Predicting UCAT Scores from Mock Exam Results

[2xq]

Mocks Welp there it is ig

 

[aidin]

Gutted, to say the least

 

[N182]

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Hey would you mind sharing your official mock scores (if you did them)? Thanks.

 

[aidin]

Hey would you mind sharing your official mock scores (if you did them)? Thanks.

I did them but didn't record the values. Performed similar to the prep company recorded across all sections except QR.

 

[worldno9]

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Hey Aidin if you don't mind me asking how did you feel in the real test in comparison with the mocks? You seem to have done really well in all your practice so I'm just intrigued as to why you performed differently on the day. Usually, the averages people get from their prep seems to be a pretty good estimate of the real thing.

 

[aidin]

Hey Aidin if you don't mind me asking how did you feel in the real test in comparison with the mocks? You seem to have done really well in all your practice so I'm just intrigued as to why you performed differently on the day. Usually, the averages people get from their prep seems to be a pretty good estimate of the real thing.

I think the biggest thing was nerves. I was honestly terrified leading up to the exam and the night before the exam had a lot of trouble sleeping. I kind of tossed and turned till around 3-4am and then woke up around 8 for a 10 o'clock exam. So in the exam, especially in verbal and decision, my comprehension was terrible, and my mental maths was poor in QR. In terms of difficulty, I don't think the exam was much harder than those I had done in prep and I feel like with a proper night's rest, I would have performed much better.

 

[katespade]

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omg this was me too i relate

 

[mywish]

UCAT 2020 Exam	VR	DM	QR	AR	SJT	Total (excl. SJT)
	760	870	880	870	724	3380

Mock no.	VR	DM (median)	QR	AR	SJT	Total (excl. SJT)
1	670	550	650	650	Band 3	2520
2	750	550	530	600	Band 2	2430 (oh dear)
3	650	700	800	600	Band 1	2750
4	730	700	850	730	Band 2	3010
5	800	550	750	700	Band 1	2800
6	670	700	670	650	Band 3	2690
7	850	800	900	730	Band 1	3280
8	850	700	850	770	Band 2	3170

Mock no.	VR	DM (median)	QR	AR	SJT	Total (excl.SJT)
1	690	760	720	780	620	2950
2	660	750	810	620	580	2840
3	720	720	770	840	660	3050
4	680	740	770	760	730	2950
5	670	770	750	800	670	2990
6	750	890	780	840	700	3260
7	900	680	740	690	610	3010
8	720	740	790	710	720	2960
9	900	730	760	900	730	3290
10	690	670	780	710	590	2850
Diagnostic	900	760	790	820	690	3270

OFFICIAL UCAT MOCKS

Mock no.	VR	DM (taking partially correct as 0.5 marks?)	QR	AR	SJT (taking partially correct as 0.5 marks?)
A	35/44	21.5/29	16/36	32/55	36.5/69
B	36/44	19.5/29	21/36	34/55	40.5/69
C	29/44	20.5/29	24/36	33/55	45.5/69
D	32/44	22.5/29	21/36	39/55	46/69

actually shocked... considering my initial scores were quite low (2400 +) - i think in the 13 days I had for intense UCAT prep, I did around 21 full mocks? My results kept fluctuating like crazy so I really wasn't sure what was happening or where I was at - i'd get 3000+ in one mock then 2800 the next - the day before my test I looked at my averages for 11 of my mocks and the averages ranged from 720 - 760.

A big wow on your amazing scores. What was your study technique? Did you only study for 2 weeks before the exam? Your mock results are so good as well

 

[soulja]

I think this may give people some hope I did these in the 2 weeks before my UCAT, so that may give you an idea of how worried I was

Officials	VR	DM	QR	AR	SJ	Total	Percentile
1	614	711	483	660	588	2467	50
2	523	679	650	682	588	2543	62
3	614	616	650	693	703	2572	66
4	723	742	700	725	662	2890	93

Mock Exam	VR	DM	QR	AR	SJ	Total	Percentile
1	614	726	583	529	579	2452	49
2	627	711	567	595	621	2499	54
3	655	663	650	616	637	2584	67
4	709	726	717	682	––	2834	90

Mock Exam	VR	DM	QR	AR	SJ	Total	Percentile
1	614	663	667	671	719	2614	71
2	709	774	600	704	711	2786	87
3	627	647	750	725	796	2750	84
4	668	797	717	802	691	2984	96
5	655	688	767	769	700	2879	92
6	600	711	633	736	––	2680	77
7	750	663	833	725	––	2972	96
8	709	789	733	791	––	3023	98

UCAT 2020

VR	DM	QR	AR	SJ	Total
670	800	830	800	659	3100

 

[Achiever]

Superb DM scores

I think this may give people some hope I did these in the 2 weeks before my UCAT, so that may give you an idea of how worried I was

Officials	VR	DM	QR	AR	SJ	Total	Percentile
1	614	711	483	660	588	2467	50
2	523	679	650	682	588	2543	62
3	614	616	650	693	703	2572	66
4	723	742	700	725	662	2890	93

