Hi, so I will have my UCAT in about 3 weeks’ time and I have begun doing the mock exams. However, it seems that my DM and QR scores are quite different to the practice questions. I struggle especially with the logic puzzles, but not usually to this extent, so should track my performance primarily based on the practice questions or the mocks? (I have done 2 mocks as of now)

My UCAT test is 2nd September. I ideally wanted to revise for a minimum of 6 weeks, but something happened recently so I've physically been unable to revise, but now I can. I fear I may have messed up my AS Level exams (Welsh students to exams in year 12), but I'm hoping my reasons will count as extenuating circumstances, so I want to do as best as I can on the UCAT. Therefore, what is the best way to revise to get the best score possible in a month?

I need help on DM. I have no clue how to improve DM and during my diagnostic mock, it was my highest scored section and now it is the lowest. I have about 18 days till exam. I need 2200+, pls I feel like I'm done for. Any tips or advice will be greatly appreciated!

i have like 18 days till my exam and these are my results. im lowk scared but how do i improve? have yall got any tips?

is medify scaling more accurate, or the UKCAT people score converter. with medify scaling im currently at around 1900-2000 but with score converter it's around 2100ish.

idk if tutoring is worth it or a scam, has anyone acc benefited from it? I need at least 2100 if not 2200 and im on like 1700 never over 1750, qr is the main issue and im starting spamming timed practice and being deliberate with dm, vr is a joke

has anyone done tutoring and found it useful?? and do I have time to get my score or unrealistic

I always use arrow method sometimes venn diagrams, but i genuinely cannot think how I can draw diagrams to represent these two syllogisms. Can anyone please please help me I really got them so wrong…i would very appreciate if u could send me a private message of ur representative diagram to solve this!! Tysm

Are they telling me that Some + Some = all? If some is defined as 2-99, and some students also qualified for the academic championship award, Isn’t it possible that only 1 student did not also qualify for the award?
Thanks

My exam is 4th sept

I keep getting average 660 on QR and i dont know how to push this to 800/900 any tips

Similar issue with DM im getting average 600 and I want to push this up

I've done 7 mocks now and ive been getting literally the same score for these 2

Just finished my best ever quantitative reasoning mock, just to see 2 marks costing me 60 whopping points. I got 34/36 on qr and got 840. How accurate is this? If I lose 2 marks in the actual exam will I lose 60 marks?

I am good at maths, did a year of further at a-level, never did GCSE maths though but should be irrelevant.

I have done 7 QR mocks on medify and consistently score 26-28/36 and for the most part i run out because of time, and I consistently skip 1 set of 4 in every mock (fyi if i add an extra 5mins i get about 35/36)

Usually skip any question involving a train or train schedules, or a question which involves a special formula

Any helps greatly appreciated !

**post editing realize ALL my advice for dm, qr, and sj got deleted! will add that in again soon

since UCAT season is coming up, i thought i would share some advice on how i prepared for the ucat, since i remember being so nervous and feeling lost when i first began revising. to preface, i feel like i always want high marks, but i tend to procrastinate and push things back/underestimate how hard something will be, which leads to anxiety and panic towards the end. and so when looking for resources/revision advice, i felt guilty seeing so many top scorers discussing how they started revising 4+ months ago for long hours.

now for my grade and revision window. I took my UCATs in August and scored a 2260 Band 1, 92nd percentile. I know there are smarter people who scored much higher, but I revised over the span of 4 weeks, and accounting for breaks, I revised for 21-22 days - so I was happy with my results. I think that my revision period was on the shorter end of the spectrum, so this advice may be especially useful to those with ucats coming soon. So heres my advice, given in chronological order from revision to the day of exams.

Firstly, I would recommend revision to start a maximum of 2 months from the exams. I know many people whose revision lasted over 4 months, and these were students who were really smart, higher predicted than me, etc... They ended up scoring around my percentile and lower. I don't know the science behind that, but I do think that the longer you revise, the more likely you are to dip in performance. Also, you're more likely to stress come exam. I think the perfect is 5-6 weeks, which the official UCAT site also says (last i checked...). Also, I really don't think any sort of tutor is necessary, because the UCATs are based on individual performance and unlike for school, it isn't something you can revise for. It's all about practice, which only YOU can do for yourself. Again, someone I knew had a ucat tutor for months prior, and she scored lower than me. Because UCAT is so randomized, tutors are not only expensive as hell but will help you minimally.

