2024 UCAT Questions

No, you don’t get the same questions

wouldnt it be unfair for all applicants then? because some Qs might be harder/easier depending on your test date

wouldnt it be unfair for all applicants then? because some Qs might be harder/easier depending on your test date

Yeah it is really unfair , a lot of it comes down to luck sadly

What evidence are you using to say the UCAT is unfair?
There is very little difference between the scores of the groups who sat the different question sets for UCAT, so no evidence one set is easier or more difficult than another.
It may come down to "luck" whether you get questions you personally find easier, but that may well be entirely different for someone else. Across the population sitting it, the questions are of pretty much equal difficulty

Sorry it wouldn’t let me reply to your message - but the massive text above is my reply to you!obviously I might be wrong, but that’s the way me and my friends perceive the UCAT due to our personal experience with it

The UCAT is essentially an IQ test. Although a very small part of a high UCAT score could be based on luck…luck is not the only factor. Some people might just have better functioning brains or some people may have just had a really long time to build up technique. I scored 3420 on my UCAT and I revised for 7 months! I don’t accept that the effort I put in was all due to ‘luck’

Sure you could say that and your experience is valid, but personally me and a lot of people ik agree that luck is a big factor rather than minor as you’re arguing. That exam that I sat was the hardest one i’ve ever done - I had to scroll more than once for the texts in VR and couldn’t recognise most patterns in AR ( AR had been my strongest point during revision). Whereas my friend that achieved 2700+ said hers was the easiest exam ever with her texts being VERY short and her AR patterns easy to recognise and etc. and that was her first 2700+ she hadn’t gotten higher than 2500 in the medify mocks

I sat the UCAT last year -
Revised consistently for 6 weeks was achieving a score of 2700+ CONSISTENTLY on medify ip to the week of the exam. In the actual UCAT achieved 2450( still got two interviews for medicine) you could argue this was due to stress, nerves and/or period pains.
HOWEVER-
Another friend had a similar experience to mine, whilst another admits that her ucat was the easiest thing she’s ever sat despite achieving 2300 CONSISTENTLY on her medify mocks up to the week of the exam she achieved 2750 on her actual UCAT. She agrees with the fact that it comes down to luck
Another friend decided to book the ucat on a whim and only had a week to prepare she ended up achieving 2600
Obviously ik people who got a similar UCAT to their scores on medify/medentry but the majority did not and a majority agrees that it comes down to luck

Thats true, everyone got their own capacity person x might need to revise for 5hrs a day to achieve an A wherer as person y might need to do 8, of course revision and enough practice is essential when it comes to UCAT but Id argue that its still unfair since not all the questions are the same for everyone.

And yet the scoring for each question subset varies by <1.5 points across all subsets and all subtests.
So for the population who sit it, no set of questions is inherently "easier" or "harder" than the others, though as I said, individuals have different strengths and weaknesses, so may be "lucky" and get a subset that plays to their strengths. This does not apply across the population who sit the UCAT, though.
I have known multiple people sit the UCAT. Most score similarly to their preparation. My youngest child did 2 weeks of half-hearted prep and got >3300. My eldest did 6-8 weeks of more organised prep and got around 3200. It is an aptitude test and whilst preparation can help you reach your maximum potential, most people have a ceiling (and threshold) determined by their aptitude

Im sorry but somebody sitting the exam and having to read more than one page long texts and another person having literal paragraphs is not fair at all; at that point it doesn’t even matter if VR is the individual’s strongest or weakest point obviously the person with longer texts will perform worse? You can argue all you want ab it evening out and everything but at the end of the day if everybody sat the same exam on the same day the outcome would be VERY different, you’re right that technique and iq play a huge role into the score however i’d say that luck is up there too

It felt truly unfair when I found out that the UCAT questions differ for each test-taker. The exam carries such weight, yet the variation in questions makes it inherently unequal.