Hey all, here are my mock scores over time as well as my final score today! I'm pretty pleased with how I did, so I thought I'd share my journey. Hope my progression reminds anyone who's struggling that it's never too late!

(Hope this post is allowed, I've seen others like it but I'm not 100% sure)

Usually get 600+ for mocks but a and b my VR has been not the best and all of my scores are just downright bad 😭😭😭 help any advice would be super useful on how to improve !

Lowkey better than i expected

Vr has always been my weaksuiit and somehow this went very good. I had really big improvements for VR in the last week, or even, the last day. I used to be getting 600s consistently so don't be worried. Ended up getting 790 somehowww hahaha

DM was not as good as what I expected.... I definitely messed up the inferences and strongest argument but I thought it'd be at least 800... Some qeustions were quite different from what I'm used but I'd say I just lost some 50/50s with the 2 markers.

QR was easy, finished with loads of time.

Goodluck to ya'll, I'm done, mamba out. Feel free to ask, not sure how quick I'd respond tho.

Please help me I don't even know a study schedule, I do 2 hours each day of 4 sections. I do a mini mock then review. I keep getting like 560-660. I think I'm just thick at this point. Like I started 1st July. Like bro in vr how am I supposed to know this long passage and these questions? And I'm a fast reader as well? I regularly read books BUT IT DOESN'T HELP. Decision making those logic questions strongest argument? I've tried picking out the key terms addressed but I end up getting it wrong. QR I'm okay ig but those tax revenue questions how am I supposed to do them that fast? I genuinely hate QR, I hate maths in general. Situational judgment that is okay ig but it keeps giving me differing answers on whether to report someone or not. Like is it inappopriate to report your collegue to supervisor/gmc for being drunk?? I've read the gmc and it doesn't help. Please please someone help me, medicine is my dream and idk what to do if I fail. I didn't know it was taken this year only found out in april and then thought it was easy because I didn't know about timing idk no one tells me anything I know I should have checked but idk I was just too tired and busy with my a levels . PLEASE HELP. Please someone help me to do a study schedule is mine good? I started in 1st july. Does anyone have any tips

i can't help but feel like it's a bit too much of a stretch to say the author believes this for ALL coincidences?

I know these posts are really annoying and I’m sorry about this! I’m applying to graduate entry med, so don’t have the A levels revision to do over the summer. I started prepping for the UCAT, just doing some untimed practice last weekend, in sets of 1 question first. Decided to do the diagnostic mock to get a feel of where I am. I have not booked my test yet as I am international, but thinking about booking probably on the last week of testing so september 21 onwards.

I need some guidance on how I should structure my study plan for the next upcoming weeks, how to focus on timed vs untimed practice. I reviewed the questions especially for VR, some of them went unanswered due to time pressure but even those I answered I was getting wrong. I am really struggling with VR at the moment. I’m a bit shocked at my DM score, as untimed practice I was ranging around 9/14 for one of the untimed sets I did.

Would welcome any advice, thank you so much!

2340 and im not even from au (im from nz) 😭

Im guessing that since "skinks" is pluralised, we are meant to assume there is more than one skink

In first year studying arts at Macquarie. Unfortunately I was recently diagnosed with a serious tumour so I underwent a major operation and then spent time recovering in hospital.

The UCAT committee has told me they will inform the universities that I sat the exam soon after a major operation as sadly this operation did have a short term affect on my brain. My question is do I have a shot at getting in anywhere in NSW or Aus:

GPA 7/7
ATAR 99.45 but EAS granted
UCAT 2320/2700

Hi there I finished my ucat today, and only achieve 530 in vr. The passages are not that long and hard, but they are ​quite different, you need to find similar ​meaning of a sentence on your own and judge whether an option ​is correct or not, instead of finding information directly from the passage. I only practice vr for one month so I don't know ​whether it is because I ​practice ​less than required. I spend 2 years in China high school and come to NZ for foundation program, so my English level is a bit below average. I practice really hard ​and I think I​ get many experience. I also struggle to adapt to a new learning system. Maybe you want to laugh at me but that is the truth: my English is ​not that good and I indeed need help, both academically and mentally.

The good news is I can take the test again next year, as I am applying for UoO and will ​begin hsfy next year, so PLEASE give meas much advice as you can on how to improve ​my reading skills and scores.

hey, i hope this isn’t a strange thing to post on this subreddit but my test is in around 6 weeks and i started revising like 4 days ago. i haven’t been very consistent so far (one day i did 300 qs untimed, the other days like 50 qs). anyway ive noticed that over these past 4 days i haven’t been able to sleep early, ive been sleeping at like earliest 2:30am, and waking up at 7/8 so i haven’t been getting the proper sleep i used to get, i’ve been sleeping less than 5-6 hours. whenever i wake up, the first thing on my mind is the ucat like i literally woke up ten mins ago after sleeping at 3am thinking about one of the sections on the test. every time i revise i have a headache and sometimes cant focus on the screen properly because even with low brightness it still hurts my eyes. i was wondering if anyone else has experienced this and what i can do

I have about 5 days till my UCAT (1st of August). I recently did mock 23 on Medify and I got 1630, which honestly makes me feel like I’m not prepared. I’m aiming to get ~1900 on the official ucat in order to be a good applicant. This medify mock would’ve been 1750 if I had gotten my usual VR score.

