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UKCAT

Forum for discussion of the UKCAT exam.

UKCAT is short for 'UK Clinical Aptitude Test' and is a new entrance exams for medical school entry.

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Old 04-10-2008, 04:00 AM   #11 (permalink)
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I forgot to mention, this may sound silly, but research shows that a healthy diet in the days preceeding an IQ test and a little bit of excercise are really positive...something to do with a better state of mind! I guess it wouldn't be a bad idea to give up Monday night in the pub...hehe.

I have noticed on here that people really aren't confident! I'd say be confident and try hard...what more can you do hey? M
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Old 04-10-2008, 04:03 AM   #12 (permalink)
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I bought "Passing the UKCAT & BMAT" book and studied from that. I also did the practice test from the UKCAT website yesterday (My test was this morning). I did pretty awful on the practice test and spent rest of the yesterday and this morning panicking. BUT the actual test was much easier than the practice test, got a 675 average, which was higher than what I was expecting. So my advice would be to not leave the practice test till the day before the test, and if you don't do well on it don't worry because the real thing is much easier (at least the math portion is).
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Old 04-10-2008, 06:10 AM   #13 (permalink)
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I have my test on tuesday too. I just did a mock paper, timing myself and I got about 50% on each section. And yeah I have no clue what that correlates to...When they say "you can't study for this", I think they mean it haha.
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Old 04-10-2008, 03:37 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Don't worry about what score you get on your practice tests. You can't correlate it to what you would get in the real test because they use a complicated method to work out the scores. So your score is likely to be higher than what you've worked out from the mock tests (if you've done any).
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Old 04-10-2008, 05:10 PM   #15 (permalink)
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I just really googled free online UKCAT tests and it came up wid so much but da 1z i really paid attention 2 were:

How to revise for the UKCAT - Google Search

UKCAT practice questions, improve your ukcat score

UKCAT Practice Online - UPO

https://medicas.org.uk/

revise for UKCAT + free - Google Search

Practice Psychometric Tests, UKCAT Practice Tests & Revision, University Admissions Tests, Free Online Psychometric Testing | 2008

Clinical Aptitude Test (UKCAT)

Some of these i did really poorly on but on the others i wasn't so bad... That's why the whole thing is so worrying
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Old 04-10-2008, 05:14 PM   #16 (permalink)
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McWiseguy ure in uni aren't u? studyin biomedz rite? i was lukin into dat 4 if i dint get into any of my medicine choices but i was finkin... sum1 sed it was possible 2 transfer onto medicine afta a year of biomedical science... is dat tru or just 1 of those rumours???
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Old 04-10-2008, 05:59 PM   #17 (permalink)
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Thanks for that

I noticed you put on 2 links where you have to pay?

Are they worth paying for? Any good?
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Old 05-10-2008, 03:57 AM   #18 (permalink)
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I've already graduated with a biomed degree. With regards to the transfers, no they're not rumours. I graduated from Newcastle. They allow approximately 5-7 people to transfer to med who have achieved a first year average of over 75% with relevant work experience (especially since starting uni) and upon successful interviewing. It's also possible to transfer to med at Leeds from Clinical Sciences at Bradford - I know of somebody who's done that. Not sure about any other unis though, you'll have to research those.
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Old 05-10-2008, 09:34 PM   #19 (permalink)
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fanx 4 dat...

NBAchamp i dint pay 4 any of the practice tests coz i thought it would be pointless paying for a 30 day session wenm my test is on tuesday... but i think they probably are worth paying for. i mean how badly d'u wana pass???
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Yeh true.
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