UKCAT has got me down so hard.

Try not to worry too much! The 600Q book was certainly harder than the real thing for me, especially the qualitative questions! Just familiarise yourself with the types of questions asked and work through the book! Remember, the UKCAT isn't the be all and end all if you're an otherwise strong candidate! Good luck

EDIT: I got 692.5 and only used the 600Q book

Dont Worry. Your response is not different to most of the people over here (including me). I felt the same way as well. But give yourself time to familarise and you'd see improvement both mentally and practically. I haven't done my test yet but its due by the end of this month. As for preparation stuff i did attend the kaplan course but it wasn't worth the money. Currently i m using medify and 600q book along with the kaplan book.
About the 600q book the Vr and DA section is pretty much similar to the actual Ukcat standard but QR AND AR are quite hard compared to the actual test ( this is what i ve heard from other people over here) so u can use the 600q for ar and qr jus to familarise with the harder questions but u dunt need to worry if u cant time them properly

Good luck on your exam. I feel for you. I can't wait to get this final year of schooling over with. The whole uni application process makes me feel sick.

Well, joy from AS results.

But the 600Q is OMFG so hard. The QR can take me 10 mins to work out a section. !!!!! The AR, some of the patterns are like WTF? I mean, drawing a straight line through triangles and circles is a pattern? How am I going to spot that in 15 seconds? WTF. I've only done a week of prep, but seeing on TSR that people are getting 700+ already in Medicine and dentistry forums has made me feel incredibly small. My UKCAT exam is on the 21st September, a month time. I'm doing like 1 and a half hours to 2 hours each day. But I feel like crying when I take so long or can't get a question. I've looked at the explanation for AR and it's just like WTF. QR is better, but just the issue of timing. Questions take so long and so much calculations though. HAven't even done the other two sections.

What other materials can I use? I know Kaplan and Medify are good. Going to maybe get Medify, but Kaplan is expensive.

Did anyone else find that the UKCAT prep is extremely hard when they first started? I just feel like my time and effort into GCSEs, work experience, AS results and extra curricular activities, personal statement will all go to waste on the day of my UKCAT.

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Try not to worry too much! The 600Q book was certainly harder than the real thing for me, especially the qualitative questions! Just familiarise yourself with the types of questions asked and work through the book! Remember, the UKCAT isn't the be all and end all if you're an otherwise strong candidate! Good luck

Thank's for the confidence boost, but what did you think of the book in your first week of prep? And how long did you prepare for it?

^This. I wasn't amazingly fast at the QR section, but the real thing was a lot simpler than the 600Q book. Just keep at it and you should get better with time. When I started, I was really, really bad at the UKCAT, especially the AR section as I couldn't even get 20% of the patterns, but it will get easier! PM me if you have any specific questions

I knoww same here..Have u written ur P.S? And if you dont mind sharing what were your As grades?

I don't mind sharing, but I don't know how detailed you want me to go into.

I did 4 AS + General Studies.

Maths B (getting remarked, cos modules were AAC?)
Biology A
Chemistry A
Physics A

I was so happy with my results, apart from Maths, cos I worked so hard for 2 months everyday for like 2 hours since the beginning of March, and it paid off as I got high UMS in both bio and chem.

After getting AS results, I was so happy, cos combined with GCSEs, sport, music, participation within school, spent so long on my personal statement, I felt that I was on the top of the world.

Then UKCAT revision came and I feel like I am going to get murdered by this UKCAT. FML.

OMFG. Yes. I can barely get any of the patterns at all. Some of the patterns in the answers is like WTF? Where on Earth did you manage to come up with that?

Sorry if this is a silly question, but where did I come up with what?