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UCAT ANZ Practice Questions and Exam Techniques
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The UCAT ANZ test is notoriously difficult. Do you have your strategy in place yet?
Once you’ve learned from the worked examples below, you’ll find a link to our free UCAT ANZ test sample at the bottom of the article. This will give you a feel for the exam, so you know what you’re up against. Finally, use this information in conjunction with UCAT preparation tips to create your revision plan.
UCAT ANZ Practice Questions and Exam Techniques
Here's a breakdown of each UCAT section with practice questions.
Verbal Reasoning
Time yourself reading the text and answering the question below.
Before you start, consider:
- Which part should you read first?
- Try to exclude some possibilities in less than 15 seconds.
- The first line or two normally reveal the purpose of a paragraph. Check whether these lines suggest the paragraph will contain the information you need.
VR Reading Comprehension: Worked Example
Fast Fashion
Fast fashion is a contemporary term used by fashion retailers to express how designs quickly move from the catwalk to capture current fashion trends. Fast fashion clothing collections are based on the most recent fashion trends presented at Fashion Week in the spring and the autumn of every year. Emphasis is on optimising certain aspects of the supply chain for these trends to be quickly and inexpensively designed and manufactured allowing the mainstream consumer to buy current clothing styles at a lower price. This philosophy of quick manufacturing at an affordable price is used in large retailers such as H&M, Zara, Peacocks, Primark and Topshop. It particularly came to the fore during the vogue for ‘boho chic’ in the mid-2000s.
This has developed from a product-driven concept based on a manufacturing model referred to as ‘quick response’ developed in the USA in the 1980s and moved to a market-based model of ‘fast fashion’ in the late 1990s and first part of the 21st century. Zara has been at the forefront of this fashion retail revolution and their brand has almost become synonymous with the term, but there were other retailers who worked with the concept before the label was applied, such as Benetton. Fast fashion has become associated with disposable fashion because it has delivered designer products to a mass market at relatively low prices.
The slow fashion movement has arisen in opposition to fast fashion, blaming it for pollution (both in the production of clothes and in the decay of synthetic fabrics), shoddy workmanship and emphasising very brief trends over classic style. Fast fashion has also come under criticism for contributing to poor working conditions in developing countries. The Savar building collapse in Bangladesh in 2013, the deadliest garment-related accident in world history, brought more attention to the safety impact of the fast fashion industry.
Attribution: Wikipedia
Fast fashion is:
A. Based on the quick response concept of the 1990s.
B. A response to the slow fashion movement.
C. A concept of bringing designs quickly from the catwalk to the stores.
D. Designed by Zara.
Verbal Reasoning - Answer
The correct answer is C.
How long did you take?
In the test there is little time to return to a passage more than once; saving time is key.
Some VR tricks
- Did you read the question first?
- Did you skim the text to see that the ‘quick response concept’ was developed in the 1980s, and that Zara was listed among many other retailers?
- If you read the first lines of the paragraphs, as suggested, you’ll have saved time as the answer is given at the beginning of the text.
The Verbal Reasoning section has many ways to catch you out, and answers are sometimes not explicit in the text and so have to be inferred.
Remember: without regular timed practice and realistic questions, it is hard to get through this section in time.
Verbal Reasoning tips and tricks can help you save time.
Decision Making
Before you start, consider:
- Make a note, if needed, when you exclude an answer (you don’t want to lose track of your thought process).
DM Logical Puzzle: Worked Example
Zara, Mo, Jill, Gwen, and Owen all use different coloured pens to take notes in lessons. Their pens are either fountain pens or ball-point pens, and each pen has either black, gold, or red ink.
- Jill and Owen do not have fountain pens.
- Two of the pens are ball-point pens, and the rest are fountain pens.
- Only Mo has a pen with red ink.
- All ball-point pens have black ink, whereas all the other pens have either gold or red ink.
Which of the following statements is true?
A. Jill has a pen that uses black ink.
B. Zara has a ball-point pen.
C. Owen has a pen that uses gold ink.
D. Both Mo and Gwen have pens that use red ink.
Decision Making - Answer
The correct answer is ‘A. Jill has a pen that uses black ink’.
The statement tells us that ‘two of the pens are ball-point pens and the rest are fountain pens’, and that ‘Jill and Owen do not have fountain pens’.
Thus, Jill must have a ball-point pen. Therefore, as it states ‘all ball-point pens have black ink’, Jill must have a ball-point pen that uses black ink.
No direct numerical data is given in the question that needs to be interpreted or calculated to come to an answer.
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Quantitative Reasoning
Before you start, consider:
- What units will the answer be in, metres squared or a number?
- Even though area is one of the more basic calculations, time yourself to see if you manage to do it within a maximum of 40 seconds.
QR Geometry: Worked Example
James has been working on renovating his bungalow. Below are the blueprints for the building. Recently, James has built a conservatory in his garden to replace the flowerbed. All walls are 3 m high. The image is not to scale.
