Predicting UCAT Scores from Mock Exam Results

[Fili]

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Hey, can somebody please explain how a 98th percentile yields a 790 subtest score and a 100th yields a 900 subtest score... That means a 99th percentile will yield a score between 800-900 which is far too big of a range...

Ngl the answers are pretty much what everyone else has already said in the posts above yours.

 

[ucatboy]

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Hey, can somebody please explain how a 98th percentile yields a 790 subtest score and a 100th yields a 900 subtest score... That means a 99th percentile will yield a score between 800-900 which is far too big of a range...

Read above lol

 

[rainfall]

How should we be interpreting our results from the official mocks? There are no percentiles/scaled scored given. I tried (content removed) a conversion table and I'm happy with the score I got (except the 600 for QR oops) but does anybody know if this is a good indicator of what score to expect? Does it take into account the relative difficulty of QR?

 

[MurderKing]

Here are my scores from two prep resource banks, one of the official mock tests, and the actual exam

(Note: Although there are 29 questions in DM, ten of these are the five-statement drag-and-drop-response type questions, which are marked out of 2, hence the total possible mark is 39.)

Exam #	VR (/44)	DM (/39)	QR (/36)	AR (/55)	SJT (/69)	Percentile
1	39	33	22	42	54.5	99th
2	39	32	27	36	51	98th
3	39	32	31	38	51	100th
4	38	30	25	39	54	99th
5	38	36	31	31	54	99th
6	36	31	28	30	49	99th
7	43	31	25	34	57	99th
8	39	30	26	35	51.5	99th
9	36	29	22	28	51	96th
10	35	25	23	49	53	97th
11	41	30	30	37	50	99th
12	39	28	26	38	62	96th
13	40	30	23	47	55.5	97th
14	40	33	27	26 (yikes)	51.5	89th
15	38	35	29	52	46	100th
AVERAGE	39/44	31/39	26/36	37/55	50/69	98th %ile

A range for Decision Making is provided instead of a precise score, e.g. 700-800. I have taken the average of the range in each exam. I have also counted partial marks in SJT as 0.5 as a mark.)

Exam #	VR (/900)	DM (/900)	QR (/900)	AR (/900)	SJT (band, raw score /69)	Total score (/3600)
1	850	750	850	630	Band 1, 52.5	3080
2	890	750	850	570	Band 1, 51	3060
3	890	750	900	750	Band 1, 63	3290
4	890	750	890	650	Band 1, 54.5	3180
5	890	750	850	730	Band 1, 51.5	3220
6	830	750	850	750	Band 1, 52.5	3180
7	890	750	900	830	Band 1, 54	3370
8	900	750	900	830	Band 1, 49.5	3380
AVERAGE	879/900	750/900	874/900	718/900	Band 1, 54/69	3220

Official Mock Test C
(I did the other two official mocks, A and B, quite early in my preparation - don't do this, you want to use the official resources sparingly and wisely!)

	VR	DM	QR	AR	SJT	Total
Raw mark	36/44	24.5/29	34/36	29/55 (yikes)	? (don't have a record of this)	-
Estimated score	800	770	890	570 (yikes!)	-	3030

Actual exam
(Note: Although SJT is also marked on a scale from 300-900, the "total score" only includes the four cognitive subtests, i.e. VR, DM, QR, and AR.)

VR (/900)	DM (/900)	QR (/900)	AR (/900)	SJT (/900)	Total score (/3600)
760	770	900	800	708	3230

If you have any questions, or if I haven't covered something, please ask away!

Blimey, have I accidentally stepped into the Mensa forum? These scores do not belong in the human race . You guys make the rest of us feel like Neanderthals.

 

[whys]

This thread seriously ain't getting enough love, it's feeling sad and lonely . So, here comes my post!!!!

