UKCAT 2008 Thread

Anyone got any tips for AR?

I've started looking at some questions on all the sections and this definitely seems to be my weakest point at the moment. DA and VR are ok and quantitive I just kept making silly mistakes on. But AR I'm not sure how to spot the pattern tbh. Has anyone got any step by step advice?

Got my test tomorrow and am really really really nervous, mainly because of timing. I tend to get good practice scores untimed, but when I have short periods of time for each section I seem to struggle.

The timings seem insanely short to me . . .but maybe that's just me

Good luck to everyone doing it soon.

And to people who've taken it already, did the timings play a big part in the overall outcome?

Cheers.

Wow! You did really well. I'm proud! Well done.

Okay, I'm starting to get down about just how rubbish I am at the abstract and quantitative sections. For the quantitative, I don't understand why I am so bad, I've always been quite good at Maths.
I'm really worried that I'm going to come out with a crap score that will really bring down my application and therefore my chances

impressive score...share any tips?

I stuck to the timings for the other three sections, so managed to just about complete them as the time was up.

Apart from doing the practice sections on the UKCAT site and familiarising yourself with the timings for each section, the only advice I can give is what worked for me:

Try to do a bit of reading over the weekend - maybe from a newspaper or something - and see how quickly you can pick up the key ideas from the article. You might be surprised how much easier it becomes once you've 'warmed up'.

Maybe do a couple of sudokus or something to get your head used to dealing with numbers and logic again: if you're anything like me, your brain will have slowed down considerably since the end of the school term!

I also found going through the answers to the abstract sample questions on the UKCAT website especially handy - it let me know what types of patterns and stuff they were working from.

Apart from that, try not to worry too much about it (easier said than done, I know) - as long as you're familiar with the format of the questions, I don't think there's too much more you can do about it. Get a good night's sleep on Sunday!

Good luck!

Lol, true true - I don't think I'll be able to look at my results.

My test's at 12.15 . .. yours?

I've just done some practices on http://www.how2become.co.uk/viewProduct.php?product_name=Verbal_Reasoning_Tests, which were really good (got the link from another thread on here).

They're shorter than the real ones but good practice for the quick thinking side of things.

It's just the short time limits that are worrying me really, and panicing - I don't like to panic in tests, lol.