The Medistudents AI-powered UCAT question bank is the only one on the market that uses AI algorithms to deeply analyse your ability levels and create a personalised learning journey specifically tailored to boost your UCAT score.
"The question bank really mirrored the real UCAT exam style. It was very comprehensive and helpful. I have used many other ones where they used almost the same questions but your question bank was completely unique"
The Medistudents AI-powered UCAT question bank provides this and more.
“The new Medistudents adaptive UCAT question bank made my revision much more efficient and it helped me get better and quicker at answering questions”
“I used the Abstract Reasoning section as I found the website the night before my test and I was pretty bad at AR. In my official exam my AR was my 2nd best section at 860! Overall, I thought the website was a very useful resource from what I saw and I liked the algorithm that showed skill in particular question types.”
Did you know that if you spend an average of 2 minutes answering and absorbing the explanation of each question in a question bank, it will take you 333 hours to get through 10k questions!?
No wonder the vast majority of people don’t answer anywhere near 10k questions before their exam!
We surveyed 100s of medical students and asked them what their biggest issue was when preparing for the UCAT.
Over 90% said that because the UCAT wasn’t a knowledge-based exam, they could answer thousands of questions but never feel like they were getting anywhere.
The trouble with standard question banks is that everyone is given the same questions to prepare with, with no consideration of what skills or topics each person is actually struggling with.
However, everyone has a different baseline ability. You might struggle with quantitative reasoning, whereas your friend might be a maths wizard. With a standard question bank, you’ll both answer the same QR questions, in the same order, meaning you’ll be left struggling while your friend doesn’t feel stretched.
No wonder so many people can find preparing for the UCAT frustrating!
The Medistudents adaptive UCAT question bank is here to change all that.
We recognise that the vast majority of students don’t complete all 10,000 questions in a question bank.
It’s therefore vitally important that the questions you do answer are relevant to your skill and ability level.
We’ll ensure that in the areas you’re struggling, you’ll master the basics first. Whereas in your stronger areas, you’ll be immediately pushed.
This will mean that every minute of your revision is turbo charged to maximise your UCAT score.
As you progress through the question bank, you’ll be able to see a sophisticated estimate of your current skill level for each subsection of the UCAT. When other question banks give you a performance review, they are simply telling you how many questions you’ve got right or wrong.
We do things differently.
Our algorithm will tell you exactly what your ability level is for each area of the UCAT. We calculate this based on the actual difficulty of the questions you are answering and it’s done in real time, so you can be sure that the work you’re putting in is actually translating into real gains in your UCAT score.
The Medistudents UCAT question bank is the only one available which shows you if you’re actually getting better at answering harder questions.
The University Clinical Aptitude Test (UCAT) is used by the majority of UK medical schools as part of their application process. Our UCAT complete guide will provide you with all the information you need for registering, preparing and completing the UCAT exam in 2023, for 2024 entry.
The UCAT (formerly the UKCAT) is a 2-hour multiple-choice exam. It’s used by universities to help fairly select applicants for medicine and dentistry, with approximately 37,000 students sitting the exam each year as part of their application.
The UCAT is used to assess an applicant’s mental ability, characteristics, attitudes and professional behaviours as part of the programme’s selection process.
The exam consists of five individually timed subtests: Verbal Reasoning; Decision Making; Quantitative Reasoning; Abstract Reasoning; and Situational Judgement.
You can find more information about each subtest in our UCAT Practice Test blog.
Over 30 UK universities include the UCAT as a compulsory entry requirement when applying to study medicine. You can find a full list of these universities, and how they use the UCAT in their selection process, in our UCAT universities blog.
The UCAT is delivered in Pearson VUE test centres throughout the UK and internationally; you can find your closest test centre here.
It’s important that you’re aware of the deadlines for registering, booking and completing the UCAT exam, which are all before the UCAS application deadline date of 16 October 2023.
*If you’re entitled to extra exam time due to a documented medical condition or disability, you will need to submit an access arrangements application during the window given. You can find more information about Access Arrangements in the 2023 UCAT Official Guide.
UCAT results will be sent to your chosen universities in early November, following the UCAS deadline date, but you will find out your results on the day of the test. Your test result will only be valid for the current UCAT admissions cycle, which includes 2024 entry or a deferred 2025 entry.
