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best of luck!!! <3As someone from the UK who's been reading through the thread, I'm in awe of these scores. On our student forums, a 700 average is considered to be an amazing score, so seeing these 750+ averages being the norm is insane to me! Well done to all of you. I have my exam in a months time, hope I can channel this positive energy into my test
Thanks!
| Verbal Reasoning | 820 |
| Decision Making | 830 |
| Quantitative Reasoning | 830 |
| Abstract Reasoning | 770 |
| Overall | 3250 |
| Situational Judgement | 707 |
OMG GOOD JOB!!! That is like an amazing score!!! Although you're like a genius at VR, did you find it pretty difficult - as in the question types or/and like the length of the passages? I am like terrible at VR and I've sceen my scores fluctuating between like 28-34 (cannot legit improve lmao) - would you think this is a relatively good score?Hey everyone, long time lurker but first time poster here! I just want to say thank you to everyone on this MSO forum because without the advice and helpful contributions of everyone in this forum I would not have achieved the score that I did. I told myself that I would only let myself post my results on here if I got over my goal score (3200) so I am very happy.
Date Completed: 11.07.2020
Testing Centre: Pearson Testing Centre, Brisbane
Verbal Reasoning 820 Decision Making 830 Quantitative Reasoning 830 Abstract Reasoning 770 Overall 3250 Situational Judgement 707
Venue:
My exam was at 12 but I arrived an hour early. There was a couple of other people in the waiting room (around 6) but only 2 other people in the room with me. The staff were very professional and made the registration process go very smoothly for all of us. Top tip to anyone who hasn't taken the test yet: DONT drink an entire bottle of water before you go in, once your test begins you can't stop the timer meaning you will lose time if you have to go to the bathroom. Overall I found the experience very comfortable. The centre provided noise cancelling headphones and ear plugs upon request but it was so quiet in there that I didn't even need them. The onscreen calculator was much easier to use than the ones in the mocks, I found it to be more similar to the one in the prep company that I used. You can use the backspace button.
Exam Review:
Overall, I found the exam to be of similar difficulty to the mock tests I had done, but slightly easier than the official UCAT mock. In particularly the QR section was SIGNIFICANTLY easier, it was comparable to the QR section of official mock D I think.
VR: Going into this I knew that VR was one of my strengths, however reading previous posts made me realise that even people who are usually good at VR sometimes achieve lower on the day. I cannot stress how important it is to RELAX and BREATHE before you begin this section. I was able to complete all 44 questions with approximately 3.5 minutes to spare which I used to go back to the questions I had flagged and ensure the answer was correct. I think this section was of similar difficulty to the official mocks and I was able to use the same strategies I had practised to find the answers. Make sure you practise on larger screens than a laptop because the passages do appear to be longer because of the font size.
DM: i did find this section to be of similar difficulty as the mocks but DM has always been one of my better sections so I managed to do relatively well. One thing that really helped me was remembering to not make inferences for all of the syllogisms and if I got stuck to move on immediately. I finished with about 3 minutes left so I went back to flagged questions. The syllogisms had longer stems than I was used to.
QR: I was TERRIFIED for this section. I am not a maths person, never have been, and my mock scores for QR fluctuated between 600 and 900 so I was really quite nervous for this section - especially given the QR in the official mocks was SO DIFFICULT (my highest score was 20/36). So absolutely stoked with this score. The questions were relatively straightforward (only had to guess one set) and I even finished with time to spare.
AR: I have never been very good at AR so I knew this section was going to be hit or miss for me. I went through all 55 questions quite quickly and thought I had all of the patterns for the set a/b/neither questions down pat, but I must have misinterpreted some along the way. Either way I am still really happy with 770 and that is a huge improvement for me. My best advice is to PRACTISE PRACTISE PRACTISE and write down all the patterns that you get wrong/find difficult while practising. Before I began the section (during the 1 minute) I quickly wrote down SCANS and some common patterns (e.g. prime numbers, parallel lines, odd/even) before I started so I knew what to look for if I got stuck. This definitely helped me.
SJT: omg okay so I'm not entirely sure if 707 is a good score but let me just say I have struggled with situational judgement for soooo long. I always rush through this section because I get so tired after AR that I just want to finish the exam and leave. So before I started answering the questions I actually took a 3 minute break to just breathe and give my brain a break (its not like the time made a difference I always have so much time left in this section). I think this helped me to think clearly through this section. My best tip is to put yourself in their perspective, and make sure you know roles and responsibilities of med students (good documents include GMC good practise i think its called and the AMSA code of ethics), if you know the basics the rest is just intuition and you should be sweet
Overall, I am stoked with this score and I am so glad that my work has been worth it. I really hope it will be enough to snag an interview. I think my score was 90% hard work and 10% good luck (lucky sloth socks, lucky AF1s, lucky jumper, lucky necklace, lucky song 'without me' by eminem - yes I am ridiculously superstitious when it comes to exams). I will be posting in the Mock results vs actual for anyone interested. To anyone reading this forum frantically before taking their test like I was - GOOD LUCK. Your performance will reflect your hard work and your mindset on the day so make sure you RELAX, take heaps of bubble baths if need be, and BREATHE before you start VR.