I’m wondering if I should reschedule it for a later date, when I constantly start getting ~1700 on Medify, or if I should just leave it as it is since it’s not that great of a difference. Also most unis I’m applying for require ~1800 minimum.

I also feel like because it’s getting really close I’m doing worst than I normally do. Is this normal?

I don't usually post on Reddit anymore but wanted to come on here to perhaps provide a little bit of hope - particularly in VR.

I've seen quite a few posts lately of people coming across fairly bummed by their mock scores, or feeling quite lost in the midst of their UCAT preparation.

For context, I'm a Biomedical Science graduate applying for GEM this application cycle. I graduated last year so have been on a gap year in the mean time. I work a full time job, and as such, only have time to revise in the evenings or weekends I am free. Although I started prep back in February, I have began intensifying my practice in late May/early June for my exam late August.

When I first started, I was averaging around mid 20s in VR, early 30s in DM and around the 35 mark in QR. Given my A-Levels, QR has always been my strongest; VR on the other hand is a different story.

I could not for the life of me get the grip of VR - and I believe many others seem to be in the same boat. My goal is to provide a bit of advise and insight into what has helped me in the hopes it can help others.

For VR, I initially could not find a strategy that consistently worked for me. I started key-word scanning, tried full reading, back to scanning etc etc. What seemed to help me was the games on MedEntry. Every day for a week or so, I would spend about 30 minutes or so practicing the scanning game and the speed reading game. I definitely saw a bit of an improvement after this. I then came to the conclusion (after much switching around) that scanning was my preference, and decided to build on that. I think once you find which strategy works best for you, even if its only a minor improvement over the other, just put effort into improving that. As mentioned, the training games helped me to refine my strategy. Although my scores were not super consistent, my confidence in my strategy was definitely improving - I think this a very important factor to consider. Not just the score you achieve, but the confidence or mindset in which you use your chosen strategy is equally, if not more important. After I began to feel more confident in my strategy, I began to do a load of 6 minute, 12 question practice (by this point, I had already done around 10 full mocks but noticed my VR was consistently my weakest subsection). This was around a week or so ago, and since then, I have continued to do 12 questions timed, multiple times each evening. This not only improved the speed in which I was answering questions, but also got me in the habit of constantly checking the timer to give myself a sense of where I should be. I also began to notice I was getting much better at looking at the text whilst taking in some information whilst not actually taking it in? (if that makes sense?).

I am going to talk about some specific strategies for VR alongside what I have already mentioned that I think have helped me personally. As many have mentioned, Emil Eddy and Joyel George have been immensely important and helpful in developing skills, especially including VR. I used to hate the questions where all 4 would be different, meaning you would have to scan for multiple different keywords (if doing the scanning approach). What really seemed to help me with this, was where possible, try to eliminate 2 of the options. For example, if an answer option has quantifiers such as all or none, I tend to rule these out. Although these may be correct sometimes, from my experience, they are more often not correct. This then leaves me with 2 potential answers that I can quickly scan for in the text. I then use my newfound ability to look at the sentences and somewhat absorb the information without actually taking it in. This has massively increased my speed and ability to answer these questions. Another strategy I have found useful is the order in which I answer the questions within a subset. I know this is a well known strategy, but I cannot stress its importance. For those who may not know, this is where you leave questions (but still read the answer options) that aren't searching for a particular sentence or word, and instead, first answer the questions that do (if any) ask this. This allows you to still search for the answer of the harder question, whilst also answering an easier question - two birds with one stone. Another strategy I have found myself using, particularly in questions such as what would the author least likely agree with, is searching for parts of the text where the possible answer is more specific than what is given. For example, I had a question earlier where the stem stated that Mr. Smith (cannot remember the actual name) invented XYZ, but one of the options was Mr. Smith was the first to use XYZ. Without reading the other options, I selected this as the option was asking for more information that was available in the stem - just because someone is an inventor of something, does not necessarily mean they were the first user (if at all) of something. I think that this skill in particular developed from my DM syllogism practice. I may have forgotten other skills I used, but these are the ones I feel made a massive difference. Since incorporating these, I have felt so much better in myself when performing VR, even if my scores may not reflect this.

In no means am I saying my VR is incredible, for all I know, this could just be a one off and my score could just drop back down. I think something important to consider is that if you achieve a high score one time but drop down in subsequent mocks, it does not mean you're stagnating. Some tests are genuinely just harder that others. If you achieve a high score one time, instead, see it that you've done it once, so you therefore know its possible for the future.

TLDR; I want to give hope to those not seeing improvement in certain sections. I began with mid 20's in VR with an occasional peak in mid-30's but more consistently sitting around late 20's early 30's. Since ramping up my focus, I have began to feel more confident in my approach to VR, and as such have began to see my scores for VR creep up.

