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UCAT preparation.
The University Clinical Aptitude Test sits between candidates and UK medical and dental school offers. Three scored cognitive sections totalling 900 to 2700, plus a Situational Judgement Test banded one to four. Time pressure is the defining variable.
What we teach
The UCAT: three cognitive sections plus SJT.
Verbal reasoning.
Scored 300 to 900. Skim-reading discipline, inference under time pressure, and the question types where most candidates lose marks. Drill-based, not theory-heavy.
Decision making.
Scored 300 to 900. Logical puzzles, probability, syllogisms, statistical interpretation. Structured approaches to each question type.
Quantitative reasoning.
Scored 300 to 900. Time-pressured arithmetic, ratio and proportion, percentages, multi-step calculation. The section where strong mental-arithmetic candidates can really pull ahead.
Situational judgement.
Banded one to four and scored separately from the cognitive total. Medical-ethics scenarios and professional judgement. We work through the official UCAT framework so candidates understand the marking logic.
Abstract reasoning was retired in 2025.
The UCAT no longer includes an Abstract Reasoning section. Candidates revising from older resources should ignore that part of the syllabus. The reform shortened the test and concentrated the cognitive load into the three sections above.
Who teaches it
Specialists. Vetted under our five-step process.
UCAT specialists who scored in the top decile when they sat the test themselves. Many are medical-school graduates or current medical students with recent first-hand UCAT experience.
Read about our vetting processWhat to expect
How lessons run.
Typically a 6 to 10 week block of weekly sessions, alongside daily independent practice on a UCAT question bank. Sessions are diagnostic: we identify the section costing the most marks and rebuild it before moving on. Full mock tests at week 3, week 6, and the week before test day.
Ready when you are.
Talk to us about UCAT.
Thirty minutes, no obligation. Tell us the student, the medical schools they are applying to, and the test date. We listen first.
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