BMAT practise papers advice
I've been preparing for the BMAT for a while now, I'm pretty solid on the S2 content and I normally find S1 fine. I've been doing past papers for a few weeks now. I started with the most recent ones (which was maybe a mistake) and was improving constantly and doing pretty well on them (S1 = 6.2, S2 = 6.5 and S3 = 4A) but now I've started on some of the older papers and my scores have dropped pretty dramatically - S1 = 3.3, S2 = 4.4 (this has been consistent over a couple of papers now). Does anyone have any advice on how to improve this? Are the older papers different to the newer ones or am I just doing something wrong? How did you revise? Thank you for your help!
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Original post by amelia.lay
I've been preparing for the BMAT for a while now, I'm pretty solid on the S2 content and I normally find S1 fine. I've been doing past papers for a few weeks now. I started with the most recent ones (which was maybe a mistake) and was improving constantly and doing pretty well on them (S1 = 6.2, S2 = 6.5 and S3 = 4A) but now I've started on some of the older papers and my scores have dropped pretty dramatically - S1 = 3.3, S2 = 4.4 (this has been consistent over a couple of papers now). Does anyone have any advice on how to improve this? Are the older papers different to the newer ones or am I just doing something wrong? How did you revise? Thank you for your help!
May I know how you get your score for S3? Thank you.
Original post by joelee0977
May I know how you get your score for S3? Thank you.
I make sure to answer every single part of the question, just making sure that I'm writing equally about the argument for and against. Though I will say I vary occasionally between a 3A and a 4A, it can sometimes just depend on the question because sometimes I'm not very good at creating a good counter-argument (though I am trying to fix that!).
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