How to Ace Your UCAT and Get the Highest Score

if the U cut says that pigs fly then pigs fly and accept it as that if you wasting time getting your little mouth scrolling down to the next button and then clicking the answer that is a lot of time that you could be using to actually work on the abstract reasoning I swear this simple tip saved my mind hey guys it's Sherlock and today's video is going to be really really helpful it's going to be how to Ace your ucat and get the highest score and we're gonna go into every single aspect of the UK in detail so be sure to grab your cup of tea or a little bit of water and grab your notepad and let's get into it so this video is kindly sponsored by modify so modify is basically an online resource where you get access to thousands of questions this was my main resource when revising for UK and I honestly don't know how I would have done it without it and this couldn't be a better collaboration because I solely used modified during my application process there's over 20 000 practice questions 21 marks and 40 mini marks and mattify has recently announced the price drop of 30 pounds per month subscription the thing I love about the UK practice the most on medify is that you get personality feedback based on your scores which helps you to improve on your weaknesses with over 50 hours of video tutorials you don't have to look elsewhere be sure to check it out using the link in my description and let's get back into the video so whether you're watching this at the start of your UK Journey the middle or the end I guarantee that this will help you and will help you score better in your ucas when I was doing my UK there was not as many brief courses as there are now and there's a lot of things that I wish I would have known then that I'm going to tell you now that will really help you so let's just jump right in so in this video I'm going to go over general advice for the UK and then I'm going to jump into each section of the ucat I'm going to go into abstract reason and quantitative reasoning verbal reasoning decision making and also the situational judgment test okay so let's start off with General UK advice so my first thing I would say is book your ucat strategically and what I mean by this is to book your you card so that is just enough time that you can revise and you won't get burnt out so a mistake that I see people doing and a mistake I made myself is I bought my ucat tutor in advance so I did my UK in September and I was revising from before school even ended and this was just very very overwhelming because you initially have this huge burst of motivation you're like this is a new exam format I want to get to know everything I want to do as many questions as possible but eventually you start to burn out and that motivation just goes down and down and down until you're hardly revising then when it comes to the ucat you're surprised because you lost all the skills that you've been building before the problem is that people think they can cram for the ucat but the UK is actually an aptitude test which means it tests your ability at that current moment it's not something that you can cram for something that you can spend years and years revising to get better it's just something that you have to build a strategy for and that shouldn't take you too long so I would say the perfect time to book and start revising would be eight weeks the way that you improve at UK is through practice if you don't have enough time to practice before your ucap then you will be shocked when you see the questions you're not going to be prepared and your grade on the day is very very very risky like you might not get a high enough ucat score to go to the school you want to go to but then on the other hand if you do have too much time you'll end up burning out and you won't revise as much and then you'll lose all the scores that you've been building up so it's really just a test of time okay so now in terms of actually revising I would say that the first thing you should do which a lot of people haven't recommended is to do a practice mock without any outside knowledge and without any practice this will basically just test what you know currently and how your brain works and then this will ultimately allow you to see your weaknesses and then work on those as opposed to going through every single section equally and wasting time because at the end of the day each section in the UK is equally as important and you don't want to be amazing at one and then really bad in the other because you didn't prioritize that one so definitely do a mock first day I recommend doing this on the UK official website and you can basically get used to the interface the way shortcuts work the calculator because you know that you won't get a real calculator in person and you can also see how you do requirements so you'll see what section you spend the most time on which section you run out of time on it's just really really helpful to see where you want to start so that you can tailor your revision onwards to what you're worst at if you are unsure about timing here are the recommended time in for each question and obviously this is not going to be the same for everyone but this is just the starting point for you and then you can see which timings are too much or too little the verbal reasoning section is 21 minutes so that works up to 28 seconds per question quantitative reasoning section is 24 minutes so that works out to be 40 seconds per question the abstract reasoning section is only 13 minutes so that works out to be 14 seconds per question the decision making section is 31 minutes and that works out to be 66 seconds per question decision making is obviously the section where you have the most leeway and the first time for situational judgment is 26 minutes so that works out to be 23 seconds per question so if you just memorize those timings and try to use them during your mock that will also help you and you'll see whether they're realistic or not and What needs to change my third