21st July 2025
Convert Your UCAT Score into a Percentile: 2025 MedEntry Calculator
Wondering what your predicted UCAT percentile ranking will be? MedEntry has released a calculator that will help you convert your UCAT scores into estimated percentile rankings, giving you valuable insight into your performance relative to other candidates. The UCAT Percentile Calculator The MedEntry UCAT percentile calculator produces estimated percentile rankings using t ...
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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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16th July 2025
How to Write a Standout Personal Statement for the New 2026 UCAS Format
The personal statement can be an important aspect of a UK university application. It's your opportunity to express why you want to study your chosen course and demonstrate your academic readiness and broader experiences. Starting with the 2026 entry cycle, UCAS has introduced a major reform. The traditional free-form 4,000-character personal statement has been replaced with a structured r ...
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14th July 2025
7 Tips for Using the UCAT Calculator
I managed to score 880 out of 900 in the UCAT Quantitative Reasoning section. A significant reason for this was my ability to use the UCAT Calculator quickly and effectively. In this blog, I discuss my top tips for using the UCAT Calculator. Learning to use the UCAT calculator took my mind off the time-consuming and seemingly never-ending calculations required to answer UCAT Quantitative Re ...
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10th July 2025
How I Scored 900 in UCAT Verbal Reasoning
UCAT Verbal Reasoning is widely known as the hardest and lowest scoring UCAT subtest. The average UCAT Verbal Reasoning score over the past five years has been 580 out of 900. Sara scored an amazing 900 in UCAT Verbal Reasoning (the highest possible Verbal Reasoning score!). In this blog she shares her top 5 UCAT Verbal Reasoning tips. Tip 1: Learn to speed read One of t ...
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8th July 2025
Is UCAT Stressing You Out? Here's How to Use Stress to Your Advantage
You may have heard that stress negatively impacts on performance, particularly in an intellectually challenging test such as UCAT. You may have been told that if you are too stressed in the lead up to an important exam such as UCAT, you won’t do well. You may have been advised to look for ways to relieve your UCAT-related stress. While this may be true, in some cases trying to g ...
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7th July 2025
UCAT Results: Common Questions Answered
With the UCAT testing period underway, you may be asking questions such as: When and how will I get my UCAT results? How does scoring work in the UCAT? How will universities use my UCAT scores? This blog answers your questions about UCAT results. When and how will I get my UCAT results? You will receive a copy of your UCAT score report before you leave the Pearson VUE ...
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5th July 2025
Tips for UCAT Test Day and the Night Before
With UCAT test day fast approaching, it's important to be thoroughly prepared, not just academically, but also in terms of logistics and your mental and physical well-being. This blog provides essential tips for the day before, the night before, and the day of your UCAT to help you stay calm, focused, and ready to excel. The day before UCAT Ensure that you have every ...
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4th July 2025
What Will UCAT Test Day Be Like?
For many students, sitting UCAT can be a daunting prospect. UCAT is a very different experience to standard high school or university examinations, not to mention how important it is when determining entry into medicine. This blog describes what to expect on the day of UCAT. UCAT check-in When you arrive, you will need to check in with an invigilator (UCAT exam supe ...
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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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