Unfortunately, some UCAT prep courses try to convince students that taking the UCAT has noth­ing to do with real academic skills. They prefer you to believe that it’s all about their test-taking “secrets.” This is great marketing for them, but little help for you. Although there are a few basic test-taking skills that you should know about—process of elimina­tion, intelligent guessing and checking, testing choices, and so on—these can be learned easily in a day, and don’t earn you too many points on the UCAT. So what does get you big score improve­ments? In the MedEntry UCAT prep, you will be trained on essential skills including focused concept review and intelligent reasoning skills.

Some UCAT prep courses portray the UCAT as a scary and meaningless test. They claim the UCAT can be “cracked” by simply memorising their test-taking gimmicks or that there are 'UCAT secrets'. These scare tactics frighten a lot of students into those UCAT-prep courses, but they are not true. Of course, it’s tempting to believe that the UCAT is easy to crack, but do you really think that medical schools would have been using the UCAT for so long (nearly 14 years) if it were a joke? Because the skills that UCAT tests are seen as valid and reliable, other countries have started using UCAT: New Zealand and Australia for example.

Real success on the UCAT takes hard work and the right attitude. Treating the UCAT like a joke is defi­nitely not the right attitude. Despite what some UCAT prep courses say, the UCAT isn’t written by a monopoly of sadists who hate students and want to make medical school admissions as arduous as possible. At MedEntry UCAT Prep, you will undergo a series of thorough training courses to cultivate the necessary skills and right attitude to face the UCAT.

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