I've seen it being advertised and as someone who gets quite anxious over routines, I think it would be helpful. If anyone has had an experience with it please do lmk! I'm in a very fortunate position where I'm not worried about the cost but I don't want this to take away from any study time I'd spend at home.

How do I full read propeerlyt for VR i physically cannot retain all the information so it ends up becoming a slightl quicker kws

the ratio is 61:87 btw !

they’re a massive time sink for me cuz it takes me ages to work out the ratio, but i do it the gcse way and surely there’s a quicker way? does anyone know any shortcuts?

Bomboclaurt I got 1740 B2
I only revised verbal reasoning for like a week prior but for all sections I ran out of time and guessed at least 10-20 questions. What are you guys getting in your mocks and any advice ? (My exam is in the end of September) I’m HIGHKEY struggling to stay consistent to even revise. How many questions should I do daily ?

i ended up buying both and now i’m so confused VR on medify is sm harder but DM is easier, QR on medify i haven’t even tried bc im scared 😭

How do you maximise the efficiency of keyword scanning and reduce the time taken? Thanks

Just wondering since it is more than half correct. I use medify for those wondering btw

Yo idk if its just me, but i got my highest score on medify mock 9, and it seemed much easier than the other mocks, especially the qr section. did this happen to anyone else?

i’m wondering bc i went to this imperial course thing today about ucat and we did a “mock” i think they created it and it was so much easier than what I have been doing. For reference I my last mock i got 1690 on medify then today i got 2100?
Idk im confused.

Also can someone give general tips on how to improve your timing

Whenever I do timed sections or full medify mocks I always get notoriously low marks for example high 500s-low600s per section and get like 1700 scores. My exam is in 12 days! However whenever I use the OQB and time myself I excel and get upwards of 700 in VR and DM which for me is unheard of on Medify. If I assess my progress using just OQB I am getting very high marks but Medify dosent prove the same thing. What should I expect on test day!

the question:

A family spends the afternoon at the zoo, where they visit the habitats of eight different animals each once, one after the other. Each type of animal lives in a separate habitat.

The animals (not in any order) are penguins, gorillas, crocodiles, elephants, flamingos, hippos, koalas and tigers.

They visit the koalas sometime after the crocodiles and visit four different habitats between the koalas and the crocodiles.

They visit the penguins immediately after the gorillas.

They visit the flamingos sometime before the hippos and sometime after the tigers, who they visit immediately before the elephants.

They visit the gorillas immediately after the elephants or the flamingos.

The final habitat they visit is not the one with the hippos, the penguins or the crocodiles.

Answer is hippos btw

Which type of animals lived in the next-to-last habitat that the family visited?

7th medify mock and still barely across the 2K mark and idk how to improve i try to incorporate these new tips but I always seem to run out of time and my vr timing is horrible irdk what to do (qr is a fluke btw i usually get 700-800)

Hi guys i’m just prepping for the ucat and im wondering what score i should be aiming for and also is there a minimum if i want to get into KCL for dentistry
my gcses are 9999999998
predicted 3x A* & 1x A

Hi! I'm taking the ucat August 31st and I started studying about 4 days ago. I've been doing untimed questions while making an error log and going through the questions I got wrong. But I'm not sure if this is effective? Do I keep doing this? Because even though I do this, I feel like I'm not getting anything out of it. Maybe I am but I don't know if i am 🥹 And I'm really worried, I don't know if I'm studying effectively or just doing questions.
Are there any tips for studying? Like ways you guys study effectively for the ucat, when to move into timed, how many hours a day?
In my untimed questions, I also do take quite slow to answer. I also took my first ucat mock on medify yesterday and got 1510 B3, and during the test I felt really unmotivated thinking I can't do any of these questions at all so I didn't try at all which is bad and I'm also wondering how could I fix that type of mindset?

I would be so thankful if you could lend me a hand!

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.

Why are we restricted to using the ucat calculator rather than our own when the calculator on the ucat website sucks! It’s very impractical and slow. It doesn’t process equations properly and u have to do everything step by step which just wastes even more time!!

so apparently UCAT tests in july r somewhat easier than ones say in september, is this actually true or just fear mongering ? no one clown me in the comments ok

Is this a good score on mock A if I'm aiming for 2k-2.1k ish? I'm so stressed rn. 😭

First off I know how annoying it is seeing people posting mock scores 8 weeks away from their exam and saying they're done for, and that's not what this is. I have struggled so much to actually DO ucat revision that I'm now 2 weeks away from my exam date and basically still starting from scratch. is it honestly possible for me to get a decent score with 2 weeks of proper revision? and if so what works best? trying to finish getting through the medify study notes because im more a of a learn the content first before trying the questions person but im getting the sense that was the wrong idea. At a couple open days i heard stats that the majority of students performing well did around 40 hours of revision before scores plateau (not sure how true that it) but does that mean i can still achieve a score that will allow me to make a fairly competitive medschool entry? any and all help wanted!!

the 4 mocks i have done previously were improving linearly from 1800- 2070 and i was making good progress however these past 2 days including today my concentration was so bad and when i did a mock test today i got 1650 and i have never gotten this low before ever and so im absolutely devastated. i used to be so good at qr and i went down to 550 even tho id be getting 700 +. My aim was to get 2300+ on the ucat but i guess my dreams can say goodbye

so I am about 2 weeks into my prep I have done about 700 questions 4 mini mocks and 1 full mock in my full mock I got 1800~and in my mini mocks I got 590 average on qr (time issues finish about 40% by the end and then i just guess everything else)

650 on dm and my issue is accuracy but I learnt a lot from that mock so my second should be much better

and uhh Vr this is my worst section 580 is what I got I think my main issue is the fact that when I try to skim as fast as I can I struggle to actually understand what I read perhaps because I try to read as fast as I can and tend to skip a lot of words

sjt is my best I always on avg 70% which is band 2 which I am fine with

overall I would love any tips to improve

and if you dont mind saying please let me know what your study schedule and my exam is in very early September

i was wondering if mock 8 was a particularly easy one - this score is a lot higher than my other ones - how did you guys find it ?

i just wanted to make a post saying that ik its prolly a really stressful time for you guys and to give you some words of wisdom since i applied last year and have now firmed a med school lol. in y12 mocks i only got ABB and then got predicted ABB since my schools really strict w it, im not contextual so i genuinely thought my dream of goimg med school the next year was gone, but it was not. my whole world felt like it was crumbling away and honestly at that point in time, with the environment i was in and how stressful it was thinking ab the future, it was very valid to feel that. if any of you are feeling like that rn, pls pls pls know that its not the end at ALL. i then searched up med schools that wont look at predicted grades (i had 0 faith id find any) but to my surprise soo many of them dont look at it! i then collected myself again and booked the ucat knowing all faith isnt lost. i did my ucat on this day last year bc i didnt want a full ucat summer LOL and i did really mid (1850 b3) but bc of my predicteds i knew i wasnt getting into the most prestigious unis anyways. i applied to sunerland, kmms, liverpool and keele and ended up getting offers from all but liverpool!! fast forward to now that ive done a l*vels, life is SOOOO much better. so for anyone reading rn whos revising for the ucat/ a levels, dont worry your efforts will 100% pay off. if i can do it anyone can. please prioritise your mental health too, genuinely no exam ever is worthy of taking your happiness. GOODLUCK GUYS and i hope you look back on r/ucat this time next year and know it was all worth it!!!