general advice is to skip skip all the questions in the UK are worth the same amount of marks it's not like Maps where you have that big six Mark at the end and you have little one markers here and there each question whether it's easy or hard is the same amount of marks that's why in the UK they tend to put the harder questions towards the start because they know that candidates will waste their time and have less time for the easy questions towards the end so if you look at a question and it's taking you like more than 30 seconds to work it out or understand it then guess one flag it and Skip and try not to mix up your guesses if you're gonna guess questions pick a lucky letter and stick to that so if you want to pick a then pick that for us instead of mixing between ABCD because this just decreases your chances that the guess is right so once you've guessed something flag it admit on the UK is a test of time and you shouldn't dwell on questions that you don't understand you're bound to not understand some of the questions in the UK that's okay we're just trying to get as much marks as you can try to implement this kind of idea from the start of your revision so you're used to it because I know a lot of people they don't really like this idea of skipping questions people would like to do the exams in the order of the questions that is set like gcse's a levels but this is not GCS and this is not a levels do not use the same methodology that you use for those but you can and now my fourth general advice is to learn keyboard shortcuts they will save your life and they will save you so much time for abstract reasoning you literally have 13 seconds per question if you're wasting time getting a little mouse scrolling down to the next button and then clicking the answer that is a lot of time that you could be using to actually work out the abstract reasoning so here are the main shortcuts that I recommend that you learn so alt n brings the next question alt P puts it back to the previous question alt f is what flags the question and I'll see is what brings the calculator onto the screen and if I find any more I'll link them down in the description but basically learn these shortcuts like the back of your hands and try to use them from the start of your practice it will just make life a lot easier for you okay so now let's move into the specific sections of the UK let's start off with abstract reasoning abstract reasoning was literally the bane of my existence I actually didn't know I was going to pass the ucat I was so baffled as to how this related to anything medicine wise or density wise but I guess it's just one of those things that you have to do so here is how to improve your abstract reason in school so abstract reason it basically tests your ability to pick up on patterns unlike the other sections which are just like speed reading doing little calculations this is kind of a new way of testing you like I personally haven't been tested in that way before I think that's why I was so bad at it initially some people are naturally good at it and some people are not you can guess what side I was on and my best advice for this even though you guys gonna hate me for this is practice practice there's no other way you just need to expose your brain to so many patterns that you can start to pick them up and often questions can repeat themselves for the more questions that you do the more quick your brain will be at recognizing the pattern and then solving the question so it's honestly just a game of practice when you first see a question you should use guns it's basically shape color Arrangement number and size and you should just go through that have a go-to role that you'll use for any question if you get stuck initially when looking at a question it can get really overwhelming so look at one shape at a time take it one step at a time I know I said you have 13 seconds for each question but if you spend time working out the pattern once you get that pattern it will be much easier for you to get the answers and you'll spend less time so honestly prowess has understanding the pattern first if you spend more than 30 seconds and you still can't see it it's time to start guessing and then you can move on and things that are unlikely to be correct is if you have a negative rule so try to have positive rules so try to say that every shape in the boxes have even size not every shape in the Box doesn't have even size like it like just try to to make it easier for your friends to understand and rules that contain all or at least tend to be incorrect so try to avoid them one person I recommend watching especially their videos and abstract reasoning is common medic honestly his videos saved my life and I'm sure they've saved many others so be sure to check his videos out and watch them watch all of the ones on abstract reasoning but the thing is when you're watching it you have to do this before he starts to explain his answer pause it and try to work out yourself if you can work out yourself brilliant if you can't then listening to his reasoning and how he got to the right answer it really helps you to start recognizing these patterns by yourself really really important that you limit your resources and limit the amount of people that you listen to advice from because at the end of the day it gets really really overwhelming and you start to doubt yourself and doubt your own ability and that's where the problem lies so I really recommend that you only use one or two resources Max and the main resource that you should be using is medified when you're starting to revise abstract reasoning do not do times practice you actually want to understand how to work out the patterns then once you're comfortable doing that then you can do the turned practice and also write down a list of the common rules that you see and just revise over these because these tend to come up a lot and I do have a list of rows that I found online thanks to this person I will link them down in the description I'll also link any