5 Tips For Balancing UCAT with Year 12 Studies
Preparing for the UCAT and Year 12 exams simultaneously can be a daunting task for many high school students. The biggest hurdle many students around
“The world doesn’t need more smart doctors, it needs more warm and wise doctors.”
– Abhijit Naskar
The Universal Clinical Aptitude Test (UCAT) is an admissions test used by many universities in Australia to select students into health-related careers such as medicine and dentistry. Although the same exam has been used in the UK since 2006, it was first introduced in Australia in 2019 to replace UMAT as Australia’s medicine entry exam.
The UCAT is a 2-hour, computer-based exam which tests for skills and concepts, rather than knowledge and content. It tests various cognitive and non-cognitive abilities which are considered to be desirable in health professionals, such as lateral thinking, logical reasoning, problem solving, decision making, and situational judgement.
The exam is comprised of 4 cognitive subtests and 1 non-cognitive subtest, totaling 233 questions to be completed in a very short time-frame. For most universities, the UCAT is weighed as highly, or even higher, than your total HSC marks – so this exam is a vital step for entering into medicine or dentistry.
Our Beyond UCAT Course is the most comprehensive UCAT course available for students locally!
Our 32-hour program is designed to provide students with everything they need to ace the UCAT, covering all 4 cognitive sections of Australia's undergraduate medicine admissions test. In small group classes, students will learn the necessary skills and techniques required to improve in each individual section, while also improving in timing and exam-management technique.
Medify is the world's leading UCAT Resource!
Through our program, you will have access to:
- 20,000+ UCAT Questions
- 24 Mock Exams
- 40+ mini mocks
- 50+ hours of video tutorials
- Full monitoring of your progress and results from our experienced tutors
Alongside our Beyond UCAT Course, you will be able to access 2 hours' worth of 1-on-1 lessons with one of our amazing tutors, designed to help you get the help you need in the sections of the UCAT where you're struggling
From March onwards, we will be running fortnightly Q&A sessions, run by one of our tutors. This will give you the opportunity to put forward any questions that you have about the UCAT, specific questions that you're struggling with, Medicine, or study tips!
Our students are all added to Chat Rooms along with our experienced tutors, where you will have the opportunity to ask questions about the UCAT (or anything else!)
This will provide avenues to get round-the-clock help, while also conversating with like-minded students to help motivate you with your study!
For any students who achieve a desirable result in the UCAT and submit applications to Medical and Dental Schools, our experienced tutors will review your applications and offer feedback where needed.
In-person mock exams organised at our centre in Bankstown, to help simulate the UCAT experience as closely as possible!
All of the above can be accessed for an affordable price of $1845 / student!
Week | Content |
Week 0 | Introduction to the UCAT |
Week 1 | Verbal Reasoning – Introduction and Question Types |
Week 2 | Decision Making – Introduction and Question Types |
Week 3 | Decision Making – Question Types (continued) |
Week 4 | Quantitative Reasoning – Question Types (continued) |
Week 5 | Abstract Reasoning – Introduction and Question Types |
Week 6 | Verbal Reasoning – Advanced Techniques, Difficult Questions and Timing |
Week 7 | Decision Making – Advanced Techniques, Difficult Questions and Timing |
Week 8 | Quantitative Reasoning – Advanced Techniques, Difficult Questions and Timing |
Week 9 | Abstract Reasoning – Advanced Techniques, Difficult Questions and Timing |
Week 10 | UCAT Review, Q&A Session, and Final Exam Tips |
Preparing for the UCAT and Year 12 exams simultaneously can be a daunting task for many high school students. The biggest hurdle many students around
Verbal Reasoning is an important part of the UCAT (University Clinical Aptitude Test), which is a requirement for admission to many medical and health science