Peoples views on the use of the UKCAT in medical admissions.

Cheers, and bang on respectively.

Eugh the word respectively just reminds me of AS Statistics in year 10/11. My teacher would say it every lesson 100 times.

And so back to the curve, I'll maybe post a picture for other people. :P

So there'd only be a few at the extremes, with the majority in the central bit. But were you suggesting it'd be marked like my IT coursework was, and to get a mark you had to get all the marks previous to that, and thus the higher marks were very hard to obtain relatively? Because I don't think they're set up like that, as they're not ranked in difficulty as far as I'm aware.

its stupid, you have like 2 mins to do 5000000 comprehension questions, when i did mine, all my friends came out saying ''yeah i did like 2 of the questions then guessed them all'' thats stupid, that means someone with amazing luck yet the thickest person ever has the potential to beat someone who is smarter and doesnt guess aswell in the real thing. flawed system end of.

For the graph one would have % right on the x axis, and candidates up the Y axis.

And I don't see any reason to have to get the previous marks, as I don't remember there being much variance in question difficulty.

I was thinking more needing say 5% to get 350, 30-60% for 500-600, and 95% to get 850

If it is not flawed. I, apparently, am an idiot with no logic and would make a completely incompetent doctor

I think it's easy to say the UKCAT is all good and is not at all flawed if you got a good score and/or have an offer, or are currently at medical school.

I think I've pursued my opinions as far as I can now, and if I haven't convinced anyone who didn't already have similar opinions to me, I never will.

The graph was just to demonstrate the shape, it wasn't meant to be specific to the UKCAT.

Yeah, it seems to be more accurate than that, but I get your point. We'll have to get jobs at UKCAT on the sly to see how they're processed. I got my results instantly though, so I'm not sure where that'd be.

Where's the poll sorry?

Those who despise the test are those who do not fare so well on it.

lol i am not sure how reliable the ukcat is,everyone who did that exam in my school had straight As and me and this person with couple of Bs did better than them so........i dont think it is a very good measure of brains,its just pot luck

Cant you do half properly, then keep clicking option A or B or C etc for the rest of the time ...i was tempted to do that but i didnt..Or how else do people get 800..i just dont get it.

Oh for ***** sake...

Oh for ***** sake...

I agree that for me this is a purely academic point, and I hate even to suggest that anyone with less than 400 is a raw meat eater.

I set out to try and encourage debate on what seems to be a subject commonly held with contempt, in the hope of trying either to conclude that it is a waste of time, or to find the logic behind it.

Undoubtedly a bad day in the exam would do very bad things for your application, as such perhaps two or three sittings on different days would be best. This however would drastically increase the cost, which already is a common criticism.

Sorry if you have felt beaten up over not having a fantastic mark, that wasn't the aim of the debate. All the best with your application I hope things go well.