other rules that I found let's move on to quantitative reasoning so quantitative reasoning is not the worst section in my opinion the problem lies in wasting time and not knowing equations off by heart and not knowing how to use a calculator shortcuts the first thing I recommend is that you memorize all of these equations there's no way around it just memorize them it will save you time in the exam you shouldn't really have to think about the equation it should array me on the tip of your mind it's definitely memorize all of these equations here and also memorize conversions as well so for example how you convert a meter time so when you're practicing never ever ever use a physical calculator you're not going to get one in the time under any circumstances so just start to get used to the on-screen calculator when you're doing questions if you see a question that will require many many many steps skip the question and come back to it later I'm sure there's questions that will be more simple and they're also work the same amount and after practicing quantitative reasoning for a week also try to only do times practice onwards because it's not the mouse that often makes people slip up is the timing so they run out of time and they don't get to complete every single question so just know your weaknesses and guys I swear this simple tip saved my ucat learn calculator shortcuts so obviously I've told you guys about the old C to bring up the calculator but have you actually heard of the memory function so the memory function essentially allows you to store numbers in memory and record them and use them in calculations later this saves you time instead of you writing on the number on your whiteboard and then having to put it back into the calculator plus you might end up typing the number wrong so it's just not really a good way of going about it so how you use the memory function is you basically have the number that you want in the calculator and then you press M plus this basically puts it inside of the memory and if you want to subtract something from this you can you can then type the number that you want to subtract from the number in the memory and just click M minus and then if you want to clear the memory then click MRC twice as well as this instead of clicking the numbers on the screen because that can be a time waster make sure that you keep it as a num lot and then type the numbers that you actually want using the keyboard and that's just much faster as well okay so now let's move on to verbal reasoning so verbal reasoning and I thought I was really good at it but I wasn't and let me tell you why verbal reasoning is all about time I'm sure all of us can do comprehension like if we're given one hour to do comprehension we would Ace it but the thing is the time makes you slip up so basically a lot of the questions in the bubble reasoning are very very sneaky some of them put not in front of statements some of them just tried to catch you out the thing that you should do is initially practice without being turned just understand how the section Works how the questions work from then on from a little short taster you should do time practice onwards because time is what slips people out in the verbal reason and it's not that people don't know how to read like I'm sure if you're applying for medicine or Dentistry you know how to read it's the timing so please focus on that so it's recommended that you read the question first before reading the passage this just allows you to see what you're searching for and then once you find that sentence that contains the information for the question you should read it around that statement so you should read the sentence before and the sentence after skim through the passage but don't skim too fast to the point where you're missing out on key information also focus on key names key dates changes in thinking General changes just try to keep them in your minds whilst you're doing the questions because you don't want to be reading over the same thing multiple times just to understand it and if a sentence contains something like not pay close attention to that because that can really change your answer from correct to wrong and if you spend more than 30 seconds on a question guess it flag if you are 90 certain that your answer is correct click the answer and then move on you don't have time to get that 100 certainty for every single answer so just follow your gut and move on so decision making is very practice based you need to practice a lot to be able to make and understand the rules and for Venn diagrams here are some basic calculations that you need to know so whenever you see and that means that you multiply the numbers and when you see or that means that you add the numbers and a lot of these questions are graph based so really practice on trying to extract information from graphs correctly try not to make assumptions from outside knowledge don't take any outside knowledge into the ucat so if the ucat says that pigs fly then pigs fly and accept it as that don't try to bring in any outside knowledge and try to use that to get the right answer it might not be right and when choosing your answer be sure to pick an answer which is based more on statistics studies reports rather than opinion and assumptions because these answers are less likely to be right and this section is is where your whiteboard is the most useful as you know you have more time on decision making than any other section in the ucat so use this wisely use your whiteboard to write down any complicated logic puzzles so you can use symbols just to simplify it and make it easier for your brain to understand as well as this because you have more time then make sure that you go through all of the questions that you flag as you'll probably finish a bit early now finally let's talk about situational judgment so situational judgment was personally my favorite section and it was the one that I had to practice the leaves Medifast practice is almost exactly what came up on my exam so definitely