UCAT AND BMAT
UCAT
The UCAT and BMAT aptitude tests play an important role in your medicine application process.
The UCAT exam has 5 sub-sections that you are tested on: Verbal Reasoning, Quantitative Analysis, Abstract Reasoning, Decision Making, and Situational Judgement. As UCAT is an aptitude test, many people say that you don’t really need to prepare for it, which is true… However, in order to get used to the time pressures of the exam requires a ton of practice! For example, in Verbal Reasoning you have 21 minutes to answer 44 questions (that require you to read a pretty lengthy paragraph). On average, your preparation time for the exam should be around 3-5 months prior to your test date - a couple of hours each day. You can find details about the specific subsections on the UCAT website.
Each university uses the UCAT different - some have a threshold mark (where if you don’t meet the threshold or higher, you’re automatically rejected), some have a point system wherein they score your application and there are some that also do not consider UCAT as important as your personal statement, academic criteria.
Going through the different requirements of universities (after you get your results) can help you understand where to apply that would give you the highest possibility of receiving an offer!
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You can find details on how universities use the UCAT in our PDF document - link below.