UKCAT for 2017 Entry to UK

To any aspiring or successful medics I would like to know how to prepare for this UKCAT business. Time is of the essence and there is no room for failure. Also what is the BMAT? Hella confused about what is actually required for Med school specifically. Does one have to do both tests? Thanky and Dieu vous bénissez.

Thank you so much, good luck for your exam, how prepared do you feel?

To any aspiring or successful medics I would like to know how to prepare for this UKCAT business. Time is of the essence and there is no room for failure. Also what is the BMAT? Hella confused about what is actually required for Med school specifically. Does one have to do both tests? Thanky and Dieu vous bénissez.

My test is tomorrow, hopefully it goes well! Thank you guys for the advice I am so nervous though.

I am defiantly prepared but I don't feel confident! I'm literally terrified

First of all, UKCAT it is an entry requirements for most of the universities in The UK for medicine and dentistry. You can prepare by doing the practice give on the official site for free: http://practice.ukcat.ac.uk - you have 3 mock tests which I suggest you leave till you have practiced each section. Secondly, you can buy online material to help for revision. I used Medify, there is also one called Kaplan. I am not sure about the others. These are online services, you have to pay for.

BMAT is the BioMedical Admissions Test (BMAT) is an admissions test for applicants to Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, Biomedical Science and Dentistry courses at certain universities like Imperial College, UCL, Oxford, Cambridge and a few others.

You do not have to do both tests. It depends on which university you want to go to. You do the UKCAT from July - October. BMAT you do in November (I think). So you would do the BMAT if you wanted to apply to the universities mentioned above. You do not have to do both exams. Hoped this helped

You are kidding right?

Why thank you for such a quick and thorough response. I'll be sure to check out the mocks on the website. Is there any other means to practice the sections without having to purchase stuff? If not its not a problem. Just trying to be economical.

I did much better on mock 2 surprisingly My average went from 723 to 753!

To any aspiring or successful medics I would like to know how to prepare for this UKCAT business. Time is of the essence and there is no room for failure. Also what is the BMAT? Hella confused about what is actually required for Med school specifically. Does one have to do both tests? Thanky and Dieu vous bénissez.

Ah wow congrats! When is your UKCAT? you're doing so well already haha

9 days to go for me, kinda nervous still! wbu?

I did much better on mock 2 surprisingly My average went from 723 to 753!

Try scanning through the answers first and instead of diving in looking for the first option see Which one sounds most like it could be correct and is reasonable then scan for that; that's what I have been doing, most of the time the first or second scan is right as one or two are normally ridiculous and couldn't be right. It saves a lot of time

SO i did the offical UKCAT A mock yesterday and messed it up, didnt finish and got avg of 600. Today i learnt from that mistake and was brutal on my timings and flagged any i didnt know and got avg of 733 in Medify mock 2 (i know they are easier) I'm all over the place with my scoring!? dunnno if im ready lol

Ive just completed one of the mocks on the UKCAT website. For situational judgement i scored 38/69, i know this is a poor score but this was the first mock test i have completed. Any idea how to calculate what banding this score would lie in as i have been using the kaplan score sheet for the other sections but cannot find any recourses to score my SJ. Thanks

for decision making section do we actually need to answer the questions as the mark does not go to the universities, so contemplating weather its worth even looking at it????