Unless one of the other mods beats me to it, I'll do it tomorrow when I've got my laptop out.

We'll get on it.

I believe it's the top x percent that get offered an interview, rather than those who reach a certain cut off.

Be assertive and proactive with this, as the only person who loses out is you. Phone the academic reference today, phone clearing house today.

I'm pretty sure your application will be significantly hindered without the academic reference, if I'm being honest. However, get on to clearing house ASAP and find out what can be done. Applications will have only just arrived with the course centres, they won't have shortlisted yet, and so you mig...

Training is a full time contract, so if that's the only potential issue then you should be fine.

... And this is why I got a low 2:1 undergrad degree. Wish I'd followed this advice way back when. Nowhere in mungle's list is "Play lots of computer games into the night" or "Chase after the chess club boys". Probably for a good reason.

Good luck with it all!

Plesse update your post with the following information: - Your name and a means of contacting you (normally your contact details should be given on the website of your questionnaire, which will allow you to keep some anonymity here, but please consider any issues that revealing your identity to part...

Go Lancaster. It's about time someone put the effort into working this one out. Can't have been easy to arrange, but it's important and a long time coming.

I've just finally got round to downloading the new edition of Aspire. Having a quick look through, there is so much information and an impressively wide range of interesting looking articles! I look forward to sitting down and properly reading it, and will be forwarding it on to the APs that I know....

This section of the forum is jam packed full of discussions about applying for clinical training. Take some time to read around the forum, then come back if you have any specific questions.

Good luck!

Have you ever worked for the NHS before? This is not surprising or unusual at all. It may be 3 days since you were offered the post, but most of that was the weekend! It may be that the interviewer hasn't let HR know yet. Or they work part time. Or just that HR haven't got round to you on their to d...

There's two different questions here. Why are trainees paid a band 6 salary? And, why are trainees paid a full time salary? The former can be answered, in my opinion, by the level of work that the trainee CP does. They hold a case load, doing therapy work and other types of clinical work independent...

A merit is a good grade. I think explaining the stuff about submitting a plan instead of a piece of work is not going to show you in the best light (an easy mistake to make, but not necessarily the impression you want to give). You could just say you are appealing the decision, but the courses will ...

The 'flagging things up to the interviewer' bit won't apply in DClinPsy interviews, which will involve the interviewers asking everyone the same questions. It will be up to you in interview to bring whatever you want into your answers.