25th February 2025
When Should I Sit My First UCAT Practice Exam?
Whether you’ve already begun to prepare for the UCAT or are just setting up a UCAT study plan, you’ve probably asked yourself the question: when should I sit my first UCAT full length practice exam? Unfortunately, there’s no straight forward, cookie-cutter answer. The answer to this question can vary. However, it should be noted that there’s not necessarily a “w ...
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17th February 2025
Top Tips for Each Type of Question in UCAT Verbal Reasoning
There are two main types of questions in UCAT Verbal Reasoning: reading comprehension and True/False/Can’t Tell. UCAT reading comprehension questions involve “making inferences and drawing conclusions from information”, whilst True/False/Can’t Tell questions involve “determining whether the statement follows logically”. True/False/Can’t Tell UCAT ...
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29th January 2025
Making Time For UCAT: Eat That Frog!
"Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day." - Mark Twain Brian Tracy’s 5 minute YouTube video discusses a time management strategy that has changed many people’s lives (including mine!). It discusses time ...
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18th December 2024
Top 5 Tips For Making The Most Out Of MedEntry
In the January of year 12, I bought the UCAT Premium Package. MedEntry had come highly recommended by numerous people who had used it previously, and MedEntry honestly proved priceless in helping me prepare for the UCAT. I completed the MedEntry free UCAT practice exam a few months earlier when I had started thinking about applying to Medicine, but having been warned of a fin ...
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13th December 2024
UCAT 2025: Adapting to Change - The Removal of Abstract Reasoning
The recent decision to remove Abstract Reasoning from the UCAT has understandably left many aspiring medical and dental students feeling uncertain. However, this shift should be seen as an opportunity to refocus and refine your preparation strategies so you can succeed in UCAT 2025. Understanding what the removal means The removal of Abstract Reasoning from the UCAT should no ...
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26th May 2024
Nutrition Is Important for UCAT Test Day
Napoleon Bonaparte once famously said “an army marches on its stomach”, and that is as relevant for UCAT as it was for the French Armies that Bonaparte commanded. Those who are about to participate in an important event, be it sports or social, make sure that they eat right to perform at their best. Making sure you put the right things into your body in the lead up to UCAT is vital ...
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20th May 2024
Why Group Study Is Effective for UCAT
There is a fundamental difference in how you need to study for exams which test knowledge (such as school and university exams) and for high stakes tests such as UCAT which assesses generic thinking skills. For the former, a lot of memorisation and recall are involved so studying alone can be effective, and even preferred by motivated students who do not want to be distracted by less moti ...
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7th October 2020
UCAT test tactics and preparation part 6: statistics problems on the UCAT
How to approach statistics problems on the UCAT exam: Frequently a feature of UCAT multi choice, understanding the language of statistics and how to answer those questions involving statistics on the UCAT exam is essential for UCAT success. Below, we have explained, as succinctly as possible, what you need to know in order to answer this style of UCAT question. Statistics is the study ...
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7th October 2020
UCAT Test Tactics and Preparation: An Overview
UCAT Test Tactics and Preparation part 1: Avoiding multiple confusions in the multiple choice section of UCAT UCAT Test Tactics and Preparation part 2: Process of Elimination in UCAT multi-choice UCAT Test Tactics and Preparation part 3: UCAT questions involving percentages UCAT Test Tactics and Preparation part 4: Probability questions UCAT test tactics and preparation part 5: Cou ...
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7th October 2020
UCAT test tactics and preparation Part 10: coping with UCAT stress and anxiety on UCAT test day
Pressure, pressure: coping with nerves and stress on the actual UCAT test day. Having done UCAT practice exam, after practice exam, after practice exam, most UCAT candidates will be raring to go come July. Whilst UCAT preparation is key to your UCAT success, it is not the only factor that will affect your UCAT performance on the actual UCAT test day. Being able to cope with the nerves and a ...
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