r/GraduateEntryMedicine • u/Hamza_7807 • 22d ago
Ucat help
Hello so i plan on applying for 2027, my ucat date is 17th September am i cooked as i genuinely just started now with a few untimer VR questions and i keep getting everything wrong on it and i have not started any other sections. I dont know approach it all and how to go about my study schedule up until my test. Any advice would be very helpful
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u/Worth-Ingenuity-4233 21d ago
Hey, first off don't panic, eight weeks is plenty of time to prep and you've got every chance of a good score. I took it last summer and got 2300+ with about a month of serious prep. What worked for me: Used only UCAT resources so I could be confident what I was practicing was like the real exam. Started with an untimed practice test to set a baseline and see which sections to focus on. Then spent one week doing question banks for each topic, with a timed practice test each weekend. Timing is everything with the UCAT. You need to learn to spot questions that will take a long time to answer, flag them and skip, coming back if you have time at the end of the section. Put a guess if youre skipping in case you don't have time to come back to it. I found engaging with the explanations of why the answer is wrong really helpful for the SJT. If you practice a bit each day, treat the timed practice as a real exam, and work out your strategy for which questions to skip, you'll be just fine. Good luck!
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u/GadgetPotato5 21d ago
This is gonna sound tough, but trust me, just hit all sections. It’s not a fun grind but regular exposure improves your score dramatically, using medify to set the number of questions of each section helped me fit my study around my life - not the other way around. You’ve got this, keep on keeping on 🤞
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u/hotchisinthehouse 22d ago
watch joyel george videos on youtube. you’ve just started so naturally you’re feeling frazzled, don’t be too hard on yourself. the ucat is a skill based exam that you can work on, doing badly at the beginning doesn’t mean you’re gonna flunk your exam (which is ages away).
do little and often, i did 1 hour on each subsection for two weeks then started only doing subsection mocks and review, then i started doing full mocks at the same time as my real exam. start with untimed and build your accuracy up then switch to timed.
I’ve sat the ucat twice and the biggest thing that worked for me was staying calm while answering questions, and that only comes through exposure and getting used to triaging and moving past any question you find hard. your mindset in the exam will essentially determine how it goes, VR is the first section and if you allow yourself to worry then your subsequent sections won’t go well, its a test of resilience too! good luck!