be sure to utilize it the most important thing for situational judgment is to not do what you would personally do if your friend was cheating and you wouldn't personally report them don't listen to your inner gut listen to the angel on your shoulder that's telling you the best thing to do if someone's cheated according to situational judgment it should be reported and there's other things that you may not agree with you just have to answer the most epically you can so if you didn't know the situational judgment is based on panel of doctors they decide what the correct answer is it might not be the correct answer to you you should just try to Envision yourself as being that panel of doctors and what they would choose and once you practice situational judgment a few times you start to pick up on their reasoning and they're thinking behind the answers one of the most important things about situational judgment is that it's based on the four pillars of medicine so these pillars include autonomy beneficence non-maleficence and Justice so let me get into what all of these mean so autonomy basically means that the patient has a right to do what they want with their body so let's say that a patient is refusing life-saving treatment you have to respect the decision and just accept it you can't be argumentative you can't try to force something on them it's just not right and beneficence is that you want to do good you want to do something that's in the patient's best interest non-maleficence is that you don't want to do harm to the base Justice means that you have to give equal treatment to all despite ethnicity sexuality race education everyone deserves equal treatment and one thing to note is that you do get partial marks if you're close to the right answer so if you're doing one answer close to the actual answer you do get a passion mark so that's actually helpful this is when choosing an answer which is the most appropriate you should choose something that directly addresses the situation so something might be appropriate but it might not be very appropriate if it doesn't tackle the key issue in the situation and be sure to look at the role of the person involved the answer would depends on if it's a doctor if it's a student if it's a consultant if it's a patient it will all depend so guys that is pretty much the end of the video I really hope it helped you I really hope it was very comprehensive and you got a lot from it and if you did be sure to like comment and subscribe and definitely comment down below of any other videos you would like to see for example on personal statements University life a levels let me know see you guys next time bye foreign [Music]

if the U cut says that pigs fly then pigs fly and accept it as that if you wasting time getting your little mouth scrolling down to the next button and then clicking the answer that is a lot of time that you could be using to actually work on the abstract reasoning I swear this simple tip saved my mind hey guys it&#39;s Sherlock and today&#39;s video is going to be really really helpful it&#39;s going to be how to Ace your ucat and get the highest score and we&#39;re gonna go into every single aspect of the UK in detail so be sure to grab your cup of tea or a little bit of water and grab your notepad and let&#39;s get into it so this video is kindly sponsored by modify so modify is basically an online resource where you get access to thousands of questions this was my main resource when revising for UK and I honestly don&#39;t know how I would have done it without it and this couldn&#39;t be a better collaboration because I solely used modified during my application process there&#39;s over 20 000 practice questions 21 marks and 40 mini marks and mattify has recently announced the price drop of 30 pounds per month subscription the thing I love about the UK practice the most on medify is that you get personality feedback based on your scores which helps you to improve on your weaknesses with over 50 hours of video tutorials you don&#39;t have to look elsewhere be sure to check it out using the link in my description and let&#39;s get back into the video so whether you&#39;re watching this at the start of your UK Journey the middle or the end I guarantee that this will help you and will help you score better in your ucas when I was doing my UK there was not as many brief courses as there are now and there&#39;s a lot of things that I wish I would have known then that I&#39;m going to tell you now that will really help you so let&#39;s just jump right in so in this video I&#39;m going to go over general advice for the UK and then I&#39;m going to jump into each section of the ucat I&#39;m going to go into abstract reason and quantitative reasoning verbal reasoning decision making and also the situational judgment test okay so let&#39;s start off with General UK advice so my first thing I would say is book your ucat strategically and what I mean by this is to book your you card so that is just enough time that you can revise and you won&#39;t get burnt out so a mistake that I see people doing and a mistake I made myself is I bought my ucat tutor in advance so I did my UK in September and I was revising from before school even ended and this was just very very overwhelming because you initially have this huge burst of motivation you&#39;re like this is a new exam format I want to get to know everything I want to do as many questions as possible but eventually you start to burn out and that motivation just goes down and down and down until you&#39;re hardly revising then when it comes to the ucat you&#39;re surprised because you lost all the skills that you&#39;ve been building before the problem is that people think they can cram for the ucat but the UK is actually an aptitude test which means it tests your ability at that current moment it&#39;s not something that you can cram for something that you can spend years and years revising to get better it&#39;s just something that you have to build a strategy for and that