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2018

2018-03-21 · Q & A - 5,000 Subscribers! — Ali says he got into medical education to make some money: in his first year at university he ran a BMAT course for students at his school, then built a website for the BMAT Crash Course and marketed it nationally, and it grew beyond what he imagined. — 00:06:05
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — Ali scored 7.5, 7.3 and 4.5A (as heard) in the BMAT. — 00:31:16
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — Ali prepared for the BMAT for two months and for the UKCAT for about two weeks, because he did not really care about the UKCAT. — 00:43:55
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — recommendation: Ali says taking several admissions tests is not too bad because their preparation windows differ: the UKCAT in June or July, the BMAT in September or November; he knows nothing about the GAMSAT. — 00:45:07
2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — recommendation: Ali: Using American English in the BMAT does not matter, Ali says: no one cares. — 00:15:22
2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — Ali: The average BMAT score of successful Oxbridge candidates is about six, in the low sixes, Ali says, so getting that is pretty good. — 00:19:37

2017

2017-06-20 · BMAT Section 1 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali and his friends are on their medical elective in Cambodia and decided to make a series of videos with tips for doing well in the BMAT. — 00:00:00
2017-06-20 · BMAT Section 1 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali Abdaal (channel): BMAT Ninja offers more than 1,200 free practice questions taken from past BMAT and TSA papers, along with questions its makers wrote. — video description
2017-06-20 · BMAT Section 1 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali: BMAT Section 1 has 35 questions in 60 minutes, about one minute 42 seconds per question, so time is not usually an issue there, unlike in Section 2. — 00:00:29
2017-06-20 · BMAT Section 1 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali: BMAT Section 1 mixes critical thinking questions (just under half) and problem solving questions (just over half). — 00:00:29
2017-06-20 · BMAT Section 1 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali: BMAT Section 1 critical thinking questions are formulaic, asking for a passage's conclusion, assumption or flaw, with a specific strategy for each type, so they can be prepared for. — 00:00:58
2017-06-20 · BMAT Section 1 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali: BMAT Section 1 problem solving involves basic data interpretation and calculations, such as reading a table or graph and working out a percentage, and a few question types come up again and again. — 00:00:58
2017-06-20 · BMAT Section 1 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali: Preparing for BMAT Section 1 is about strategy and practice, and practice is by far the more important: the best preparation is doing loads of practice questions. — 00:01:27
2017-06-20 · BMAT Section 1 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali: In 2017 about 14 or 15 years of BMAT papers and at least 10 years of TSA Oxford papers exist, and TSA Oxford is very similar to BMAT Section 1. — 00:01:27
2017-06-20 · BMAT Section 1 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: For BMAT Section 1 practice, Ali advises doing all the past questions, either from the PDFs on the official Admissions Testing Service website or free on BMAT Ninja, a website he helped make, on a laptop, tablet or phone. — 00:01:56
2017-06-20 · BMAT Section 1 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: If BMAT critical thinking does not come naturally, Ali suggests going over an A-level critical thinking textbook, such as those of the OCR exam board; if it does, lots of practice is enough. — 00:02:26
2017-06-20 · BMAT Section 1 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — announcement: Ali says he will upload more tutorials on BMAT critical thinking questions in the next few weeks. — 00:02:55
2017-06-20 · BMAT Section 1 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali: Only seven critical thinking question types come up in the BMAT each year, so a strategy for each of the seven gets almost full marks on them. — 00:02:55
2017-06-20 · BMAT Section 1 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali: BMAT problem solving questions vary significantly from year to year, though types such as repeating patterns and spatial awareness keep coming up. — 00:03:24
2017-06-20 · BMAT Section 1 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: For BMAT problem solving, Ali advises knowing the times tables up to 12 inside out, so as not to spend ages on simple calculations. — 00:03:24
2017-06-20 · BMAT Section 1 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: For BMAT problem solving, Ali advises estimating: judge from the answer options how far you can round, and remember whether you rounded up or down (an estimate of 50 against options of 48 and 52). — 00:03:53
