How to Pass the UKCAT: Unbeatable Practice for Success in the United Kingdom Clinical Aptitude Test Paperback – 3 April 2009

Prompt delivery, good condition. Son has found it to be a valuable resource for the UKCAT.

I hated the UKCAT but this book got the job done lots of good examples

thank you excellent

I paid for a new book and once it finally arrived (it took a week and a half) i have just opened it to find someone has written in it and filled in all the answer sections. Don't buy from this company.

This book has many errors (particularly in the abstract reasoning section), however it does actually match the difficulty of the UKCAT (contrary to what other reviewers have suggested). So if you don't mind the occassional irritation of knowing that your answer is right and the book is wrong, then this book is OK. There are worse UKCAT books out there (i.e too easy). Another good thing about this book is that it gives pretty good advice on how to approach the NCA section (other books either give no advice or say wildy contradictory things), I believe this one gets the balance right.I don't regret buying this book, even though it isn't perfect (by a long shot). It helped more than it hindered. However, above all else I recommend downloading the free online practice tests, then going through them (full length only) and analysing answers to deduce the underlying rules and types of question.OVERALL:BUY IT IF YOU CAN SPARE THE MONEY, BUT THE 600 QUESTION BOOK IS BETTER. If you're the mad kind of person who decides to begin preparation for the UKCAT one or two weeks before you sit it, then steer clear of this one, since you won't have time to nit-pick through it and the extra aggro won't help either. Definitely a 'revising from the beginning of the summer' book.

This book fails in every way possible.As a quick sample of failings. The numerical section cautions readers that questions rise to "A level", but confuses "average" with "mean", while also talking about median and modal, a mistake no A-level student would make! Typos in some of the questions render them impossible, perhaps most damning, despite claiming to "prepare" students for the tests it does not mention if a calculator or rough paper are provided, it simply doesn't describe the test environment! The abstract reasoning tests have an incredible number of inconsistencies and ambiguities.Many of the questions and options are framed in a hopelessly obtuse or even sloppy way.An otherwise able and intelligent student may be far more nervous about the conditions of the UKCAT than the content, this book will do nothing for such students, and leads to my final, deepest problem with the book: The final section discusses personality tests, and the reader is encouraged to answer tactically rather than honestly, To consider that their answers might swing assessment boards.Reading this book is at best a waste of time, at worst it is despiriting. I must admit that I am now tempted to see what else these authors and publishers have produced, just to see where else such poor workmanship flourishes.

I am not at all surprised to see, at the time of writing, this book holds six one-star reviews. However, its average rating of two and a half stars it so undeservedly high that I am motivated to write a seventh condemnation.Having used another book previous to this, I was at first dismayed to find myself unable to answer the majority of the questions. But as I progressed I unavoidably formed an opinion that turned dismay to relief: this book doesn't know what its talking about.To illustrate the problems with this book, there will now be a couple of spoilers, so if you are trying to take this book seriously, then stop reading here and I grimly wish you the best of luck.A question in the abstact reasoning section presents 12 sets of tetris-like blocks. The pattern for the 6 sets on the right: they can all be mentally rearranged into neat 3x5 rectangles. Except for the bottom-right set - not only can it not be fitted together, it doesn't even have the right number of squares. And even without the mistakes, the whole approach is wrong. Many of the answers require completely unjustified extrapolations from the example sets.At least you could say, though, that the abstract reasoning section must have taken quite a lot of effort to produce. The overall impression from the decision analysis questions is that they might have been thrown together over the course of an afternoon. "Parallel", the answers section explains, means "synonym". It goes on to state that "elevated" is a parallel, or synonym, of "promote". No it isn't.The verbal section is better but I found it frustratingly arbitrary. I haven't even tried the numerical. Avoid.