hey guys!!!! I am doing my UCAT on friday and I have only been using Medify to prepare. Could anyone who as done the UCAT this year share their experience of it compared to modify (were questions similar, easier, harder etc..)
Any help would be appreciated

Hey butterfly13579,

I didn't do the UCAT this year (I did it last year) but I have multiple friends who have already done it (some even doing it for the second time) and did Medify. They mentioned generally that VR was a little harder than expected; Medify texts are longer but the questions in the real exam were harder (specifically, there were usually two very very similar options in the answers). DM was similar to last year and it'll always be "weird"; you think you're doing well but your results beg to differ so pay careful attention to DM. QR was similar as well: easier than Medify. Same with AR, its usually easier in the real exam. SJT just chills as usual; you're exhausted at that point anyways 😆. This is what I've heard and also what I've extrapolated from my friends' marks.

Hope that helped and feel free to ask more questions 🙂.

  • PP

    I did it this year (shudder)

    For medify they give you a range. Pick the lowest values from each range, add them, and for me this value was a little lower than my actual score!

    Number 1 tip; Don't leave it till 2 weeks out to study.......

    PhytoPlankton
    Hi PhytoPlankton

    Thanks for the reply. That honestly made me feel so much better because I found DM, QR, and AR were some of my best areas on medify. I was just wondering, do you have any tips on how to improve on VR? the range I get for VR is anywhere between 650-780 on medify. Is there any way I could improve that on the actual exam? Also, would you say the DM questions on the official UCAT website are similar to the ones on the real exam?
    Thanks and sorry for all the questions 🙂

        butterfly13579

        That's good to hear! Considering your exam is on Friday, I would recommend to get as close to 900 as possible in DM, QR and AR as that's what you are strongest in (and I know people who have gotten 900 in AR and QR, including me 😄). DM, as I said, is weird because Medify makes you think you are good at it but in the real exam, you get worse results. As for improving VR, for me, the tactic was to just pick key words throughout the text and extrapolate a message from those key words. I'm not someone you would call a fast reader so that was the method I had to resort to in the end. Also, just before the exam, take a VR trainer on Medify just to warm up and that should be good.

        Hope that helped again and don't be sorry about asking questions!

        • PP

            butterfly13579

            Sorry, I think I might have worded that incorrectly but I got 900 only in QR and 850 in AR 😅 (I don't know anyone who's gotten 900 in both; I just know people who have gotten 900 in either of the two).
            As for QR tips, its just mainly going over every single question (even the correct ones) and trying to figure out a much faster way to do it. Basically, figure out mathematical shortcuts. For example, if the question says "if the number of hospitalisations of COVID last year was 1238 and it increased by 30% this year, how many hospitalisations are there this year?" Instead of doing 0.3x1238 and then adding to 1238, you should do 1.3*1238 which gives the same answer but in one less step. This might be a pretty obvious shortcut but you need to figure these types of things out for each question. Also, a big thing is to get used to the online calculator and working with it with a numpad.
            As for AR, you need to be exposed to as many patterns as possible and review the ones you get wrong each time and you'll find a pattern (see what I did there?) of the one you keep getting wrong. Also, when you're stuck, go through the mnemonic SCANS (shape, colour, arrangement, number and size/symmetry).
            Finally, if you ever every get stuck on any question, immediately flag and skip and come back. That's how the UCAT works: you just have to move on and come back.

            Hope this helped!

            • PP

                PhytoPlankton
                haha all good, that's still an amazing score. Just with AR, because some of the medify questions I find really challenging, but on the official website, they seem pretty straight forward. Are you saying that they are more like the ones on the official website?

                  oh also, does everyone get the same questions when you do the UCAT or does it depend on the day your sitting it?

                  Yes, as far as I've experienced, the real exam's AR is more similar to the difficulty of the official website mocks and lot of my friends also think the same way.

                  I know the UCAT done in the UK have 5 exams on cycle with questions randomly ordered so most likely the people around you will have different questions. And I can only assume that it occurs in a similar manner in Australia.

                  Hope that helps!

                  • PP
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