UKCAT Question

edcourageous

This may seem kind of trivial, but do the universities you apply for automatically get your UKCAT result?

Reply 1

athletesfoot

oui

Reply 2

Danby

UKCAT is new and either evolving or secretive....
At this point - after a small but perfectly formed number of emails between myself and UKCAT - there still seems to be much that is uncertain about what a UKCAT result will be.
My most recent theory about this is that it will be a bit like the 'cut' in professional golf on telly. Loads of people play Thursday and Friday but a much lower number make the cut to play on Saturday and Sunday.
It appears - not confirmed - that there is a target number of people doing the UKCAT who will be told they've made it into a group of maybe 6,000 people who are 'encouraged' to apply for medicine through UCAS and another group who will be 'encouraged' to apply for something else.
This is absed on the fact that UKCAT is currently saying that results can't yet be released because it's not known how many people will attempt the UKCAT between now and the deadline. Since the deadline for taking the UKCAT is 29th September and the 'promise' is results 'in time to apply through UCAS' - as opposed to having previously been 'within one to two months' - and the dealine for applications through UCAS for med is 15th October...
It's quite possible that nobody will get anybody's result until after 29th September.
Stand by for that changing if there is no flood of registration applications next Thursday - 17th August, A' level results day.
It must theoretically be possible that everybody who takes the UKCAT will 'pass' because there may be no surplus of candidates over the quota - like if less than the weekend filed started on a Thursday morning.
Since, it is the official line that UKCAT result will be meaningless to med schools not in the consortium and that UKCAT results will only be automatically revealed to consortium med schools just exactly what individual member med schools will do with the result is unclear. On the face of it it looks like a mechanism to persude candidaes to self de-select - rather like people choosing the subjects they did best in as AS and opting out of the others at A2 level.
But oui was a good enough answer really.

Reply 3

Danby

Of course , as usual, I'm guilty of failing to state the bleedin' obvious,
The UKCAT is for med and dentals and there's a shortage of dentists so don't be surprised to get a whole load of bumf about have you ever considered dentistry....