A bursary to cover the exam fee is available if you meet the eligibility criteria, otherwise the UCAT test fees for 2023 are as follows:
If you intend to apply for the bursary scheme, remember to check the application deadline above.
You’ll find lots of useful advice on how to prepare for the UCAT and a Step-By-Step Guide on our website.
The following are some simple tips to get you started:
For Verbal Reasoning, Decision Making, Quantitative Reasoning and Abstract Reasoning – the ‘cognitive subtests’ – raw scores are converted into scale scores. Each section is equally weighted so they have a common range of 300 – 900.
For Situational Judgement your raw score is expressed as a band, graded 1–4.
Your UCAT score is not the only deciding factor of whether you get a place in medical school, so be sure to read Whatuni's blog outlining the full entry requirements to study medicine.
For more information about UCAT scoring, including a breakdown of the cognitive subtests’ scaled scores, the Situational Judgement bands and average UCAT scores, see our UCAT Score blog.
Thousands of questions and comprehensive answers written specifically for UCAT preparation, with more getting added.
The Medistudents platform has been designed to replicate the actual exam, so you won’t get any surprises on the day.
Each question and explanation you receive will be chosen by our AI algorithm, specifically for you.
The only question bank available that tells you if you’re actually getting better and not just how many questions you’ve answered correctly.
We don’t just pick the questions for our mock exams at random, we follow a similar process to the actual exam board by calibrating every question for difficulty, based on the abilities of 100s of medical students. This means your score will be a much more accurate reflection of the real thing.
You can access our platform anywhere and it works on desktops, tablets and phones. This means you can revise at home or on the go.
When the Medistudents team were preparing for the UCAT, working out where to start was quite overwhelming. The online resources offered thousands of practice questions and lots of generic advice. However, the only way of getting help that was specifically targeted at you was by paying for expensive tutoring.
This didn’t seem right to us. The personalised learning you get with a tutor has been shown to improve exam results across all fields of education. So why when it came to the UCAT, an exam that is vital for medical school, should it only be available to those who could afford a tutor?
The good news is artificial intelligence has changed everything! Super smart algorithms can now identify exactly where your strengths and weaknesses lie, ensuring that every minute of your revision is focused on areas that will have the biggest impact on your exam score.
Here at Medistudents we’ve used the latest educational technology and combined it with our deep understanding of the UCAT, to produce the first ever AI-powered, adaptive UCAT question bank.
Our sophisticated question bank platform will adapt seamlessly with every question you answer. As you improve, the type and difficulty of the questions you receive will change with you, ensuring that at all times, you only receive the most relevant questions.
We know that once you’ve tried our adaptive UCAT question bank, you’ll want to tell your friends about it.
To make this easier, we’re giving every student who signs up a unique referral code to give to their friends.
Your friends will benefit with an exclusive discount and you’ll earn money every time someone signs up using your code.
The Medistudents team has been creating educational resources for medical students and doctors for years. We’ve helped thousands of students pass their exams and we’ve put all of that experience into our UCAT question bank.
We stay up to date on all the latest educational science, so you can be sure that the techniques we use are state of the art.
We’ve kept things simple with our subscription plans. All of our prices are kept affordable to ensure that everyone has access to all the resources they need to get into medical school.
If for any reason you’re not satisfied, all of our subscriptions come with a 100% money back guarantee.
As you progress through the question bank, our algorithm will be performing complicated statistical analyses of the way you answer questions. All of our questions have been tested on hundreds of 1st year medical students so the algorithm knows exactly how difficult each question is.
The algorithm looks at how you answer questions across a range of different difficulties to work out what your current ability level is.
Every question in our database has been tagged based on the skills required to answer it and its difficulty level. Once the algorithm has worked out what your ability level is and the areas you need to target, it ensures that the questions you receive focus on these areas. As you get better, the algorithm adapts with you, moving you onto new areas based on your needs.
Every single question in our question bank is written specifically for UCAT preparation and is reviewed by our editorial team to ensure it is as close a match as possible to the UCAT standard. We don’t borrow questions that have been written to prepare for other exams. In addition to this, all of our questions are calibrated by 100s of first year medical students who have recently taken the UCAT, which allows us to remove any outliers and ensure consistency.
If your exam gets delayed by COVID, we’ll extend your subscription for free until the new date of your exam.
