A Guide to Applying to Dental School: Scoring high on the UKCAT

The first part of the application for most of you is going to be the UKCAT.
This guide aims to make sure come the day of the exam you score as high as possible. In it, I go through how best to prepare in the weeks prior to the test and how to tackle each section.

My Route to Dentistry

My professional background had been in technical IT sales. It paid very, very well and I was good at it, however, in order to be as successful as I was, I found myself giving up evenings and weekends and devoting too much of my time and attention to my job, neglecting, amongst other things, my girlfriend. So I decided to retrain and go down another path in hope of a better work/life balance.

Genesis

Hello.

I'm Funk.

I am 26 years old and from Birmingham. I have recently won a place at Newcastle University to study dentistry and plan to blog my way through the next 5 years to chronicle my experiences as a mature student.

This is meant only to be a record of my journey through uni but if I am able to inspire, amuse, help or advise or, at the very least, entertain any readers, that would be great too.

I will be back with my first real post very soon!