If you wish to study medicine in 2021, you will need to sit UCAT in 2020. UCAT is a very different test to what you are used to sitting in school or university. There is no defined curriculum, and your teachers will not be pushing you to study for UCAT or creating deadlines for you. However, UCAT is a very important test, and it can be as important or more important than your high school scores in determining whether you will obtain entry into medicine. A common question regarding UCAT is: When should I start my preparation? The answer is simple:...
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New UCAT Feature To Help With Timing
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Most students would agree: by far the hardest part of UCAT is the timing. Very few students are able to complete every UCAT question within the time limits. In fact, every year in some subtests of the live UCAT, 1/5 of students run out of time to even make a random guess! Understanding of time management in UCAT is therefore essential. MedEntry makes this easy with personalised UCAT data analytics. After completing a UCAT exam, you will be provided with the following information: The time you spent on each UCAT questionThe average time spent on the UCAT question for those students...
What is UCATSEN? UCATSEN (University Clinical Aptitude Test Special Educational Needs) provides certain students sitting UCAT with 25% extra time when sitting the test. UCATSEN is available to students with a medical condition that impacts upon their ability to perform in testing settings such as UCAT, for example, those with learning disabilities. How do I apply for UCATSEN? If you feel you are entitled to sit UCATSEN, you should submit an application for Access Arrangements before you make your UCAT booking. The deadline for access arrangements applications for UCAT is 10 May 2019 at 5pm AEST. Candidates should submit the online...
UCAT 2020 Registrations
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Registrations to sit UCAT 2020 open: 2 March 2020 Registrations to sit UCAT 2020 close: 11 May 2020 at 11.59pm AEST You can register to sit UCAT 2020 online via the Pearson VUE website. You must complete a two-step process using the Pearson VUE online registration system to register and then book a 2020 UCAT test. Step 1: Online Account Registration You should start the registration process for UCAT 2020 by creating an online account with Pearson VUE. Note that you must register with your legal name exactly as it appears on the photo identification that you will present at the...
WHAT IS UCAT 2020?
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UCAT stands for University Clinical Aptitude Test. Unlike traditional school and university exams which assess knowledge, UCAT 2020 assesses generic skills, including verbal aptitude, mathematical understanding and abstract reasoning. Students who wish to study medicine or dentistry in Australia or New Zealand in 2021 will need to sit and succeed in UCAT 2020. UCAT 2020 is comprised of five separately timed subtests: Verbal ReasoningDecision MakingQuantitative ReasoningAbstract ReasoningSituational Judgement UCAT 2020 is a computer based test and takes a total of approximately 2 hours. UCAT 2020 will take place in various testing centres across Australia, New Zealand and in some overseas locations....
UCAT Practice Exams Retry Feature
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One of the most efficient and effective ways to prepare for UCAT is to identify and work on your weaknesses. MedEntry makes this easy using an innovative retry feature for UCAT practice exams. The retry feature gives you the opportunity to re-attempt questions you answered incorrectly on your first attempt at the UCAT practice exam. You can do this up to four times. This process will allow you to work on UCAT questions that you find difficult, thereby developing your skills. It allows you to get the most out of your UCAT practice exams. To retry an exam, go to the...
How To Choose The Best UCAT Prep Course
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UCAT is an extremely important, ‘high stakes’ test. That is, the results of UCAT have the potential to determine whether or not you will be a doctor. It makes sense that you should choose the best UCAT preparation course to give yourself the greatest chance of success. UCAT courses vary considerably in quality. This blog outlines five key factors you should look for when choosing the best UCAT prep course. 1. The best UCAT preparation course is run by experts When researching the best UCAT course, it is important to know who is behind the organisation. Surprisingly, many UCAT prep courses...
MedEntry UCAT Exam Percentile Rankings
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UCAT scores may look complicated, but essentially all they do is compare your performance against other UCAT candidates. Therefore, to understand how you are performing in UCAT, you need an indication of how your performance compares to others. MedEntry makes this easy by converting your raw UCAT practice exam results into percentile rankings. These percentiles compare your performance against other UCAT candidates who have completed the same UCAT practice exam. You will be provided with a UCAT percentile ranking for each of the five UCAT subtests, as well as an overall UCAT percentile ranking for the exam. Your percentile rankings are...
MedEntry’s UCAT Courses are offered in two main forms: A two-day, in-person UCAT CourseAn online UCAT Course The Platinum Package, which is the most popular UCAT Course, includes both of these services. Two day UCAT Course The two day UCAT Course provides comprehensive preparation for UCAT in a fun, engaging and interactive manner. MedEntry’s UCAT Courses are run by doctors and academics with extensive experience in UCAT test development and analysis. UCAT Courses are offered across Australia and New Zealand, in all major cities and some regional areas. The following will be covered in the UCAT Course: An introduction to UCAT,...
How to choose a UCAT Course
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UCAT is the single most difficult and important test you will sit in your medical or dental career. It is therefore vital that you choose the right UCAT Course. This blog outlines what you should look for when choosing a UCAT Course. Is the UCAT course run by doctors? Given UCAT assesses the skills required to be a doctor, it makes sense that your chosen UCAT Course should be run by doctors. Doctors understand the thinking skills and approach necessary to perform well in UCAT. This is particularly true of the Situational Judgement subtest, which is scored by doctors and...