2017-06-20 · BMAT Section 1 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: For BMAT problem solving, Ali advises being able to convert easily between fractions, decimals and percentages, since most of problem solving is related to maths. — 00:04:22
2017-06-20 · BMAT Section 1 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — announcement: Ali says the next videos of the series, over the next few days, will cover how to prepare for BMAT Sections 2 and 3, with breakdowns of each section's content. — 00:05:21
2017-06-22 · BMAT Section 2 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali: After feedback that his BMAT Section 1 video was a little too long, Ali splits BMAT Section 2 into several shorter videos. — 00:00:00
2017-06-22 · BMAT Section 2 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali: BMAT Section 2 has 27 questions and lasts 30 minutes, about one minute per question. — 00:00:26
2017-06-22 · BMAT Section 2 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali: BMAT Section 2 is an even split of biology, chemistry, physics and maths, with biology the easiest and maths probably the hardest. (hedged) — 00:00:26
2017-06-22 · BMAT Section 2 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali: BMAT Section 2 is set at GCSE or O-level standard, but its questions can be taken from any exam board, not only the one a student has done. — 00:00:26
2017-06-22 · BMAT Section 2 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali: When Ali prepared for the BMAT about six or seven years earlier, he bought CGP revision guides from all the exam boards and ripped out the pages relevant to BMAT questions. — 00:00:56
2017-06-22 · BMAT Section 2 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali: The timing of BMAT Section 2 is really tough: about one minute per question is generally not enough, so keeping to time is very important. — 00:01:25
2017-06-22 · BMAT Section 2 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: In BMAT Section 2, Ali advises guessing and moving on once a question takes more than a minute, and guessing without attempting a question that will clearly take longer. — 00:01:25
2017-06-22 · BMAT Section 2 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali: Every year SixMed's courses tell students how important Section 2 timing is, and every year students email to say they ran out of time and left five questions blank. — 00:01:25
2017-06-22 · BMAT Section 2 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: If preparing for BMAT Section 2 this year (2017), Ali would first teach himself all the science he did not already know, especially physics if not taking it at A-level, and would not skip the physics questions. — 00:01:54
2017-06-22 · BMAT Section 2 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: To teach himself the BMAT Section 2 science, Ali would use the official Assumed Knowledge Guide and a Section 2 syllabus of topics asked in past papers, prioritising those topics and covering the rest of the guide if time allowed. — 00:02:24
2017-06-22 · BMAT Section 2 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: After learning the science, Ali would do lots of practice questions on BMAT Ninja, a website he made with the past 15 years of BMAT Section 2 papers and questions written by Oxbridge medical students. — 00:02:53
2017-06-22 · BMAT Section 2 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: Once confident, Ali would do the last five or six years of real BMAT Section 2 papers under strict 30-minute timing, then check his answers and look at the solutions or ask a teacher or friend where he went wrong. — 00:02:53
2017-06-22 · BMAT Section 2 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — announcement: Ali says videos on BMAT Section 2 physics, biology, chemistry and maths are coming very soon, with specific advice and timing tips for each. — 00:03:51
2017-06-24 · How to prepare for BMAT Section 2 Physics, even if you're not doing it at A-Level · BMAT Tips series — Ali implores BMAT applicants not to neglect the Section 2 physics questions, a mistake he says is surprisingly common. — 00:00:29
2017-06-24 · How to prepare for BMAT Section 2 Physics, even if you're not doing it at A-Level · BMAT Tips series — Ali: Each year on SixMed's courses students tell Ali they hate physics and will skip all seven physics questions, reckoning 20 out of 27 still gives about a six on the BMAT. — 00:00:29
2017-06-24 · How to prepare for BMAT Section 2 Physics, even if you're not doing it at A-Level · BMAT Tips series — Ali: Skipping BMAT physics does not work in practice: some chemistry and maths questions are hard enough that full marks on them is unlikely, while some physics questions just involve plugging numbers into formulae. — 00:00:58
2017-06-24 · How to prepare for BMAT Section 2 Physics, even if you're not doing it at A-Level · BMAT Tips series — Ali: The BMAT Section 2 physics questions are probably the second easiest after biology, even for applicants not taking physics at A-level. (hedged) — 00:00:58
