28th August 2025
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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4th August 2025
Is It Too Late to Start Preparing for UCAT 2025?
Want to apply to study medicine / dentistry but worried that it’s too late to start preparing for UCAT? Then this blog is for you. So, is it, in fact, too late to start preparing for UCAT 2025? The short answer is: no. Improving your performance in UCAT is possible, no matter how late you start (unless you start preparing the night before UCAT, of course!). In fact, some past ...
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17th July 2025
Optimising Your Health for UCAT: What I Learned From Getting the Flu 2 Days Before My UCAT Exam
Imagine you’re a hardworking student. You have consistently studied for the UCAT for several months and you are feeling pretty well prepared for UCAT exam itself (hopefully this is not too hard for you to imagine?). Maybe you have a week before UCAT exam day and while you are beginning to feel the nerves of the situation, you are really not too worried. Because why should you be? You hav ...
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3rd July 2025
Checklist: Are You UCAT Ready? 10 Essentials for UCAT Success
With UCAT rapidly approaching, many students begin to madly grind out UCAT questions, without pausing to consider their overall plan of attack for UCAT. It is important that you take a few moments to reflect and check that you are indeed UCAT ready. This blog outlines a checklist of 10 essential tasks to complete before your UCAT test day. 1. Check your ID Acceptable identifi ...
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30th June 2025
5 Key UCAT Tips
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 courses. Here are five important tips that will help you in preparing for and sitting UCAT. 1. Work on your UCAT weaknesses Each of the ...
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2nd June 2025
How to Simulate the Live UCAT Testing Experience From Home
The University Clinical Aptitude Test (UCAT) is a crucial stepping stone for aspiring medical and dental students. While practicing questions and timing yourself is essential, there's another layer of preparation that many candidates overlook: simulating the actual testing day experience. By recreating the official UCAT testing environment at home, you can familiarize yourself with the pro ...
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28th May 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 management in the context of the workplace, but the strategy is applicable to UCAT and h ...
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26th May 2025
How I Scored 99th Percentile in the UCAT
I am now a medical student at University, but I remember being in exactly your position, desperate for tips that would help me perform well in the UCAT. So, here you are – the five most important practices that helped me score 99th percentile in the UCAT. Found my ‘Zone of Excellence’ Finding my ‘zone of excellence’ was life changing for me. ...
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20th May 2025
Equipment You Need to Get UCAT Ready!
The saying goes, ‘A bad workman blames his tools’, but it’s also true that having the right tools plays an important role in the successful completion of any task, including UCAT. For example, imagine trying to chop down a tree with a kitchen knife! Not only is it important to select the right tools, you also need to use them efficiently and effectively. So, what equipm ...
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19th May 2025
The UCAT – A Test of Endurance
Mental endurance can be defined as, ‘the ability to endure an unpleasant or difficult process or situation without giving way.’ The importance of endurance The UCAT is so commonly viewed as a test of aptitude, that we forget how crucial it is to also improve our mental endurance for the UCAT exam. In fact, the endurance required for the UCAT is much greater tha ...
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