UCAT Prep & Medicine Blogs

I had always wanted to pursue medicine. In fact, I never even really considered the possibility of anything else, or the prospect of not getting in straight after high school. I knew I had to do well at school,...

Co-Curriculars my friend. They are a fickle friend at best. Much of the time they sound fantastic – think of all the exciting things you could do: play sport or music, debate, get involved in community se...

So the UMAT® exam is only three months away. Twelve weeks. And you might be starting to feel the pinch. Maybe you're beginning to feel the tickle of stress.

Perhaps you have been preparing for...

Coming out of 6 weeks’ summer holidays, the last thing anyone’s prepared to do is go back to the eight-hour- a-day grind of school. But sadly the year waits for no one and you’re thrown straight in...

Ask yourself, why is it that you want to do medicine? Is it for recognition? Fortune? Or, as is likely the case, a feeling of need to do altruistic good in the world? To this end you may have been told that med...

So medicine is about biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, right? So why is there such an emphasis in the UCAT on understanding lar...