3rd October 2020
How to Guess in UCAT
When You Need to Guess in UCAT, Beware of Your Hunches You know that whenever you can make a quick guess on a question to avoid leaving it blank, you should take the shot. The key word here is quick; you can always afford to guess, but you can never afford to waste time. So, how should you guess? Let’s be clear about something: guessing does not mean selecting a choice at random. ...
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3rd October 2020
In UCAT, Do Not “Read into” Things!
Warning, Warning, Warning! Do Not “Read into” Things in UCAT One of the most dangerous traps smart students fall into while reading the UCAT passages is ‘reading into’ things. You should re-read in the context of what you’ve learned about the reading passage—you do not want to interpret what a passage says, or make any subtle assumptions. Restraining yo ...
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3rd October 2020
UCAT Preparation: Getting into the Right Frame of Mind
At the end of a season and leading up to the championship, athletes go through a “tapering phase” to make sure they perform at their peak when it counts. In a sense you’ve been a mental athlete, and you want to make sure that you perform at your peak when it counts: on the actual UCAT. For you, tapering consists of scaling back gradually the amount of preparation you&rsq ...
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3rd October 2020
The Day before the UCAT Test
The day before the UCAT If you haven’t already, make sure you know the location of your test centre. If you don’t know how to get to the centre, print out directions from Google Maps. If you haven’t taken a test before at your test centre, ask around among the seniors you know or go and check it out before, to see whether there’s anything you need to know ab ...
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3rd October 2020
The Night before the UCAT Test
The Night before the UCAT Test It’s fine if you want to see a movie or hang out with your friends until the early evening, but then get home. Before you get too tired, lay out everything you’re going to need tomorrow morning: a photo ID, your watch, ear plugs and water bottle. You will not be allowed to use scrap paper during the exam, so you won’t need to bring tha ...
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3rd October 2020
UCAT : The day of the UCAT test
Waking Up on the UCAT Test Morning When you wake up, consider taking a shower or doing some brief calisthenics or other exercise to get the blood flowing—especially to your groggy brain! If someone is taking you to the test site, make sure he or she is up, too. Eat a normal breakfast, but not too much or you’ll be groggy. If you’re used to consuming some form of caffe ...
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3rd October 2020
UCAT test tips
Ignore these Two Voices in Your Head We want to warn you that during the test, two tiny invisible fairies will be sitting on your shoulders, whispering in your ears. You’ll hear only one of the fairies, and you won’t be sure which one it is until the test starts. One of the fairies whispers gleefully, “I can’t believe how easy this test is.” The other fair ...
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2nd October 2020
UCAT test tips from MedEntry UCAT Prep
Tips for the actual exam: MedEntry UCAT Course Tips Pace yourself as you go. If you find yourself losing focus in the last subtest think “finish strong” rather than “I’m almost out of here”. Don’t allow yourself to switch off until that final answer is filled in. Never give up until the computer screen closes! Don’t change your answers without ...
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2nd October 2020
UCAT Tuition Melbourne
MedEntry UCAT Prep offers tuition for UCAT in Melbourne and Mildura. UCAT workshops in Melbourne can be found here. MedEntry runs UCAT workshops in all major capital cities in Australia and New Zealand. For a full list of workshops, click here. MedEntry offers its UCAT and Medical Interview training courses in Perth, Western Australia; Adelaide in South Australia; Melbourne in Victoria; ...
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2nd October 2020
UCAT Courses Toowoomba
MedEntry offers UCAT tuition in Brisbane, Cairns and Toowoomba in Queensland. UCAT courses in Queensland can be found here. MedEntry runs UCAT workshops in all major capital cities in Australia and New Zealand. For a full list of workshops, click here. MedEntry offers its UCAT and Medical Interview training courses in Perth, Western Australia; Adelaide in South Australia; Melbourne in Vi ...
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