Thanks. It is good to know that you are not alone in the way you feel.. :)

Hi, first thank you all for the replies.

Chickpea - I am familiar with what both PhD and Clinical involve and that's why I did concentrate on getting as much experience as possible during my undergrad. I know it is competitive and I do know that it may actually take me few years until I manage to get on either as my only way of affording it is funding. I don't lack the motivation that's why I came to UK. For me it doesn't matter how long it will take me to complete either or even both... I may be 50 when I finish I don't care that's what I have always wanted and I would regret all life I don't do it. And I do love learning, so basically being paid to do so is like my little utopia...

Treeoflife- thank you it's good to know that I am not the only one who feels like I know nothing. Most of my friends are satisfied with BSc and with their standard of work and feel really proud and confident about it even though in my opinion it is often of quite low quality...

Mackem_Beefy - I do agree with you about the "easier degrees". In my course the assessment is largely based on loads of coursework or portfolios or just a a big 3000 - 5000 words "project" on a topic covered in specific course... About the marking, I have always felt that marking actually kills students confidence as it makes them feel as worthy as their grades...However I guess it should be done even tough some lecturer appears not to be sure how to do and offer very vogue feedbacks. I see fellow students and friends spending 10 times more than me in the library going trough books reading, but still unable to grasp basic concepts...

The reason why I am not sure what I want to do it, is because I love research and there are potentially a lot of topics I would love to research but also I can't imagine my whole life in academia as I do enjoy working with service users. Second thoughts I have for Clinical come from the fact that I did have the chance to meet and speak with few Clinical Psychologists and all of them agreed that they do supervise research but don't really have the time to put their hands on it - something that I wouldn't be happy with.

But my biggest problem I think is the confidence. The fact that I didn't manage to get the depth on certain topics that I wanted to during my undergraduate degree makes me feel as if I don't deserve to do a PhD as I don't have the knowledge for it.. And I guess there are people out there who did feel the same way, so that's why I decided to ask you guys here if you have how did you cope with these feelings and thoughts as they appear to be the biggest enemy?

Thanks

Hi, I am currently in my final year BSc Psychology and I am consider to apply for the new route 1+3 PhD next year or Clinical (after few years) or maybe do Clinical after PhD... The problem is I have a lot of different research interests and I struggle to choose a topic... Also, I enjoy working with patients so I am not sure what I want to do... As you can probably imagine am confused.. The other problem I am not quite sure if I am good enough for PhD..
I am expected to have first and my supervisor expects me to win the project prize as apparently my project "is over undergraduate level", but I disagree.. To be honest, my class are not the brightest, I don't even know how some of them managed to get to uni... But to the point as I was working during my whole degree 35 - 50 hours a week term time, to support myself, I kind of feel like I know nothing... I spent most of my free time (mainly nights :D)doing coursework and missed half of the lectures... Don't even know how I managed to get first... I feel like I missed 2/3 of my degree ad that's why I am unsure if I will be good enough for a PhD..

Is there anyone else who is or has been in the same situation or felt the same or similar way? Any advice? Should I try and hope and do my best not to fail, or wait few years to dig a bit more in my areas of interest and hope to feel a bit more confident .. or just give up and forget about it..?

I am sorry if this looks like dumb question I just don't know who I can speak with for advice...