Samuel
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University of Birmingham
Medicine
3rd Year
DBS
5
24
27About Me
Hi there! I’m Sam, a friendly fourth-year medical student at Birmingham University. I’m here to help you get into the wonderful world of medicine by teaching you all you need to know to excel in your entrance exams and impress your interviewers. Medical school is famously fun, exciting, rich with learning experiences and prestigious but getting in can be hard and stressful. But I am here to help. I will go through any questions you have about any stage of the process, teach you tips and tricks for both interviews and exams that will make you stand out and share resources that helped me beat the competition. I will also share exclusive insights into what interviewers actually think about applicants and MMIs as I have worked with them in setting up interview stations and questions at my medical school and know what they are looking for in an answer. I am also very qualified to help. For both the BMAT and UCAT I achieved scores that placed me in the top 1% nationally and I received 3 medical school places and an Oxford interview. Now I am scoring in the top decile of my cohort at medical school – which is very relevant as I know well how to utilise what I learnt at school to make the most out of my medical education. I can therefore give you tips and tricks that will propel your exam performance into truly exceptional scores and can give personalised feedback tailored to your strengths and weaknesses. I can give you MMI style interviews much more accurately than most other medical students and tutors and have a unique insight into the mindset of examiners. I can’t wait to get to know you and share my knowledge, and I hope that you enjoy learning this content as much as I do teaching it!
My teaching style
My personal teaching style revolves around discussion similar to an informal interview. I encourage students to discuss topics they find difficult and ask them to think about how their current understanding relates to the issue. Presentations and mini tests on information already taught are also important when learning or revising a topic and I like making use of these. When the student feels they grasp the topic, I like to ask them to present a bit of what they have learned back to me, because this is a really effective learning technique. This is also something you will be doing a lot of in medical school. Outside of lessons I strongly recommend practicing relevant past papers/interview questions, and I am more than happy to give resources for this/suggestions how to go about this.
My past experience
I have taught personal friends who did not get into medical school first time round and then decided to defer, even helping one get an offer to Oxford, and helped teach the year below mine at school after we received our offers. I also help teach younger medical students here at Birmingham Medical School as part of an internal mentorship programme.
My Proudest Achievements
Alongside GCSE and A level results, getting into medical school and representing my county for badminton and squash. Getting into the top decile at medical school.
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I teach
- 11+
- BMAT
- UCAT
- Med Personal Statement
- Biology
- Chemistry
- English
- Geography
- History
- Maths
- Physics
- Science
- English Literature
- Russian
- Classical Greek
- Latin
- University Consultation
- Badminton
- Running
- Squash
- Tennis
- Weight Lifting
- Exercise and Fitness
- Cooking
- Table Tennis
- Extended Project Qualification
- Medicine Interview
My Results and Achievements
- UCAT: Top 1% of cohort 3000+
- Top <5% in AR (750+)
- Top <5% in VR (750+)
- Top <5% in QR (750+)
- Top <5% in DM (750+)
- BMAT: Top 1% of cohort
- Top <5% in S1 7.1
- Top <5% in S2 7.3
- Offer from Exeter
- Offer from Birmingham
- Offer from Cardiff
- A* in EPQ
- 5 9s and 7 A*s at GCSE
- 4 A*s at A level
- Award for Highest GCSEs in year
- Top Decile Birmingham Year 2 MBChB
- Distinction in Preclinical Year 2
- Top Decile Birmingham Year 3 MBChB