università cattolica del sacro cuore USCS 2015 entry

Yeah I'm applying too. You're the only other person I've found discussing it for this year... Have you found any more info about the test, what the average entrance mark is? It has to be more than the 35 they publicise as a 'pass mark' I just tried the exam today and got 70,

hi got an offer from Cattolica for medicine joining this october. any body from uk joing as well?

I emailed them and they emailed me back saying that the preparation material is on the university's website ..this is the link they gave me http://www.ucscinternational.it/undergraduate-programs/medicine-and-surgery . Though there was no mention of 3000 questions...but i think that the 3000 questions are within the question simulator thing on the website.

Hey,

So I got a score on 73.00 and that got me in through the first "second calling" but I chose not to go there. Although it's extremely competitive to get in through the first call in results, so long as you are in the top 150 (roughly 65) i'm pretty sure its essentially guaranteed entry for you, you just have to wait for it to go down the list, and even beyond I imagine there is a high chance, but you might not get the acceptance till as late as October! For Cattolica I used solely the database of 3000 questions they send out...you can ask them for this via email I imagine. My advice is study it intensely, i.e. don't stop studying the 'shapes' algebra part or the fulcrum 'seesaw' questions until you understand the maths and are able to answer them in WELL under a minute. Also in the general knowledge part there are questions like who invented baroque architecture, or which of the following is the odd one out (and sometimes it's a case of 4 are german philosophers and 1 is a german composer!!) these are things you, like most people taking the test wont know, but you are super lucky in so much as you get sent the whole database of questions in advance, so you and everyone else serious about getting in have no excuse. what i did was go through each of those questions, and to each one I didn't know, I looked it up, and committed that snipped of general knowledge to memory with flash cards (it was Lorenzo Bernini who invented Baroque architecture I still remember, and a Rhea is a type of S. American bird haha, useless!) and since the test is negatively marked, you just have to know it, because if you do, it's easy marks those ones. Also nearer the time, I imagine now actually, there will be a group on facebook full of italians sharing problems they have with specific questions and you all just work them out as a team.

Hey, did you get through the whole database and in the test do they repeat any of the questions from the database?

I got through about 70% I'd say....and yeah, all questions come from it, except the passage reading ones