2017-06-24 · How to prepare for BMAT Section 2 Physics, even if you're not doing it at A-Level · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: Of the six physics topics in the Assumed Knowledge Guide, Ali suggests learning electricity and energy and force first, as they come up every year, then the next three, which come up most years, leaving "other applications of physics" to the end as it is rarely asked. — 00:01:56
2017-06-24 · How to prepare for BMAT Section 2 Physics, even if you're not doing it at A-Level · BMAT Tips series — Ali: Done efficiently, learning the whole BMAT Section 2 physics syllabus should take a few hours, leaving plenty of time to practise. — 00:01:56
2017-06-24 · How to prepare for BMAT Section 2 Physics, even if you're not doing it at A-Level · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: At the start of BMAT physics preparation, Ali advises not revising topics already known from GCSE but plugging the gaps first. — 00:02:43
2017-06-24 · How to prepare for BMAT Section 2 Physics, even if you're not doing it at A-Level · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali advises practising lots of past-paper BMAT physics questions under timed conditions, most easily on BMAT Ninja, where a free account gives the past paper questions of the last 15 years. — 00:02:43
2017-06-24 · How to prepare for BMAT Section 2 Physics, even if you're not doing it at A-Level · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: When stuck on a BMAT physics question, Ali suggests asking a teacher: physics teachers are happy to help students not taking their subject at A-level. — 00:03:12
2017-06-24 · How to prepare for BMAT Section 2 Physics, even if you're not doing it at A-Level · BMAT Tips series — Ali offers to write a worked solution for any BMAT physics question posted in the comments by students without a teacher to help or who do not want to pay for resources. — 00:03:41
2017-06-24 · How to prepare for BMAT Section 2 Physics, even if you're not doing it at A-Level · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: After lots of practice questions, Ali advises doing the last five years of BMAT Section 2 papers under strict timed conditions: the whole paper in half an hour. — 00:03:41
2017-07-19 · BMAT Section 2 Chemistry - How to speed up your calculations · BMAT Tips series — Ali says BMAT chemistry calculation questions are only GCSE standard: they are tricky because of the timing, not because they are hard. — 00:00:00
2017-07-19 · BMAT Section 2 Chemistry - How to speed up your calculations · BMAT Tips series — Ali: In a BMAT chemistry calculation question the candidate has to work out the question, remember the formula, plug in numbers and do rapid mental maths in under one minute. — 00:00:29
2017-07-19 · BMAT Section 2 Chemistry - How to speed up your calculations · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: For BMAT chemistry calculations Ali advises knowing the formula for everything that could be asked by heart, such as percentage yield, so numbers go straight in. — 00:00:29
2017-07-19 · BMAT Section 2 Chemistry - How to speed up your calculations · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: With one minute per BMAT question, Ali advises understanding moles conceptually and intuitively instead of working through the formula triangle. — 00:00:58
2017-07-19 · BMAT Section 2 Chemistry - How to speed up your calculations · BMAT Tips series — Ali's example: converting 36 g of carbon (Mr 12) to 3 moles, a student who simply sees the answer saves seconds each time over one who works through the formula triangle, time that adds up over the Section 2 paper. — 00:01:27
2017-07-19 · BMAT Section 2 Chemistry - How to speed up your calculations · BMAT Tips series — Ali says calculations are probably the hardest part of BMAT chemistry. (hedged) — 00:02:26
2017-07-19 · BMAT Section 2 Chemistry - How to speed up your calculations · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: The third thing Ali says BMAT candidates need to get good at for Section 2 chemistry is mental maths. — 00:02:55
2017-07-19 · BMAT Section 2 Chemistry - How to speed up your calculations · BMAT Tips series — announcement: Ali says he will talk much more about mental maths in his coming video on the approach to BMAT Section 2 maths. — 00:02:55
2017-07-19 · BMAT Section 2 Chemistry - How to speed up your calculations · BMAT Tips series — Ali says the numbers in BMAT chemistry questions look scary but are almost always friendly enough to work with in your head. — 00:02:55
2017-07-19 · BMAT Section 2 Chemistry - How to speed up your calculations · BMAT Tips series — Ali's example: with an Mr of 137, noticing that 137 is half of 274 shows that 2.74 g is 0.02 moles without any formula. — 00:03:24
