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HELP- is the medify verbal reasoning UCAT harder than the actual thing?

hi there,

upon practise ive found that the medify passages on the verbal reasoning are extremely long, longer than anything ive seen on youtube videos and it appears to be longer than other practise platforms like medentry.
If you have done the ucat already, is medifys VR accurate to the exam or not?
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My UCAT is a week tomorrow so I'll let you know!
I've heard that apparently the actual VR is similar to medify passages. It is best to prepare for harder ones!
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Original post by saraszymo
I've heard that apparently the actual VR is similar to medify passages. It is best to prepare for harder ones!


for me the actual VR was easier since i got about 600-640 in my mocks, but 680 in the actual thing last year
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Original post by zynnjah123
hi there,

upon practise ive found that the medify passages on the verbal reasoning are extremely long, longer than anything ive seen on youtube videos and it appears to be longer than other practise platforms like medentry.
If you have done the ucat already, is medifys VR accurate to the exam or not?


I did my UCAT last year and Medify was probably the most accurate resource out there for VR.
Original post by L10n1992
My UCAT is a week tomorrow so I'll let you know!

How did your UCAT go?
Original post by zynnjah123
hi there,

upon practise ive found that the medify passages on the verbal reasoning are extremely long, longer than anything ive seen on youtube videos and it appears to be longer than other practise platforms like medentry.
If you have done the ucat already, is medifys VR accurate to the exam or not?


May be worth checking on the main UCAT thread.

https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=7328835
Reply 8
Original post by L10n1992
My UCAT is a week tomorrow so I'll let you know!


Please because I noticed that as well! 👌
Reply 9
Original post by zynnjah123
hi there,

upon practise ive found that the medify passages on the verbal reasoning are extremely long, longer than anything ive seen on youtube videos and it appears to be longer than other practise platforms like medentry.
If you have done the ucat already, is medifys VR accurate to the exam or not?


The passages in my UCAT were longer than the medify ones.
The passages in my UCAT were longer than the medify ones.


no way
Reply 11
Original post by jennaa21
no way


Yep ended up getting 100 lower in my VR than I did on most of my medify mocks cos of how long the passages were. Everyone gets different questions though so it probably varies per person.
Yep ended up getting 100 lower in my VR than I did on most of my medify mocks cos of how long the passages were. Everyone gets different questions though so it probably varies per person.

ugh i think its super unfair how everyones questions vary :frown:
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Original post by jennaa21
ugh i think its super unfair how everyones questions vary :frown:


Yeah that's why the BMAT is way better
Yeah that's why the BMAT is way better


not much unis accept the BMAT anymore
Original post by jennaa21
ugh i think its super unfair how everyones questions vary :frown:


There is a difference of <1.5% of raw scores between the different test subsets, so it is more about whether a subset suits your strengths or weaknesses than whether it is easier or harder, per se

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