When are you taking UKCAT?

[o11y]

Originally Posted by Wannabe-Doc

didnt think i was going to get a hostile response though (yes I know now you'll be going on about how it wasn't a hostile response, or you didn't mean ti to sound like one, but it did seem like it, and it doesn't sound all that beliveable.)

If you like, if thats the way you interpret it.

But whatever, i might as well say it wasnt meant to be hostile even if you dont believe it but you yourself also sound hostile too sometimes. Lets not make and argument about it. Sorry for any upset caused.

[elz]

dont worry bout it wannab, i take things personally too, and i thought it was a reasonable question since people being saying its available before that date. mines on the 14th july.

emma, u have to get a distinction in everything- cwk and exam. but i think the distinction is 70%- at least they said that at sussex downs

[Irondukesteve]

Got mine on the 27th of July. I am attending a KAPLAN course on the 2nd of July in London. Kaplan do all the preparations in the US for MCATS and DATS and so I thought I might as well try that. I also got the AS critical thinking skills book and will start studying that after the KAPLAN course.

I think there are ways to prepare for it....learning the format of the exam, the type of questions they will ask....

Good luck everyone

[o11y]

Wow, thats quite scary. Im not really preparing in any way cept doing online practice Qs

[*lou*lou*]

Originally Posted by Miss Peacock

Just did mine......25th July. I kept putting it off along with booking my driving test...they're both in the same week....so i could either have a very good week or a very bad week.

I wish I didnt come on this thread...im getting nervous about both already!

Woah mad as you've got the same name as me! your first name isn't louise by any chance is it? haha
my UKCAT is booked on July 13th

[Crazy Cottager]

Im taking mine on 4Aug!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol

So im kindda late...but i wouldnt worry about it, having sat the BMAT last year.....im ready for anything! :P

Crtical thinking is stuff like:- "Arguments', 'Asumptions' etc etc.....Get a book on the guide to Critical thinking etc. Any library will have it.

[electrophilic_addition]

got mine on august 16th,


taking it after i come back from holiday because i don't wanna think about any more exams coming up too soon.


ah well. im sure it'll be a good laugh.


i heard news that people are getting annoyed with the UKCAT already that there are plans to scrap it completely pretty soon.


spose this is guinea pig year, as we already knew tho, so who cares. what pointless drivel.

[Crazy Cottager]

ha

well the unis wont really care too much about it tbh, as strange as that sounds. Theyve already molded a set-up for applicants.....and for some unis this will be a bit of a pain in the arse for them. (but def not for others with all the aplicants they get :P) I think for our year and for the first year, they will be interested in the results but Work exp etc will outweigh in importance...the BMATwill be different tho, the results DO matter, trust me, i'd know lol :P

[racheljane]

We got told at BSMS open day today that the unis won't recieve applicants' UKCAT scores till November and most of them start their interviews around then so we were asked to 'draw our own conclusions' about how (if?) they will be used for the first year. One thing they said that really made sense was that the introduction of the UKCAT would probably reduce the total number of applicants i.e. help to filter out those applicants that probably wouldn't have got a place anyway (the ones who didn't do their research and therefore had never heard of the UKCAT test or the ones who would rather apply for biomedical sciences than pay £60 to do a test).

[jason1000]

Totally agree with Racheljane.

I think that a whole load of people who may of clogged up the application process with a speculative shot at getting onto a med course will now be dissuaded from trying to as they can't be bothered with the effort to go to a test centre, or more likely won't shell out £60.

Heres hoping,

Jason.