2017-07-19 · BMAT Section 2 Chemistry - How to speed up your calculations · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali says BMAT candidates sometimes have to fall back on the formula, especially when the numbers are not as simple as 12 g of carbon or 16 g of oxygen. — 00:03:53
2017-07-19 · BMAT Section 2 Chemistry - How to speed up your calculations · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: If a BMAT chemistry question needs heavy estimating, Ali advises double-checking the numbers, and if it still takes too long, guessing an answer and moving on. — 00:04:23
2017-08-10 · BMAT Section 2 Maths - 3 tips to boost your score · BMAT Tips Series — announcement: Ali says he will very soon make another video on the content of BMAT Section 2 maths, which he calls the hardest part of Section 2. — video description
2017-08-10 · BMAT Section 2 Maths - 3 tips to boost your score · BMAT Tips Series — recommendation: Ali: "Fractions are our friends" is the mantra Ali's team has taught on all its BMAT crash courses for the last five years, which he says students have found enormously helpful. — 00:00:29
2017-08-10 · BMAT Section 2 Maths - 3 tips to boost your score · BMAT Tips Series — Ali says fractions come up throughout the BMAT paper, in Section 1 problem solving and Section 2 chemistry, physics and maths; only Section 1 critical thinking, about 17 questions, and the Section 3 writing task do without them. — 00:00:29
2017-08-10 · BMAT Section 2 Maths - 3 tips to boost your score · BMAT Tips Series — recommendation: Ali: If a BMAT candidate does only one thing before the exam, Ali says improving at fractions will probably give the biggest increase in score. (hedged) — 00:00:58
2017-08-10 · BMAT Section 2 Maths - 3 tips to boost your score · BMAT Tips Series — recommendation: Ali: For the BMAT Ali says candidates must add, subtract, multiply, divide and simplify fractions quickly and convert percentages and decimals into fractions, as numbers are usually easier to work with as fractions. — 00:00:58
2017-08-10 · BMAT Section 2 Maths - 3 tips to boost your score · BMAT Tips Series — recommendation: Ali: In any BMAT question Ali advises converting a percentage or decimal to a fraction straight away, within reason: multiplying 0.28 by 100 needs no fraction. — 00:01:27
2017-08-10 · BMAT Section 2 Maths - 3 tips to boost your score · BMAT Tips Series — recommendation: Ali: For BMAT mental maths Ali urges candidates to know their times tables at least up to 12 inside out, so sums like 7 times 8 need no thought. — 00:01:57
2017-08-10 · BMAT Section 2 Maths - 3 tips to boost your score · BMAT Tips Series — Ali says the people best at mental maths tend to do very well in the BMAT, because quick calculation saves so much time. — 00:01:57
2017-08-10 · BMAT Section 2 Maths - 3 tips to boost your score · BMAT Tips Series — Ali says no calculator is allowed in the BMAT and almost no questions need long division or long multiplication: the sums are short enough to do in your head. — 00:02:26
2017-08-10 · BMAT Section 2 Maths - 3 tips to boost your score · BMAT Tips Series — Ali says BMAT Section 2 has about 7 maths questions, and maybe 3 or 4 of them cannot be done in one minute by a normal person. (hedged) — 00:03:13
2017-08-10 · BMAT Section 2 Maths - 3 tips to boost your score · BMAT Tips Series — Ali has seen students with 100% at GCSE and AS and Maths Olympiad gold medals get a low Section 2 mark, he thinks because they insist on solving maths questions and leave others blank. — 00:03:42
2017-08-10 · BMAT Section 2 Maths - 3 tips to boost your score · BMAT Tips Series — Ali says that when he took the BMAT, and each year when he does Section 2 under timed conditions, he guesses the maths questions about shapes and leaves them to the end, as he is not good at rotating shapes in his head. — 00:04:11
2017-08-10 · BMAT Section 2 Maths - 3 tips to boost your score · BMAT Tips Series — recommendation: Ali says the aim in BMAT Section 2 is to finish the paper with an answer down for all 27 questions, then come back to the hard ones if there is time. — 00:04:11
2017-08-10 · BMAT Section 2 Maths - 3 tips to boost your score · BMAT Tips Series — recommendation: Ali: If a BMAT Section 2 question, especially in maths, takes over a minute, Ali says to guess an answer, move on and come back at the end; if it looks long within 10 seconds, not to attempt it. — 00:04:45
2017-08-10 · BMAT Section 2 Maths - 3 tips to boost your score · BMAT Tips Series — recommendation: Ali says doing many practice questions helps less for BMAT Section 2 maths than for critical thinking, as the maths questions are novel each year; practise them under strict time conditions and learn where you went wrong. — 00:05:44
2017-08-10 · BMAT Section 2 Maths - 3 tips to boost your score · BMAT Tips Series — announcement: Ali says the next few BMAT Tips videos will cover Section 3, and after that he might go deeper into Section 1 and Section 2 topics. — 00:07:41
2017-08-10 · BMAT Section 2 Maths - 3 tips to boost your score · BMAT Tips Series — Ali: As an alternative to paying for BMAT Ninja worked solutions, Ali invites viewers stuck on a BMAT question to comment under the video and promises to reply with a worked solution. — 00:07:41