Mock Exam	VR	DM	QR	AR	SJ	Total	Percentile
1	614	726	583	529	579	2452	49
2	627	711	567	595	621	2499	54
3	655	663	650	616	637	2584	67
4	709	726	717	682	––	2834	90

Mock Exam	VR	DM	QR	AR	SJ	Total	Percentile
1	614	663	667	671	719	2614	71
2	709	774	600	704	711	2786	87
3	627	647	750	725	796	2750	84
4	668	797	717	802	691	2984	96
5	655	688	767	769	700	2879	92
6	600	711	633	736	––	2680	77
7	750	663	833	725	––	2972	96
8	709	789	733	791	––	3023	98

UCAT 2020

VR	DM	QR	AR	SJ	Total
670	800	830	800	659	3100

Interesting that people are scoring so highly this year in DM. Can't say it seemed the same last year. Possibly an easier sub-test in rotation?
Anyway, congratulations on an outstanding score - especially considering your mock averages.

 

[hazell]

Superb DM scores

Interesting that people are scoring so highly this year in DM. Can't say it seemed the same last year. Possibly an easier sub-test in rotation?
Anyway, congratulations on an outstanding score - especially considering your mock averages.

not necessarily, in my opinion DM this year and last year were of comparable difficulty- also all subtests in rotation are matched for difficulty so I doubt there would be one easier version compared to others. I reckon a good amount of practice and being able to develop timing/specific question approaches can improve your marks drastically- I scored 680 last year and 880 this year

 

[kcx]

I think this may give people some hope I did these in the 2 weeks before my UCAT, so that may give you an idea of how worried I was

Officials	VR	DM	QR	AR	SJ	Total	Percentile
1	614	711	483	660	588	2467	50
2	523	679	650	682	588	2543	62
3	614	616	650	693	703	2572	66
4	723	742	700	725	662	2890	93

Mock Exam	VR	DM	QR	AR	SJ	Total	Percentile
1	614	726	583	529	579	2452	49
2	627	711	567	595	621	2499	54
3	655	663	650	616	637	2584	67
4	709	726	717	682	––	2834	90

Mock Exam	VR	DM	QR	AR	SJ	Total	Percentile
1	614	663	667	671	719	2614	71
2	709	774	600	704	711	2786	87
3	627	647	750	725	796	2750	84
4	668	797	717	802	691	2984	96
5	655	688	767	769	700	2879	92
6	600	711	633	736	––	2680	77
7	750	663	833	725	––	2972	96
8	709	789	733	791	––	3023	98

UCAT 2020

VR	DM	QR	AR	SJ	Total
670	800	830	800	659	3100

Heyy, congrats on your amazing score a really steady improvement! I'm currently less than 2 weeks out from my exam and I've done a few mocks and my marks are always ranging 570-700ish. Especially with QR I got 15 on mock A Questions with longer stems I have a hard time absorbing all the info. Do you have any tips on how you improved and how you reviewed each mock?

 

[soulja]

Heyy, congrats on your amazing score a really steady improvement! I'm currently less than 2 weeks out from my exam and I've done a few mocks and my marks are always ranging 570-700ish. Especially with QR I got 15 on mock A Questions with longer stems I have a hard time absorbing all the info. Do you have any tips on how you improved and how you reviewed each mock?

Well for me, I had quite a high accuracy but struggled with time. I think it's important to get the right technique for doing questions correctly before trying to do them under time pressure. I got better after each mock at doing the questions faster and skipping the ones that I knew would take too long. VR isn't my strongest (clearly), but I used the keywords technique. I think the best way to improve is to just read Wikipedia articles and extract important information quickly. For DM, I made sure to spend a bit more time on the 2-mark questions to get them all right because they take up a huge bulk of the marks. For QR, I also had to skip a few that would take a while to calculate and went back to them if I had time. Sometimes it's hard to do this but you don't want to spend any more than 40 seconds on a question. Do heaps of AR questions and you'll start to see the patterns really quickly. If it takes you longer than 10 seconds to see it, just put in some guesses and come back to it.

When I first started doing mocks, I would never finish a section and end up having to quickly put in a lot of guesses. I found that whenever I managed to complete all the questions (with a few guesses), I did really well. This might not be the case for everyone, though. All the best!

 

[Layla_a]

As promised, here are my mock results alongside my actual score. Didn't do the offical mocks since everyone was saying how much harder and inaccurate they were lmao. Happy that I kept up with the general trend of having the actual score correspond nicely with the mocks. Good luck everyone!

