Quantitative Reasoning: Did You Find It Easier Or Harder than the Practice Question?

[PaulaP]

What is your opinion? I find this part of the test to be alright, but a lot of the questions are a bit too 'wordy'.

How did you find it?

[Nerrep]

I've got mine tomorrow, and it had better be easier than the example questions! It's not that the questions are difficult - it's very basic maths - but they are so complex that there is no way 30s per question is enough time to work them out.

From reading around, it seems that I'm not the only person to find the practice questions exceptionally difficult - can anyone who has sat the exam compare them to the actual questions?

[N_ice]

^ I'd like that too.

I'm already anxious about the whole thing turning out to be a disaster- especially the "length" of the QR questions- 30s are just gone in reading what the actual question is!

[Nerrep]

Just tried the AR questions, and significantly ran out of time (again) - despite the fact I'm doing the UKCATSEN version. I guess I'll see how it goes tomorrow morning, and the most I can do now is cross my fingers...

[N_ice]

I think timing shouldn't be much of an issue cos when we're actually doing it, it'll turn out OK.

All I'm gonna do tonight is go through the "untimed" QR section and try to speed up how I read the questions, just in case they are as long as in the practise ones, I tend to read the maths questions really carefully. And do the short version of practise questions!

[alex MD]

Thats the difficult thing that I find with QR, like you say Nerrep, it's the 'wordiness' of the questions that don't leave you enough time! Since there's no negative marking, if you are running out of time you can just guess! It's probably what I'll end up doing!

[DMXX]

Last year, I completed all the QR section with time to spare, and found it pretty good. Ended up with 790.

A few weeks ago, I struggled with the practice questions on the UKCAT website; hell, I didn't even finish the thing, because the ridiculous length of the questions was rather frustrating.

Did my UKCAT last week, and, didn't finish the final 10 questions; I had to leave them blank. Ended up with 870, though.

[tilleyk02]

Yeah I found QR much harder in the exam than in the practise tests. The first two questions were really wordy and there were loads of maps and I panicked, went past them and I couldn't go back to do them because I ran out of time!

[N_ice]

Any tips you people would like to give us? By the looks of it, I'm gonna be applying for the 2010 entry to medicine Lets see what happens tomorrow!

[Nerrep]

Just got a family member (who incidentally is already a doctor) to have a look, and they agreed that there is no way that anyone who is less than utterly exceptional would have a hope of finishing in time. I can honestly say I think I'd rather do another GAMSAT science section than QR tomorrow.

I guess my tactic for tomorrow is to get through as many as I can, then guess the rest at two minutes left. Hopefully my marks on the first and last section (I'm a bit of a logic geek) will help... And we'll see what happens. Just got my UCAS form off as well...

Good luck to anyone else taking it.