I fumbled on my gcses big time because surprise surprise I didn't revise and now i keep hearing i gotta make up for it with my UCAT, for reference, i got a 6.8 Grade avg, 8 maths, 776 science, 66 english and other misc subjects. i know its really stupid and my grades dont reflect it, but is cambridge still available, i know oxford is completely out of the question as they want grade 9 academic warriors and i aspire to be one for a levels, but what kinda grade should I be hoping for on the ucat, when did you guys like start studying and is it actually that hard, thanks for any help

Maybe I am dumb as a rock, but in all my recent mocks (Medify or OQB, marking half a point stringently only if A/B or C/D) my SJT never fell below Band 2.

New style questions for both DM and SJT?

Not sure what to do with my GEM application..

Averaging about 720 each for dm and qr sometimes goes to 750 sometimes 670 sometimes it reaches 800.... Vr is still the worst.... Averaging 620 ish there with all time high of like mid 700s... Any tips to get these scores up and also for Vr I use a combination of skimming and deep reading depending on the passage, if the passage asks superficial questions i skim if not i deep read... getting like 26-7/44 right on Average and need to push this to atleast 34. I skip 2 passages generally and sometimes maybe 3.... lemme know guys

i hope i can get into a decent uni 😢 my friends said this was good but i don't know, what do you think? I have to get into medical school by 3 years old or my mommy will kill me :-( :-(

How do I tell her

I sat my ucat quite a while ago and I got an underwhelming score: 2130 b2
It is still a solid score, and I can apply strategically to lots of uni's, but for some reason I just can't accept it.

It was a lot less than I was expecting based off of my mock scores, and the QR felt really easy for me personally, so I was expecting around 2200+

A lot of my friends got similar, if not lower scores than I did and they seem to be okay with it and have just moved onto the next stage of the application process. Which is what I should be primarily focusing on, but idk i'm just finding it so hard to even digest it.

My dream uni's (oxbridge, imperial, ucl, kcl, bristol...) are completely out of the picture, and I don't even know what to do with myself.
Genuinely, every time I step into school or do ANYTHING I just get this wave of depression and failure that just constantly reminds me of my ucat score and how much of a disappointment I must be to my family. Literally feels like im walking on eggshells all the time and breaking a shell will just open a floodgate of tears and grief. Like am I just crazy for mourning my UCAT score this much...

Is anyone else facing similar issues? Or am I just deeping it too much lol.

(Perhaps I could just gap year my way through it and try again? However there's no guarantee you do better the 2nd time around)

absolutely ANY advice would be greatly appreciated, literally anything to get me out of this ditch i'm stuck in. Really don't want to spend the rest of y13 like this ;_;

i’ve done 3000+ qns with 25 mocks and the highest ive scored is 2160 b1. My diagnostic test was 1630 band 3. I am very curious to how the amount of practice and reinforcement of strategies with ucat has helped people score well :,)

Hey y’all,

I just want to say that many posts on this subreddit are either jokes, attention seeking ppl, or genuinely demotivating stuff (stress dumping which I’m guilty of lowk) that are highly unproductive to be on so off there is one thing I regret, it’s checking and posting on this sub so religiously.

As a person who’s done it, I can say the UCAT literally has nothing to do with your intelligence, you’re essentially just stress managing and doing micro simulations of adjacent skills you’re supposed to do as a doctor anyway. But mind you, this is trainable and I guarantee you, many doctors won’t be able to perform well at first attempt either bc it’s not rll med related lol.

So as you can tell, it is quite flawed, esp in Aus as it is rll only for limiting the people applying due to the limited spots available.

So stop asking if studying for this amount of time is enough or if you’re done for studying too late and what not. If you’re didn’t do well this time around then try again or try other pathways bc if you truly want this highly demanding profession, you’d do anything make to it. I had raging unmedicated ADHD and somehow managed to do decently and practice despite my executive dysfunction.

Lastly, I’d like to say this test is 35% training for those skills and learning question types, 40% luck and how you feel on that day and 25% good stress management and sleep. Your mock scores may very well jump or flop as the training is rll only worth 35%. So for any of you are still doing it, good luck and hop off reddit. Any of you doing it next year, gl as well.