UCAT	VR	DM	QR	AR	Total
Diagnostic	640​	680​	810​	750​	2880
1	660​	700​	820​	900​	3080
2	570​	690​	740​	840​	2840
3	730​	760​	720​	800​	3010
4	600​	620​	830​	820​	2870
5	600​	890​	800​	840​	3130
6	660​	720​	750​	900​	3030
7	620​	740​	680​	770​	2810
8	610​	740​	670​	710​	2730
9	630​	670​	760​	900​	2960
10	900​	690​	740​	760​	3090
1	670​	800​	850​	750​	3070
2	750​	800​	650​	630​	2830
3	650​	650​	830​	750​	2880
4	730​	650​	800​	800​	2980
5	670​	650​	730​	670​	2720
6	630​	550​	630​	700​	2510
7:	800​	650​	900​	650​	3000
8:	750​	800​	730​	730​	3010
AVERAGE:	677​	708​	760​	772​	2917
REAL:	670​	680​	780​	870​	3000​

Mock 6 (of the second lot of 8) was ur worst one and it was definitely my worst one too

Hi! I posted on the post-ucat thread and someone asked me to post on this thread (it's my first time on a forum...is it possible to tag that person to notify them??)

I only spent a week and 3 days (and maybe some weekends before that just to familiarise myself with the test format for preparation, which in hindsight was not enough, especially for AR. But my school really tried to fit all the assessments in later cause of covid...but anyways, I wasted my prescription and only did 4 timed mocks *sigh*

	mock 1	mock 4	mock 6	mock 7	Actual UCAT
VR	800	830	730	770	650
DM	770	730	700	730	800
QR	730	830	650	770	830
AR	700	670	730	650	750
Total	3000	3060	2810	2920	3030

I didn't keep my score for the official mocks because I got so bad in QR and AR... so don't worry about those if you did badly. Overall my scores were consistent with the mocks, so I think they are a good gauge at what you can get in the UCAT. I remember feeling super tired and was in a really bad mood for mock 6 because I did a long day of practice, which affected my concentration. So make sure you are in a good mood on the day and you might surprise yourself with an amazing score!!!

strange that almost everyone on this thread has gotten a lower than normal score for mock 6 and I can also say that this was the case for myself (dropped from 3000 to 2700 then back to 3000!!), but the percentile to score conversion wasn't lower so it can't have been harder? Maybe mock 6 just happened to match up to the time we all were tired and worn out?

 

[N182]

Mock 6 (of the second lot of 8) was ur worst one and it was definitely my worst one too

strange that almost everyone on this thread has gotten a lower than normal score for mock 6 and I can also say that this was the case for myself (dropped from 3000 to 2700 then back to 3000!!), but the percentile to score conversion wasn't lower so it can't have been harder? Maybe mock 6 just happened to match up to the time we all were tired and worn out?

No it was definitely harder for QR atleast.

 

[ucatboy]

No it was definitely harder for QR atleast.

Yeah I can vouch for that. QR6 was noticeably harder than than the rest, which felt roughly of the same difficulty.

 

[Achiever]

Yeah I can vouch for that. QR6 was noticeably harder than than the rest, which felt roughly of the same difficulty.

I'd say the same for QR4, but maybe that's just me...

 

[vrish]

I think the biggest thing was nerves. I was honestly terrified leading up to the exam and the night before the exam had a lot of trouble sleeping. I kind of tossed and turned till around 3-4am and then woke up around 8 for a 10 o'clock exam. So in the exam, especially in verbal and decision, my comprehension was terrible, and my mental maths was poor in QR. In terms of difficulty, I don't think the exam was much harder than those I had done in prep and I feel like with a proper night's rest, I would have performed much better.

i did the same thing last year. and i am worried that i will not be able to sleep better this time also my exam is on the 30th . how to get a better night's sleep when you have a heart pounding million times ?

 

[aidin]

I'd say the same for QR4, but maybe that's just me...

Yeah, I thought so as well.

 

[requiem]

Here are my mock scores which I started around 3 months before my exam date, doing every month or so which accelerated to every week and then every day during the two weeks before my exam. Hope this gives you all some hope!

MOCK	VR	DM	QR	AR	SCORE	%ile	SJ
1	590	640	740	650	2620	64	590
2	670	610	740	720	2740	77	650
3	650	600	700	630	2580	62	580
4	570	700	710	620	2600	63	580
5	640	660	730	650	2680	74	560
6	670	640	690	710	2710	78	680
7	600	690	710	660	2660	69	690
8	660	740	730	670	2800	86	670
9	750	690	740	610	2790	81	580
10	640	680	750	900	2970	92	720
11	630	700	800	750	2880	91	590
12	630	750	690	740	2810	86	560
13	680	510	610	820	2620	58	670
14	670	740	820	570	2800	85	650
15	640	720	830	780	2970	96	670
Avg:	646	671	733	699	2749	77	629

Official Consortium Mocks

MOCK	VR	DM	QR	AR	SCORE	%ile	SJ
A	700	750	600	730	2780	86	650
B	670	730	750	730	2880	92	600
C	850	730	670	800	3050	97	700
D	800	770	800	750	3120	98	700
Avg:	755	745	705	753	2958	93	663

ACTUAL UCAT 2020

VR	DM	QR	AR	SCORE	SJ
760	860	800	650	3070	649