Admissino to Western Canada medical school

[Guest archchivalry]

I found out that many Western Canada

medical schools (Like UBC, Alberta) requires

1 full-year of English.

I heard that that can be replaced by an English

test as well.

 

Does that apply to students in Ontario?

Is everyone eligible for that?

 

Thanks for your time

[Guest Lactic Folly]

I'm not sure which English test you're referring to, but the UofA requires a full-year university English course. If you have a 6 or a 7 in higher level IB English, you will get credit for this course.

[Guest lex]

You need a full year of english for ubc, alberta, sask, and manitoba. I don't know about the rest, but UBC's English prereq can be skipped by challenging an exam. I don't know much about this option but I imagine that it'not as easy as simply "taking a test". Keep in mind that this test replaces a full year of study. Everyone's eligible to take the exam.

 

In general, I highly recommend taking a full year of English. It can not only help to improve written and oral communication skills but can open up alternate perspectives to analysis not typically offered through science programs.

[Guest squeegy80]

For Sask, they have specific English requirements. Not only do you need a full year of it, but one of the courses has to be an essay writing course and the other has to be a literature course. This fact recently screwed me over and I now have to take a third (literature) English course instead of an easy, fun elective I had planned to boost my GPA.

 

squeegy

[Guest physiology]

You have to have a degree by the time you graduate though if you want to take this English exemption test (ie, you can't apply during your third year without a degree).