Tips for tackling the HPAT
So it’s your Leaving Cert year and you want to study Medicine at UCD, but on top of all the usual exams, you’ve also got to sit the HPAT? The HPAT is the bane of most aspiring medical [...]
Getting Organised
It’s semester two, the last semester (fingers crossed) of my undergraduate degree. I can taste the freedom but can’t help but feel there’s a lot of blood, sweat and hopefully not too many tears [...]
“Put your nose in those books”
Ok, so it’s your final year in school and the dreaded LC has finally arrived. After my first two posts the most asked question I got was “how did you get the points?”. To be [...]
The Fresher Fifteen
It may come as a shock to some Leaving Cert students that it’s possible/probable that you will gain weight in your first year here at UCD. This isn’t just for the campus-dwellers who have had a [...]
GAMSAT – Some tips from GEMS
As mentioned in one of our previous posts, Chloe and I are studying graduate entry medicine (GEM) here in UCD. We did not enter medicine via the traditional leaving cert route therefore we often [...]
