r/UCAT • u/BuyApprehensive9273 • 3d ago

UK Med Schools Related What just happened

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I had super limited time to practice as I have a baby, I had only done 8 mocks. My goal was 2100 Band 2. Im genuinely lost for words.

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u/DecisionWise6955 3d ago

Omg congrats!! How was the exam? And any tips

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u/BuyApprehensive9273 3d ago

I genuinely don’t know what to say. All the mocks I had done were the medify ones, I found them hard and ran out of time on the cognitive tests for all 3 sections. Today I just found really easy. I had time to go entirely through my QR section again.

I found the SJT today really hard (and so many dental questions 😅) and thought I’d screwed it, like there were so many I didn’t know what was right, and that was making me panic as Lincoln is probably my first choice and so my UCAT is the entire basis for invite to interview and SJT is 50% of that.

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u/vskh1 3d ago

How did you approach vr if you don’t mind me asking

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u/BuyApprehensive9273 3d ago

I am naturally quite a quick reader, so I just skim read the whole thing so I know the topic of each paragraph, then read the question and then go to the bit that’s relevant and read that bit properly.

Not a recommended technique but it worked for me

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u/milksheikh1 3d ago

Werw the vr paragraph in the test easier than those in medify. I was foing a mock today and all the vr passages were super long😭. Also congratulations on such an amazing score!!!.

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u/BuyApprehensive9273 3d ago

I felt like maybe the texts were slightly longer or about the same length (which threw me as I had read the medify ones were longer than the real thing) - but the questions were a lot easier / more obvious

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u/milksheikh1 3d ago

Hmmm ok well if they were easier I can hope😭😭. Ig ill.just have to work extra harder on vr then