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Yes. Okay. Morning, everybody. Um, so, like Joyce said, my name is Meghan. I'm one of the tutors with study mind. And, um, I've been asked to give a presentation on you cat today for you guys. Um, so the first kind of half of this two hours, we're going to kind of have a look at what the UK cat is. Um, an answer. Well, I'll try my best to answer any questions you have on it. Um, and then after that, we'll go through a presentation where we have a quick look at some practice questions and each different topic and section of the kind individually. So hopefully it'll be helpful for you in that way. I'm assuming you've all used mentum eater before. Is that right? Um, if so, um, you can just go to menti dot com, um, and input this code to kind of join in. It will allow you to ask me questions or mentee, um, and put in there. Um, if not, I don't know if the chat functions working on, too. If it's not working, you can just kind of come in the chat for me. I think the chat function is working. And if I do the the students can get themselves as well. It would be just nice just to hear some voices really today? Yeah. Yeah. To be perfectly honest, if there's not a huge, huge, huge amount of you in here, so you know, and you're going to be together all day, So if you want to mute yourselves and you can actually, you know, chat a little bit, then that would be great. Okay, that's my Thanks. Okay. Okay. So you cut, then. So the first is a little bit more interactive. So what does everybody know about the UK Cap? The you cap. Sorry. Could be Vegas. You know, it's an entrance exam, but what is what's kind of your guys, um, gauge or the U cat is not much fairness. Great. Yeah. Each section scored out 900. Okay, great. So, yes, I think most of you guys have, like, a very understanding of you know what it stands for and how many parts of it and things like that. Um, so that's really good. Anybody else want to add anything in or somebody even knows all the different section names. Excellent. Okay, great. So just a little bit on some of the details of it. So here are the different sections, which somebody very kindly put into the functions on the last page. So you've got verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning, abstract reasoning, decision making, and the S J T. Which is a situational judgment test. Um, which is actually another exam you have to take in medical school. But this is kind of the mini version. They want to make sure you're okay at first. Um, and it's a two hour continuous exam, which is a bit of a long slog, but as I'm sure you'll find out later in this day not quite as long of a slog as the camp site is. So this is just kind of an overview of what the scheduling looks like throughout the year. Um, this isn't 2020 three's version just because it hasn't the details of it hadn't been announced yet, but it doesn't really change too much year on year. So it'll be, you know, end of May when you can register, um, and do when you can kind of book sort of thing. And then the testing is pretty much through the, um through the summer months. Um, obviously, we're all grads. Um, but it's it's kind of set up to be, um, sort of through the summer holidays. Um, for people doing their A levels and stuff like that, Um, so you can take it starting from the beginning of July, Um, and then all the way through to whatever deadline they step for it. Um, when you take it, you just kind of take it. You know, the places where you do like your, um, driving theory task exam. It's just one of those places that you can go to And you just take it on the computer during your time slot. Um, so you know, they're all they're usually quite well equipped for it and things like that. It's not like you have to go and stay in a big hole or anything. Um, so you've had the booking deadline. You have your last test there, you've got your you get your results on the day, which is really great because you're then obviously able to know exactly what you've got and know which schools your cut is going to sort of be accepted at, or, you know, if you need to look into doing one of the other different aptitude tests as well. Um, And then you've got the ucas deadline itself on the end of here, which is the 15th of October. It earlier than the deadline. For if you when you do your previous degree, the deadline for that it's January. But this You need to get it in by the 15th of October. They look at your you cap it, um, score or whatever other test scores tests you've done, then look at your scores. They decide if they want you. Forensic you. So when should I start revising for it? Essentially, Um, does anybody kind of have any idea as to what? The time frames? They're thinking they should have for you, cap minimum six months. Yeah, I'd say six months. Something like that. Yeah. I mean, I think the reality is for you, Cap that. It's, you know, it's really dependent on the time you've got and the time you're available for If you're able to work on the you cap, you know, 24 7 for a few weeks, then that's okay. But if your you know your grads, if you've got a full time job. Then you're probably gonna have to do a bit longer on that. Um, so this is all about the deaths are rankings, Um, and how they kind of works. I think it can be a bit confusing when you get your score. So, like somebody mentioned before you get your score out of 900 for each section, you also get overall score, which is what's written here. Um, and these are the 2022 ranking cutoffs. So first guess I'll is was 22,000, 120. Um, and that means that you're in the 10th, um, percentile, which means that you're, you know. Yeah. Sorry. Um, okay, so it means that you're in the, um you know, the 10% and then the ninth deaths are wrong. It's a bit counterintuitive. Really? Because you think first s R rank means that you're in the top 10% but it's actually if you're in the ninth, deaths are ranked. It means you've done better than 90% of people, if that makes sense. So that's the highest school. Um, So what is a good score for a graduate? So it is a little bit different. So I've just been told that there's undergraduate sand grads in here. Sorry. So I'll just adjust what I'm talking about, but it is a bit different. So, um, if you're applying for a graduate program, they tend to be a little bit more. Um, they tend to be a little bit higher. The scores they won't need to get in. Um, just because obviously everybody's grad at that point, and they're a lot more competitive. Um, so I've heard of you knees. So I think one of the Younis last year was it actually had a cut off of around 3000. Um, which is quite high. Um, so