UCAT (formerly UKCAT) 2020 entry discussion

I would back that, medify (in my opinion) is the best representation of the actual exam

What about in terms of the difficulty of the questions?

The best way to practice is to use medify. Do all the questions, and learn from the mistakes that you are making. Medify is fairly representative of the exam questions. But because of how the exam is run (you only answer like 35 questions (on average) out of a large question bank) people can have varying experiences.

I would say practice hard, and keep your fingers crossed. Besides, you don't HAVE to have a very high score. 720 is among the highest that cutoffs are. Get something like 670-690, you will get 2-3 interviews (depending on where you apply obvs)

I don’t have medify I was asking about TMP

I don’t have medify I was asking about TMP

i personally used the free Medic portal question bank... medify is better in my opinion

When you say better what do you mean by that? Would you say that the questions on the medic portal and medify were about the same difficultly or is medify better in terms of how it is presented?

I know you didn't ask me but I would recommend 6-7 weeks before the exam date. Or you will peak before the exam

Can someone outline the best available UCAT resources? Knowing each of their respective strengths and weaknesses will be of great help to me. Also, if possible, I'd like to find one or two of the best free resources also.

Thanks a lot in advance!

Just booked my UCAT for the 3rd September

I've bought the 1250 Book and will be using that until August and then I'll buy Medify for a month.

Any tips?

my tip would be don't start until at least early-mid July

How come?

People mentioned above that you'll peak too early but how/why? As in... I get you could run out of questions but how does doing more revision hurt? If you have enough questions.

Is it actually possible to finish all UKCAT sections on time and accurately?
Whats the experience of top scorers in the UKCAT?

Is it actually possible to finish all UKCAT sections on time and accurately?
Whats the experience of top scorers in the UKCAT?

I'm not really sure why but it seems to be a common phenomenon with UCAT takers. the UCAT is an aptitude test not a test of knowledge and it's meant to be unprepareable-for. whether it is or not is a different story. however people get fatigued after doing months of practise of near identical questions and I've spoken to quite a few who felt they didn't perform on test day as they felt they would halfway through their practise. personally, I did about 3 weeks of prep for mine and scored 3270.

its all individual of course, if you feel like you wont burn out then it's your choice to do over 3 months of study. i believe the official statement is that the highest scorers did about 25-30 hours of prep.

Wow that’s a really good score did you get many interviews??

i was lucky enough to get three interviews (also applied to edinburgh who dont interview), declined UCL after the invite and got offers from my other 3