shouldn&#39;t take you too long so I would say the perfect time to book and start revising would be eight weeks the way that you improve at UK is through practice if you don&#39;t have enough time to practice before your ucap then you will be shocked when you see the questions you&#39;re not going to be prepared and your grade on the day is very very very risky like you might not get a high enough ucat score to go to the school you want to go to but then on the other hand if you do have too much time you&#39;ll end up burning out and you won&#39;t revise as much and then you&#39;ll lose all the scores that you&#39;ve been building up so it&#39;s really just a test of time okay so now in terms of actually revising I would say that the first thing you should do which a lot of people haven&#39;t recommended is to do a practice mock without any outside knowledge and without any practice this will basically just test what you know currently and how your brain works and then this will ultimately allow you to see your weaknesses and then work on those as opposed to going through every single section equally and wasting time because at the end of the day each section in the UK is equally as important and you don&#39;t want to be amazing at one and then really bad in the other because you didn&#39;t prioritize that one so definitely do a mock first day I recommend doing this on the UK official website and you can basically get used to the interface the way shortcuts work the calculator because you know that you won&#39;t get a real calculator in person and you can also see how you do requirements so you&#39;ll see what section you spend the most time on which section you run out of time on it&#39;s just really really helpful to see where you want to start so that you can tailor your revision onwards to what you&#39;re worst at if you are unsure about timing here are the recommended time in for each question and obviously this is not going to be the same for everyone but this is just the starting point for you and then you can see which timings are too much or too little the verbal reasoning section is 21 minutes so that works up to 28 seconds per question quantitative reasoning section is 24 minutes so that works out to be 40 seconds per question the abstract reasoning section is only 13 minutes so that works out to be 14 seconds per question the decision making section is 31 minutes and that works out to be 66 seconds per question decision making is obviously the section where you have the most leeway and the first time for situational judgment is 26 minutes so that works out to be 23 seconds per question so if you just memorize those timings and try to use them during your mock that will also help you and you&#39;ll see whether they&#39;re realistic or not and What needs to change my third general advice is to skip skip all the questions in the UK are worth the same amount of marks it&#39;s not like Maps where you have that big six Mark at the end and you have little one markers here and there each question whether it&#39;s easy or hard is the same amount of marks that&#39;s why in the UK they tend to put the harder questions towards the start because they know that candidates will waste their time and have less time for the easy questions towards the end so if you look at a question and it&#39;s taking you like more than 30 seconds to work it out or understand it then guess one flag it and Skip and try not to mix up your guesses if you&#39;re gonna guess questions pick a lucky letter and stick to that so if you want to pick a then pick that for us instead of mixing between ABCD because this just decreases your chances that the guess is right so once you&#39;ve guessed something flag it admit on the UK is a test of time and you shouldn&#39;t dwell on questions that you don&#39;t understand you&#39;re bound to not understand some of the questions in the UK that&#39;s okay we&#39;re just trying to get as much marks as you can try to implement this kind of idea from the start of your revision so you&#39;re used to it because I know a lot of people they don&#39;t really like this idea of skipping questions people would like to do the exams in the order of the questions that is set like gcse&#39;s a levels but this is not GCS and this is not a levels do not use the same methodology that you use for those but you can and now my fourth general advice is to learn keyboard shortcuts they will save your life and they will save you so much time for abstract reasoning you literally have 13 seconds per question if you&#39;re wasting time getting a little mouse scrolling down to the next button and then clicking the answer that is a lot of time that you could be using to actually work out the abstract reasoning so here are the main shortcuts that I recommend that you learn so alt n brings the next question alt P puts it back to the previous question alt f is what flags the question and I&#39;ll see is what brings the calculator onto the screen and if I find any more I&#39;ll link them down in the description but basically learn these shortcuts like the back of your hands and try to use them from the start of your practice it will just make life a lot easier for you okay so now let&#39;s move into the specific sections of the UK let&#39;s start off with abstract reasoning abstract reasoning was literally the bane of my existence I actually didn&#39;t know I was going to pass the ucat I was so baffled as to how this related to anything medicine wise or density wise but I guess it&#39;s just one of those things that you have to do so here is how to improve your abstract reason in school so abstract reason it basically tests your ability to pick up on patterns unlike the other sections which are just like speed reading doing little calculations this is kind of a new way of testing you like I personally haven&#39;t been tested in that way before I think that&#39;s why I was so bad at it initially some people are naturally good at it and some people are not you can guess what side I was on and my best advice