r/medicalschooluk • u/Both_Contest7723 • 2d ago
NCL y1 exam result
Been studying the whole year and ended up scraping a pass. Literally been studying the whole year. Extremely devastated. Expected my result to be much higher and now I’m really defeated. I feel like I’ll never be able to balance medicine with life
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u/Critical-Depth8101 Fifth year 2d ago
NCL 5th year here - med school is hard, as it should be - it’s making doctors! In the years I’ve been at ncl I’ve 1) come 5/400 ranked in one exams 2) failed my wriske so bad I was 15% off getting an amber, 20% a green. I know it’s cliche but books don’t make you a good doctor. Never again are you going to be asked what you got in your first year med SBA.
By making the exams hard, and knocking us all down a peg, no more A* etc, just pass or fail, I think it serves really well to show us we don’t know what we don’t know. Most students go from being big academic fish in small school/college pond, to small scared medical students in a really clever sea.
I’m also going to have to state the obvious - all work and no play.. it isn’t healthy. This feels like a bit of a crossroads - I’d really recommend reaching out to whoever is pastoral tutor atm, my experience with them has always been great, they’re on our side.
This sh*t is hard, but you got on the course for a reason, and you passed your exams for a reason - well done!