BMAT (admissions)

admissions · in 11 sources (2017–2018)

Sources by year: 2017: 8 · 2018: 3

Also known as: BioMedical Admissions Test

Threads

• Ali promises more tutorials on BMAT critical thinking questions (2017) — promise, open (no report in 2017–2024), 2017
• Ali promises BMAT Tips videos on preparing for Sections 2 and 3 (2017) — promise, kept, 2017
• Ali promises BMAT Section 2 videos on physics, biology, chemistry and maths (2017) — promise, kept, 2017
• Ali promises a video on the content of BMAT Section 2 maths (2017) — promise, open (no report in 2017–2024), 2017
• Ali promises a BMAT Section 3 video on coming up with points and examples (2017) — promise, open (no report in 2017–2024), 2017

Also named in the threads: Ali says that because he and his SixMed colleagues graduate next year (2018) and may not have time to run the courses, he is slowly putting the interview course content on YouTube.

Same name, different thing

BMAT (exam)

Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

BMAT Ninja (website, bmat.ninja) (6) · Admissions Testing Service (3) · Section 2 Assumed Knowledge Guide (4) · 6med (7) · UKCAT (3) · Imperial College London (2) · University of Cambridge (6) · Personal statement (2) · Cambridge (2)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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: 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
• 2017-06-22 · 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
  • 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
• 2017-06-24 · 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
  • 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 — 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
  • With one minute per BMAT question, Ali advises understanding moles conceptually and intuitively instead of working through the formula triangle. — 00:00:58
• 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
  • 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
• 2017-08-30 · 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
  • 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
• 2017-10-21 · 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
• …and 102 statements more in 2017 — all statements of 2017