Ali promises BMAT Section 2 videos on physics, biology, chemistry and maths (2017)
promise · status: kept · last event: kept (2017-08-10) · owner: Ali
Told alongside: Ali promises a video on the content of BMAT Section 2 maths (2017)
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| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-06-22 | promised | Ali says videos on BMAT Section 2 physics, biology, chemistry and maths are coming very soon, with specific advice and timing tips for each. | BMAT Section 2 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series 00:03:51 |
| 2017-06-24 | progress update | Ali delivers the first of the promised BMAT Section 2 subject videos, on physics. | How to prepare for BMAT Section 2 Physics, even if you're not doing it at A-Level · BMAT Tips series 00:00:00 |
| 2017-07-04 | progress update | Ali delivers the second of the promised BMAT Section 2 subject videos, on biology. | How to prepare for BMAT Section 2 Biology · BMAT Tips series 00:00:00 |
| 2017-07-12 | progress update | Ali delivers the third of the promised BMAT Section 2 subject videos, on chemistry, with the calculations to follow in a separate video. | How to prepare for BMAT Section 2 Chemistry · BMAT Tips series 00:00:00 |
| 2017-07-19 | progress update | Ali says he will talk much more about mental maths in his coming video on the approach to BMAT Section 2 maths. | BMAT Section 2 Chemistry - How to speed up your calculations · BMAT Tips series 00:02:55 |
| 2017-08-10 | kept | Ali delivers the last of the promised BMAT Section 2 subject videos, on maths. | BMAT Section 2 Maths - 3 tips to boost your score · BMAT Tips Series 00:00:00 |
What is said about it
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- 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 — 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
- 2017-07-19 · 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