How to prepare for BMAT Section 2 Biology · BMAT Tips series
2017-07-04 · Long video (solo, talking head or whiteboard) · Ali · recording, 2:38 · watch on YouTube
Topic: Medicine and his doctor years · mode: Explanation and tutorial · tags: Aimed at students
In his BMAT tips series Ali, a fifth-year Cambridge medical student, covers Section 2 Biology through content, timing and practice: learn the official Assumed Knowledge Guide, answer the factual-recall biology questions fast but carefully, and spend most practice time on physics, chemistry and maths.
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 to the BMAT tips series: biology in three parts
- ★ Ali introduces himself as a fifth-year medical student at Cambridge. — 00:00:00 · University of Cambridge
- ★★ Ali says BMAT Section 2 biology mostly tests human biology, with little on plants and ecology beyond the carbon and nitrogen cycles and an occasional plant-versus-animal-cell comparison. — 00:00:00 · BMAT (exam)
00:00:13 — Content: mostly human biology, covered by the Section 2 Assumed Knowledge Guide
- ★★★ Ali advises every BMAT candidate to use the official Section 2 Assumed Knowledge Guide in biology preparation to plug the holes in their knowledge. — 00:00:29 · Section 2 Assumed Knowledge Guide, BMAT (exam)
- ★★ Ali says the Assumed Knowledge Guide is good enough for BMAT biology, so candidates who do A-level biology probably will not need the extra notes on BMAT Ninja. (hedged) — 00:00:29 · BMAT Ninja (website), Section 2 Assumed Knowledge Guide
00:00:58 — Timing: one minute per question, biology far faster
- ★★ BMAT Section 2 gives one minute per question, which Ali calls really tight. — 00:00:58 · BMAT (exam)
- ★★★ Ali advises doing BMAT Section 2 biology questions in far less than a minute each, because they are factual recall without the calculations of the physics, chemistry and maths questions. — 00:00:58 · BMAT (exam)
- ★★ Ali says many BMAT Section 2 biology questions can be done in under 30 seconds, leaving more time for the harder questions. — 00:00:58 · BMAT (exam)
- ★★ Ali warns against rushing the BMAT biology questions: they are the easiest in the paper and candidates should get all of those easy marks. — 00:01:27 · BMAT (exam)
- ★★ To practise BMAT biology, Ali suggests the free past biology questions on BMAT Ninja, or printing the past papers since 2003 and working through them. — 00:01:27 · BMAT Ninja (website), BMAT (exam)
- ★★★ Ali advises against spending much time practising BMAT biology, the easiest of the Section 2 subjects; time is probably better spent on physics, chemistry and maths. (hedged) — 00:01:27 · BMAT (exam)
00:01:35 — Practice: BMAT Ninja and past papers, but not too much biology; sign-off
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★★ Ali calls content, timing and practice the three pinnacles of success in BMAT Section 2. — 00:01:56 · BMAT (exam)
“the three pinnacles of section two success”
Threads in this video
- refine · How do you prepare for the BMAT and UKCAT? — Ali advises every BMAT candidate to use the official Section 2 Assumed Knowledge Guide in biology preparation to plug the holes in their knowledge. (00:00:29)
- progress update · Ali promises BMAT Section 2 videos on physics, biology, chemistry and maths (2017) — Ali delivers the second of the promised BMAT Section 2 subject videos, on biology. (00:00:00)
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Mentioned
Central: BMAT (exam) · Section 2 Assumed Knowledge Guide
Also: BMAT Ninja (website) · University of Cambridge
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