you're definitely wanting to be on the more higher end if you're applying for a graduate program. Um, whereas if you're going for an undergraduate program, um, whether that be as an undergraduate or as a graduate going for an undergraduate graduate program, Um, the score tends to be a little bit lower, but it is. It's still pretty competitive. Um, as to what you sorry as to what you need to get. So, um and again, it's different for each university. So whether you're a graduate, World Grad. What I would recommend doing is going on to the unit's website, the one that you're specifically wanting, or the ones you're thinking about applying to and looking at their past years cut offs because they won't tell you what their cut off is for this year until they've got everybody's applications in, Um, what they will have is usually either on their website or you can sometimes find websites stuff like collated them all together. Um, but just sort of making sure that you have a look at what their past cut off scores have been, and then you'll note of where they sit, where they usually sit as to what their cut off is going to be. Um, and you can sort of do it that way. Um, but And also, what I would do is when you get your results after you've done your UK cat, your you cats already, um, get your results. And even if you're a little bit disappointed, you know it's not as high as you wanted it to be. You might still be able to apply to some universities, so even if you you're cut off, your score isn't as high as the cutoffs for the universities you're looking at. Have a look and see if there are universities that you know usually have cut off scores that are your, um, your score level because there's no point applying to universities who usually have a cut off score much higher than your score. Um, just because you you definitely won't get an interview. Um, but if you make sure that you're applying to universities where your score is going to be, you know, above their usual cut off for at least near their usual cut off, then you're much more likely to get an interview from them. Sorry, Megan. It's okay if I come in and just mentioned this is relevant for all the different tests today. Um, and the reason why we ask you guys why you know about the UK is just basically so we can give some further information. So, um, now, in terms of the scores themselves, they will vary year to year. You get the UK scores before you apply. Um, and the good thing is, you get the test results straight away, So when you're in the exam center, they print out for you and give you the results straight away. And the good thing about that is you can start looking at the historical data. And the Megan mentioned those university that had a cut off around 3000. Um, it's becoming a lot more common, actually, that you need a higher score as an undergraduate and as a graduate. Um, the fine difference between a graduate program is that they will probably ask the virus scores because graduates and in general, get higher scores on the six AM, whereas under grants get slightly lower. But, um, you know, in terms of applications, what you don't want to do is just randomly put four universities down. There are a few different things, so you need to make a little bit of a pie chart according to what the university is looking for now, graduate entry programs generally will look at your degree to one or higher is preferable. Um, some universities like Queens, Queen Mary's and in London darts will prefer a first or above. And if you look at some of the historical trends, they prefer to, you know, give it to a first class 23, rather than someone with the 21. a lot of this information is available on a website called What do They Know? Um and you can search up on their sort of the beauteous people who were accepted or invited for an interview. And we'll give you nice spreadsheets that directly from the universities. I'm going to leave that in the chapter, you guys, And you can use this both for, um, new cat damn sat and, uh, being at universities. Really? Um, they tend to release information as part of the Freedom of Information Act. Um, and it's always a good idea when when you're applying to, uh if you are a graduate and you're applying to an undergraduate university to consider, um that they may look at your A level or gcse again. Mostly a level if they do. But generally it's a lower requirement. So you let's say you did your A levels a while back and you got a B B. There are still some universities for undergraduate that might set you to get the lowest score, and they say you get to 7. 50 and you're in the eight s. L. They're scared of applying to graduate entry medicine programs, which is, you know, nowadays a little bit more difficult to get into you, and you can apply to undergraduate courses. It just means you end up going for maybe a six year or five year program. Um, and they often is self funded rather than you know, the maintenance own of the tuition loan that you might get as a graduate. Um, but I just thought I'd mention that website there. So if you all you guys look at the zoom chant, that's a very useful website before later on, hand it back over to you and make a thanks, Yeah, it is a good website. Make sure you kind of open it and save it so you can go back and look at it later as well can be. So the next bit is all about the situational judgment test, which again, we'll do a couple of questions on later. Um, but essentially, what the situational judgment test is is they give you scenarios. They ask you, you know, what would you do? They're trying to get a handle on how what you think is an appropriate way to behave and what you think is the best way to behave. Um, and they don't give you a score for this like they do for the others. They give you a band, a band. One is going to be sort of the top band. That's the band you want to get. That's the band that, you know, the highest. Um And then there's Band 23 and four. Some Younis do stipulate that they want a specific band in the situational judgment test. Um, when they put out their entry requirements, Um, and those actually tend to be the same year on year. They don't usually change. So if the UNI says that, um, they want, um, situational judgment test band, too. It doesn't really matter if you've hit their cut off school or not. If you've got banned, Thrity, don't apply to that uni find one that doesn't stipulate what they need for the situational judgment test. Um, so again, it's just something else to consider once you've got your results. And when you're considering which universities you're going to apply to, Um, yes. So I think this one's for the graduates, and I