I'm a british sudanese student from qatar considering medicine in georgia, and i would like to know if its good, if its respected in the uk and usa for residency also in gulf countries. Is the theory and education good? How's the environment? Will i struggle with my path as a doctor after the mbbs in georgia? any dcotors who have succeeded? ADVICE GREATLY APPRECIEATED
I'm currently applying for my undergrad, the subjects I took for A level were math, cs, physics and chem. I'm best at math, and I like physics. Naturally I was thinking engineering would be the choice for me.
Recently tho, lots of people have been recomending I do medicine, saying that its the most stable and high paying in comparison to engineering thats apparently experiencing a decline in the job market and layoffs.
I'm genuinely in a crisis rn trying to choose between the two, I dont hate biology, infact I watch medical content from time to time for fun but it was my worst science during school( not that I was doing bad or anything just the one that didnt come to me as easily as the others). I want stability and good pay but at the same time i dont want to risk wasting my time pursuing a career that im gonna hate. Technically, even tho both take time theyre similar, in med max 8 years and i start residency where im earning and for engineering 4 years bachelors plus 3 years masters cause ur getting no were with a bachelors nowadays.
IF UR A DOCTOR THAT WENT INTO IT FOR THE MONEY OR AN ENGINEER YOUR OPINIONS WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED
To start I'm very average at english so if you're thinking you must be excellent at using the language thats not true, its all about strategy.
Going into the exam I was aware that my writing would be the lowest so I made sure to try my best on the other sections. Listening is definetely the easiest! I used the ielts ready website by the british council and I did a couple of their mocks under times conditions. I noticed that sometimes they say a phone number or such and its too fast for me to type so i jot it down on paper instead then come back later. Another tip for listening is that the audio goes in order, so you won't get the answer to question 2 before question 1. They give u time to check ur answers after each part but I'd say that its better to move on and read the questions for the next part as you'll have 2 minutes to check everything at the end. Anybody can get the hang of this quite quickly as long as ur focused!
For reading, I also did a few mocks and noticed that most of the time the questions are also in order of the texts. So I'd read the questions first then read the first passage, see if i can answer anything and so on. For reading it's mostly just being super focused because when i was doing my first couple of mocks I'd miss answers that were mentioned very clearly. The key is to carefully read the passages and practice to see how you manage with the time limit. People usually say to skim the text first but i personally found that when i do that i tend to miss out answers. My strategy was reading paragraph by paragraph and really understanding as you'll be using the same passage to answer more than 5 questions! No point in skimming over and over, potentially missing out on answers. Also be careful when it comes to question type, sometimes its a fill in the blank but it asks you to type the letter not the actual phrase, so mmake sure to read what its asking carefully.
For writing, I didn't do very good so my advice might not be very credible but I used chat gpt to mark and gemini. I'd feed both AI's my texts and see what they would mark me. Make sure you give them the ielts rubric first! At the start chatgpt would give me 6.5 then 7 then sometimes a 7.5, so I'd say it was kinda accurate. I tried giving it band 9 examples and it gave them a 7.5 usually maybe an 8.5 at most so it might mark you down. I'd say dont take the band score litterally but it definetly indicates what level ur around. I asked it to give me constructive critiscm about my style of writing and habits that pulled my grade down. Make sure to try and improve your grammar as much as possible as well as spelling mistakes. I would usually ask it to go sentence by sentence and correct me. Also, make sure to practice atleast one of the every possible question type for task 1, and have a go at planning different task 2 with different question types.
For speaking I just kept watching band 9 examples on youtube and I tried like 3 speaking tests, to see where I stood. I did a speaking mock with chatgpt but I didn't like it so i wouldnt recommend. During the exam I thought i messed up so bad as I walked in there super nervous. The examiner even skipped a question ( Have you ever watched a movie that was based on a book?) because I didn't answer and took too long trying to recall if I have. I might have gotten a lenient examiner, but in generall I would say walking in there calm and confident is definetly the best prep you can do! Its all about being natural and speaking slowly, try not to pause for too long but it's okay if you do just to think. Don't try too hard to force in some big words to sound sophisticated.
Good luck to everybody! Feel free to ask me any questions.
im applying to qu but im wondering if they count englihs lit as a language? cause i need 5 igs one math 2 science and 1 lang, my english lit is an 8 but arabic is a 7 so it'll pull my average down. Thanks in advance