I need help in UCAT exam

Hi everyone,

I’m starting my prep for the UCAT 2025 and wanted to ask:
👉 Are there any really good apps or resources (free or paid) you’d recommend?

I’ve seen names like Medify, MedEntry, etc., but I’m not sure which ones are worth it or if there are any good apps you’ve used on the go (e.g. for practicing in short bursts).
Also happy to hear about:
• Any YouTube channels that helped
• Any revision flashcards or practice apps
• Resources that helped with timing or strategy

Would love to hear what worked for you! Thanks so much and good luck to anyone else preparing 😊

Reply 1

HManFr123

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by Judi Elazhari

Hi everyone,
I’m starting my prep for the UCAT 2025 and wanted to ask:
👉 Are there any really good apps or resources (free or paid) you’d recommend?
I’ve seen names like Medify, MedEntry, etc., but I’m not sure which ones are worth it or if there are any good apps you’ve used on the go (e.g. for practicing in short bursts).
Also happy to hear about:
• Any YouTube channels that helped
• Any revision flashcards or practice apps
• Resources that helped with timing or strategy
Would love to hear what worked for you! Thanks so much and good luck to anyone else preparing 😊

Hi, I did the last UCAT last year

1) every teacher and UCAT advisor will advise you on only doing practice on the free UCAT question banks they have on their websites, although they're good I didn't find them that helpful tbh
2) Yes, the 2 main courses that people tend to buy are Medify and Medentry. I've heard Medify is quite inaccurate in terms of scores, and so I picked Medentry, and tbh I loved their vids and the fact that I can get so much practice in whilst they explain in depth what I got wrong was great. Only thing I didn't like was that sometimes I felt like they gave too high of a score, but that could just have been my self-confidence tbh.
3) Medentry also have a mobile app, I found it quite useful for the AR section (which got removed RIP)
4) TBH there are loads of youtube channels ab the UCAT, I would discover as many as possible to have many different insights
5) IDK about revision flashcards, I think if anyone made flashcards it was for AR, but I don't think it'd be useful for any other section, unless there are small things like conversions or some tricks you found etc
6) The main advice I have for it, is that its not a test of ur intelligence, its all about speed and decision making. Your scores will fluctuate, you will have a week where it went amazing, and a week it goes so downhill. I would work on making yourself aware of the timings you should be aiming for per question, and please skip and guess if you do not know the answer within the recommended time for that specific q. Also, the mocks that you will do, focus on what you got wrong, explain each incorrect answer, they should be used for this reason rather than to flex/beat urself about it

Reply 2

Flower2007!

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by Judi Elazhari

Hi everyone,
I’m starting my prep for the UCAT 2025 and wanted to ask:
👉 Are there any really good apps or resources (free or paid) you’d recommend?
I’ve seen names like Medify, MedEntry, etc., but I’m not sure which ones are worth it or if there are any good apps you’ve used on the go (e.g. for practicing in short bursts).
Also happy to hear about:
• Any YouTube channels that helped
• Any revision flashcards or practice apps
• Resources that helped with timing or strategy
Would love to hear what worked for you! Thanks so much and good luck to anyone else preparing 😊

hiya! i can only speak abt medify as that’s the one i bought, but i thought it was rly quite useful.

nice layout, thousands and thousands of questions and like 20+ full mock tests as well as mini mocks for each section and diagnostics to show your progression. idk if it’ll make a huge difference to your score whether you choose medify or medentry - i think they’re both rly good from what i’ve heard so you should try to get one of them but getting both is a bit too much. one of my friends got both but she still got 2500 so had to take a gap year :frown:

i defo don’t think solely the questions on the ucat website are enough to do amazingly so try to invest in either medify or medentry imo. the
mocks on the ucat website will probably be more accurate than anything else tho so defo do the stuff on there as well.

in terms of youtube channels one of the main ones is emil eddy (i think that’s the name?) but tbh there’s just so much advice out there, you should search for yourself and see what works best.

for time management and resources to help w technique, medify had plenty of videos going through each section and tips. there are also very detailed explanations for every single question you get wrong, although medentry has that too so again, it doesn’t matter too much which one you choose.

