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UCKAT Error

Just had this email from a uni admissions person that I emailed about the UKCAT: (paraphrased)

There has been a UKCAT problem which means we (and all other medical schools) only have access to 3 sections and therfore mark out of 2700.

Does anyone else know this? Also, what sections do they get to see?

Reply 1

arpeggio

12

OP, which uni was this and what did you say in your email to them? I hope we find out which sections they're using...

Reply 2

Democracy

20

Omfg, this had better not affect the section I got 760 in :frown:

I don't care even if I have to, I'll post my results to them...

First testing us on that stupid empathy section at the end, and then not counting it, and now this. Pearson VUE/UKCAT are dick'eds.

Makes me glad I put my UKCAT results on my UCAS application...

Then again I haven't actually got an email like that...yet...please no :frown:

Reply 3

Throwaway15124

OP

5

arpeggio

OP, which uni was this and what did you say in your email to them? I hope we find out which sections they're using...

I asked what the cut offs were for their UKCAT this year.

They said all medical schools had the same issue so it doesn't matter which one it was and they also said they couldn't disclose information about it until the end of their admissions cycle. Someone email a uni and ask which section they can't use now.

Reply 4

Throwaway15124

OP

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Democracy

Omfg, this had better not affect the section I got 760 in :frown:

I don't care even if I have to, I'll post my results to them...

First testing us on that stupid empathy section at the end, and then not counting it, and now this. Pearson VUE/UKCAT are dick'eds.

Makes me glad I put my UKCAT results on my UCAS application...

Then again I haven't actually got an email like that...yet...please no :frown:

The last non-cognitative section was never going to be used this year. I clicked the top answer in every question :wink:

Reply 5

Democracy

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markyp23

The last non-cognitative section was never going to be used this year. I clicked the top answer in every question :wink:

So wait is that the one they're not counting?

Cause I know the section on how you deal with other people is being excluded...

Reply 6

nnkuk

I smell something really really fishy .... if this was the case then we would have been told (like we were about the cognitivite section).

Reply 7

Throwaway15124

OP

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nnkuk

I smell something really really fishy .... if this was the case then we would have been told (like we were about the cognitivite section).

I honestly am not lying but it doesn't really matter if I am. Nothing that can be done about it anyway.

I don't want to the name the university in question. (Whilst I appreciate this looks rather suspect, if I was going to lie I would just make up a university).

Reply 8

coolguy456

markyp23

I honestly am not lying but it doesn't really matter if I am. Nothing that can be done about it anyway.

I don't want to the name the university in question. (Whilst I appreciate this looks rather suspect, if I was going to lie I would just make up a university).

Why can't you name the uni?

Reply 9

Throwaway15124

OP

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coolguy456

Why can't you name the uni?

Just don't want to. I am happy with not being believed although I highly doubt I've been lied to by the admissions director of this university?

Email any medical school and see what they say, I'd be happy to find out if they say the same thing. I'll email UKCAT and see if I get a response.

(End thread then? Open a new one when more is known?)

Reply 10

Cynicism 101

11

I wrote my UKCAT scores on the UCAS forms..Kinda glad right now.
But I too smell a rat here.... something's wrong

Reply 11

Becca-Sarah

19

Kinda sus that no-one else seems to have this email and the OP won't disclose which uni it is. I'm ignoring it until I get an email myself...

Reply 12

arpeggio

12

paranoid_IB

But I too smell a rat here.... something's wrong

Yeah, and also they don't "mark" our sections out of a total anyway as far as I'm aware, so the 2700 thing is a bit weird.

Reply 13

bright star

1

why won't you name the uni? it'd be useful if you did. this is just silly if you won't.

Reply 14

Fladder

So this means they're dropping 1/4th of the UKCAT cognitive part? My god, if they keep this up at the rate they're going now the test will be declared invalid by March!

Reply 15

Throwaway15124

OP

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Becca-Sarah

Kinda sus that no-one else seems to have this email and the OP won't disclose which uni it is. I'm ignoring it until I get an email myself...

It's only because I emailed them in the first place. Nothing stopping you from emailing your unis to check. I've also emailed UKCAT and will post the reply when I get it.

Reply 16

Wangers

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Fladder

So this means they're dropping 1/4th of the UKCAT cognitive part? My god, if they keep this up at the rate they're going now the test will be declared invalid by March!

Well if that keeps up, UKCAT have effectively been paid 60/75 quid by each of us to get a database full of physoanalysis research data.

Reply 17

Throwaway15124

OP

5

That's a good point. If it cuts out one of my better scores I'm going to feel pretty hard done by especially as I paid £75 for something that I didn't get.