A
- Completed 8/8 mock exams
- Counted partially correct marks as 0.5
- Let me know if you want to see mini-mock results too, happy to post it if people are interested


B
- Completed 8/15 mock exams
- Partial marks are correctly calculated


OFFICIAL MOCKS:


ACTUAL SCORES:

Verbal reasoning	700
Decision making	670
Quantitative reasoning	880
Abstract reasoning	870
TOTAL	3120
Situational Judgement	643

 

[someday]

This thread seriously ain't getting enough love, it's feeling sad and lonely . So, here comes my post!!!!

A
- Completed 8/8 mock exams
- Counted partially correct marks as 0.5
- Let me know if you want to see mini-mock results too, happy to post it if people are interested
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B
- Completed 8/15 mock exams
- Partial marks are correctly calculated
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OFFICIAL MOCKS:
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ACTUAL SCORES:

Verbal reasoning	700
Decision making	670
Quantitative reasoning	880
Abstract reasoning	870
TOTAL	3120
Situational Judgement	643

ayy bringing the thread back alive - but nice bro you killed it!

 

[Chessyk__]

This thread seriously ain't getting enough love, it's feeling sad and lonely . So, here comes my post!!!!

A
- Completed 8/8 mock exams
- Counted partially correct marks as 0.5
- Let me know if you want to see mini-mock results too, happy to post it if people are interested
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B
- Completed 8/15 mock exams
- Partial marks are correctly calculated
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OFFICIAL MOCKS:
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ACTUAL SCORES:

Verbal reasoning	700
Decision making	670
Quantitative reasoning	880
Abstract reasoning	870
TOTAL	3120
Situational Judgement	643

Wow thank you so much for sharing, this is so helpful and congratulations!
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Also, you appeared to do really well at gradually and consistently improving your marks... do you have any tips for this? such as what you would do after one mock, before the next? E.g. work on different strategies or target specific sections or do untimed practice on weak areas etc.

 

[Circles]

This thread seriously ain't getting enough love, it's feeling sad and lonely . So, here comes my post!!!!

would you be kind enough to post your mini mocks too Congrats on your amazing score!!

 

[whys]

Wow thank you so much for sharing, this is so helpful and congratulations!
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Also, you appeared to do really well at gradually and consistently improving your marks... do you have any tips for this? such as what you would do after one mock, before the next? E.g. work on different strategies or target specific sections or do untimed practice on weak areas etc.

Thanks for the reply Chessyk_! I did gradually improve, but as you can see I did kinda bad on some mocks in the middle - it's totally normal to fluctuate (so don't worry if you do good one time and not so good the next) because it is an aptitude test after all. At the start, I had more time so did mocks really spaced out (like once every 1 or 2 weeks) but I sort of neglected UCAT for school (assessments at school had immediate consequences, whilst UCAT was X months away so it was very easy to push UCAT away and just say 'oh, I'll just do it later'). Try and dedicate a set amount of time each day to do UCAT, I know it's easy to do a lot of practice on one day and neglect it the next, but especially this close to the test try study consistently and don't overburden yourself or you'll burn out.

After a mock, I would on average spend 40 mins to an hour going over the exam. This would mainly just be me looking over everything I got wrong and saying unhelpful things like 'wow, can't believe I misread that I'm so dumb' or 'okay whatever, I'll just do this next time'. Rarely did I actually note down the question types I got wrong and practise them in isolation - if I did this I think I could have improved more. I think what would be helpful is instead of just going through a mock and being like 'ok, whatever', focus on specific question types. Practise them untimed, or focus on them in isolation to the UCAT. Pinpoint where you make mistakes and correct those. For example, if you suck at speedreading, then practise by reading Wikipedia until your eyes are red and teary. If you keep getting speed/time/distance questions wrong, google some of those worksheets and work on them till you never get those questions wrong again.

I kinda miscalculated the timing of my mocks and didn't have time to complete 7 entire mocks! I even started doing a mock every day/ever 2 days in the lead up to the exam (stopped doing this 4 days before the exam since I didn't wanna, yknow, burnout!) You obviously don't need to finish all your mocks to do well, just make sure you can reflect upon them efficiently. So yeah, in conclusion I didn't reflect well on my mocks and only started doing this near the end of my UCAT practice. One more thing - keep a mistakes document for AR! Read it every once in a while and it will help you stop repeating mistakes in AR and help you get patterns you might not otherwise be able to recognise.