also, obviously it will depend on the person ig but i got a lot higher in the real thing than what i was getting in my medify mock tests and a lot of my friends said the same. maybe that says smth about medify having some harder questions but it was a nice surprise, and getting so badly on the mock tests only made me work harder lol.

some advice maybe: a lot of us would get tired and didn’t feel like doing very intense practice on some days, so to chill whilst still working, we’d do situational judgment questions as they’re nice and fairly simple most of the time without requiring 10000% concentration. we’d also do abstract reasoning bc they were like fun puzzles, although they’re scrapping that this year :P btw we’d do these questions untimed when we were tired to take some of the pressure off whilst still honing our technique, but timed practice is v v v important too. a big reason ppl do bad on ucat is not bc the questions are rocket science, but because they are so tight on time, and this is an intentional thing done by the examiners.

most people find verbal reasoning to be the hardest section and decision making. decision making requires a fair bit of technique and learned skills to solve the questions. some people, if they just know they’ll do crap in one section, they make sure all their other sections are brilliant to bump up their score. this is risky though as you may not end up doing amazing in every single other section, so don’t fully neglect any sections even if they’re quite hard for you.

sorry for yapping. inshallah it all works out for you and you do amazingly :smile:

any questions pls lmk

Reply 3

Flower2007!

Original post

by Judi Elazhari

Hi everyone,
I’m starting my prep for the UCAT 2025 and wanted to ask:
👉 Are there any really good apps or resources (free or paid) you’d recommend?
I’ve seen names like Medify, MedEntry, etc., but I’m not sure which ones are worth it or if there are any good apps you’ve used on the go (e.g. for practicing in short bursts).
Also happy to hear about:
• Any YouTube channels that helped
• Any revision flashcards or practice apps
• Resources that helped with timing or strategy
Would love to hear what worked for you! Thanks so much and good luck to anyone else preparing 😊

btw for you and anyone else reading, there’s this great document online made by someone who did ucat before and got quite high. has rly helpful advice. i tried to link it but idk how, so just search up ‘arya’s ucat cram tips’ and it’ll be like the first link to come up. hope it helps!

Reply 4

aneekss23

did anyone who did their ucat last year get higher on the medify mocks or was your score roughly around the same? also i feel like medify do score quite harshly- does a ucat converter give you a better idea?

Reply 5

Flower2007!

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by aneekss23

hi for me it was the opposite. i got 2710 in the real thing but on medify i would get 2100-2300

Reply 6

aneekss23

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by Flower2007!

hi for me it was the opposite. i got 2710 in the real thing but on medify i would get 2100-2300

oh wow that’s a great score!! well done- where did you apply?

Reply 7

Flower2007!

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by aneekss23

oh wow that’s a great score!! well done- where did you apply?

thanks sm so kind :smile:

clearly it was nowhere near good enough tho as i got 4 pre int rejections bc of it lol ☠️ i applied dent at kcl, qm, cardiff, leeds 🥲

Reply 8

Lylyv

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by Judi Elazhari

Hi everyone,
I’m starting my prep for the UCAT 2025 and wanted to ask:
👉 Are there any really good apps or resources (free or paid) you’d recommend?
I’ve seen names like Medify, MedEntry, etc., but I’m not sure which ones are worth it or if there are any good apps you’ve used on the go (e.g. for practicing in short bursts).
Also happy to hear about:
• Any YouTube channels that helped
• Any revision flashcards or practice apps
• Resources that helped with timing or strategy
Would love to hear what worked for you! Thanks so much and good luck to anyone else preparing 😊

Medentry is good, it will train your skills

Reply 9

FiBox

“every teacher and UCAT advisor will advise you on only doing practice on the free UCAT question”

They have to say this as they have to pretend money (buying a coaching app) can’t influence score.

Reply 10

aneekss23

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by Flower2007!

thanks sm so kind :smile:

clearly it was nowhere near good enough tho as i got 4 pre int rejections bc of it lol ☠️ i applied dent at kcl, qm, cardiff, leeds 🥲

ohh noo!! it’s okk good luck for what ever you decide to do next xx

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