Unlock your full potential and master the UCAT entrance exam with confidence! Practical and up to date, The Unofficial Guide to the University Clinical Aptitude Test familiarises you with different question types, helps you build strategies to answer the questions in a time-efficient way, and equips you with essential skills for test day. Written in conjunction with Medefine Education, experts on improving access to medical school, this concise, easy-to-read guide breaks the UCAT exam down into bite-sized pieces, providing clear explanations and frequent opportunities to practice what you’ve learned.
- Helps you overcome common challenges such as time constraints, content knowledge, test anxiety, and balancing preparation with other commitments
- Offers comprehensive coaching that walks you through various question types, shares proven strategies to apply core skills effectively, and provides insights into how successful students maximised their scores
- Explains how to set up workings for each question, with explanations of common traps set by the exam
- Contains advice on how to get the most out of resources
- Helps you aim to be at the top percentile of applications and top decile of scorers
- Features a chapter specifically for international students and their unique challenges regarding the UCAT
- Includes a guide to strategising university applications based on achieved scores
- An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud
Table of Contents
1. Overview of the medical application system in the UK2. Relevance of the UCAT
3. Introduction to UCAT
4. Verbal Reasoning
5. Decision Making
6. Quantitative Reasoning
7. Situational Judgement
8. UCAT for international students
9. Preparation Plans for UCAT
10. UCAT completed: Next steps