2017-08-19 · Tailored suits in Hoi An (Vietnam) - Cambridge Medical Elective #11 — recommendation: Ali spent an hour in a Hoi An coffee shop editing a BMAT maths video and tells BMAT candidates who need help with maths to watch it. — 00:00:29
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali says the BMAT Section 3 answer sheet is about an A4 page whose top quarter holds name and candidate number, with a border you may not write outside, leaving under three quarters of a side. — 00:00:29
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali advises thinking of BMAT Section 3 as writing three or four paragraphs, all the answer box has room for, which he finds more psychologically manageable than writing an essay. — 00:00:58
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali says a BMAT Section 3 essay gets a number out of five, with half marks, for its content, and a letter grade from A to E. — 00:00:58
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali says the BMAT Section 3 letter grade is for grammar, spelling and punctuation: most candidates get an A, some a B, very few a C, and a D or E takes real effort to earn. — 00:01:28
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali says each BMAT Section 3 essay is marked by two examiners, who tend to be graduate students at Cambridge. — 00:01:28
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali says the Admissions Testing Service emails Cambridge students each year inviting them to mark BMAT essays, paying about 18 pounds an hour. (hedged) — 00:01:28
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali says the two examiners' BMAT Section 3 marks are averaged, and a large discrepancy, such as a 5A against a 2D, sends the essay to the senior examiner. — 00:01:57
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali calls a 3 in BMAT Section 3 pretty reasonable and a 4 or 5 pretty good; most candidates get an A or B for grammar. — 00:01:57
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali understands that most universities use a BMAT Section 3 cutoff of about 2.5C, so a 3C or above is fine. (hedged) — 00:02:22
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali says a 3 in BMAT Section 3 comes from simply answering the question; nice language and well-explained points take an essay to 4 or 5. — 00:02:22
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali says BMAT Section 3 gives half an hour to write on one of four essay titles. — 00:02:22
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali says one BMAT Section 3 title is usually a medical question, such as treating obese people on the NHS, euthanasia or abortion, and another usually a vet question. — 00:02:22
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali says the third BMAT Section 3 title is usually a current-affairs topic, such as freedom and liberties or education policy, and the fourth a quote by someone famous such as Nietzsche, Aristotle or Socrates to interpret. — 00:03:09
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali says each BMAT Section 3 title has two to four sub-questions: answering all of them almost certainly earns at least 3 out of 5, while missing any caps the mark at 2. — 00:03:30
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali's team recommends spending at least two or three minutes actively choosing the BMAT Section 3 question, rather than rushing in after the time pressure of Section 2. — 00:03:54
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali says BMAT Section 3 is not very time-pressured: of the half hour, writing in the answer box takes only about 10 to 15 minutes. — 00:04:24
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: To choose a BMAT Section 3 question, Ali advises going through each title, thinking what points you would make for each sub-point, and picking the one you have most to say about. — 00:04:24
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali says choosing an unusual BMAT Section 3 title, such as the quote by Aristotle, earns no favour: examiners do not care which one you answer, so pick the one you can answer best. — 00:05:04
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali calls planning by far the most important part of BMAT Section 3; he spent about 15 minutes planning his own essay. — 00:05:04
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali's team tells candidates to treat the BMAT Section 3 answer sheet as sacred and not touch it until the essay is planned and they know exactly what they will write. — 00:05:33
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali says BMAT candidates used to be given only one Section 3 answer sheet, so spoiling it was the end; he is not sure whether the rules have changed. (hedged) — 00:05:33
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali's team recommends splitting BMAT Section 3 planning into two parts, the first being a brain dump phase. — 00:05:33