Good luck for your test, and show the UCAT consortium what you're made of!!!!!

would you be kind enough to post your mini mocks too Congrats on your amazing score!!

Yes, I would be kind enough to post my mini-mock scores! And thank you so much!!!!

 

[2xq]

Thanks for the reply Chessyk_! I did gradually improve, but as you can see I did kinda bad on some mocks in the middle - it's totally normal to fluctuate (so don't worry if you do good one time and not so good the next) because it is an aptitude test after all. At the start, I had more time so did mocks really spaced out (like once every 1 or 2 weeks) but I sort of neglected UCAT for school (assessments at school had immediate consequences, whilst UCAT was X months away so it was very easy to push UCAT away and just say 'oh, I'll just do it later'). Try and dedicate a set amount of time each day to do UCAT, I know it's easy to do a lot of practice on one day and neglect it the next, but especially this close to the test try study consistently and don't overburden yourself or you'll burn out.

After a mock, I would on average spend 40 mins to an hour going over the exam. This would mainly just be me looking over everything I got wrong and saying unhelpful things like 'wow, can't believe I misread that I'm so dumb' or 'okay whatever, I'll just do this next time'. Rarely did I actually note down the question types I got wrong and practise them in isolation - if I did this I think I could have improved more. I think what would be helpful is instead of just going through a mock and being like 'ok, whatever', focus on specific question types. Practise them untimed, or focus on them in isolation to the UCAT. Pinpoint where you make mistakes and correct those. For example, if you suck at speedreading, then practise by reading Wikipedia until your eyes are red and teary. If you keep getting speed/time/distance questions wrong, google some of those worksheets and work on them till you never get those questions wrong again.

I kinda miscalculated the timing of my mocks and didn't have time to complete 7 entire mocks! I even started doing a mock every day/ever 2 days in the lead up to the exam (stopped doing this 4 days before the exam since I didn't wanna, yknow, burnout!) You obviously don't need to finish all your mocks to do well, just make sure you can reflect upon them efficiently. So yeah, in conclusion I didn't reflect well on my mocks and only started doing this near the end of my UCAT practice. One more thing - keep a mistakes document for AR! Read it every once in a while and it will help you stop repeating mistakes in AR and help you get patterns you might not otherwise be able to recognise.

Good luck for your test, and show the UCAT consortium what you're made of!!!!!


Yes, I would be kind enough to post my mini-mock scores! And thank you so much!!!!
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some nice improvements! i assume for DM you took the middle number of the range given right?

 

[whys]

some nice improvements! i assume for DM you took the middle number of the range given right?

oh yes! I totally forgot to mention that in my posts - yep I took the middle range.

 

[aidin]

A
- Completed 8/8 mock exams
- Counted partially correct marks as 0.5
- Let me know if you want to see mini-mock results too, happy to post it if people are interested

Congratulations on your amazing score! Was just wondering when you did these particular mocks ?

 

[hrj0306]

Thanks for the reply Chessyk_! I did gradually improve, but as you can see I did kinda bad on some mocks in the middle - it's totally normal to fluctuate (so don't worry if you do good one time and not so good the next) because it is an aptitude test after all. At the start, I had more time so did mocks really spaced out (like once every 1 or 2 weeks) but I sort of neglected UCAT for school (assessments at school had immediate consequences, whilst UCAT was X months away so it was very easy to push UCAT away and just say 'oh, I'll just do it later'). Try and dedicate a set amount of time each day to do UCAT, I know it's easy to do a lot of practice on one day and neglect it the next, but especially this close to the test try study consistently and don't overburden yourself or you'll burn out.

