UKCAT for 2017 Entry to UK

Which mock did you get it in?

For verbal reasoning, there are the type 2 questions (4 options). Does anyone know what % of these will be the longer ones (i.e. What does the author think, which one of these statements is most likely to be true/false)? Because some, if they are about a specific topic, i find are scannable i.e. We cannot travel to mercury because... However, for the ones listed above i find you have to essentially find 4 pieces of information within 30 seconds, which is almost impossible unless you get very lucky.

Taking it as a practice? Are you applying next year?

If you're not, you can't take it twice in one application cycle...

How did everyone find UKCAT mock A. Especially in comparison to the actual exam.
I got 630 in VR, 700 in AR but only 530 in QR.

I know the reason for my poor score in QR. I didn't flag, guess and move on in difficult questions and i had major problems understanding two of the tables. I wasted ALOT of time trying to study the tables and not just guessing and moving on. Because of this i found myself totally guessing the last 10 questions. My exam is not he 8th so it can only get getter and i can learn from mistakes.

How is the actual QR in the exam in comparison to the UKCAT mock tests and practice questions on their website.

Thanks.

I'm planning on applying to Glasgow this year, a UKCAT heavy uni, but my score was really quite poor.

I wondered if everyone who is planning on applying to Glasgow can post their scores here so we can all get an idea of where we are at. Can do this in a seperately comment for other unis too. I know it won't be totally representative but can maybe help some of us who are a little worried (or maybe it will make it worse, let's see 😕)

Hey there,

I have not taken the test but I do face the exact same problem as you. Firstly, there won't be many T/F/CT questions in the exam. We will be lucky if we get more than 3/4 stems in the real thing.

Majority of the VR questions that we will face are comprehension questions. But only a fraction of the comprehension questions don't have a keyword in the main question such as 'which of the following statements are true?'. I have counted these types of questions in the official mocks and these style of questions only represent approx. 8 of the 44 questions. So I am planning to triage these questions to be more efficient because it is just wasting time looking at each statement for a particular keyword(they are also overrepresented in the Medify mocks:?)

Does anyone think this is a sensible idea? to triage these?

Good Luck to us all

660 band 1. What about you?

I'm using medify for UKCAT revision and QR is so bad for me. My scores are pretty bad for QR and its bringing my overall score down
Any tips?

623 band 1

Thinking il just apply next year and redo the UKCAT because it's well below par.

Hi guys. Just wanted to ask how representative the kaplan mocks in respect to the real thing. Some of the questions, especially on the later mocks are quite hard. How did these compare to the real thing?

It doesn't count to your score. I did about 3 weeks

So the section still comes up in the exam? I don't see why it would if there's no score for it.

Cool. How did you do?

It is being piloted, so they're seeing how people do on it so they will be able to score it next year, but also to decide whether it is too easy/difficult I think.

Hey guys! Did mine yesterday! Got 690 as average but Band 3 in SJT 🙁🙁
VR 540
QR 847
AR 690
SJT Band 3 🙁
Please can anyone help me in guiding the Uni options (esp with my band 3). Don't want to do BMAT as I can't go through the stress again!

Manchester aren't looking at SJT! And your ukcat should be enough for Manchester but of course you never know until November. Your ukcat should be alright for Liverpool too ☺️


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Thanks, that's a relief! Do I stand a chance for Kings (that's my dream Uni)?