3rd October 2020
In UCAT, Do Not “Read into” Things!
Warning, Warning, Warning! Do Not “Read into” Things in UCAT One of the most dangerous traps smart students fall into while reading the UCAT passages is ‘reading into’ things. You should re-read in the context of what you’ve learned about the reading passage—you do not want to interpret what a passage says, or make any subtle assumptions. Restraining yo ...
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3rd October 2020
UCAT Preparation: Getting into the Right Frame of Mind
At the end of a season and leading up to the championship, athletes go through a “tapering phase” to make sure they perform at their peak when it counts. In a sense you’ve been a mental athlete, and you want to make sure that you perform at your peak when it counts: on the actual UCAT. For you, tapering consists of scaling back gradually the amount of preparation you&rsq ...
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2nd October 2020
If this is Your UCAT test day, Get Excited!
It’s natural to feel nervous the day before the test, maybe even a bit panicked, but let’s try to get some perspective on your situation. Try to think of your UCAT as an audition for university, but as an audition that counts. Naturally you hope that your audition goes well, but it’s not a big deal if it doesn’t go quite as well as you’d like. Some UCAT students ...
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2nd October 2020
My friend did a UCAT course but didn’t get into Medicine!
My friend did a UCAT course but didn’t get into Medicine! Performance in UCAT depends on what UCAT course you do. There are over fifty UCAT course providers and most of them are of poor quality, and he/she may have done one of those. Furthermore, since interview scores count for about a third of the selection criteria for medicine, interview training is important too. Your friend ma ...
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2nd October 2020
Preparation, Preparation, Preparation: The Key for UCAT Success
UCAT: A multiple guess or multiple choice test? You choose A university lecturer of mine, once made the comment prior to us all about to sit an exam, that he would cry if we didn’t answer every question because: ‘guys, it’s a multiple choice paper, so even a monkey could get one in every four questions right’. Although I’ve never personally seen a monkey s ...
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2nd October 2020
UCAT Test Tactics and Preparation Part 5: Counting Problems in UCAT
Your UCAT questions explained by the team at MedEntry as part of our new section UCAT test tactics and preparation. They may seem simple on paper, but counting problems contained within the UCAT exam can often cause much confusion among students. If you can understand the basic principles of counting problems and recognize when to apply them, you will be able to master many of the typi ...
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2nd October 2020
UCAT Test Tactics and Preparation part 4: Probability questions
Probability questions in the UCAT: you’re probably reading this sentence right now… Your UCAT questions explained by the team at MedEntry as part of our new section UCAT test tactics and preparation. We know what probability means, but what is its formal definition? Let’s use our everyday logic to define it. If there is no chance that an event will occur ...
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2nd October 2020
UCAT Test Tactics and Preparation part 3: UCAT questions involving percentages
What you need to know about percentage % questions before starting your UCAT preparation: Problems involving percent are common on the UCAT. The word percent means “divided by one hundred.” When you see the word “percent,” or the symbol %, remember it means 1/100. For example, 25 Percent ...
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2nd October 2020
UCAT Test Tactics and Preparation part 2: Process of Elimination in UCAT multi-choice
Process of Elimination or POE in UCAT: the best of a bad bunch. Comprehensive advice from the team at MedEntry UCAT preparation. Once you have established what the UCAT question is asking you need to act efficiently and narrow down your options to reach the correct answer. Using the Process of Elimination or POE method can greatly improve your chances of scoring highly on the UCAT becaus ...
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28th September 2020
The UCAT Situational Judgement Test is just another measure of Emotional Intelligence
Advocates of the Situational Judgement Test (one of the subtests of UCAT) claim that it is a very different test to other medical entry aptitude tests. However, the Situational Judgement Test is, in essence, assessing the emotional intelligence of candidates in the context of study and practice of medicine and other health care professions. The Situational Judgement Test is merely a for ...
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