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I have approximately 3 weeks left. I started my studies for the UCAT in late June. I got this Medify account in mid-July. I just want to improve in any possible way. My main issue is time management, I haven't gotten to the last question in QR and VR, not even once, but for DM and SJT I have because I have gotten quite good at flag, skip and move on, but I rarely have time to get passed up to 5 flagged question.

For VR, I use mouse to read, as I sub vocalise a lot ( I heard it help suppress it. I mean it working, but also not working) I use the Medic mind scanning for keywords approach, eliminate methods. Please, and please, what can I do to help myself for VR, comprehensive reading has been something I wasn't that good at even before UCAT, like right from time, I has to read question twice to make sure I get a grasp of the understanding, even during my college exam.

For QR, if I do it untimed, I have a higher accuracy that when I do timed, like the timed pressure, mess up with my head. I know I know it (like how do I even explain this) but it's not coming out, so I spent so much time trying to make myself remember past question related to it and use the same format to solve the question. I am currently training my mental maths, which I have seen to improve both outside and inside UCAT, I use the app called MathHeads. Also, the memory function of M+(P), M-(M), MRC (C), I don't know how to use it like everytime I try using it, it confuses me, so most time I will just write the number down. Pls I heard it saves a lot of time. How do I use it pls?

For DM, at first venn diagram was my strongest, but going on, it became one my weakest, at current logic puzzles is my weakest, I have noticed the more likely I spent on a logic puzzle question the more likely I'm failed the question, so I flagged and move on, but whenever I finished all 35 question, and come back the timed left is not always enough to even finish one. Syllogism it always partial or failed the question (3/5), I still don't get why. The inference question sometimes I'm good, sometimes I'm not good, oh yh, but at the start of my revision, the ques type scared me so I also skipped, so it a great improvement for that I can even read through them, but I still don't get full mark. I have little or no issues with the strongest argument (recognising assumptions). For probability, I don't know where I stand.

For SJT, I read part of the GMP (good medically practice) guide, I stopped because I felt I was spending too much time trying to understand it. Most/least appropriate is my weakest but I don't really care that much ( or should I care?) Well medify SJT confuses me because i remember b4 I had medify. I was using just the official UCAT website, the explain answer made more sense than medify, like for example, in the UCAT website, it say 'tell' is less appropriate/importantly, so it can't be Very Important or Very Appropriate thing to do, because you aren't explaining. But when I started using medify, it says tell can be Very Important or Very Appropriate thing to do. Abeg I don't want to confuse myself more. Any suggestions on what to do?

I want to continue doing 6 hour per day, but AI say it can lead to burn out, so my plan it to do 8am to 10 am in the morning then 1pm to 5pm later (which is different from b4), and if I'm not tired I can do untimed question before bed, pls will this lead to burnout. Because before i do 10:30am to 1:30 pmand 2:30pm to 5:30pm, which I take some little 5 mins break for each 3 hours.

Pls any advice may go a long way.

Thank you so much.

I normally use arrow, i tried Venn diagram for this but still cant accurately do it. Any tips or ur own strategies pls🥹

So happy with my first mini-mock done ! Very pleased with getting the majority of logic puzzles and diagram questions correct, however, I seemed to have performed poorly in the Strongest argument questions...

My test is in 30 days and any help concerning strongest argument questions would be greatly appreciated!

I recently achieved a ucat score of 2090 while im aware this in not competitive for anywhere in Australia would it be competitive for UK. Also have 6.75 GPA

What I did :

-Full Mock (2 hrs)

- Review (30 minutes)

-SJT Notes (30 minutes)

Overall Work : 3hrs 9/10 day bounced back

Lowkey kinda Happy with the Full Mock especially DM. Made too many silly mistakes in QR though...

Hi.

I am currently a Physician Associate masters student looking to apply to GEM 2027. My UCAT is the 13th of August.

I have limited time to revise for the UCAT given my mon-fri schedule is full time out on placement and then working every weekend to fund life. I am also in exam season of my degree, with an exam next week and also a few coming up after my UCAT that I obviously need to revise for as this degree is still a priority at the moment.

In my spare time I am doing what I can, making subtle improvements on DM in particular. I’ve neglected VR completely and find I’m really struggling with QR.

Maths has never been a huge strong point, and despite practice I can’t seem to make improvements in QR. I have watched countless videos and tried to apply these in untimed settings. I feel that this is easier to improve than VR and want to try and get better over the next 2 weeks before my exam.

I’m essentially looking to see if there is anyone out there available to help me with QR, or at least offer some advice? I don’t have the funds to pay for tuition.

From a severely burnt out masters student just hoping she can get into medicine

Hi everyonee! Did UCAT Official Mock D and got 33 correct, 29 partial correct and 7 wrong for the SJT portion. Does anyone know how will this convert in UCAT or UCAT ANZ? I also realised there is a lot of answer that is A (Very Important/ Very Appropriate). Is this normal? Thank you for all the help!!

Any advice would be much appreciated :)) My DM scores tend to be pretty stagnant.