How do you prepare for the BMAT and UKCAT?
Admissions tests for medicine, section by section.
Axis: targeted practice with timing … general revision
Answers by date: 11 records in 10 sources, newest first; the answers above are the current ones. The advice was refined (2017, 2018), never reversed, in these records.
| date | who | answer | source |
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| 2018-05-29 | Ali | Using American English in the BMAT does not matter, Ali says: no one cares. | Live Stream - Hangout 00:15:22 |
| 2018-05-07 | Ali | 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. | Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student 00:45:07 |
| 2017-08-30 | Ali | 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. | BMAT Section 3 Essay - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series 00:12:44 |
| 2017-08-10 | Ali | 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. | BMAT Section 2 Maths - 3 tips to boost your score · BMAT Tips Series 00:05:44 |
| 2017-08-10 | 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. | BMAT Section 2 Maths - 3 tips to boost your score · BMAT Tips Series 00:00:58 |
| 2017-07-19 | Ali | With one minute per BMAT question, Ali advises understanding moles conceptually and intuitively instead of working through the formula triangle. | BMAT Section 2 Chemistry - How to speed up your calculations · BMAT Tips series 00:00:58 |
| 2017-07-12 | Ali | For BMAT candidates who find chemistry hard, such as graduates who last did it long ago, Ali says the best bet is memorising as much of the Assumed Knowledge Guide as possible: there is no shortcut. | How to prepare for BMAT Section 2 Chemistry · BMAT Tips series 00:01:56 |
| 2017-07-04 | Ali | Ali advises every BMAT candidate to use the official Section 2 Assumed Knowledge Guide in biology preparation to plug the holes in their knowledge. | How to prepare for BMAT Section 2 Biology · BMAT Tips series 00:00:29 |
More answers (3)
| date | who | answer | source |
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| 2017-06-24 | 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. | How to prepare for BMAT Section 2 Physics, even if you're not doing it at A-Level · BMAT Tips series 00:01:56 |
| 2017-06-22 | 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. | BMAT Section 2 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series 00:01:54 |
| 2017-06-20 | 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. | BMAT Section 1 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series 00:01:27 |