Product Description

The UK Clinical Aptitude Test is now being used by the majority of UK university medical and dental schools to help select their student entrants. The test examines verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning, abstract reasoning and problem solving skills. This guide provides no nonsense explanation of the rationale behind the four parts to the test, together with practice questions and answers. The book also presents step-by-step guidance for your application for medicine or dentistry at university. There is an additional section for those required to take the BioMedical Admissions Test (BMAT), which includes a practice test and explanations of the answers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #147760 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 244 pages

About the Author
Felicity Taylor BA (Hons) Oxon, MBBS, is a junior doctor at Guy's, King's and St. Thomas' hospitals in London. She has coached hundreds of prospective students through the application process to read medicine, and is currently a Tutor with Oxbridge Applications. Rosalie Hutton BSc, MSc, Chartered MIPD, is an Occupational Psychologist and Director of Psychometric Technology Limited, with 20 years' experience in the field of assessment and testing. She designs and publishes psychological assessment measures, and has co-authored a number of assessment books on multiple-choice questions. Glenn Hutton BA, Mphil, Chartered FIPD, is a private consultant to organisations concerned with recruitment and selection by way of assessment or examination. He was previously head of a national examining organisation and is the co-author of Passing the National Admissions Test for Law.

Customer Reviews

Contains a few helpful pointers
The advice in this book on passing the UKCAT is fairly helpful, but it's only worth buying if you don't mind the fact that it's overpriced. Its main failing is that it doesn't offer enough practice material - only half of each test. It should offer 2 or 3 times as much material as the test in order to enable the reader to gain enough practice. The advice on the verbal and maths sections is poor compared to other study guides I've seen. Also, there's little guidance either on timing and test taking strategies.

I think the authors recognised the lack of practice material, hence their decision to crowbar a primer on the BMAT into the same volume, which suggests an attempt at padding out. There's already a book on the BMAT, which is superior to this new publication.

Really not worth it.
The guide kicks off with a lot of irrelevant information about general application to medical school, UCAS, personal statement writing etc - not useless by any means, but definitely not brilliant.

The real meat of the book is the practice questions, and I'm afraid to say that this is where it really falls over. The verbal reasoning questions are terrible, there are multiple typos, huge logical inconsistencies, many ambiguous questions and some of the answers are simply entirely wrong.

The other sections seem to be of a better quality, but on the basis of the second chapter, I really wouldn't bother with this book - no academic text (especially one with an emphasis on comprehension and critical thinking) should contain such elementary mistakes.

A,mazing book
I found this book to be very invaluable. Some people may not agree but I really think that all the sections in this book for the UKCAT test are very helpful. The 2007 edition is written informally, and to be honest some of the things mentioned just makes you want to laugh out loud. It may not gurantee me a place to medischool, but knowing that Iam armed with the knowledge of how to tackle the UKCAT test, and with information from the medical school interview books, am confident enough that I will not panic. Also, for anyone who is taking the UKCAT test, go to the website and ukcat website and check the sample questions, they are set exactly the same way (or similar0 to the ones you will carry out. Good Luck on your exams.