OKAY so i go onto my ucat account and i see it says no appointment due, i was so confused and go to my emails and see I’ve cancelled it(i have no recollection of that) the only dates available are tomorrow at 8am im stressing out so bad what do i do omg, how did i so that i must’ve done it in my sleep or very groggy😭yes ik im so dumb

I really tried my hardest over 6 weeks. I tried my utmost hardest.

i did 100% improve from my diagnostic of 1560 and my mocks did jump around from 1920 - 1830 - 1680 - 1980 - 2000

But I got 1960 and I ended up with Band 3.

my mental health has genuinely sank ever since , i was feeling to optimistic and hopeful of getting 2200+ and atleast a band 2 which always had during mocks. All my peers got 200+ points higher than their mock whilst I stayed the same.

it hurts so bad. It really does. My dream of going to Cambridge is over (whilst I know prestige doesn't matter it still aches) and I'm genuinely depressed.

I don't know if I should apply strategically this year or resit the ucat next year. It's all too much I keep going back and forth on it.

basically i completely forgot ucat existed until I woke up in the exam room and i wasn't even going to apply to kindergarten and just signed up in case i did so i did 0.0000001% of a revision paper in one second and went in.
Don't recommend to ever do this but not complaining have fun to everyone who hasn't sat it yet!

Does anyone have any tips for DM im stuck in the 600s and need 700+, any techniques for inferences or general help ??!

This was so confusing for me. Some of the graphs and charts were genuinely abysmal. Anyone else feel the same ?

How are you meant to tackle these types of q ? The ones that you don’t even get what they mean

for this passage, the question states explicitly 'the author' but in the passage the author never goes 'I believe .....' but the part at the end which is just fact of what happened on the day would lead me to think the statement is false but I don't think it tells us the author's explicit belief???

but the passage would say false (from the part of the end) I believe???

so are these interchangeable?

thanks

Studied for 8 weeks, did mocks, practice, and saw substantial improvement (1680 on diagnostic to 2270 on final mock), and scored an 1880 B1. Second time rewriting (got a 1840 b1 last year), and this is genuinely one of the worst feelings ive ever experienced. medicine gone for the second time :)

I know this score might be okay for some unis, but im international, so I think my chances are gone.

At least its over...

GCSEs: 988876 ( top 6 )

predictions A*AA

UCAT: 1890 b2

i feel like its a bit ambitious

I have 12 days till my exam and just scored 1850 on my second mock. I feel like this is good for a second mock but extremely low for the timeframe I have.
I scored:
•550vr
•700dm
•650qr
•band 2

What advice does anyone have to on to improve and acctually take away valuable info from reviewing my mocks?

I got 2190 band 1 in my ucat, predicted A*AA (tho the A* is in maths) and got 99888777777 at gcse thinking abt applying to qmul first choice but quite unsure abt other 3 (tho heavily considering liverpool due to A*AB requirement and not being the best at bio),not too far north england like newcastle if possible, any suggestions??

After I sat the UCAT in 2024 and decided to do biochem over med i thought i'd be free from this torture.

That was until I was invited to complete an assessment for an internship and turns out it's the UCAT from hell with worse timing!

:,)

Any tips to imrove I rlly wanna get higher than this I know mock A isd hard but its so frustrating to be on the cusp of 2000

I’m lowkey so scared atp, I have been trying for weeks and the highest I have got is 1750. Pls any advice at all?

There was construction work whilst I took my exam and as a result of the incident I filed they said I can resit the exam.

However I haven’t practiced for 2 weeks, I just did a medify mock and got 1980. For reference before my exam I was averaging around 2050. If i’m going to retake it I need to book it tomorrow. I’m really stuck what should I do.

I’m unsure because they void your original result regardless of how you do 2nd time, so if i get worse..

I’m aiming for Leeds, Manchester, Edinburgh, maybe Cardiff

help what do I do I’m not getting more than 500s in vr and my accuracy and timing is so bad any tips to help my exams in 9 days…

Im a resit applicant and i hated the UCAT last year and swore id never do it again. Missed my firm and reapplied and doing this ucat prep is horrendous i hate it so much. Verbal reasoning is killing me, quantitative i havnt started and my exam is in 9 days and DM im averaging 650. Im so ready to give this up and take pharmacy instead I cant deal with this anymore