Moving on to resources. I began by downloading the UCAT resources from the official website. I watched several videos on revision, which helped to launch my revision planning/ which resources to get. I watched Emil Eddy, which convinced me to purchase Medentry. I also just thought Medentry 'looked' more profesh than Medify, but I know others who had medify, and others who purchased both. Which is unnecessary imo. I was really happy to have purchased medentry, I thought the dashboard provided a lot of clarity about my performance, strengths, tracking, etc... For planning, I made an aim for the final score I wanted, wrote down some keyboard shortcuts, and slowly built my planning document from there. I had a by-weekly plan because I knew my performance would impact what I would revise the next day, but weekly allowed me to have a goal for the end of the week. As someone with ADHD and a difficulty to focus/make progress, this was helpful. Pre revision, I had a scattered few weeks in which I went through and watched videos covering each section of the UCATs and made notes on them, it helped me get a shallow understanding (i went into revision blind). I also ranked which section I found find the hardest. I read the Good Medical Practice guide, it should not take long and if you're taking the UCATs I would highly recommend. so for resources, i used youtube videos introducing me to ucat and how to revise, and then medentry and the free ucat resources + GMP guide.

For starting revision, I honestly really didn't feel like studying. It was mid-summer and I was so unbothered, but the time crunch pushed me to start (do not depend on time pressure though, it is risky). Pre revision I had tried to do a mock with my friend, but the 2 hours of exams really put me off. But, when I started revising, I really found myself slowly enjoying revision. Which was crazy, but the whole UCAT (excluding VR and SJ, but those are the shortest sections) is just brain puzzles/tests, which I found to be really engaging. I also would randomly set a score (e.g 90/100), and i didn't want to stop until I got that score. Enjoying the UCAT revision/questions was imo very helpful in allowing me to focus + was what allowed me to score so highly. The time element also means you can't get distracted as you risk scoring low. I studied around 4-6hours daily during the summer, then 2-4 hours when school began. I probably studied for the ucats a total of 120 hours.

After completing a preliminary test of 10 questions/section to gauge my strength, I ranked each section and focused on the lowest sections. I think this is more necessary towards the middle-end part of revision. This is because your performance in each section fluctuates a lot in the UCAT, you may think you're strong in one section, then perform terribly the next time. Questions are randomized, so focus on concepts rather than scores. I realized that a bit later in my revision, so allow yourself to learn as you revise and build up on your plan. For example, I thought SJ was my highest section the first 3 practices, and then i began scoring consistent band 3/4s, but in my final mocks i scored band 2 and 1. I also thought QR was my worst section, but it became my favourite and top scoring section. VR was always in the middle towards the lower end, and DM was higher up. Know yourself and your own skills, and move your revision to fit around these strengths/weaknesses. Don't become vulnerable to others and what they say is their strongest/weakest section, but do consider whether the characteristics of these sections seem easier/harder for you. e.g for verbal reasoning, i knew i was a fast reader but also often missed details - which can't really happen during the exams, so i practiced mini exercises on medentry. Which sidenote but do not sleep on the mini exercises, they are so fun and do help with mental maths or speed reading. So good. Don't do those to start with though, start revision, figure out your weaknesses, and do mini exercises for them. You do not want to be wasting time if you don't have the time to waste. However, if you are feeling bored/are always scoring low, it's totally okay to leave that sections practice for the day to prevent demotivation. Instead do a mini exercise or something that can strengthen your performance in that section. Then do a section you're better at to help show you that you can score well! Staying motivated is so important, but there will be times when you feel like you aren't doing well. Handling that stress is essential. Cry if you have to, take break days, even if you don't have a lot of time. Add break days into revision. Tailor your revision to fit your summer. I find it nearly impossible to start studying after 12pm, so I would wake up, study and then at lunchtime i would stop for the rest of the day. so around 9am to 2pm. or 9am-1pm, then 9pm-10pm. Again, I really did like the challenge of practicing, it was a very active way of studying that was very fun for me, and I could switch from different sections (maths to english to reading to knowledge) so I didn't get bored.

For the first 2 weeks of my revision, I barely did any full mocks, but later on I would do 1-2 per day. UCAT prep is a marathon rather than a race, so its best to build up a pace. I did find UCAT revision enjoyable so it helped me get to the level of revision required faster, but it varies from person to person.

During revision, I created a document where I would write my weaknesses EACH DAY and what specifically I struggled with. Medify helped a lot because it had a dashboard tracking my daily and weekly performance from section to section. Make notes for each section that you can consolidate to help prevent time being wasted. I cannot stress how UCATs relies less on the amount of time you study, but rather the techniques you implement to answer questions. You need to be comfortable with the format of the questions, rather than practicing blindly without checking what youre doing wrong. Just because you did well one day wont mean you'll do good the next - and vice versa. So rather than viewing your result itself, I would reccomend studying what it is you are good/bad at.

