The final element of the UCAT is the Situational Judgement section (SJT) which looks at how you would react in certain clinical and professional settings. It measures your capacity to understand real-world situations and to identify critical factors and appropriate behaviour in dealing with them. The test assesses integrity, honesty, perspective taking, team involvement, and resilience and adaptability.
Having a good understanding of the GMC guidelines or familiarising yourself with the GMC’s publication entitled “Tomorrow’s doctors” will certainly equip you with the right knowledge to answer the SJT questions. However, rather than spend a lot of time reading and learning all them all, a more efficient use of your time would be to focus on the key concepts and most important scenarios, such as those which are explained in this article.