Could you tell us your VR strategy? ThanksHey everyone, long time lurker but first time poster here! I just want to say thank you to everyone on this MSO forum because without the advice and helpful contributions of everyone in this forum I would not have achieved the score that I did. I told myself that I would only let myself post my results on here if I got over my goal score (3200) so I am very happy.
Date Completed: 11.07.2020
Testing Centre: Pearson Testing Centre, Brisbane
Verbal Reasoning 820 Decision Making 830 Quantitative Reasoning 830 Abstract Reasoning 770 Overall 3250 Situational Judgement 707
Venue:
My exam was at 12 but I arrived an hour early. There was a couple of other people in the waiting room (around 6) but only 2 other people in the room with me. The staff were very professional and made the registration process go very smoothly for all of us. Top tip to anyone who hasn't taken the test yet: DONT drink an entire bottle of water before you go in, once your test begins you can't stop the timer meaning you will lose time if you have to go to the bathroom. Overall I found the experience very comfortable. The centre provided noise cancelling headphones and ear plugs upon request but it was so quiet in there that I didn't even need them. The onscreen calculator was much easier to use than the ones in the mocks, I found it to be more similar to the one in the prep company that I used. You can use the backspace button.
Exam Review:
Overall, I found the exam to be of similar difficulty to the mock tests I had done, but slightly easier than the official UCAT mock. In particularly the QR section was SIGNIFICANTLY easier, it was comparable to the QR section of official mock D I think.
VR: Going into this I knew that VR was one of my strengths, however reading previous posts made me realise that even people who are usually good at VR sometimes achieve lower on the day. I cannot stress how important it is to RELAX and BREATHE before you begin this section. I was able to complete all 44 questions with approximately 3.5 minutes to spare which I used to go back to the questions I had flagged and ensure the answer was correct. I think this section was of similar difficulty to the official mocks and I was able to use the same strategies I had practised to find the answers. Make sure you practise on larger screens than a laptop because the passages do appear to be longer because of the font size.
DM: i did find this section to be of similar difficulty as the mocks but DM has always been one of my better sections so I managed to do relatively well. One thing that really helped me was remembering to not make inferences for all of the syllogisms and if I got stuck to move on immediately. I finished with about 3 minutes left so I went back to flagged questions. The syllogisms had longer stems than I was used to.
QR: I was TERRIFIED for this section. I am not a maths person, never have been, and my mock scores for QR fluctuated between 600 and 900 so I was really quite nervous for this section - especially given the QR in the official mocks was SO DIFFICULT (my highest score was 20/36). So absolutely stoked with this score. The questions were relatively straightforward (only had to guess one set) and I even finished with time to spare.
AR: I have never been very good at AR so I knew this section was going to be hit or miss for me. I went through all 55 questions quite quickly and thought I had all of the patterns for the set a/b/neither questions down pat, but I must have misinterpreted some along the way. Either way I am still really happy with 770 and that is a huge improvement for me. My best advice is to PRACTISE PRACTISE PRACTISE and write down all the patterns that you get wrong/find difficult while practising. Before I began the section (during the 1 minute) I quickly wrote down SCANS and some common patterns (e.g. prime numbers, parallel lines, odd/even) before I started so I knew what to look for if I got stuck. This definitely helped me.
SJT: omg okay so I'm not entirely sure if 707 is a good score but let me just say I have struggled with situational judgement for soooo long. I always rush through this section because I get so tired after AR that I just want to finish the exam and leave. So before I started answering the questions I actually took a 3 minute break to just breathe and give my brain a break (its not like the time made a difference I always have so much time left in this section). I think this helped me to think clearly through this section. My best tip is to put yourself in their perspective, and make sure you know roles and responsibilities of med students (good documents include GMC good practise i think its called and the AMSA code of ethics), if you know the basics the rest is just intuition and you should be sweet
Overall, I am stoked with this score and I am so glad that my work has been worth it. I really hope it will be enough to snag an interview. I think my score was 90% hard work and 10% good luck (lucky sloth socks, lucky AF1s, lucky jumper, lucky necklace, lucky song 'without me' by eminem - yes I am ridiculously superstitious when it comes to exams). I will be posting in the Mock results vs actual for anyone interested. To anyone reading this forum frantically before taking their test like I was - GOOD LUCK. Your performance will reflect your hard work and your mindset on the day so make sure you RELAX, take heaps of bubble baths if need be, and BREATHE before you start VR.
