Final UCAT advice after sitting the exam:

Hello everyone, this community has been very helpful in the last few weeks so thought i would give back and give some advice on the UCAT, I ended up scoring 2220 Band 3, which whilst not as high as many on here, thought I could still give some advice.

My first piece of advice is to sit mocks at the time of your exam, which whilst being quite generic is very good advice as, especially if your exam is at 8am like mine, prepares you for the early rise. Also prepare wearing headphones, ik its specific but you have to wear headphones in the test centre at least the one I tested in, so Id recommend you practice doing the same.

So for VR I found VR to be harder than the OQB but similar to medify and think that the OQB are quite deceptively easily in contrast. My main advice for VR would be to practice with official practice mocks and short timed medify sections, unfortunately with VR there isn't really a cheat code you just get better with practice. However, I will say that over time you quickly do learn to identify the correct answers while guessing quite easily, VR is nice in that lots of the answers are very different so often you can easily narrow it down to 2 or 3 increasing your chance of guessing correctly. VR is my weakest section however and I did score lowest (only scoring 660) so maybe take advice from someone else. Also something I here alot is the UCAT won't lie to you in VR and this is definitely true, as they use extracts from professional authors and journalists if you know an answer is correct and the others are false it is worth guessing, especially under time pressure.

For DM Id recommend learning which type of questions you do well on and locking in on them and getting better. I always found the maths, Venn diagrams and syllogisms at the start the easiest, so Id recommend you start with them. Once you've completed all the questions I'd then prioritise doing inferences as they are worth two marks, dont even bother with Logic puzzles they just arnt really worth it in any way. I also wouldn't overly rely on the arrows method for syllogysms as whilst IK many find it helpful it is quite time consuming. To get better I'd recommend just doing loads of timed practice of the sections you plan on answering in the exam and trying to get around 80% accuracy. For strongest argument the answer is generally not that different from what would seem to be the most logical argument, its very rare you will be made to argue against the creation of the NHS or punishing children or something along those lines, but also ensure the point awnswers the entire question, not just the first half. Inferances I'd recommend doing more OQB practice over medify I found medify to be easier than the OQB so would recommend using them for Inferences instead. Generally my main stragetgy for text inferances was to pretty much treat them as syllogysms, as often the logic is about as harsh.

QR was my strongest section, I ended up scoring 820 and finishing all the questions in time. Just to note the calculate is pretty infuriating and laggy on the official UCAT page so dont get too used to the smooth calculator medify uses. For QR my main recommendations is skipping as much as possible, escpecially at the start. Do not start with a hard question, it will ruin your flow and will just cost you time and accuracy. Also id recommend using the "c" shortcut to clear the calculator, its something i havnt heard about much but was useful. Once youve finished the first pass then go the harder questions, often you will find they arnt as hard as you thought they were. Honestly tho I cant give too much advice as Ive always just naturally found this section easy.

I am not qualified to give any advice on SJT, but frustrating you do not know what score you got or how close you were to the next band.

My medify diagnostic was 1600, Mock average was around 1990 Official mock C scored 2160 D scored 1950 Final thing 2240, so dont get overly downtroden by a weak score. Good luck everyone and hope to have helped someone.