UCAT practice

Hi, how do people stay motivated to keep going with ucat practice, i am soooo exhausted of not seeing improvement. I have been practicing for a month now, tried so many techniques, used every tip i could possibly find yet my DM and QR sections just never seem to get better than 500. My VR and AR are better (700 avarage) so i dont know if i should give up with trying to improve QR/DM and just focus on getting my other sections better so that it balances out the score…

Thanks

Reply 1

TSR Hippocrates

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Reply 2

GGIN

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Original post by goldenthread

Hi, how do people stay motivated to keep going with ucat practice, i am soooo exhausted of not seeing improvement. I have been practicing for a month now, tried so many techniques, used every tip i could possibly find yet my DM and QR sections just never seem to get better than 500. My VR and AR are better (700 avarage) so i dont know if i should give up with trying to improve QR/DM and just focus on getting my other sections better so that it balances out the score…

Thanks

Its hard going !

Some motivation / support here...

https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=7328835

Good luck

Reply 3

saraszymo

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Same here! I have my UCAT very soon though.. whatever will be will be at this point!

Reply 4

goldenthread

OP

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Well good luck to the both of us, we just need to make sure we work our hardest until the test day!

Original post by saraszymo

Same here! I have my UCAT very soon though.. whatever will be will be at this point!

Reply 5

username6042973

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Original post by goldenthread

Hi, how do people stay motivated to keep going with ucat practice, i am soooo exhausted of not seeing improvement. I have been practicing for a month now, tried so many techniques, used every tip i could possibly find yet my DM and QR sections just never seem to get better than 500. My VR and AR are better (700 avarage) so i dont know if i should give up with trying to improve QR/DM and just focus on getting my other sections better so that it balances out the score…

Thanks

Wow your VR and AR scores are really good, any advice for them?

for QR I’m averaging 800 and you just need to be fast with using the calculator and make sure you can easily calculate averages, percentages etc

Reply 6

goldenthread

OP

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Original post by B7861

Wow your VR and AR scores are really good, any advice for them?

for QR I’m averaging 800 and you just need to be fast with using the calculator and make sure you can easily calculate averages, percentages etc

For VR, I suggest practising scan reading and for AR. I suggest skipping questions if you think you can’t figure out the pattern in time. Skipping is so important in the UCAT