After a mock, I would on average spend 40 mins to an hour going over the exam. This would mainly just be me looking over everything I got wrong and saying unhelpful things like 'wow, can't believe I misread that I'm so dumb' or 'okay whatever, I'll just do this next time'. Rarely did I actually note down the question types I got wrong and practise them in isolation - if I did this I think I could have improved more. I think what would be helpful is instead of just going through a mock and being like 'ok, whatever', focus on specific question types. Practise them untimed, or focus on them in isolation to the UCAT. Pinpoint where you make mistakes and correct those. For example, if you suck at speedreading, then practise by reading Wikipedia until your eyes are red and teary. If you keep getting speed/time/distance questions wrong, google some of those worksheets and work on them till you never get those questions wrong again.

I kinda miscalculated the timing of my mocks and didn't have time to complete 7 entire mocks! I even started doing a mock every day/ever 2 days in the lead up to the exam (stopped doing this 4 days before the exam since I didn't wanna, yknow, burnout!) You obviously don't need to finish all your mocks to do well, just make sure you can reflect upon them efficiently. So yeah, in conclusion I didn't reflect well on my mocks and only started doing this near the end of my UCAT practice. One more thing - keep a mistakes document for AR! Read it every once in a while and it will help you stop repeating mistakes in AR and help you get patterns you might not otherwise be able to recognise.

Good luck for your test, and show the UCAT consortium what you're made of!!!!!


Yes, I would be kind enough to post my mini-mock scores! And thank you so much!!!!
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How were the mocks in terms of difficulty compared to the actual UCAT?

 

[whys]

Congratulations on your amazing score! Was just wondering when you did these particular mocks ?

Thanks! I think I started doing mocks 2-3 months before my exam. I did them in linear order and would do one every 1-2 weeks. Closer to my exam date, I realised I had lots of mocks left over and not enough time to finish them, so I started doing mocks everyday or every 2 days (ended up feeling burnt out quite close to my test). I suggest timing your mocks and space them out so you can reflect over them and don’t overdo it, it’s better to do it over a longer period of time rather than cram everything. I was really worried because I got so burnt out that my brain couldn’t recognise even the simplest AR patterns, so in the few days leading up to the big day I took it easy. To specifically answer your question, I think I did over half of my mocks in the past month (so from mid june) and the others randomly before that.

EDIT: just realised you were specifically asking about those 8. I think I did about half before June and the other half in the month before my exam.

How were the mocks in terms of difficulty compared to the actual UCAT?

Hey! I answered this in the post UCAT discussion thread where I talked about each section and how they compared to the official mocks in terms of difficulty. Overall I think my practice as a whole reflected the real exam quite well.

 

[LeSpicyGinger]

Thanks! I think I started doing mocks 2-3 months before my exam. I did them in linear order and would do one every 1-2 weeks. Closer to my exam date, I realised I had lots of mocks left over and not enough time to finish them, so I started doing mocks everyday or every 2 days (ended up feeling burnt out quite close to my test). I suggest timing your mocks and space them out so you can reflect over them and don’t overdo it, it’s better to do it over a longer period of time rather than cram everything. I was really worried because I got so burnt out that my brain couldn’t recognise even the simplest AR patterns, so in the few days leading up to the big day I took it easy. To specifically answer your question, I think I did over half of my mocks in the past month (so from mid june) and the others randomly before that.

EDIT: just realised you were specifically asking about those 8. I think I did about half before June and the other half in the month before my exam.


Hey! I answered this in the post UCAT discussion thread where I talked about each section and how they compared to the official mocks in terms of difficulty. Overall I think my practice as a whole reflected the real exam quite well.

And I thought I was the only one burnt out after having done a mock every day for the past week XD. 3 day breaks can do you wonders.

 

[1c29x]

As per request from Post-UCAT discussion thread, these are all the mocks I did and my scores. Please read my post in the Post UCAT thread for thoughts on the exam process, what it was like, etc.

