Customer Reviews
Helpful for some sections - By: Iso, 26 Aug 2008 
The book will help you mainly for the abstract reasoning & decision analysis. However the verbal reasoning section is terrible. A lot of the answers are wrong & provide invalid explanations.
Helpful? Some parts
Worth the money? No
Better alternatives? Buy the succeeding the UKCAT book.
OK-ish - By: Ms. K. V. Thompson, 17 Aug 2008 
I found the first section helpful, applying for Graduate Entry by myself means I haven't been told some of the things that I'm sure those applying straight from college will have about personal statements etc.
The questions were however too few & disproportionately difficult; though I guess being overprepared is better than under. There were also 3 errors (that I picked up on; there mayin fact be more) but they were quie obvious ones so don't really impede on your learning.
Worth the £10 I paid just to feel a bit more prepared but not great.
Disappointing - By: J. Wilson, 30 Jul 2008 Like most people, I bought this book for the practice questionsin order to supplement those already available on the UKCAT website, as well as some useful tips on tackling the questions, managing time etc.
However, I was dissapointed to see that the majority of the book was taken up with material irrelevant to the UKCAT (e.g. all the stuff about med school applicationin general, & the BMAT). I also found the practice questions VERY hard, which is odd as the test itself was comparitively easy & I scored well over 700 on each section.
If you're sitting the UKCAT & can borrow a copy of the book, then go for it, you might get something out of it, but not worth buying.
Good book but lacks practice questions - By: MedWhizz, 01 Jul 2008 Although I found this book helpful I felt that it could have contained alot more practice questions. Half of the book talks about why you want to be a doctor & how to write your personal statement when really what I wanted was more practice questions which werein another book I bought.
Worth the £15 - By: Mr. Tcd Lewis, 12 Jun 2008 
It did piss me off that I had to pay £65 to take a test when I already had the grades to get into medical school, but that's how it is these days. And seeing as I forked out £65 for the test, why should I fork out another £15 for a book to help me pass? BECAUSE THIS £15 WILL HELP YOU FULFILL YOUR AMBITION OF GETTING INTO MEDICAL SCHOOL! It's that simple. This book helped me get round the crazy abstract reasoning section by explaining what the exam questions were actually asking of me. If it wasn't for this book I would not have scored a 700 average & certainly would not have my place secured on the graduate entry 4 year course at Newcastle. BUY THIS BOOK! £15 Vs. a fulfilling career - you decide!
