BMAT
admissions · in 54 sources (2017–2020)
Sources by year: 2017: 28 · 2018: 16 · 2019: 4 · 2020: 6
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 BMAT chemistry calculations — promise, kept, 2017
- Ali promises a video on the content of BMAT Section 2 maths (2017) — promise, open (updates through 2017, not reported done), 2017
- Ali promises a BMAT Section 3 video on coming up with points and examples (2017) — promise, open (no report in 2017–2024), 2017
- Ali promises more videos on the BMAT, interviews and personal statements (2017) — promise, kept, 2017–2018
- Ali and his friend James try a new money-making business every year at secondary school, and all five fail — story, told 5×, 2019–2020
Also named in the threads: Ali, a fifth-year medical student at Cambridge University, is co-founder of SixMed, a small company running courses for medical school applicants, and has taught its BMAT Crash Course for five years. · Ali's vlogs: medical elective, final year and junior-doctor life (2017)
Often together
What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.
UKCAT (13) · 6med (20) · University of Cambridge (13) · World of Warcraft (4) · Personal statement (5) · Singapore (3) · Imperial College London (3) · University of Oxford (5) · NHS (4) · Taimur Abdaal (5)
What the videos say
The most important statements of each year; all statements.
2020
- 2020-03-13 · The KEY Study Techniques for Exam Success — recommendation: Ali: Coaching students for the BMAT, Ali tells them to write down the variables a question gives as they read it, such as speed, distance and unknown time, then ask which equation contains them and plug in the numbers. — 00:17:17
- 2020-04-17 · Answering your Questions — Ali is now trying to set up a few other businesses; he has tried to set up a business every year since he was 13, with his friend James, and always found it exhilarating and fun. — 00:24:38
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — Ali: Every year at secondary school Ali and his friends came up with a new business idea; every one failed, but they learned a lot from each. — 00:04:34
- 2020-05-01 · How Much Money I Earn in a Week as a Doctor & YouTuber — Ali: A couple of years ago Ali made his own online video courses for the UCAT, the BMAT and medical school interviews. — 00:08:16
- 2020-10-04 · My BIGGEST Rejections in Life — Ali: From about the age of 12 Ali had three strands of business ideas that all failed; the first was an online game, for which he learned to make websites and server-side coding in PHP. — 00:01:27
- To win back the £900, in September 2012 Ali brainstormed money-making schemes in Evernote from what he was good at, including websites on getting into medicine, BMAT preparation and interview preparation. — 00:17:34
- To do content marketing for SixMed, Ali created his YouTube channel in 2017, first making videos on the BMAT and interview preparation, topics from his 2012 brainstorm. — 00:19:58
- 2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — Ali: At school Ali taught himself to code, and every year he and his friends came up with a new business idea and built a website for it; every one failed. — 00:03:27
2019
- 2019-02-14 · Valentine’s Day Live Stream — Ali: Of the BMAT and the UKCAT, Ali prefers the BMAT. — 00:28:52
- 2019-08-16 · Money, Relationships and Hair Loss - Answering your Assumptions — Ali: SixMed began in 2013 teaching BMAT courses to UK medical school applicants, then added UKCAT and interview courses and question banks; Ali has run it on the side as a Cambridge medical student and doctor. — 00:04:17
- 2019-10-09 · How I Built a Million Dollar Business in Medical School - 10 Tips for Entrepreneurs — Ali: In their second year of medical school Ali and friends decided to run a BMAT course: the big companies' courses seemed poor and expensive, so they would do better, charge less and give free places to low-income students. — 00:00:29
- At secondary school Ali and his friend James tried a new money-making plan every year, and all five businesses failed; the sixth, the BMAT crash course, became SixMed. — 00:11:37
- 2019-11-14 · Arrogance, Expectations & Inspiration - Personal Q&A with my Brother · Ali & Taimur Abdaal — Ali and Taimur worked together on BMAT Ninja, online learning platforms for the BMAT and UKCAT medical school exams. — 00:23:07
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
