UCAT Case Incident Report

Has anyone had experience with UCAT annotating your result due to interruptions on the day. DO you know if this puts u at a disadvantage

It’d be better to retake a test if Pearson let you.
Some universities explicitly say they will not consider extenuating circumstances to your UCAT scores, even though it’s not your fault. An annotation also does very little, your score should ideally still be high enough for the university you want. I have had annotations in the past and were not considered, or did not help. The annotations were worded to suggest my section was disrupted as timing was lost due to technical difficulties but they would not say I was definitely disadvantaged in the section or performed worse because they can’t know for certain….although you’re hardly gonna agree that it was a positive disruption to your test. I was told my score was too low (200 lower than those interviewed) when I lost testing time last time I did the UCAT and it was literally 200 points with extenuating circumstances and universities had my annotation.
This year, again technical difficulties but they said I’ll get a response from them in 5 working days.

Oh okay. could I ask which Unis u applied to last year?

Thanks so much for the help. Good luck with ur application this year.

Depending on how big the disruption, perhaps push for a resit rather than an annotation?
Not sure if that’s possible this year though, and you could also end up resitting with a much harder UCAT test because not everyone sits the same test and you wouldn’t resit the same one.

Yeah I will try get a resit. Thanks for the help.

Same here… 6 min disrruption… did u manage to get approval to resit??

They take at least 5 working days to respond with their decision.

Same here… 6 min disrruption… did u manage to get approval to resit??

Unfortunately they say resit is not an option. However I have spoken to the Unis which I am interested in and they say that they will consider annotations.

Ask UCAT to send you the annotation before they finalise it. I was able to do that last time so I could see exactly what they planned to say to my unis. When they suggested it "may" have disrupted my exam, I was livid lol and requested them to change the wording, which they did.

Thanks so much for the advice. They have said that I will have a chance to review the wording which is good. Can I ask which unis you applied to and whether u got the offers and did they take the annotations into consideration

Has anyone had experience with UCAT annotating your result due to interruptions on the day. DO you know if this puts u at a disadvantage

i am interested on same issue. Were you able to find out?

@asclepeion did you/your friends get the results of your incident before the 15th of October, kinda panicking because I can't email unis asking about my (potential) annotation and how it impacts my application without knowing whether or not I have an annotation and what it says