for this even though you guys gonna hate me for this is practice practice there&#39;s no other way you just need to expose your brain to so many patterns that you can start to pick them up and often questions can repeat themselves for the more questions that you do the more quick your brain will be at recognizing the pattern and then solving the question so it&#39;s honestly just a game of practice when you first see a question you should use guns it&#39;s basically shape color Arrangement number and size and you should just go through that have a go-to role that you&#39;ll use for any question if you get stuck initially when looking at a question it can get really overwhelming so look at one shape at a time take it one step at a time I know I said you have 13 seconds for each question but if you spend time working out the pattern once you get that pattern it will be much easier for you to get the answers and you&#39;ll spend less time so honestly prowess has understanding the pattern first if you spend more than 30 seconds and you still can&#39;t see it it&#39;s time to start guessing and then you can move on and things that are unlikely to be correct is if you have a negative rule so try to have positive rules so try to say that every shape in the boxes have even size not every shape in the Box doesn&#39;t have even size like it like just try to to make it easier for your friends to understand and rules that contain all or at least tend to be incorrect so try to avoid them one person I recommend watching especially their videos and abstract reasoning is common medic honestly his videos saved my life and I&#39;m sure they&#39;ve saved many others so be sure to check his videos out and watch them watch all of the ones on abstract reasoning but the thing is when you&#39;re watching it you have to do this before he starts to explain his answer pause it and try to work out yourself if you can work out yourself brilliant if you can&#39;t then listening to his reasoning and how he got to the right answer it really helps you to start recognizing these patterns by yourself really really important that you limit your resources and limit the amount of people that you listen to advice from because at the end of the day it gets really really overwhelming and you start to doubt yourself and doubt your own ability and that&#39;s where the problem lies so I really recommend that you only use one or two resources Max and the main resource that you should be using is medified when you&#39;re starting to revise abstract reasoning do not do times practice you actually want to understand how to work out the patterns then once you&#39;re comfortable doing that then you can do the turned practice and also write down a list of the common rules that you see and just revise over these because these tend to come up a lot and I do have a list of rows that I found online thanks to this person I will link them down in the description I&#39;ll also link any other rules that I found let&#39;s move on to quantitative reasoning so quantitative reasoning is not the worst section in my opinion the problem lies in wasting time and not knowing equations off by heart and not knowing how to use a calculator shortcuts the first thing I recommend is that you memorize all of these equations there&#39;s no way around it just memorize them it will save you time in the exam you shouldn&#39;t really have to think about the equation it should array me on the tip of your mind it&#39;s definitely memorize all of these equations here and also memorize conversions as well so for example how you convert a meter time so when you&#39;re practicing never ever ever use a physical calculator you&#39;re not going to get one in the time under any circumstances so just start to get used to the on-screen calculator when you&#39;re doing questions if you see a question that will require many many many steps skip the question and come back to it later I&#39;m sure there&#39;s questions that will be more simple and they&#39;re also work the same amount and after practicing quantitative reasoning for a week also try to only do times practice onwards because it&#39;s not the mouse that often makes people slip up is the timing so they run out of time and they don&#39;t get to complete every single question so just know your weaknesses and guys I swear this simple tip saved my ucat learn calculator shortcuts so obviously I&#39;ve told you guys about the old C to bring up the calculator but have you actually heard of the memory function so the memory function essentially allows you to store numbers in memory and record them and use them in calculations later this saves you time instead of you writing on the number on your whiteboard and then having to put it back into the calculator plus you might end up typing the number wrong so it&#39;s just not really a good way of going about it so how you use the memory function is you basically have the number that you want in the calculator and then you press M plus this basically puts it inside of the memory and if you want to subtract something from this you can you can then type the number that you want to subtract from the number in the memory and just click M minus and then if you want to clear the memory then click MRC twice as well as this instead of clicking the numbers on the screen because that can be a time waster make sure that you keep it as a num lot and then type the numbers that you actually want using the keyboard and that&#39;s just much faster as well okay so now let&#39;s move on to verbal reasoning so verbal reasoning and I thought I was really good at it but I wasn&#39;t and let me tell you why verbal reasoning is all about time I&#39;m sure all of us can do comprehension like if we&#39;re given one hour to do comprehension we would Ace it but the thing is the time makes you slip up so basically a lot of the questions in the bubble reasoning are very very sneaky some of them put not in front of statements some of them just tried to catch you out the thing that you should do is