UCAT (formerly UKCAT) 2020 entry discussion

I found VR harder on the actual day just because I couldn’t find any of the answers so had to guess a lot of them. In my opinion SJ on the actual exam was more straightforward. Each statement was either right or wrong so I found SJ easier than the mocks

Applying this coming cycle can anyone tell me what the sheet of paper and marker is line in the teal ucat test is it thick marker or sharpie sized. Is the paper A5, A4 etc

Thanks How did you find DM and AR compared to the practice tests and Medify?

My ukcat exam is on the 31st of august and i started practising but i just don't understand it at all I'm using the 1250 questions book and medify still I'm so confused.
How do u prepare and understand and am i the only one that doesn't understand this

Firstly you have quite a bit of time to prepare now. The ISC book is nothing like the actual exam. If I were you I would mainly use Medify for now and the ISC book for extra practice

Well done, really good overall score. How were your scores for each section?

That's great well done!! Thanks for the heads up on SJT. What were the questions like for QR? Any complicated multi-step tax/interest/time zone questions? Mines on Wednesday and I'd be very happy with a score like that

For SJT how was it different to medify?

My ukcat exam is on the 31st of august and i started practising but i just don't understand it at all I'm using the 1250 questions book and medify still I'm so confused.
How do u prepare and understand and am i the only one that doesn't understand this

Thanks! The QR for me was pretty easy (i kinda took my time solving so i had to guess the last couple questions) but i didnt have any questions like you mentioned. I was surprised that i had 5-6 questions that were literally just replacing values in the formula. There were also a few charts but nothing too difficult. Oh and btw, for SJT, the last 3-4 questions are like the official mock (select the most and least appropriate and they dont give partial marks for this) Good luck

I am not certain about the exact rules of this, so I suggest you look them up. What I do remember from last year, is that VR, QR and AR had questions that belonged to the same 'set'. I can't remember if DM had the sets or not, but I don't think it does. In VR, no information is carried over to a different question in the same set. For QR, I believe that official guide says that SOME information may be helpful if retained by the examinee. Questions in AR definitely carry over information within the set

The questions were kind of harder than the medify ones (i got band 1 in all 8 medify mocks but ended up with band 2 in the exam). And the last 3-4 questions were select the most and least appropriate (the marking for this has no partial marks). but the majority was how important/appropriate, just less black and white than medify made it seem

Hey all,
This is a VR question that I am confused about. So I just don't understand why the answer isn't A and B ( i mean isn't the point of horse racing so that one finishes faster than the other??)
Is my reasoning as to why it isn't A right: Not A because extra weight (i.e. for the better horse) is actually equivalent of a lower handicap for the better golfer.


Thanks

Medify was definitely better. The ISC book is nothing like the UCAT, I feel like the book makes it more complicated like it would be. If I were you I wouldn’t bother focusing lots of attention on the book

Sounds pretty easy then! Am i right in thinking that is is much easier than medify? Some of the questions are so data-heavy and wordy and confusing!!

Same as the official practice tests then - dunno why medify doesn't have most/least appropriate type.

I always found the QR on medify decent (i even got 900 in a mock) but yeah the actual exam is much easier

Hey all,
This is a VR question that I am confused about. So I just don't understand why the answer isn't A and B ( i mean isn't the point of horse racing so that one finishes faster than the other??)
Is my reasoning as to why it isn't A right: Not A because extra weight (i.e. for the better horse) is actually equivalent of a lower handicap for the better golfer.


Thanks