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UCAT help!!

I’ve recently just bought medify and I’m doing some practice questions to familiarise myself to the structure of the sections.
I am really bad at verbal reasoning and most frankly everything and I know it’s too early to come to conclusions but I’ll be really grateful if you have any advice to share.
Thank you

Reply 1

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Reply 2

username7036518

Original post by leeptsn

medentry

Reply 3

Petiteroseary

For verbal reasoning I found speed reading Wikipedia pages on a random topic or articles in newspapers and then trying to summarise them to myself really helpful with improving my score in that section.

Reply 4

user113

Original post by leeptsn

Hi I'm a first year medic at barts.
It is obviously completely normal to feel lost at the beginning (I did as well). Important thing is repetition unfourtuantely. These sort of things you have never been exposed to, and it's not ever something tested in school curricula. I would just recommend keep going over questions in small managable amounts everyday and not get too stressed. One day it will come to you and it will get easier.

In terms of understanding, I feel the best thing is videos. I recommend going through the videos on medify and also Kharmamedic's video (and if you're still stuck quite frankly any video on youtube that may help). I see someone has recommended medentry. They do have better questions than medify as they're more complex and similar usually to the real thing. Of course though it is financially burdensome, and do take consideration before purchasing - most are fine on VR without the need of medentry.

Unfortuantely, there's seldom advice avaliable except for practise. I hope though that gives you some framework to work from. Feel free to private message me or reply to this should further questions arise.