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Tracking Your UCAT Progress: Graphs and Statistics

19th October 2020

Tracking Your UCAT Progress: Graphs and Statistics

MedEntry has developed a sophisticated series of graphs enabling you to see how your performance in full-length UCAT practice exams has changed over time. You can access them on the Simulate page of the online UCAT platform: The graph has two modes: UCAT Percentile Rankings: This graph displays your overall cognitive percentile ranking for each UCAT exam you have completed. There is an op ...

 

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New Feature! Retry your incorrect UCAT exam questions

7th October 2020

New Feature! Retry your incorrect UCAT exam questions

At MedEntry, we are committed to continuous improvement and constantly strive to improve the services we offer our hard working students. Our Learning Management System is all about you and this feature is another way we personalise your UCAT training. Retry your incorrect UCAT questions Once you have completed a practice exam on the LMS, you can now re-attempt any questions that you ans ...

 

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New Features - Feedback by Question Type and Exam Retries

7th October 2020

New Features - Feedback by Question Type and Exam Retries

In addition to viewing your exam results by section (Logical Reasoning and Problem Solving, Understanding People or Non-verbal Reasoning), you can now view more detailed results by specific question types. There are 2 ways to view your feedback: 1. Go to the Check Progress page to see a summary containing all of your drill/exam question attempts: 2. On each exam page, you w ...

 

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New difficulty levels added to MedEntry’s Venn Diagram Trainer!

22nd April 2020

New difficulty levels added to MedEntry’s Venn Diagram Trainer!

MedEntry’s exclusive Venn Diagram Trainer makes it easy for you to master Venn diagram questions in the UCAT Decision Making subtest. The trainer displays a Venn diagram and 5 timed questions (each to be completed within 30 seconds). Afterwards, the answers are displayed, along with explanations showing the appropriate shaded Venn diagram regions.   To use the trainer, sele ...

 

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Personalised UCAT Study Planner Launched!

21st April 2020

Personalised UCAT Study Planner Launched!

What do almost all students who achieve 99th centile in UCAT have in common? They plan their UCAT study. If you are sitting UCAT this year, chances are you are busy. You have school commitments, exams and extra-curricular activities to balance. With the added pressure of UCAT, it can all feel overwhelming. The best way to manage all of these activities is to make a plan. In fact, almost eve ...

 

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Keyword Scanning Trainer

10th April 2020

Keyword Scanning Trainer

    Most students find UCAT Verbal Reasoning to be the most time pressured subtest. You will have less than 30 seconds to answer each question! An effective strategy to answer UCAT Verbal Reasoning questions correctly is keyword scanning. This involves identifying keywords that appear in the question stem, and scanning the text for them. Reading around the keywords can help you ...

 

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UCAT Calculator Keypad Trainer Launched!

11th February 2020

UCAT Calculator Keypad Trainer Launched!

Using the UCAT Calculator quickly is an essential skill, particularly in the UCAT Quantitative Reasoning subtest.  MedEntry has developed an interactive Calculator Keypad Trainer to help you use the UCAT Calculator quickly and accurately. The Trainer can be found on MedEntry’s Community page, and contains 30 stages which test various calculator operations.  In order to complete a stage, you ...

 

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UCAT Speed Reading Trainer Launched!

11th February 2020

UCAT Speed Reading Trainer Launched!

When sitting the UCAT, you will have an average of less than 30 seconds to answer each question. Therefore, increasing your reading speed is an essential skill to develop, particularly in the Verbal Reasoning subtest.  Two common causes of slow reading include subvocalization (or reading words aloud in your mind) and reading each word individually. To read quickly, you need to avoid subvocali ...

 

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Quantitative Reasoning Mental Arithmetic Trainer

30th January 2020

Quantitative Reasoning Mental Arithmetic Trainer

Strong mental maths skills (the ability to make calculations quickly in your head) is a major advantage in the Quantitative Reasoning Subtest of the UCAT. MedEntry has developed an arithmetic training game to help you work on your mental arithmetic under timed conditions, and it available right within your online learning platform: The game consists of three levels – easy, medi ...

 

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Medical Interview Preparation: My Achievements & Experience

23rd August 2019

Medical Interview Preparation: My Achievements & Experience

MedEntry has developed a My Achievements and Experience module, allowing you to record all of your co-curricular activities, achievements/awards and work experience. This information will help you when writing a university application, preparing for medical interviews, or updating your CV. To access this module, click on My Achievements and Experience in the University Admissions course. ...

 

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