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Passing the UK Clinical Aptitude Test (UKCAT) and BMAT (Student Guides to University Entrance) (Paperback)

by Felicity Walker-Buckton (Author), Glenn Hutton (Author), Rosalie Hutton (Author) "Over the past few years, there has been a shift towards more detailed assessment of students applying to university, in order best to discover their..." (more)
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The UK Clinical Aptitude Test is now being used by the majority of UK university medical and dental schools to help select 2007 entrants. The test examines verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning, abstract reasoning and problem solving skills. This new guide provides no nonsense explanation of the rationale behind the four parts to the test, together with practice questions and answers. The book also provides step-by-step guidance for your application for medicine or dentistry at university. There is an additional section for those required to take the BioMedical Admissions Test (BMAT), which includes a practice test and explanations of the answers.

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Felicity Walker-Buckton BSc (Hons) Oxon, is in the fifth year of her medical degree at Guys, King's and St Thomas' medical school in London. She has coached hundreds of prospective students through the application process to read medicine, and is currently a Tutor with Oxbridge Applications. Rosalie Hutton BSc, MSc, Chartered MIPD, is an Occupational Psychologist and Director of Psychometric Technology Limited, with 20 years' experience in the field of assessment and testing. She designs and publishes psychological assessment measures, and has co-authored a number of assessment books on multiple-choice questions. Glenn Hutton BA, Mphil, Chartered FIPD, is a private consultant to organisations concerned with recruitment and selection by way of assessment or examination. He was previously head of a national examining organisation.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Contains a few helpful pointers , 25 Jul 2006
The advice in this book on passing the UKCAT is fairly helpful, but it's only worth buying if you don't mind the fact that it's overpriced. Its main failing is that it doesn't offer enough practice material - only half of each test. It should offer 2 or 3 times as much material as the test in order to enable the reader to gain enough practice. The advice on the verbal and maths sections is poor compared to other study guides I've seen. Also, there's little guidance either on timing and test taking strategies.

I think the authors recognised the lack of practice material, hence their decision to crowbar a primer on the BMAT into the same volume, which suggests an attempt at padding out. There's already a book on the BMAT, which is superior to this new publication.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Really not worth it., 27 Sep 2008
This review is from: Passing the UK Clinical Aptitude Test (UKCAT) and BMAT (Student Guides to University Entrance) (Paperback)
The guide kicks off with a lot of irrelevant information about general application to medical school, UCAS, personal statement writing etc - not useless by any means, but definitely not brilliant.

The real meat of the book is the practice questions, and I'm afraid to say that this is where it really falls over. The verbal reasoning questions are terrible, there are multiple typos, huge logical inconsistencies, many ambiguous questions and some of the answers are simply entirely wrong.

The other sections seem to be of a better quality, but on the basis of the second chapter, I really wouldn't bother with this book - no academic text (especially one with an emphasis on comprehension and critical thinking) should contain such elementary mistakes.
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A,mazing book, 20 Jun 2007
By J. Wairimu "Jules" (Wiltshire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Passing the UK Clinical Aptitude Test (UKCAT) and BMAT (Student Guides to University Entrance) (Paperback)
I found this book to be very invaluable. Some people may not agree but I really think that all the sections in this book for the UKCAT test are very helpful. The 2007 edition is written informally, and to be honest some of the things mentioned just makes you want to laugh out loud. It may not gurantee me a place to medischool, but knowing that Iam armed with the knowledge of how to tackle the UKCAT test, and with information from the medical school interview books, am confident enough that I will not panic. Also, for anyone who is taking the UKCAT test, go to the website and ukcat website and check the sample questions, they are set exactly the same way (or similar0 to the ones you will carry out. Good Luck on your exams.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Wrong title
This book would have been better titled "Applying to Medical School" or something similar. I suggest that to really feel as though you've given yourself the best chance at the... Read more
Published 2 months ago by T. Pepper

1.0 out of 5 stars You just don't need a book for the UKCAT
I sat the UKCAT in september 2007 and retrospectively I realsie this and a couple of books like it were a huge waste. Read more
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2.0 out of 5 stars So far, so bad
I'm a magazine sub-editor and my flatmate is a patent attorney - we're both professional wordsmiths in our thirties. Following considerable analysis and debate (with diagrams! Read more
Published 9 months ago by Ms. Jenny C. Keates

2.0 out of 5 stars Helpful for some sections
The book will help you mainly for the abstract reasoning and decision analysis. However the verbal reasoning section is terrible. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Iso

3.0 out of 5 stars OK-ish
I found the first section helpful, applying for Graduate Entry by myself means I haven't been told some of the things that I'm sure those applying straight from college will have... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Ms. K. V. Thompson

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing
Like most people, I bought this book for the practice questions in order to supplement those already available on the UKCAT website, as well as some useful tips on tackling the... Read more
Published 11 months ago by J. Wilson

2.0 out of 5 stars Good book but lacks practice questions
Although I found this book helpful I felt that it could have contained alot more practice questions. Read more
Published 12 months ago by MedWhizz

5.0 out of 5 stars Worth the £15
It did piss me off that I had to pay £65 to take a test when I already had the grades to get into medical school, but that's how it is these days. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Mr. Tcd Lewis

4.0 out of 5 stars Useful
Useful for preparation- when I was taking the test it was the only book with any practise questions which were very valuble as they teach you technique in answering which seems to... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Maddy G

3.0 out of 5 stars Use it only for reference
This was a good book to start off your practice I would not recommend anyone to use it solely on its own, I would suggest that people use other psychometric testing practice books... Read more
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