#deciles

So basically, in all uk med schools the year group that you are in are split into 10 equal deciles. How exactly they decide the deciles will depend on the med school and how they weigh your different exams. Usually, doing really well in an important exam at med school will drag your decile up, and vice versa. If you’re in the 1st decile, you’re in the top 10% of your year. If you’re in the 10th decile, you’re in the bottom 10% of your year. 

At most med schools, your final overall decile will be confirmed at the end of 4th year. This is because the beginning of 5th year is when you apply for your junior doctor jobs. Therefore even if you do amazingly in your exams in 5th year it doesn’t really matter. 

The higher your decile, the more points you have. The more points you have, the more likely it is you’ll get into the junior doctor job you want. The deciles (and your points overall) are compared nationally - therefore, if you’re in decile 5, you have the same points as all the other people in the country who are in decile 5 in their med school. But if you have a low decile, it’s not over! There are other things that give you points - the situational judgement test we do in 5th year also ranks us all nationally and you get more points the better you do. Also, things like publications, intercalated degrees or previous degrees give you more points. Your decile points and these things will give your overall score (also, if you’re not planning to apply to a competitive part of the country, you don’t have to sweat it too much anyway).

Yeh I was thinking that actually, it’s probably harder to get into the top decile of Oxbridge than the top decile of most other med schools, because they’ll have a lot of very hard workers there! And your decile will matter quite a lot if you want to get into a competitive foundation post. 

Quartiles divides a set of data into four equal parts. A media divides a set of data into two parts each with equal number of items. The first quartile, mostly referred to as the lower quartile contains 25% of the total data items. Lower quartile can be

Quartiles divides a set of data into four equal parts. A media divides a set of data into two parts each with equal number of items. The first quartile, mostly referred to as the lower quartile contains 25% of the total data items. Lower quartile can be described as the median of the bottom half. Second quartile is actually the median of the whole data(50%). The third quartile is usually…

Quartiles divides a set of data into four equal parts. A media divides a set of data into two parts each with equal number of items. The first quartile, mostly referred to as the lower quartile contains 25% of the total data items. Lower quartile can be

Quartiles divides a set of data into four equal parts. A media divides a set of data into two parts each with equal number of items. The first quartile, mostly referred to as the lower quartile contains 25% of the total data items. Lower quartile can be described as the median of the bottom half. Second quartile is actually the median of the whole data(50%). The third quartile is usually…