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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29th May 2025
UCAT Learning Platform Updates
At MedEntry, we're constantly improving the platform—not just by adding new UCAT questions, refining existing ones, and updating learning resources, but also by enhancing the overall user experience. Our goal is to ensure students can prepare as effectively as possible. This blog highlights some of the latest updates and improvements we’ve made to support your learning journey. ...
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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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8th May 2025
Why You Should Be Studying for the UCAT Right Now
Are you all aboard the express train to Procrastination Station? Are you experiencing a motivation crisis? Are you just about ready to give up? There may be many reasons why you’re feeling this way and they may be impacting on your will to study and prepare for UCAT. You may be feeling tired, overwhelmed, stressed. You may have many other social, academic and extra-curricular co ...
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6th May 2025
Top 5 UCAT Myths
There is a lot of misinformation around when it comes to UCAT. At best, it can be misleading. At worst, it can lead to a missed opportunity to enter the course of your dreams. In this blog, I outline the top 5 UCAT myths. Myth #1: You can’t study for it People call the UCAT many different things. Is it an IQ test? A personality test? In reality, it is about applying ski ...
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22nd April 2025
10 Biggest UCAT Myths
As one of the crucial components of medical school admission in Australia, the UCAT generates plenty of discussion—and unfortunately, quite a few misconceptions. Whether you're a high-achieving student confident in your academic prowess or someone just starting to plan their UCAT preparation journey, it's essential to separate fact from fiction. In this blog, we'll debunk ...
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20th April 2025
Why Is UCAT So Hard?
Most current medical students and doctors would agree that UCAT is probably the hardest and single most important test that they ever sat in their career. Many students, especially those who do not prepare effectively, are shocked by the difficulty of UCAT. Some who do prepare become disillusioned by the difficulty of UCAT. So why is UCAT so hard? And what can you do about it? Read o ...
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14th April 2025
5 Things to Know Before Beginning Your UCAT Preparation
So you want to get into medicine and you have realised that the UCAT is pretty important. The key to success is to know what you are up against and to prepare well and in a more intelligent way than everyone else. So keep reading, and consider implementing these tips into your UCAT preparation. I did, and they helped me score in the 98th percentile. 1. Start now! Time is your key to succe ...
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7th April 2025
3 Months Until UCAT
Three months until the UCAT testing period begins! Are you feeling overwhelmed or stressed by your workload this year? Stress is a common problem that affects all of us at some point in our lives, but is stress bad for you? According to Kelly McGonigal stress isn’t the problem, it’s the mind’s negative response to stress that’s the problem. McGonigal explains that ...
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26th March 2025
MedEntry AI (Mai) Just Got Even Better!
We're thrilled to announce a series of major updates to Mai, our AI-powered learning assistant. Mai has been designed exclusively for MedEntry students to help elevate their UCAT preparation and improve UCAT skills like never before. Previously, Mai was a UCAT chatbot, primarily used to help students efficiently navigate MedEntry’s Online Learning Platform. This included suggestin ...
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