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How was your ucat

Hey guys
How did your test go ? What were your averages like a week before ?
My ucat exam's towards the end of August (basically in a week's time) and I'm stressing so much. My averages are so bad. Excluding sjt, my strongest subsection is abstract reasoning and my weakest is quantitative reasoning. I'm using medentry btw and my scores are around 40% ish per section (not ar tho). Please give me any tips that helped you, as I literally need all the help I can get.
Thanks in advance
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Original post by Shahanaa
Hey guys
How did your test go ? What were your averages like a week before ?
My ucat exam's towards the end of August (basically in a week's time) and I'm stressing so much. My averages are so bad. Excluding sjt, my strongest subsection is abstract reasoning and my weakest is quantitative reasoning. I'm using medentry btw and my scores are around 40% ish per section (not ar tho). Please give me any tips that helped you, as I literally need all the help I can get.
Thanks in advance

For quantitative, the biggest issue is improving your calculator skills and improving your reading skills. Mental maths would also be a good skill to improve, as some calculations don't require a calculator. Knowing what the questions is asking for also helps, so try to glance at the answer choices to see what units the answer should be in.

Also make sure to look what you're being asked to round to. Should you round to 1dp or nearest pound?

Should your answer be in miles or km? Hours or minutes?

The most common questions I've personally seen on quantitative are conversion questions (both money and measurements) so practicing these can also help.

My last advice is just to do loads and loads of practice on the sections you're bad at! Like if you're really bad at quantitative tables then do lots of table questions untimed, then do a lot of them timed.
Reply 2
Original post by gada147
For quantitative, the biggest issue is improving your calculator skills and improving your reading skills. Mental maths would also be a good skill to improve, as some calculations don't require a calculator. Knowing what the questions is asking for also helps, so try to glance at the answer choices to see what units the answer should be in.
Also make sure to look what you're being asked to round to. Should you round to 1dp or nearest pound?
Should your answer be in miles or km? Hours or minutes?
The most common questions I've personally seen on quantitative are conversion questions (both money and measurements) so practicing these can also help.
My last advice is just to do loads and loads of practice on the sections you're bad at! Like if you're really bad at quantitative tables then do lots of table questions untimed, then do a lot of them timed.


Oh okay thank youu !
If you don't mind me asking how did your test go ?
Reply 3
Original post by Shahanaa
Oh okay thank youu !
If you don't mind me asking how did your test go ?

My test is on 18th September, but at the moment on Medify my percentage correctness for QR is between 75%-77% (Which I'm trying to improve) but my first mock for QR was 700.
Reply 4
Original post by gada147
My test is on 18th September, but at the moment on Medify my percentage correctness for QR is between 75%-77% (Which I'm trying to improve) but my first mock for QR was 700.


Wow that's amazing 👏🏼

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