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UKCAT Test: A Bird’s Eye View

The UKCAT examination consists of five sections. They are:

  1. Verbal Reasoning: This is the first section of the paper that consists of 44 questions that has to be covered in 22 minutes. In order to clear this section with ease, the student needs to have a very good command over the vocabulary and intense knowledge about its application. Some of the questions in this part is extremely tricky, and therefore, it requires the candidate to study the question paper extremely carefully in order to understand the correct application of the words, and answer the tricky questions accurately.
  2. Quantitative Reasoning: This is the second section of the UKCAT paper and probably the most challenging of all. Even those students, who have otherwise been good in mathematics, might find handling this section a challenging task. This is because, although it consists of mathematics, the questions are not exactly related to what has been taught in school. It involves more application of mind and intelligence than what is required for academic excellence in maths. UKCAT quantitative reasoning would have 36 items that has to be solved in 23 minutes.
  3. Abstract Reasoning: Moving on from the most challenging section to the most interesting one, the abstract reasoning section of UKCAT test. In this section, the candidate needs to deal with non verbal stuffs, like geometric and abstract shapes and determine their relationship. The questions will demand you to state a certain pattern of relationship amongst the given shapes. However, even this section is not as easy as it might apparently seem to be. This is because of the time constraint, where only 16 minutes are allotted for 65 items. One minute should be devoted to reading the instruction, to leave the student with just 15 minutes.
  4. Decision Analysis: This is the fourth section of the UKCAT exam, the student will be judged on his ability to deal with coded information that gradually becomes more ambiguous and inconclusive. The candidate has to come to logical derivations with a set of ambiguous information that are dispersed all throughout the question. Picking the right piece of information and putting things in place is bound to become a little more challenging when a short span of 32 minutes is assigned to solve 28 items.
  5. Non-Cognitive analysis: In this section the student’s personal attributes to become a doctor would be judged, through several questions that would indirectly yield the candidate’s personal opinions, perspective, and approaches. This easy section should be completed in 27 minutes, while the numbers of questions keep varying from time to time.