UCAT is too hard- alternatives to medicine ?

I keep scoring either average or below average on medentry. The only ones i do well in are the ones I do untimed.

Alternatives to medicine?

Practice,Practice and more practice

I keep practising but not improving

I keep practising but not improving

depends how your practicing and if your actually reflecting on what your getting wrong. dont just smash out questions randomly for each section. I would spend a day a section or even 2 days a section, this way your mind can really focus on that individual section. what are you specifically struggling on?

Practice,Practice and more practice

goated advice.

I keep doing medentry full mocks.. plateaued on a 2490 Abstract and verbal are awful ive practised individually with no hope. Exams in two weeks im feeling so low

But how can i improve ar? Ive done hundreds of sets and still little improvement. It’s so demotivating which is why im doubting if medicine is even worth it.

QR is the tightest for timing. Realistically, unless you’re a savant at maths, it’s not going to be possible to answer all the questions in time and give them the attention they need.

Try taking the questions untimed. How many can you get perfect in the allotted time without struggling? That’s your target. See if you can maybe increase that by one set but try and learn to let questions go that you can’t work out how to do quickly and just answer them all the same and move on to the next set. You’ll be able to bank a lot more right answers that way. Flag the ones you answer this way and you can return later if you have time, maybe fixing any obviously wrong answers.

VR is more easily improved, in my view, as verbal reasoning relies on a smaller range of skills than QR. It can also be more realistically completed in the allotted time. AR can also be realistically improved because this one is about learning the techniques that they use to produce the questions (eg number, angles, placement, lines of intersection etc.). Like QR, though, you can learn to recognise which ones are unlikely to be possible in that brief amount of time you have.

You are the first person I’ve ever heard who said vr is easier to improve. If that was the case why is 900 in vr so rare compared to 900 in the other sections.

I’ve consistently scored over 700 in the VR most times I’ve done it, including 840 and 890 on one occasion. However, whenever I’ve come back to it, I start around the 680 range. Every question is based on a single skill, unlike QR, where time needs to be taken to work out what mathematical skill is actually required and in which you may have varying levels of competence across those different skills. You’re also using the same passage for each question, so every question you answer is building up capital for the next one. You can get used to the style of question being asked with practice and you can improve your inferencing that way. There is also no writing out involved in VR, which is time consuming.

There is a theory that people doing medicine tend to have less experience with verbal reasoning tasks due to the A levels they take being mostly science based. But I’d say it’s just as improvable as any other section. The thing about the QR is that the tangible improvements you can make in terms of skill often come at the cost of doing well on other sections and there is a workaround that people who are poor at maths can utilise.

Time is the enemy in QR. I could score 100% easily in most maths questions in that section if I had enough time, as could probably most people sitting it. Skill and practice are often the deficiency in VR, and AR for that matter. It makes sense to try and build up skill in AR and VR and work out a better time strategy for QR.