Most of the universities I'm planning on applying for want the UKCAT, so I decided to take this one.
So off I trotted, down to the Pearson Education education centres, which happened to also be the DSA testing centre, which I had visited a few weeks ago to do my Driving Theory Test. I can't imagine many people end up on the 5th floor of the Venture tower in Portsmouth twice in a month :P
To be honest, I didn't do much preparation for the test, you wern't supposed to. I had done a practise on the net but thats about it (and they don't give you the answers :(... not useful). Some people are given months of private tuition and study for weeks beforehand, but I think this is just unecessary. Either you got it, or you don't....
The test comprised of 5 sections, the first four tested the way you thought, so there was a pattern recognition, a mathematical one, verbal reasoning and a decision analysis. The fifth was a non-cognitive test, and gave you a print out with an analysis of your personality.
It turns out im good with numbers, and making decisions (although a number of people would argue this), but sometimes I can be overconfident... meh....
The test wasn't as bad as I thought, and I found sticking to the time limit the most hardest part of the whole test.
Lets hope it's good enough for Medical Schoo huh??
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