Mock	VR	DM	QR	AR	Total
1	830	800	750	630	3010
2	850	800	770	650	3070
3	800	800	890	800	3290
4	770	800	670	730	2970
5	850	800	770	770	3190
7	900	700	890	730	3220
8	800	800	890	750	3240

*I skipped mock 6 – wasn’t aiming to finish all the mocks

*DM is the median of the range

Mock	VR	DM	QR	AR	Overall (%)
1 (diagnostic exam)	900	720	710	760	96
2	730	730	720	590	83
3	650	690	680	790	84
4	660	700	710	750	88
5	670	670	700	760	86
6	900	890	690	730	99
8	690	690	740	710	87

*I skipped a couple of mocks here and there, only did 7/10 inc. the diagnostic mock

*Note: I didn’t include SJT for any of my mocks because I didn’t take it very seriously hence my scores were pretty tragic for every mock oops.
*Note #2: sorry I have no official mock stats, I didn't do them properly & I didn't record my results oops.

ACTUAL UCAT

Total (cognitive subtests)	VR	DM	QR	AR	SJT
3230	720	870	870	770	622

Also, can anyone tell me if 622 is an okay/safe SJT score?? I have no clue what it translates to (hopefully it isn't tragic at least).

 

[ucatboy]

Also, can anyone tell me if 622 is an okay/safe SJT score?? I have no clue what it translates to (hopefully it isn't tragic at least).

Your SJT score is perfectly fine, the mean lies at around 590 every year. It's pretty much exclusively used as a tiebreaker here, so it won't be used much for you Congrats on the amazing score!

 

[nonanon]

Don't worry guys!!! Improvement is always possible!!!

	VR/44, score	DM/29, score	QR/36, score	AR/55, score	Total/3600	SJ/69
2019 Exam	540	610	760	720	2630: 73%	711
Practice A (18/05)	28	17	11 (☹)	30	NA	idk
Mock 1 (26/05)	28, 650	20.5, 750	19, 600	37, 670	2670	50.5, B1
Mock 2 (5/06)	33, 750	21, 700	20, 630	30, 600	2680	55, B1
Mock 4 (17/06)	25, 630	23, 700	23, 650	44, 770	2750	57.5, B1
Mock 5 (23/06)	25, 630	21.5, 800	22, 650	36, 650	2730	46.5, B3
Mock 6 (27/06)	25, 630	24.5, 800	21, 650	37, 670	2750	47, B3
Mock 7 (29/06)	38, 830	21.5, 700	31, 850	44, 770	3150	53, B2
Mock 3 (3/07)	28, 650	18.5, 700	32, 850	33, 630	2830	59.5, B1
Mock 8 (6/07)	30, 670	25.5, 800	30, 830	44, 770	3070	48, B3
Mini-Mock 1	34, 770	26, 800	22, 650	28, 570
Mini-Mock 2	32, 730	25, 800	29, 800	40, 730
Mini-Mock 3	27, 650	21, 650	26, 730	38, 700
Mini-Mock 4	35, 800	24, 800	23, 650	44, 770
Mini-Mock 5	26, 630			38, 700
Mini-Mock 6	36, 800
Mini-Mock 7	29, 670
Mini-Mock 8	30, 670
Practice B (2/07)	27	21	23	28		49.5
Practice C (4/07)	30	19	29	35		Not recorded
Practice D (5/07)	28	24.5	22	33		Not recorded
Goal	650	750	800	800	3000
Best	830	800	850	770	3150
Average	697.5	750	711.7	692.3	2851.5
2020 Exam (7/07)	600	870	700	860	3030	688

Where applicable, DM is the median score given.

So I am consistently great at doing two things: procrastinating, and being inconsistent.

I had this really pretty plan on how I would space out the mocks, but obviously that never happened.

I've posted most of my post-exam comments here: Post-UCAT Discussion 2020 . Happy to answer any other questions!

 

[DrDrLMG!]

So I am consistently great at doing two things: procrastinating, and being inconsistent.

Then you shall fit in perfectly here at MSO (I say as I randomly and unnecessarily reply to posts when I should be in the middle of a lecture)

 

[fray20]

Hey guys, this thread really boosted my confidence when my marks were fluctuating. So, here are the mocks that I did.

