The key to preparing for the UCAT is doing practice questions and exams. Therefore, it would be advisable to run weekly or fortnightly UCAT revision sessions, and consequently practice tests under exam conditions, once students feel confident in their skills. The questions in the UCAT are not content based, and require applicants to think in a certain way, thus the most effective revision method is repetitively doing past questions, to allow students to get used to the question types. There are many different resources available providing practice
questions, both in the form of books or online; the ‘Get Into Medical School – 1250 UKCAT Practice Questions’ book has an endless number of questions, and there are additionally articles on the BlackStone Tutors website providing techniques to answer each section. It would be
effective to go over practice questions on a routine basis, going through specific techniques for each question style, and solutions to any incorrect answers. Closer to the examination period, it would be best to conduct a full 2-hour practice test under exam conditions – on the
UCAT website, there are three practice tests available, which could be used as they mimic the actual exam.
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