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: In the brain dump phase of a BMAT Section 3 plan, Ali writes as many points as he can for and against and works out his conclusion. — 00:06:10
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali expands some brain-dump points with one or two extra bits of information, such as the NHS budget, which he says can turn maybe a 3 essay into a 4. (hedged) — 00:06:39
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: In the organisation phase, a few minutes long, Ali picks one or two points from each section of a BMAT Section 3 plan, as there is no space for more. — 00:07:01
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali advises writing the BMAT Section 3 answer in really small, really neat handwriting: smaller fits more points, and examiners may not want to or be able to read untidy writing. — 00:08:28
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: Candidates with atrocious handwriting, Ali says, should give themselves more time for writing the BMAT Section 3 essay and a little less for planning. — 00:08:28
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali advises practising timed BMAT Section 3 essays on a printout of the official answer grid, timing how long you take to fill it small and neat, to plan your time for the exam. — 00:08:57
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali timed himself at about 12 to 13 minutes to fill the BMAT Section 3 space in small neat writing, leaving 15 minutes for planning and two for choosing the question. — 00:08:57
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: At the end of BMAT Section 3, Ali suggests checking through the essay, for example that no stray "not" in the conclusion reverses its meaning. — 00:09:35
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali advises avoiding crossings-out, asterisks and arrows on the BMAT Section 3 answer sheet. — 00:10:10
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali says a BMAT Section 3 answer cannot continue overleaf, as only the front of the sheet is scanned. — 00:10:10
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: If a BMAT Section 3 essay is about to miss a part the question asks for, such as the conclusion, Ali says to do whatever it takes to get it in. — 00:10:10
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali's one takeaway for BMAT Section 3: answer the question and address every subsection; with reasonable English that gives at least 3 out of 5, over any university's cutoff. — 00:10:39
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: Asked what to read for BMAT Section 3, Ali says it does not matter: most candidates have only a month or two, and essay-writing skills can improve only so much in that time. — 00:11:38
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali: Having marked many BMAT essays over five years of teaching courses, Ali says a good one states the basic points a bit more nicely than others, rather than adding a rogue point from a treatise on medical ethics. — 00:12:14
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali calls a timed BMAT Section 3 essay every day overkill: two or three timed essays show your timings, and then, if you find Section 3 hard, plan past-paper essays without writing them out. — 00:12:44
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali says BMAT Section 3, the essay, is in his opinion the easiest part of the BMAT, though many candidates worry about it. — 00:13:13
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali says candidates need no essay subject at A-level to write the three or four paragraphs of BMAT Section 3: answering the question and making points clearly gives at least 3 out of 5. — 00:13:41
2017-08-30 · BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — announcement: Ali says another BMAT Tips video, on 30 or 31 August 2017, will cover how to come up with Section 3 points, how in-depth examples must be and whether facts may be made up. (hedged) — 00:14:11
2017-10-21 · Speaking on Live TV - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #10 — Ali: On a Sunday evening Ali heads to London for a live panel TV show for the UK's Bangladeshi community on medicine and university, invited by a Facebook message that morning as the expert speaker on the BMAT. — 00:00:00
2017-10-21 · Speaking on Live TV - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #10 — Ali: In the East London studio, Ali is part of the show's UKCAT and BMAT panel, answering the hosts' questions and phone calls from the audience. — 00:00:36
2017-10-21 · Speaking on Live TV - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #10 — Chris, president of the Imperial College Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Society (as heard), says the panel runs the Bangladeshi British TV show so people without usual access to medicine application information learn about the personal statement, UKCAT, BMAT and interviews. — 00:01:11