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“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.
Beyond Tutoring is the only local tutoring centre to offer a fully-developed UCAT course!
Our 12-week program is designed to provide students with everything they need to ace the UCAT, covering all 5 sections of Australia's undergraduate medicine admissions test. Through the 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.
Our small groups of maximum eight students facilitate for constant class discussion, thus allowing the flow and exchange of ideas within class. Our UCAT tutors are available to students for help and advice regarding the exam, enrolment process, or any other support. We also offer our students access to FREE university application help and medicine interview training