Some students who are preparing for UCAT wonder if they should get a private tutor for UCAT or attend weekly UCAT classes. Often this is because that is what they are used to doing in high school. But UCAT is very different to school and therefore requires a different approach. Here we suggest a much more effective (and much cheaper) way of preparing for UCAT: group study. The benefits of group study are well known: it is more social, more enjoyable and more effective, particularly for tests such as UCAT. Extensive pegagogical research has shown that group study is far more...