initially practice without being turned just understand how the section Works how the questions work from then on from a little short taster you should do time practice onwards because time is what slips people out in the verbal reason and it&#39;s not that people don&#39;t know how to read like I&#39;m sure if you&#39;re applying for medicine or Dentistry you know how to read it&#39;s the timing so please focus on that so it&#39;s recommended that you read the question first before reading the passage this just allows you to see what you&#39;re searching for and then once you find that sentence that contains the information for the question you should read it around that statement so you should read the sentence before and the sentence after skim through the passage but don&#39;t skim too fast to the point where you&#39;re missing out on key information also focus on key names key dates changes in thinking General changes just try to keep them in your minds whilst you&#39;re doing the questions because you don&#39;t want to be reading over the same thing multiple times just to understand it and if a sentence contains something like not pay close attention to that because that can really change your answer from correct to wrong and if you spend more than 30 seconds on a question guess it flag if you are 90 certain that your answer is correct click the answer and then move on you don&#39;t have time to get that 100 certainty for every single answer so just follow your gut and move on so decision making is very practice based you need to practice a lot to be able to make and understand the rules and for Venn diagrams here are some basic calculations that you need to know so whenever you see and that means that you multiply the numbers and when you see or that means that you add the numbers and a lot of these questions are graph based so really practice on trying to extract information from graphs correctly try not to make assumptions from outside knowledge don&#39;t take any outside knowledge into the ucat so if the ucat says that pigs fly then pigs fly and accept it as that don&#39;t try to bring in any outside knowledge and try to use that to get the right answer it might not be right and when choosing your answer be sure to pick an answer which is based more on statistics studies reports rather than opinion and assumptions because these answers are less likely to be right and this section is is where your whiteboard is the most useful as you know you have more time on decision making than any other section in the ucat so use this wisely use your whiteboard to write down any complicated logic puzzles so you can use symbols just to simplify it and make it easier for your brain to understand as well as this because you have more time then make sure that you go through all of the questions that you flag as you&#39;ll probably finish a bit early now finally let&#39;s talk about situational judgment so situational judgment was personally my favorite section and it was the one that I had to practice the leaves Medifast practice is almost exactly what came up on my exam so definitely be sure to utilize it the most important thing for situational judgment is to not do what you would personally do if your friend was cheating and you wouldn&#39;t personally report them don&#39;t listen to your inner gut listen to the angel on your shoulder that&#39;s telling you the best thing to do if someone&#39;s cheated according to situational judgment it should be reported and there&#39;s other things that you may not agree with you just have to answer the most epically you can so if you didn&#39;t know the situational judgment is based on panel of doctors they decide what the correct answer is it might not be the correct answer to you you should just try to Envision yourself as being that panel of doctors and what they would choose and once you practice situational judgment a few times you start to pick up on their reasoning and they&#39;re thinking behind the answers one of the most important things about situational judgment is that it&#39;s based on the four pillars of medicine so these pillars include autonomy beneficence non-maleficence and Justice so let me get into what all of these mean so autonomy basically means that the patient has a right to do what they want with their body so let&#39;s say that a patient is refusing life-saving treatment you have to respect the decision and just accept it you can&#39;t be argumentative you can&#39;t try to force something on them it&#39;s just not right and beneficence is that you want to do good you want to do something that&#39;s in the patient&#39;s best interest non-maleficence is that you don&#39;t want to do harm to the base Justice means that you have to give equal treatment to all despite ethnicity sexuality race education everyone deserves equal treatment and one thing to note is that you do get partial marks if you&#39;re close to the right answer so if you&#39;re doing one answer close to the actual answer you do get a passion mark so that&#39;s actually helpful this is when choosing an answer which is the most appropriate you should choose something that directly addresses the situation so something might be appropriate but it might not be very appropriate if it doesn&#39;t tackle the key issue in the situation and be sure to look at the role of the person involved the answer would depends on if it&#39;s a doctor if it&#39;s a student if it&#39;s a consultant if it&#39;s a patient it will all depend so guys that is pretty much the end of the video I really hope it helped you I really hope it was very comprehensive and you got a lot from it and if you did be sure to like comment and subscribe and definitely comment down below of any other videos you would like to see for example on personal statements University life a levels let me know see you guys next time bye foreign [Music]

Transcript for:How to Ace Your UCAT and Get the Highest Score

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How to Ace Your UCAT and Get the Highest Score