4th December 2019
What can you do now to enhance your UCAT performance? Tip 2: Brush up on your maths skills
UCAT will take place in July 2020. However, there are a few things you can start doing now to enhance your UCAT performance. Our second tip is to brush up on your maths skills. UCAT is not a maths test, it is a test of your reasoning skills. However, many of the questions in the Quantitative Reasoning and Decision Making subtests of UCAT require mathematical manipulations. Although you ...
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22nd November 2019
What can you do now to enhance your UCAT performance? Tip: Work on your speed
UCAT will start in July 2020. 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 ans ...
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22nd October 2019
UCAT Courses
MedEntry provides a couple of quality UCAT Courses to help students prepare for this difficult and important test. MedEntry’s UCAT Courses include the Online Learning Package and Platinum 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 1 ...
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19th September 2019
What will it be like to sit UCAT?
UCAT may seem like a daunting prospect, not least because most students will not be familiar with sitting a computer-based test. In this blog, we’ll cover what to expect on the day of UCAT. What to bring You will need to bring a printout of your confirmation email from Pearson VUE, as well as photographic identification (such as a passport or driver’s license). You are not allowed to have b ...
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13th September 2019
UCAT UK Preparation Strategy: Speed Reading
UCAT is an extremely time pressured test. You will have less than 30 seconds to complete each question. Some sections, particularly Verbal Reasoning and Situational Judgement, will require you to read passages of text. Speed reading is therefore an important skill to master to succeed in UCAT. The following reading efficiency techniques can boost your reading rate. But even if your rate is f ...
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26th August 2019
How does scoring work in the UCAT?
Scoring in the UCAT is based on the number of correct answers you provide. There is no negative marking for incorrect answers. The scoring system differs between the ‘cognitive’ subtests (Verbal Reasoning, Decision Making, Quantitative Reasoning and Abstract Reasoning) and the non-cognitive subtest (Situational Judgement). Scoring of ‘cognitive’ subtests For Verbal Reasoning, Quantita ...
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21st August 2019
UCAT Workshops: Why They Should Be Run By Doctors
With the inclusion of the Situational Judgement Test in UCAT, it is even more important that UCAT workshops are run by medical professionals. Situational Judgement questions require an intimate understanding of issues such as teamwork, professionalism, ethics and integrity within a medical context. Questions are based on real-world medical scenarios with which doctors will have had first-hand ...
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19th August 2019
UCAT Learning Forums
You will find numerous forums on the internet discussing UCAT and medical entry. Many of them are run anonymously and contain a lot of misinformation, posted by ‘nameless-faceless people’ with vested interests, so it is important to be sceptical when reading posts on such forums. You may find that MedEntry is not mentioned on third party forums, because we have our own learning forums. Furthe ...
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13th June 2019
UCAT Timing Feature
Anyone who has sat a UCAT practice exam under timed conditions will know that the hardest part of UCAT is the timing. How is it possible to answer 233 challenging UCAT questions in 180 minutes? Well, it is possible to score highly in the UCAT despite the challenging time constraints. However, it is vital that you become familiar with the extreme time pressures faced in UCAT, and develop the s ...
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7th June 2019
How to choose a UCAT Course
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 docto ...
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