot of them are repeated, under different contexts!
The UCAT is a STRATEGIC exam, which requires a lot of patience and hard work. Practice does make perfect, but it will only take you so far. Like interviews, the key, I believe to achieving a high score in this exam is the mindset that you take with you. As most questions are the same mark, the questions need to be triaged according to the time it takes to answer it.
With time, it should become instinctive (e.g., due to the length of the question stem, the answer options, if the question is easy to understand (e.g., In QR, calculations of times between different countries would take longer to solve than just calculating the volume of a cuboid, so it would be better to skip the former and come back to it in the end. In VR, some passages you would have knowledge off beforehand, making it easier to solve. A lot of people argue the use of outside knowledge, but if you use it to double-check facts that you know are true – it helps you spotlight the right answer option, meaning that you do not have to confirm that every answer option is right – you just must be STRATEGIC about choosing the right ones)
With my experience and understanding of the UCAT, I hope to share and enlighten my students to engage their mind > matter.
My past experience
Taught at MyTutor.
My Proudest Achievements
Playing cricket at a high division and still continuing to do so.
I teach
- Medicine Interview
- UCAT
- UCAT ANZ
- 11+
- 13+
- 13+ Tutors
- 7+ and 8+ Tutors
- A-Level Re-take Tutor
- Med Personal Statement
- Dent Personal Statement
- Science
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Physics
- Maths
- Statistics
- Mechanics
- Pure Maths
- English
- English Literature
- Phonics
- Reading
- Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar
- Computer Science
- Medicine
- Business Studies
- Accounting
- Athletics
- Football
- Swimming
- Self Defence
- Extended Project Qualification
- A-Level / IB Extended Essay
My Results and Achievements
- Offer from University Of Manchester
- Offer from University Of Leicester
- Offer from University Of Southampton
- Top 10% in UCAT
- A*A*AA at A-Level