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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.
Post a question in this forum if you have any questions about the UKCAT!
05-10-2008, 04:44 PM
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Ukcat Score
Hi guys,
I've been doing mock tests online, at onexamination.com. I've been keeping within the 15min time limit (Just!) and been averaging scores of about 65%. Anyone want to hazzard a guess as to what UKCAT score that would be???
DAve
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05-10-2008, 05:36 PM
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logically speaking, it will be 0.65x900
585
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05-10-2008, 06:15 PM
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yeah, but I don't think it works as a basic percentage! The min score is 300 so if you got all of them wrong you'd get 300.
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05-10-2008, 06:17 PM
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theres no logic with the UKCAT. no point guessing I'm afraid!
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05-10-2008, 06:21 PM
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if you get 100% you get 600 added to 300.
so 0.65x600 + 300.
Onexaminations good - i subscribed to it before i sat my test.
Keep practising!
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05-10-2008, 06:28 PM
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The weighting system Pearson employ is bound to be more sophisticated than merely multiplying our percent correct by 600 - they'll want to normalise their data for sure. So the best way to compare dave.56's performance is against how we fared on similar tests and how we then fared in the real thing.
With this in mind dave, I reckon 65% is actually pretty good if you're sticking to time limits religiously. No promises, of course, but I think you should be over 600. All the best!
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05-10-2008, 06:29 PM
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normalise?
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'The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible'
Interview at Kings done... reasonably well
Interview at UEA coming up.
Confirmation from Barts but nothing from BSMS as of yet.
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05-10-2008, 06:38 PM
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Basically, Pearson will fudge it so all our data fit neatly into a Gaussian distribution.
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Bristol GEP - application acknowledged
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Barts GEP - application acknowledged
If you can believe fervently in your treatment, even though controlled tests show that it is quite useless, then your results are much better, your patients are much better, and your income is much better too
Richard Asher, ‘Talking Sense’, Pitman Medical, 1972
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05-10-2008, 06:41 PM
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kk, i see. Ta
Does that mean our scores will change following UKCAT test deadline then?
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'The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible'
Interview at Kings done... reasonably well
Interview at UEA coming up.
Confirmation from Barts but nothing from BSMS as of yet.
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05-10-2008, 06:50 PM
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No. I would imagine that our performance is normalised against last year's cohort and that if new questions feature this year, then they would have been trialled on a sample group and our scores will be adjusted in light of theirs (never sure if their's has an apostrophe or not). Then again, Pearson seem to conform to the 'Muppet Principle' so no doubt Kermit and Miss Piggy are marking the test. I wrote a long letter detailing about 10 questions which I think are wrong in their practice paper, but I couldn't be bothered to send it in the end. Pearson = people who've clearly never taken a decent IQ test.
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2009 Courses:
Oxford GEP - interview at Worcester 17-19/12/08
Bristol GEP - application acknowledged
Imperial GEP - interviewed 25/11/08
Barts GEP - application acknowledged
If you can believe fervently in your treatment, even though controlled tests show that it is quite useless, then your results are much better, your patients are much better, and your income is much better too
Richard Asher, ‘Talking Sense’, Pitman Medical, 1972
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