Ukcat revision help

I'm in exactly the same position. It seems that there's quite literally no online help unless you have money to pay for it. I just can't afford £100's of tuition on top of having already paid to actually sit the test.

I have my UKCAT booked for the end of August and I have briefly looked at the 1250 questions book. However I just have no idea how to begin my UKCAT prep. Some people say to time yourself from day one but others say find a strategy for each section then time. Has anyone got strategies for the sections and actually preparing for the UKCAT... Any useful tips or general advice will be helpful

Hi there!

The best way to begin is by reading up on each of the sections and getting to grips with what each sections tests, and the format of the questions. You can do this on our free UKCAT Guide, which provides an overview of each section and question types.

Next would be to begin working through sections of practice questions - students tend to find it easier to go through each section one at a time to focus on strengthening each area. So you could go through a few Verbal Reasoning questions and see how you feel about each type of question, if it's an area you struggle with - and work on improving that. You can access thousands of questions on our free UKCAT Question Bank, plus detailed answer explanations and performance tracking.

After you've been through several sections and worked on improving your scores in each one, you can then work up to timed mock exams, which we also have available for free in our question bank. We'd say UKCAT prep takes around 6 weeks - 4 weeks of regular revision plus 2 weeks of more intense revision.

We also have lots of blogs with our top tips for the exam:

- UKCAT Verbal Reasoning Tips
- UKCAT Decision Making Tips
- UKCAT Quantitative Reasoning Tips
- UKCAT Abstract Reasoning Tips
- UKCAT Situational Judgement Tips

Hope this helps!
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this will be the second time ive sat the ukcat. get used to the questions first and the style it isnt like any other exam you've sat before, and understand and use a technique that you like for each section then get used to the timing, the timing is horrendous and you can eventually get used to it the more familiar you are with questions but if you tried with timing first it could become very very stressful and get no where

How did you first approach timing? Should I go straight to mocks or time individually for each section to ensure I can do the questions in the timing required?

Hi thanks for the links.

That is what I have been doing so far but there is so much to try and understand that I get put off revising. I have done a few hours of abstract reasoning and I have not yet started practising with timed conditions because I do not have a set strategy for the question. I can't decide whether or not I should fully read the VR passage before answering the questions or if I should just read the questions and attempt to find the answers that way?