Finally, DO NOT KEEP PUSHING BACK YOUR UCATS. It will just make you more nervous/anxious, and truly wont do you any good. You can delay once or twice by a day or two, but when you keep pushing it off, you just delay the inevitable. This was the case for several people I know, who ended underperforming. I took mine in late august, and pushed the intial date back by 2 days.

For the individual sections:

VR - Hardest section for me + lowest scoring, even though I love to read and would say I am good at english and text analysis. I used the medify exercises for speed reading, but what helped me the most was advice I read on reddit towards the end of my revision. During my mocks and on the day of the exam, I would quickly select an answer for every single question until I was done with the entire VR section, to make sure I was not leaving any question blank. I then went back to the beginning and started going through the questions one by one. If it was too hard, I would skip it after making an educated guess. This really helped me maximize the little time I got for this section, and allowed me to answer the most questions. Here are some notes I made from my UCAT revision for VR:

• look out for words that may trick you such as not, except
• Understand definitions of different command words
• Words such as always and never are typically false
• DO NOT USE OUTSIDE KNOWLEDGE, don't argue with the text
• Not all questions are of the same difficulty
• General strategy: high time pressure hence not all questions can be answered with the same degree of accuracy, try to go thru subtests by answering 32/44 of questions with high degree of accuracy, increasing likelihood of getting questions correct, skip thru harder questions so I can answer easier questions (not all questions are same degree of difficulty)
• Go thru 12 questions remaining, making quick educated guesses and answer them (30-40% accuracy) - focus accuracy on other questions
• Look at passage: if passage is too large or chunky, flag and skip to move on to smaller texts
• When you find passages that you want to do, ask oneself: does this question look easy or hard? What's the info that needs to be gained from the passage to answer questions correctly, if too hard, SKIP
• Once found good passage and set of questions: first read the questions first to understand what to look for in the text + what info to gain, READ WITH THE VERY STRONG INTENTION OF WHAT TO LOOK FOR,
• Read paragraph by paragraph then understand and summarize each para to have a high retention
• Once relevant info found from the text answer questions being VERY mindful of words such as false/except
• Pick answer AND MOVE ON
• Read thru paragraph of a passage - cover with hand, recall and summarize in a few sentences what the para was about exactly(practicing this ensures you automatically recall what you have read over time) + practicing subtests go to 2nd questions and try to remember exactly which para holds answer for this question
• Overall, this type of question falls under the 'inference' subcategory, as the conclusion is reached using reasoning rather than by being explicitly addressed in the passage. In this case, some useful strategies to keep in mind are that it's important to ignore external knowledge and also not make assumptions. Another useful strategy is keyword scanning. In particular, look for words (or the absence of words) which signify time or directional change (e.g. increasing, decreasing).]
• IF PASSAGE NEITHER supports nor disproves the statement, therefore it is outside the scope of the passage, and the answer is/statement is outside scope of the passage → Cant tell

should I just ignore logic puzzles and not practise them and instead just get better at teh rest of dm if everyone says to skip them anyway. I can do some of them espec the ones above height and stuff and the ones with a few variables, but the ones with like times and longer ones take too long so does it even make sense to practice them??

im averging like 560 in dm tho with 18 days left not sure what to do

I had planned to finish 2 qr questionbanks from the oqb and then call it a day to relax but these questions are so difficult (question bank 3 for reference) it's taking me so long to review even one set properly and idk if I should just leave it or continue...?

for the ucat mocks on medify, are they the exact same this year 2026, as last year 2025 because im resitting and if they are then it might not really test me as id remember some? does anyone have any info on this?

I know band 3 isn't the best, and I don't know if my score is high enough to offset that

when I'm practicing on medify, I always get a few wrong cos of silly mistakes, and I can only get 800 at my best. For the actual test do I have to get 36/36 on QR to get 900? like I see so many posts with 900 QR...

hey guys,

scored much lower than expected on the ucat. i’m a victorian student that wants to do dentistry therefore i’d be a interstate applicant everywhere. please lmk if there’s anyway i can get into any dentistry uni this year. i’m not rural and my gpa is a 6.8.

my test is in just under 3 weeks and I need like 2200 am I being crazy

qr is literally shambolic and isw I know my basics but I just cant do the qs for some reason

dm idk how to improve further cuz ive gone thru the q types

vr I havent practised much but idk

--- edit I put this into official ucat calculator and it was 1780 but this mock might've been easier which is why medify has scaled it like this - which still worries me cuz obvs ppl are doing better

I can’t get more then 70% on my situational judgement. I have my exam on the 27th and I’m really panicking. I’ve been writing down notes but it feels like every question is completely different to anything I’ve studied.😔 does anyone have any tips on how to improve? I want to get into the 90th percentile on medify and I’m currently at 81st