. Did the test in the Sydney office 11 July 20, and much the same as last year, everything was good though my pen died part way through but they gave me another.| Section | 2019 UCAT | 2020 UCAT |
| Verbal Reasoning | 690 | 680 |
| Decision Making | 680 | 710 |
| Quantitative Reasoning | 760 | 740 |
| Abstract reasoning | 770 | 890 (wtf!) |
| Situational Judgement | 688 | 634 |
| Total | 2900 (93%) | 3020 |
you got this!!
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Awesome! Thanks so much really helpful. Good luck with your almost guaranteed med interviewsHey! just want to make it clear that VR has always been my best section because I am an avid reader so I did have a slight advantage in that sense. However it is definitely not impossible to score well in this section. I cannot stress this enough that you need to RELAX in this section because your brain will be going a million miles an hour and if your stressing about other things you will not be able to think clearly and comprehend quickly.
My best advice is to recognise the types of questions because there are different types which pop up very regularly and you should approach them in different ways. DONT bother reading the whole passage especially if youre not really a speedy reader, even i didnt do this in the exam. i read the question, looked for the info (e.g. dates, names) or found the paragraph they were referring to (this is called the chunking technique) and then worked from there. whilst skimming works for some people, i found that i was just reading words and not COMPREHENDING, thus I was just wasting precious time that could be spent on other questions. Only skim if the question asks what the AIM or overall MESSAGE of the passage is (or other questions to that effect).
I find that eliminating stupid options is a good idea as you will be left with 1-2 viable options which you can easily find in the passage.
Time is so precious in this section, people often get carried away with ensuring their first 10 answers are absolutely 100% perfect before realising they are running out of time!! I am guilty of this so what I did before I began was write down my time checkpoint for VR - i wanted to be on Q22 by the time the timer got to 12:00. by doing this, I was able to check that I was running on time and whether I needed to speed or could take my time.
Finally DO NOT BE AFRAID to leave questions blank!!! I absolutely hate reading history/war related passages so I would always skip these questions completely and come back to them at the end when my mind wasn't so clogged up. I literally left them incomplete. It is so so important to flag and move on if your stuck/unsure - you are much better off finished all 44 questions with 2 minutes to spare than 24/44 100% correct and the rest rushed through.
Instead of treating it like a chore having to read these big long passages I suggest that you treat it like a game!! make it into something enjoyable!
For me this involved going on to random wikipedia pages (literally go on wiki, press alt + shift + x) and reading absolutely THE most random passages I have ever read as quickly as I possibly could, and then trying to comprehend and recall key information. I promise you if you do this every night for 10-20 minutes before your exam your speed reading and hopefully VR scores will increase and you will be less stressed in the exam
Good luck! youll smash it
Thats a crazy score!I had a general timing strategy in my head - 20+ questions done with 12 mins to go etc... and if I wasn't keeping to the timing I would force myself to hurry up and guess (logically deducing it from the questions options given) 1-3 q's to catch up with my timing - also I used the true/false/can't tell questions to speed up on my thing because those are generally quicker
| 2019 | 2020 | |
| Verbal Reasoning | 630 | 720 |
| Decision Making | 660 | 780 |
| Quantitative Reasoning | 760 | 880 |
| Abstract Reasoning | 710 | 900 |
| Total | 2760 | 3280 |
| Situational Judgement | 684 | 602 (lmao) |
Wishing you luck from halfway across the world!
Hi there,Hi everyone, second time around on the UCAT and managed to improve
Section 2019 UCAT 2020 UCAT Verbal Reasoning 690 680 Decision Making 680 710 Quantitative Reasoning 760 740 Abstract reasoning 770 890 (wtf!) Situational Judgement 688 634 Total 2900 (93%) 3020
Obviously I'm really happy with my results.
VR - Last year I ran out of time this year I paced better (though did a bit worse). Mostly what I'd expected
DM - I put a fair bit of practice into this section but still found it challenging. Worked steadily though and time was spot on
QR - I always fear this section - I'm good at math but not super fast. My practice tests were all over the place on this. I ran out of time this year and just guessed the last 7 questions!
AR - This I found easy and quick to practice plus a lot of fun. I should probably have put more effort into other areas as it was my best in 2019 but I'll take the marks.
SJ - Had plenty of time on this and not being a school leaver I think some experience helps. Having said that my score isn't stellar.
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Good luck everyone
Wow that's a big improvement!
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Thats an awesome VR score wow! Can you share your strategy?
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