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Exam #​	VR	DM*	QR	AR​	SJ​	Overall​
1​	28 - 650​	14.5 - 600​	25 - 700​	42 - 750​	47.5​	2700​
2​	32 - 730​	22.5 - 700​	26 - 730​	40 - 730​	50.5​	2890​
3​	28 - 650​	17.5 - 600​	34 - 890​	45 - 770​	61.5​	2910​
4​	29 - 670​	22.5 - 650​	20 - 630​	43 - 750​	60​	2700​
5​	27 - 650​	21.5 - 700​	27 - 750​	45 - 770​	-​	2870​
6​	26 - 630​	20.5 - 650​	20 - 630​	40 - 730​	-​	2640​
7​	36 - 800​	21 - 650​	30 - 830​	38 - 700​	-​	2980​
Average​	29 - 680​	20 - 650​	26 - 740​	42 - 740​	-​	2810​

*For DM, the lowest score out of the range was used.
**I didn't complete Mock 8.
***I didn't do SJ for 5,6 and 7.
***Partially correct marks are counted as 0.5.

Official Mocks

Exam #​	VR​	DM​	QR​	AR​	SJ​	Overall​
B​	21 - 580​	19 - 700​	14 - 430​	11 - 380​	38​	2090​
C​	29 - 700​	15 - 600​	25 - 700​	36 - 700​	43​	2700​
D​	27 - 680​	22 - 780​	27 - 750​	29 - 600​	49​	2810​
Average​	26 - 650​	19 - 693​	26 - 725​	33 - 650​	43​	2760​

*I had technical issues halfway through QR and in AR during Mock B so I didn't completely it properly, and also technical issues during AR in Mock D.
**Due to this, I only considered the averages of C and D, for QR, AR and my overall score.
***I didn't do Mock A properly.

Actual Exam

Verbal Reasoning	590 (yikes!)
Decision Making	650
Quantitative Reasoning	880
Abstract Reasoning	770
Overall	2890
Situational Judgement	709

I started my first mock 8 days before my exam. Before that, I would do Timed Practice sets for individual sections or Mini-Mocks. I wasn't sure whether I was going to sit the UCAT, so I started doing my first questions at the start of May, but was very inconsistent, and realised my exam was only a month away so I started to practice more consistently, minimum of 100 questions a day and by the end I was doing around two mocks a day. I would then evaluate what I did wrong, but also, my performance (including what I'm good at, how many questions I can answer in a set etc.) I did A LOT of Abstract Reasoning questions because initially, I genuinely couldn't understand how people were able to figure out the answer for those questions in less than 14 seconds, but then my scores started to increase exponentially until I was consistently achieving 40+ out of 55.

I didn't really put much consideration into my scores into my Official Mocks because I wasn't really trying to complete all the questions on time and I found so many of the questions difficult. When I did my other mocks, there were some external factors to my fluctuations - my lower scores would usually be my second mock in that day that I usually did around 10pm.

In hindsight, I would have started earlier, not necessarily with the questions, but focusing on improving my reading speed, keyboard skills, time management. I also should not have probably done all my mocks so late, although I usually am the type to do well when I cram.

Looking back at my scores, I definitely think most people can achieve much higher than their mock results. My marks is a bit higher than my average but I do believe that I'm just naturally slow at doing things, which ended up in me skipping and guessing so many questions and running out of time.

Here are my overall thoughts on the exam:

Post-UCAT Discussion 2020

Very nice centre with large iMac's for testing, well spread out and very quiet You had iMacs?!?! :eek: I’m so jealous! I didn’t even know UCAT testing centres used iMacs, thought they all just had ancient monitors.

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P.S. - I did TERRIBLE in my UMAT (I achieved around 50 percentile) in 2018, and I knew I wasn't going to do well since I hated studying for it and would procrastinate as much as I could. UCAT was so fun for me to practice - maybe it was a combination of it's short durations and it being online. I could spend many hours just practicing UCAT questions (especially AR after I was becoming good at it), although I hope I don't need to do it again next year!