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Hi im applying to dental scjool and i need everyone who got above 2900 please tell me your tips i don’t want to re do it !!! Thankyou

Reply 1

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Reply 2

Hey you should use Medify. It’s just all about practice. Would you like my old account. I can give it to you for £20 until august the 9. You will save some money.
Good luck

Reply 3

hey, sorry for this long post. i got 2940 b2 last year and i basically just copied and pasted another post i wrote a few months ago. if you have any questions let me know and i hope it’s at least a little bit helpful ❤️ the fact that you can only sit the ucat once per cycle is terrifying but as long as you prepare thoroughly you should be ok.

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the only way to get a good score is by practising, unless you're naturally gifted. if you can i would highly recommed getting medify, but if that isn't possible then i heard passmedicine has a free question bank and there might be others out there. literally just spam questions every day and it will start to click eventually.

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so i started prep in around february, but by 'prep' i basically mean that i was familiarising myself with the exam itself. youtube is very helpful for this, there are so many videos explaining what the ucat is and what is in each subsection. i was basically just getting to know the test and each of the different question types. by the time you sit the exam you'll probably know everything inside out, but i found that starting to do this early on really helped me quickly get into focus once i started hardcore preparation. bear in mind that i was only doing like 2/3 practice qs per day at this point, it was nothing serious at all because i was putting all my energy into getting good predicteds.

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personally i'm jealous that yg don't have AR because it was my worst section by far. i've found that people either love it or hate it, there is no in between. so it's a good thing or a bad thing depending on what you're good at. i can imagine how scary it must be for your year though because now you don't know the cut offs for anything, you're going to have to predict safe unis by looking at the deciles.


i think some specific tips i’d give are:
learn the keyboard shortcuts and use them. they will save you valuable time
i did one/two mocks per day in august. a lot of people would say that was overkill and honestly it did really burn me out. but i actually enjoyed doing the mocks a lot more than just questions on its own for some reason - like i couldn't motivate myself to do questions but i could for a two hour mock. it's really important to learn how you work best, and not to worry too much if other people are doing something different
and that brings me on to another important thing. burnout is real and highly likely when prepping for ucat, and could severely impact your score. while it's important to practice as much as possible, it's equally as important to take breaks. make sure to go out, meet up with friends, do something you like and just enjoy your summer in general! 'ucat summer' is really difficult but that makes it all the more essential to find time to look after yourself
for medify specifically, don't focus too much on the percentiles and things where they compare you to other medify users. it's way more impotant and useful to look at the analytics so you can see which specific question types you need to improve on
•for medify again, don't pay too much attention to your scores. medify questions are way more difficult than the real thing and they tend to mark a lot more harshly. the official ucat qbank is most like the real thing but leave that till closer to your actual exam day

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