The Complete Guide to Passing the Ukcat: Over 800 questions and a unique online test (Success in Medicine)

Brian Holmes, Marianna Parker, Katie Hunt

ISBN 10: 0199698287 / ISBN 13: 9780199698288

Published by Oxford University Press, USA 07/04/2012, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Complete Guide to Passing the Ukcat: Over 800 questions and a unique online test (Success in Medicine)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA 07/04/2012
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199698287
• ISBN 13: 9780199698288
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

One test stands between you and a place at the medical school of your dreams: the UKCAT exam. Unlike any other exam candidates have faced before the UK Clinical Aptitude Exam is incredibly challenging, but help is at hand to prepare, build your confidence and reach a high score.

The Complete Guide to Passing the UKCAT offers unrivalled expert preparation written by teachers and doctors who have helped thousands of students to prepare for the exam. With a greater number of practice questions than any other book including a unique online test, this guide offers invaluable tips on to how interpret the questions correctly as well as strategies to manage your time within the exam.

Following an introduction to the exam itself, readers can undertake a diagnostic test at the start of the book to get a flavour for the exam and identify where they may need extra help. Chapters dedicated to each section of the UKCAT exam guide candidates through examples, exercises and timed practice sessions so that you can master questions in:
* Verbal Reasoning
* Quantitative Reasoning
* Abstract Reasoning
* Decision Analysis

The book concludes with a mock practice test as well as advice for test day. A bonus interactive practice test is available online to help readers prepare for the real computer based test and build up a higher score at www.oxfordtextbooks.orc.uk/holmes_ukcat/

About the Author

Brian Holmes
Brian is the Academic Director for Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions and is the head writer for Kaplan's UKCAT and BMAT courses. He scored a 3250 on the UKCAT!

Dr Marianna Parker MBBS, BSc
Marianna is a Foundation Year 2 doctor at Medway Maritime Hospital in Kent having obtained her medical degree at St George's University of London where she was nominated for the University of London Gold Medal. She has been a lead teacher and a content writer for Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions for 5 years.


Dr Katie Hunt MA (Cantab) MBBS
Katie is a Foundation Year 2 doctor at Torbay Hospital in Devon, having studied Pre-Clinical Medicine and Developmental Biology at the University of Cambridge before completing her medical degree at King's College London School of Medicine, graduating with Distinction. Katie has taught UKCAT and BMAT courses for Kaplan since 2007.