How to prepare for BMAT Section 2 Physics, even if you're not doing it at A-Level · BMAT Tips series
2017-06-24 · Long video (solo, talking head or whiteboard) · Ali · recording, 4:47 · watch on YouTube
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Ali urges BMAT applicants not to skip the Section 2 physics questions, even without A-level physics, and explains how to learn the physics from the official Assumed Knowledge Guide in a set topic order and how to practise it with past questions and timed papers.
What is said
The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).
00:00:00 — Welcome back to the BMAT Tips series: three points on Section 2 physics
00:00:29 — Please don't neglect the physics questions
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★★★ Ali implores BMAT applicants not to neglect the Section 2 physics questions, a mistake he says is surprisingly common. — 00:00:29 · BMAT (admissions)
“Please don't neglect the physics questions.”
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★★ 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 · 6med, BMAT (admissions)
- ★★ 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 · BMAT (admissions)
- ★★ 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 · BMAT (admissions)
00:01:27 — How to learn the physics: the Assumed Knowledge Guide and the order of topics
- ★★ To brush up on BMAT physics, or any of the sciences, Ali recommends the free official Section 2 Assumed Knowledge Guide, or the revision notes on BMAT Ninja. — 00:01:27 · Section 2 Assumed Knowledge Guide, BMAT Ninja (website, bmat.ninja)
- ★★★ 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 · Section 2 Assumed Knowledge Guide, BMAT (admissions)
- ★★ To learn a BMAT physics topic, read it in the Assumed Knowledge Guide, understand its concepts and memorise its formulae; if stuck, watch a YouTube video or use BBC Bitesize. — 00:01:56 · Section 2 Assumed Knowledge Guide, BBC Bitesize
- ★★ Done efficiently, learning the whole BMAT Section 2 physics syllabus should take a few hours, leaving plenty of time to practise. — 00:01:56 · BMAT (admissions)
- ★★ At the start of BMAT physics preparation, Ali advises not revising topics already known from GCSE but plugging the gaps first. — 00:02:43 · BMAT (admissions)
- ★★ 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 · BMAT Ninja (website, bmat.ninja), BMAT (admissions)
00:02:58 — How to practise the physics questions
- ★★ 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 · BMAT (admissions)
- ★ BMAT Ninja sells access to over 1,000 worked solutions written by Oxbridge medical students for £29, with an unlimited bursary scheme for people in financial difficulty. — 00:03:12 · BMAT Ninja (website, bmat.ninja)
- ★ 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 · BMAT (admissions)
- ★★★ 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 · BMAT (admissions)
00:04:11 — Summary and sign-off
In the description and comments
- ★ Ali Abdaal (channel): BMAT Ninja gives out hundreds of bursaries for its worked solutions each year. — video description · BMAT Ninja (website, bmat.ninja)
Threads in this video
- refine · How do you prepare for the BMAT and UKCAT? — 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)
- progress update · Ali promises BMAT Section 2 videos on physics, biology, chemistry and maths (2017) — Ali delivers the first of the promised BMAT Section 2 subject videos, on physics. (00:00:00)
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Mentioned
Central: BMAT (admissions) · Section 2 Assumed Knowledge Guide
Also: 6med · BBC Bitesize · BMAT Ninja (website, bmat.ninja)
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