- 2018-04-09 · How to Study for Exams - Spaced Repetition · Evidence-based revision tips — Ali: Looking through all the BMAT past papers, Ali found that physics comes down to four categories: electricity, mechanics, nuclear and waves. — 00:13:28
- 2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — Ali is about to run Google AdWords ads for SixMed's BMAT and UKCAT courses the next day (2 May 2018) to try to beat the Medic Portal. — 00:44:29
- 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 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
- 2018-07-23 · A year on YouTube - Channel / life update — Ali has filmed and edited a series of more than 75 videos on how to do well in the BMAT, the BioMedical Admissions Test. — 00:06:45
- Ali has run SixMed for five or six years, teaching the BMAT in classrooms in the UK, Singapore and the Netherlands; with no time to teach in person as a doctor, he has put everything he knows into an online video course. — 00:06:56
- 2018-08-03 · Life Advice - 50k subs Q&A — Ali has recently released an online BMAT video course, a series of more than 70 videos he spent about three or four days making. — 00:05:37
- 2018-09-24 · Graduate Entry Medicine - A comprehensive guide + Q&A — Samah says that when she applied there were three entrance exams for graduate medicine: the BMAT, the UKCAT and the GAMSAT. (hedged) — 00:08:08
- 2018-10-04 · BMAT Physics - Electricity + Formulae · BMAT Crash Course Online — Ali says quite a lot of BMAT physics is just memorising the formulae: a candidate who can memorise them and apply them in the questions gets most of the marks. — 00:00:29
- Ali urges BMAT candidates to memorise the six basic electricity formulae with their symbols and units, with time always in seconds and power in watts, not kilowatts or megawatts. — 00:07:51
- 2018-12-08 · Ask Doctor Ali - 100k subscribers Q&A — Ali: When Ali decided in July 2017 to vlog his medical elective he had to churn out content, about 12 videos there, then BMAT and interview videos; one or two videos a week makes 50 to 100 a year. — 00:09:24
- …and 25 statements more in 2018 — all statements of 2018
2017
- 2017-06-20 · BMAT Section 1 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali says preparing for BMAT Section 1 is about strategy and practice, practice being 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 says to guess an answer and move on after more than a minute on a question, and to guess without attempting a question that will clearly take longer than a minute. — 00:01:25
- After learning the science, Ali would practise many BMAT Section 2 questions on BMAT Ninja, then do the last five or six years of real past papers under strict 30-minute timing. — 00:02:53
- 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 urges BMAT candidates not to neglect the Section 2 physics questions, a mistake he says is surprisingly common. — 00:00:29
- 2017-07-04 · How to prepare for BMAT Section 2 Biology · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: With one minute per BMAT Section 2 question, Ali advises doing the biology questions in far less time, as they are mostly factual recall without complicated calculations, leaving more time for the other questions. — 00:00:58
- Ali advises against spending a lot of time practising BMAT biology, by far the easiest Section 2 subject: the time is probably better spent improving at physics, chemistry and maths. (hedged) — 00:01:35
- 2017-07-12 · How to prepare for BMAT Section 2 Chemistry · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: For BMAT candidates who find chemistry hard, such as graduates who last did A-level chemistry in the 1980s, Ali says the best bet is memorising as much of the Assumed Knowledge Guide as possible: there is no shortcut, as anything can be asked. — 00:01:56
- 2017-07-19 · BMAT Section 2 Chemistry - How to speed up your calculations · BMAT Tips series — recommendation: Ali: For BMAT mole calculations Ali advises understanding the mole conceptually and intuitively instead of relying on the memorised formula triangle, which is fine with plenty of time but costly at one minute per question. — 00:00:58
- 2017-08-10 · BMAT Section 2 Maths - 3 tips to boost your score · BMAT Tips Series — Ali: The mantra taught on all of Ali's BMAT crash courses for the last five years, which students found enormously helpful, is "fractions are our friends". — 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
- 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 132 statements more in 2017 — all statements of 2017