I've never heard of that being the case, how do they know that their answers "didn't save"? You should be doing each section until the very last second i.e. the timer expires, upon which you'll be greeted with "your time has expired" and pressing "ok" immediately takes you to the 1:00 landing page before the next section.
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Post-UCAT Discussion 2020
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Correct, as above for the person who was asking
were they small earplugs, or noise-cancelling headphones which were provided?Hi guys,
I sat my exam in Parramatta, at the Pearson Professional Centre. I was allowed to start early because I was there early and I guess they had space for it. Earplugs were provided upon asking. Everything ran smoothly - the calculator is still as lame as the mock calculator though, in that it is kinda laggy. Overall, I thought it was harder than the mocks - especially VR, I am notoriously bad at anything regarding history and war etc. and I had a lot of those type of questions. My results were released about thirty minutes after finishing and I don't know if I should be happy and awaiting any type of offer, but I scored 2830! And yes, I did bomb VR (580). lol
Good luck everyone else
I asked for earplugs, there were a set of headphones on the desk but I didn't try them on so I cannot attest to their quality. I would assume they are noise-cancelling in this situation
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Im not sure what you mean by valid.. If it helps you get the correct answer in the least time, then anything is valid
could people submitting their scores on here be kind enough to put some of their mock results (without stating prep companies ofc) on the
Predicting UCAT Scores from Mock Exam Results thread? it would really help give us all an idea of where we sit!
no pressure of course, just a little reminder the thread exists)
Predicting UCAT Scores from Mock Exam Results thread? it would really help give us all an idea of where we sit!
no pressure of course, just a little reminder the thread exists
) If the passages can be 400/450/500 words long, I can't reliably read the whole passage in time, so i'd use a different strategy. If they are all like 200-300 words, I can.Im not sure what you mean by valid.. If it helps you get the correct answer in the least time, then anything is valid
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Ah I see. That's fair enough. For me personally, I stick to reading the question first and passage after despite the length and tend to finish VR with a couple minutes to spare. But do whatever suits you bestIf the passages can be 400/450/500 words long, I can't reliably read the whole passage in time, so i'd use a different strategy. If they are all like 200-300 words, I can.
hotel_trivago
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Hello, for those who have already sat the UCAT exam, were you able to change the screen resolution or mouse sensitivity?
No and no
Really happy with my score. It took a lot of work to fit in the study around full time work. I knew I was going to fall down in VR as I had a feeling my practice wasn't enough, and AR I’m very happy with, but I did spend 70% of my study time on it. I’m a bit annoyed with QR as I know I could have done better, but my time management got away from me on a few question and I had to guess the remaining 10 or so questions
. DM was to be expected, I was struggling every now and then with syllogisms and I must have hit a rough patch of them on the day.
Otherwise, I hope this score sneaks into the 90th percentile this year and I don’t have to sit GAMSAT again
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I thought I would add in last years marks just in case anyone was doubting their ability to improve if they didn’t perform as well as they hoped. It is possible to improve! You know it yourself! Just remember, nothing comes without labour!
. DM was to be expected, I was struggling every now and then with syllogisms and I must have hit a rough patch of them on the day.Otherwise, I hope this score sneaks into the 90th percentile this year and I don’t have to sit GAMSAT again
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I thought I would add in last years marks just in case anyone was doubting their ability to improve if they didn’t perform as well as they hoped. It is possible to improve! You know it yourself! Just remember, nothing comes without labour!
| 2019 | 2020 | |
| VR | 540 | 570 |
| DM | 630 | 650 |
| QR | 580 | 760 |
| AR | 510 | 880 |
| Total | 2260 | 2860 |
| SJT | 667 | 621 |
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woah good job!! That's an insane AR score
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Amazing socre Jon!
Just wondering, was QR as tough as the official ucat papers or slightly easier?
Nice score congrats!
were your mock results similar to this?
Honestly cannot comment on that as I didn't use the UCAT papers for my practice. They were trickier than expected though
My mocks were averaged at 2706 so I did a bit better than my mocks somehow! My AR score was totally unexpected as I consistently got roughly 700 in all mocks for it
AJ13
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This gives me hope! haha
I'll be praying i can fluke an 800+ AR score...
Angela2020
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good job m8!! How was AR btw? Also was VR quite like long and factual or something?
Can't talk to the specifics of VR sorry, but I can say did find it harder than my practices
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