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I would thoroughly recommend this book to anyone who is serious about securing a place at their dream medical school. When all other books provide only minimal practice or fail to provide any detailed explanations, this one surpasses them all by giving you all the tools you need to succeed at the UKCAT. --Hamed, 1st year, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
I would recommend this book over all others. It is the most detailed book around; a real confidence booster which was crucial in helping me secure a score of 790 at the UKCAT. Good luck to everyone for the UKCAT 2010! --Nishali, 1st year medical student, Kings medical school
A brilliant book. Certainly the best available for the UKCAT. The book contains detailed explanations to help candidates understand the approach to take for each sub-test. --Kevin, 1st year medical student, St George's medical school
I would recommend this book over all others. It is the most detailed book around; a real confidence booster which was crucial in helping me secure a score of 790 at the UKCAT. Good luck to everyone for the UKCAT 2010! --Nishali, 1st year medical student, Kings medical school
A brilliant book. Certainly the best available for the UKCAT. The book contains detailed explanations to help candidates understand the approach to take for each sub-test. --Kevin, 1st year medical student, St George's medical school
I would recommend this book over all others. It is the most detailed book around; a real confidence booster which was crucial in helping me secure a score of 790 at the UKCAT. Good luck to everyone for the UKCAT 2010! --Nishali, 1st year medical student, Kings medical school
A brilliant book. Certainly the best available for the UKCAT. The book contains detailed explanations to help candidates understand the approach to take for each sub-test. --Kevin, 1st year medical student, St George's medical school
I would recommend this book over all others. It is the most detailed book around; a real confidence booster which was crucial in helping me secure a score of 790 at the UKCAT. Good luck to everyone for the UKCAT 2010! --Nishali, 1st year medical student, Kings medical school
A brilliant book. Certainly the best available for the UKCAT. The book contains detailed explanations to help candidates understand the approach to take for each sub-test. --Kevin, 1st year medical student, St George's medical school
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With over 600 UKCAT practice questions (including a full mock exam), in-depth explanations, and comprehensive tips and techniques spanning over 400 pages, this book constitutes an ideal preparation tool for the UKCAT in 2011 (2012 entry), helping candidates save time, retain focus and optimise their score. The book shows how to approach each type of question (abstract, verbal and quantitative reasoning together with decision analysis) and helps candidates familiarise themselves with all the potential traps that can be laid by the examiners. The overwhelming range of exercises that it contains will enable all UKCAT candidates to refine and optimise their technique to answer questions under strict time constraints. This book replicates the breadth and depth of the different types of questions that can be asked in the live UKCAT test and the spectrum of difficulties that it covers (from normal to stretching), which makes it an ideal preparation tool for all those who want to achieve a high score and maximise their chances of getting into the medical school of their choice.
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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hardcore practice for those who are serious about doing well at the UKCAT,
By Midnight Blue (London, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Get into Medical School - 600 UKCAT Practice Questions. Includes Full Mock Exam, comprehensive tips, techniques and explanations. (Hardcover)
This book is an excellent practice tool for anyone who wants to do well at the UKCAT. Excellent spectrum of exercises ranging from standard to hard in all four main test areas. The strength of this book is in the level of the explanations provided as much as it is in the huge range of questions it offers.
Passing the UKCAT requires a great deal of practise and this book certainly delivers in terms of content, volume and depth.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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You CAN get better at the UKCAT,
By Louise .H. (Kent, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Get into Medical School - 600 UKCAT Practice Questions. Includes Full Mock Exam, comprehensive tips, techniques and explanations. (Hardcover)
I had terrible trouble with UKCAT when i took it last year in 2008. I hope to encourage others not only to buy this book, but also to reassure people who, like me found it difficult to get to grips with the UKCAT, that you can get better at it. The answer to your UKCAT problems is A: This book. Partly because the others would be better put to use in a public restroom, but mostly because this book is pretty great and gives you all the practice you could need and then some.
Last year I applied to medical school (with 4 grade A's predicted and more work experience than I could fit in my personal statement) with a UKCAT score of 600 average. From the 2 unis that required the UKCAT (and the 2 BMAT unis incidentally) I got rejections after 5 months of waiting and no interviews, in March 2009. Needless to say I was gutted... I think I cried for a week. I am almost certain that the UKCAT score was to blame... and I maybe did something wrong on the BMAT too. This year I am determined to get my place so, in preparation for the UKCAT, I bought this book... well my mother did. You can read other reviews, that describe just how fabby it is in depth so I won't repeat them, but no matter what anyone says or how much they rave about it, the proof is, as they say, in the pudding. The following are my results for each section from 2008, and what it went up to when I re-sat the UKCAT in 2009, using this book in the time leading up to it. Verbal Reasoning: 550 -> 650 (increase of 100 points) Quantitative Reasoning: 650 -> 760 (increase of 110 points) Abstract Reasoning: 620 -> 700 (increase of 80 points) Decision Analysis: 580 -> 730 (increase of 150 points) 2008 average = 600 2009 average = 710 (increase of 110 points :D) Very few people publish their results for these things, either because they don't want to boast, or to give people high expectations. But I don't know how good these scores will be compared to other applicants this year, it all changes so rapidly. I put my results here, purely to encourage anyone who finds this test to be an utter bitch. The first time I really didn't understand the test, but this book helped me hugely and I did better than I could have hoped. I hope this gives you a quantitative view of how good I think this book is. Everyone is different and finds different aspects challenging, but this book WILL have a section to help you. After that, how well you do is all down to the work you put in to practicing. Practice and work hard (I worked really hard for the 2 preceding weeks) and there is no reason why you shouldn't achieve a score you can be proud of as well. Good luck and please apply to different unis to me, I don't need the competition and I am not sitting this *insert your profanity of choice* exam ever again.
56 of 59 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A brilliant confidence builder with lots of practice,
By A new life! "GEP applicant" (London, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Get into Medical School - 600 UKCAT Practice Questions. Includes Full Mock Exam, comprehensive tips, techniques and explanations. (Hardcover)
Having bought 4 books on UKCAT, I can honestly say that the best one so far is the book 600 UKCAT practice questions which I received following my pre-order from Amazon. Packed with loads of exercises and explanations, I have gone through almost all of the questions and am learning loads. I have found all the sections informative and good practice, particularly the verbal reasoning and abstract reasoning. The quantitative reasoning questions and decision analysis questions are also good because of the variety of techniques that they demonstrate and the sheer volume of practice that you can do.
I think that what makes the strength of this book is that it has loads of practice questions as well as a full exam. Many of the other books are either missing a mock exam, or they have fewer practice question (but still cost the same). Most have something like 1.5 times what you can expect at an exam i.e. a total of 250 questions or so (the exam has 175 questions), whether this one gives 600 questions, so nearly 3.5 times. No contest there. The explanations are also thorough (hence why it has 400 pages or so!) which makes it easier when you get things wrong to see how you could have approached the problem. Even when you get it right, they show you different ways in which you can approach a problem and that means that you can learn to reach the same correct answer in less time. As far as the difficulty of the questions is concerned, I have not taken UKCAT before (last time I applied for medicine was 3 years ago when UKCAT did not exist - I am now reapplying as a GEP) so cannot comment but they are well in line with the difficulty of the official UKCAT website questions i.e. some easy, some harder and in fact I have a similar score when I compare both. What I particularly like about this book is how it builds your learning and your confidence by starting with easier questions and growing increasingly difficult so that you can apply what you have learnt to new questions. Overall I find it a great confidence builder and would thoroughly recommend it to everyone.
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