Warwick gem (a101) 2016 entry applicants

Yeah a few of my friends said AR is definitely harder on Medify. They also said QR is harder but DA and VR is pretty similar. Which doesn't bode well for me and VR is my worst section.

My first Mock was okkkaaaay I got an average of 650...but I really need that to be a lot higher!

When's your test?

That is good to hear thank you!


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Keep in mind it's completely pointless to try and judge how you'll find the test relative to Medify based on how others have done. There are 3 versions of each year's UKCAT and the one you take will be random, so at best someone can say that they thought their variant was a little harder/easier.

Doesn't mean yours will be the same!

Are you ready? When is your test?

Yeah I mean we can't rely on one persons views but what do you mean three versions? in what way are they different to one another?

It's on the 18th! Feel ok but need to improve a bit in the QR and VR and keep the level of AR up!


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They have three different sets of questions for VR, QR and AR each year to combat plagiarism. Two different sets of DA. All questions are scored for difficulty (it gets pretty complicated statistically) and they form 3 separate exams with statistically comparable difficulty. Presumably they could also mix up the subtests to make even more combinations of exams.

http://www.ukcat.ac.uk/App_Media/uploads/pdf/UKCAT%202014%20Technical%20Report%20Exec%20Summary_V1.pdf

Have a look at Table 3 for proof of that. It's an interesting read overall if you're interested at all in stats too.

Oh good luck, you got some time to improve on those still

They have three different sets of questions for VR, QR and AR each year to combat plagiarism. Two different sets of DA. All questions are scored for difficulty (it gets pretty complicated statistically) and they form 3 separate exams with statistically comparable difficulty. Presumably they could also mix up the subtests to make even more combinations of exams.

http://www.ukcat.ac.uk/App_Media/uploads/pdf/UKCAT%202014%20Technical%20Report%20Exec%20Summary_V1.pdf

Have a look at Table 3 for proof of that. It's an interesting read overall if you're interested at all in stats too.

So are they all a similar difficulty or is one easy, one medium and one hard?


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Why would they do the latter on a standardised test?

They're all statistically the same difficulty. Whether or not an individual finds one particular one easier is subject to interpretation, but on average it balances out.

That's what I thought I'd just read comments elsewhere that suggested otherwise


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That'd be pretty mean haha, it'd make it a lottery!

I know!!

http://www.ukcat.ac.uk/App_Media/uploads/pdf/UKCAT%202014%20Technical%20Report%20Exec%20Summary_V1.pdf


So just had a quick read and I didn't realise they only score you out of 40 for VR, 32 for QR, 50 for AR and 26 for DA? This is what they did last year! Is it being done this year?


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No that's number of questions. On the same table to the right you can see min-max scores.

Ye that's what I mean. In the tables it gives you the average raw scores for each section and its out of those numbers? But then obviously your mark is scaled up


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Well they only ask you between 26-50 questions per subtest so of course they will mark you out of the number of questions you get right, since we know every question in each subtest has equal weighting. But yes, you're then scaled up based on performance against the test cohort.

I think I get you but we get 44 VR , 36 QR, 55 AR and 28 DA .. But this table if the same this year means 4,4,5 and 2 questions from each section respectively are not marked.


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The Verbal Reasoning (VR) subtest consists of 44 items. There are 40 operational (scored) and 4 pretest (unscored) items on each form. Candidates are allowed 21 minutes to answer the 44 items. In addition, candidates are allotted one minute to read general instructions for
the subtest. SEN candidates are allotted 26 minutes plus 2 minutes of instruction time.

The 44 items in the VR subtest are grouped into 11 testlets. Each testlet has 4 items that relate to a single reading passage. Items from 10 testlets are scored; items from one testlet (designated as pretest) are not scored. Testlets are randomly sequenced for presentation to
candidates. The four items within each testlet are also randomly sequenced during administration.

Note that candidates see all four items related to a passage (i.e., within a testlet) before they are presented with another passage with its four items.

No, the additional items are pre-test items that are not scored. Practice questions It states the number of scored and unscored questions in the discussion of each section. Important to read the entire document if you try and take interpretations from it. For VR, for example:

Lol I did read it. So you're given 44 but only marked on 40.


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