UCAT Courses
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MedEntry provides a range of quality UCAT Courses to help students prepare for this difficult and important test. MedEntry’s UCAT Courses include the Online Learning Package, Platinum Package and Diamond Package. Online Learning Package The Online Learning Package provides comprehensive preparation for those unable to attend a UCAT Course in person. This UCAT Course features 10 full length UCAT practice exams, extensive UCAT drills, UCAT question banks, a guided curriculum covering strategies to approach each UCAT subtest, UCAT video guides, UCAT video solutions and much more. All UCAT questions, drills and exams are provided via the UCAT Simulated platform, which exactly...
Medicine: keeping your options open
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Are you having trouble deciding what to do about your university preferences? Choosing what course to study can be a major decision, and plenty of year 12 students struggle to decide what to choose. Hopefully this article can put some of your worries at ease, and aid you in your decision making. Not sure if Medicine is the course you want? Deciding you want to study medicine at university is a big commitment. It involves extra study for the UCAT, which can be difficult to balance with your schoolwork. However, deciding to pursue medicine and the UCAT doesn't have to...
UCAT 2020: Key dates
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This blog describes the key dates for UCAT 2020. Registrations for UCAT 2020 open 2 March 2020 Registrations for UCAT 2020 close 11 May 2020 Final booking deadline for UCAT 2020 11 May 2020 Late booking deadline for UCAT 2020 18 May 2020 Cancellation deadline for UCAT 2020 18 May 2020 UCAT 2020 testing begins 1 July 2020 Last testing date for UCAT 2020 31 July 2020 UCAT 2020 results delivered to candidates On the UCAT 2020 testing date UCAT 2020 results delivered to universities Early September 2020 START YOUR UCAT PREP!
Just as you would go to Wiki on the internet to obtain unbiased information on a topic, you have come to the right place to obtain unbiased information regarding medical school rankings in Australia and New Zealand. The reputation and prestige of the University is not as important in Australia in general, as in the USA. In the USA there is a hierarchy of universities with Ivy League Universities such as Harvard and Yale, being miles ahead of the mediocre universities. In Australia however, there is little standard deviation in terms of quality, standard and prestige of the 40 or so...
UCAT 2021: Top tips for decision making
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The Decision Making subtest of UCAT is a subtest which was first introduced in 2017. Students will be presented with a variety of question types. The questions presented are characteristic, but often unusual. It is therefore important that you practice answering Decision Making UCAT questions, and develop familiarity with each type. This blog describes five key tips to help you answer Decision Making UCAT questions quickly and accurately. Know the strategies for each question type There are five major question types in the Decision Making subtest of UCAT: Logic games: you are presented with a series of statements describing people...
Monitoring Your UCAT Progress
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To effectively prepare for UCAT, it is essential that you understand your strengths and weaknesses, and that you track your progress as you work through UCAT resources. It is not enough to simply complete UCAT practice questions or practice exams; you also need feedback on how you have performed, and advice on where you should focus your future UCAT preparation efforts. MedEntry makes this easy with a tool that helps you view detailed information about your UCAT progress, including percentile rankings and a breakdown of which question types you should focus on to boost your performance. Accessing the Check...
When preparing for UCAT, it is essential that you practice answering questions using the same platform that you will be using on UCAT test day. Practicing on a UCAT computer-based platform has several advantages: You will get used to using the important, unique features of the UCAT platform, including keyboard shortcuts, and the ‘flag’ and ‘review’ functionsResearch has consistently shown that practicing in a format that closely simulates a real exam significantly boosts performanceThe computer-based system will become familiar to you, which will significantly reduce stress on UCAT test dayYou will be well ahead of others who have not practiced sufficiently...
5 Key UCAT tips
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There are a wealth of strategies and techniques that are useful in boosting your UCAT performance. Each UCAT section and question type requires a slightly different approach. Relevant techniques are discussed in detail in the MedEntry UCAT course. In the meantime, here are five important tips that will help you in preparing for and sitting UCAT. 1. Work on your weaknesses Each of the five sections in UCAT tests different skills. It is likely that you will find some UCAT subtests easier than others, and that you will have a natural ability or affinity for particular questions. As early as possible...
As UCAT is new as of 2019, the manner in which UCAT scores will be used is yet to be confirmed.Information regarding how universities will use UCAT scores will be made publicly available later in2019. However, it is very likely that: UCAT will continue to form one of three main criteria required to enter medicine or dentistry (with the other two criteria being ATAR/NCEA and interview performance)Students will need to generally score above the 80 th percentile in UCAT to be considered for entry into medicine and dentistry. That is, students will need to be in the top 20% of...
UCAT will take place in July 2019. However, there are a few things you can start doing now to enhance your UCAT performance. Tip 3 is to work on your speed. The questions in UCAT are not particularly challenging, and most students are be able to answer the majority of questions correctly if given sufficient time. However, UCAT is extremely time pressured, and many students are simply unable to answer the questions within the time limits. In fact, about one fifth of candidates fail to put down an answer for every question in UCAT, meaning they run out of time to...
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