James wants to replace the floor in the kitchen; however, flooring can only be purchased in 1 m squares. How many squares does James need to purchase?
Quantitative Reasoning - Answer
The answer is deduced by calculating the area of the kitchen - i.e. the product of the length and width.
In the blueprints, we are given the width of the room as 4.5 m, but the length of the kitchen must be calculated using the lengths of the corridor and WC.
We can see from the blueprints that the length of the kitchen is equal to the length of the corridor and WC (5.5 m) minus the length of the corridor (2 m), so 5.5 m − 2 m = 3.5 m.
The area of flooring required can be calculated as the area of the room: length × width = area 3.5 m × 4.5 m = 15.75 m2.
Therefore James must buy 16 squares.
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Abstract Reasoning
Before you start, consider:
Images often include distractors - not all shapes will necessarily mean something.
AR Orientation: Worked Example
Abstract Reasoning - Answer
Are the arrows playing a role or are they just distractors?
In this instance, it is unlikely that the arrows are distractors as there is a frame with just arrows.
We will start with the top-right frame of Set A, which has no other shapes. This suggests the shapes are likely to be distractors.
We then look at the number of arrows and their direction. It is unlikely that they are specifically pointing to anything, such as another shape, as there are no other shapes to point to.
The top-right frame of Set A has seven arrows, although other frames have different numbers. The middle left, for example, has five, while the middle right has eight. As such, it is not purely about the total number of arrows or an odd number of arrows.
Now we consider the direction the arrows are pointing. We can see the majority of arrows in every frame point to the right. There are five such arrows in the top-right frame, and two pointing to the left.
We can compare this to other frames and find there are always five arrows pointing to the right, while other directions do not follow a pattern. This is likely to be our rule for Set A.
In Set B there are four arrows pointing to the left each time.
We finish off by making sure there are not any other rules, but without any other shapes it is difficult to have any other rules.
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Situational Judgement
Before you start, consider:
- Patient-centred care is central to working in medicine. Don’t forget to demonstrate professionalism and empathy.
Situational Judgement- Orientation: Worked Example
Emily is a medical student on placement at a GP surgery. She has been asked to call the next patient in, when she sees Mr. Jones, one of the regular patients at the surgery, yelling at the receptionist about his appointment.
The other patients in the waiting room seem distressed, but too apprehensive to speak. As soon as he sees Emily, Mr. Jones turns to her and exclaims that the receptionist made a mistake and that he has been waiting for 3 hours as a result.
How appropriate are the following responses by Emily in this situation?
1. Berate the receptionist for making a mistake.
2. Explain to Mr. Jones that mistakes sometimes happen.
3. Tell Mr. Jones that the doctor won’t see him if he does not calm down.
4. Ask Mr. Jones to explain what happened.
5. Promise Mr. Jones the doctor will see him immediately.
Situational Judgement
Before you start, consider:
- Patient-centred care is central to working in medicine. Don’t forget to demonstrate professionalism and empathy.
Situational Judgement- Orientation: Worked Example
Emily is a medical student on placement at a GP surgery. She has been asked to call the next patient in, when she sees Mr. Jones, one of the regular patients at the surgery, yelling at the receptionist about his appointment.
The other patients in the waiting room seem distressed, but too apprehensive to speak. As soon as he sees Emily, Mr. Jones turns to her and exclaims that the receptionist made a mistake and that he has been waiting for 3 hours as a result.
How appropriate are the following responses by Emily in this situation?
1. Berate the receptionist for making a mistake.
2. Explain to Mr. Jones that mistakes sometimes happen.
3. Tell Mr. Jones that the doctor won’t see him if he does not calm down.
4. Ask Mr. Jones to explain what happened.
5. Promise Mr. Jones the doctor will see him immediately.
Situational Judgement - Answer
The answers are:
1. Very inappropriate.
2. Inappropriate, but not awful.
3. Very inappropriate.
4. Very appropriate.
5. Very inappropriate.
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UCAT Past Papers and Mock Exams
Medify’s free UCAT ANZ practice test.
Pearson VUE UCAT ANZ practice exam papers.
The official UCAT ANZ site has some great resources and more test examples you can work through.
Other Free UCAT ANZResources:
Medify has a free admissions guide and a range of blog articles with comprehensive UCAT ANZ exam advice.
The official UCAT ANZ site also has an interactive overview of the exam.
The Good Medical Practice is a useful read for help with the Situational Judgment test.
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Summary
- After you try the free UCAT ANZ questions, make sure you undertake a structured exam course to ensure you learn how each question works.
- Get an overview of each UCAT section as early as possible.
- Speed reading and selective reading are essential skills in the VR Section.
- Make notes as you develop your reasoning in the DM section, it can save valuable brain processing space.
- Mental arithmetic is important to practise for the, there is little time to use a calculator.
- Many universities look at results comparatively, so you often need to achieve well compared to others in your year.
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