UKCAT 2008 Thread

guess the hard ones and answer as many of the easy ones as accurately as you can. try and get about half of them right.

Reply 442

i am giving advice, but i only got an average score. be warned...

Reply 443

magichearts

7

my advice for QR is to guess the hard ones that requires a lot of work and mark it for review. and for the easy ones make sure you get them right. try not to dwell on a question too long - if you catch yourself sitting there with a bunch of ????s over your head, guess, mark for review, and move on.

Reply 444

Princess_

Btw, do they give you a calculator, or do you bring one yourself? Or is it like a computer calculator that you have to use?

Reply 445

OriginofSymmetry

11

They give you a simple calculator capable only of basic arithmetic. You aren't allowed your own. Make sure you are given one before you start too.

Reply 446

Princess_

OriginofSymmetry

They give you a simple calculator capable only of basic arithmetic. You aren't allowed your own. Make sure you are given one before you start too.

Oh. That sucks lol. I hate those basic calculators. I'm so used to the scientific/graphical ones. Meh.

Reply 447

so one without brackets etc on it?? great

Reply 448

by the way, you know the screens with all the written info on that you must scroll down before doing the rest of the test and all the info in decision analysis, does anyone actually read it or do you think you can just skip the screen a.s.a.p. and start the test section?

Reply 449

jjkkll

* Dain Bramaged

by the way, you know the screens with all the written info on that you must scroll down before doing the rest of the test and all the info in decision analysis, does anyone actually read it or do you think you can just skip the screen a.s.a.p. and start the test section?

you can skip it, but you have pleanty of time for DA its just Vr and Qr that is far toooo short

Reply 450

I got through all of the verbal, but you have two minutes to do each section in order to get through all of them.

Reply 451

o ryt... what bout abstract?

Reply 452

you have to move quickly, but you can get through all of them. if you are unsure about a pattern, guess and come back to it if you have time at the end. you do not have too much time to think!

Reply 453

iheartvet

I got through all of the verbal, but you have two minutes to do each section in order to get through all of them.

sorry, what do ya mean? don't really understand :rolleyes:

2 mins for what?

Reply 454

for each passage and the four corresponding questions.

Reply 455

o ryt, so its best nt to read the blurb at the start,

Reply 456

for reading the instructions of each section you have one minute. you cannot reclaim the instructions minute for answering questions. so say the verbal is 22 minutes. the first minute of that is for instructions. and then you have 21 minutes to answer the questions. that does not mean that you can use that minute for the instructions towards answering questions. does that make sense?

Reply 457

jjkkll

iheartvet

for reading the instructions of each section you have one minute. you cannot reclaim the instructions minute for answering questions. so say the verbal is 22 minutes. the first minute of that is for instructions. and then you have 21 minutes to answer the questions. that does not mean that you can use that minute for the instructions towards answering questions. does that make sense?

i did for the QR i just cliked Next and i gained 40 seconds :biggrin:

Reply 458

i'm no superman

15

Are the instructions exactly the same as the ones on the practise test on the UKCAT site? I'd rather use that minute to answer as many questions as possible tbh!

I just finished the 21 questions in the Passing the UKCAT and BMAT and got 14/21 which I'm actually quite pleased with. It gets so complicated when they throw in a opposite, negative, then opposite and then expand and some other crazy coding right after another in one long question. As for abstract reasoning, well, LOL it's going to depend on how lucky I am on the day. On some days I get a lot right and on some other days I get so many wrong. Some set patterns are really hard to differentiate between and you've got to be quick to get through the 65 questions in 16 minutes.

I can hand on heart say I have no idea how on earth I'll get through both the verbal reasoning and quantitive reasoning. Easily my worst two sections. I'll probably do better just guessing ALL questions than actually trying but I haven't got the balls to do that haha!

Not long to go now for me. Just got today, the weekend, and Monday and then Tuesday is here. :ninja:

Reply 459