think, um, ashes already gone over this little bit. Um, but if you're a grad. You don't have to just apply to the Jeff or gem programs. You can apply to the undergraduate options as well. Um, the universities do have so, so so much information on their admission's page. These things, And if not, you can. There's usually always an email, and they do reply to you, um, and usually give you a lot of information on things that you need If you know, if you're wanting to know, do they look at my A levels? Do they look at my G C S E s. And you can't find it on the website. But again, when you're choosing which universities you're gonna apply to for undergraduate check if they look at your A levels, GCS CS um, check if they have a cap for graduates. Can you only apply to undergrad if the unit offers gem know, Um, you can't. So you can. You can apply to pretty much any undergraduate course so long as they accept people with degrees, which most of them do. Um, I don't actually know anywhere that purely accepts. Um, like kids that just finished their A levels ash studio of any that don't accept graduates so they there are some universities that will have a cap. And if you apply to a five or six year program, they might say that, you know, 25% of our overall spaces will go maximum. Two graduates like ST George's in London will for the undergraduate program. At least, um, now in terms of selecting these universities when you apply, uh, there's a few things to consider in terms of whether or not they'll accept you. U C L in Imperial, for example, have lowest thoughts. It's best to call people like these. From what I believe, it's calling the admission's team and just checking with them they usually very transparent. I've heard of very few graduate supply to use Kale and Imperial, and I anticipate that's because they probably have a camp on it. They don't officially say that on the website, though, um, one of the things you may want to consider, uh, when applying is just, uh, checking with the university directly that I'm a graduate. I'm intending to apply. Have this degree. Um, would you would you accept me A lot of times, they do tell you yes or no. If you are somebody who's doing by medicine. For example, I've been told a lot of you often biomedicine or from a science based background. Uh, most of the time, the new cat universities will happily accept you. The basis is if you are doing the youth cat, um, and you're applying to UK University. Uh, the universities are assuming your degree has taught, you know, biology and chemistry to be a foundation for medicine that you don't have to do the gangster as your later later on. Find out the GAM PSA is very heavy on biology, chemistry and physics and us, and that last section is often nightmare for many students. Um, and you know, we'll cover that in the afternoon time. But the reason why they do the GAM sites because there's some degrees out there that aren't necessarily heavy with biology and chemistry, For example, psychology is often one that is not, you know by universities that doesn't have that biology and chemistry. So students often often have to do the cancer that wouldn't be accepted to the UK universities. But that depends on the university. Every single university has their own admission's criteria, and I didn't get differently for example, Southampton don't really bother about which degree you have will accept anybody. I'm talking about the 90%. Generally, we'll have a sort of a niche requirements. It's very, very important. You guys do your research as well before deciding which test is right for you and before applying as well. Uh, about that enter. And that pretty much covers most of the most of the questions that Yeah. And don't don't let anything put you off taking the GAM start, either. I know it's a harder exam and stuff, but some universities only accept the GAM start and somebody except the UK cats. So make sure you consider, you know where you want to go when you're choosing your, um, your tests as well. Um Okay, um and actually, I think a lot more universities are starting to do the gamble sap because it's harder for Brad Med. So they're wanting you there. They're trying to, like, make it more difficult for you to get in as always. Okay. So, yeah. So this is kind of what we've covered a little bit of, um, how the universities look at your application differently. I think the main point to take away from this is Look at the universities where you want to go. Look at what they need you to have for you to go there and make sure you have all the points. And if you don't look for another university, that's how you're going to maximize your chances of getting getting an interview. Do graduate Medical interviews differ from undergraduate? Um, so actually, I'm interviewing, um, this week I'm being part of the interviews for the undergraduate cohort. And considering I did my graduate interview, Um, my opinion on the matter is that actually, they're very similar, Um, in the questions that they ask you, um, and also how they're marked. Um, the difference is the people that you're competing against and, you know, undergraduates, um, typically have a little bit less life experience and therefore have less examples that they can draw on. Whereas graduates tend to have more experience of things that they've experienced during their degree. So they already have all those examples prepared. Um, they're a little bit older, so they're a little bit more confident. Um, so there. And they probably done interviews before and things like that. So it's It's not necessarily. The questions are different or that the marking is different. It's just that the competition is different. Um, anything you want to add to that? Actually, that's just my sort of experience from conducting the interviews and taking the interviews. So I I got into medicine the undergraduate route. I was considering the graduate route but ended up taking several gap years before getting, and I've never done a graduate interview myself. But often I overlook a lot of lessons for students. Um, and I find there is virtually very little difference. Graduates, often like Meghan said, has have lots to bring into the table whether undergraduates have less. So the only thing you want to consider is when you're talking about your work experience, Um, etcetera is, you know, maybe focus more on the, uh, you know, uh, that's equality of what you have rather than quantity. As a as a graduate, you might have more. Not a graduate. You have less. But I think the students here, I've had quite a bit of a chat on the in terms of personal statement, So we'll cover this one briefly and move on to the next slide. If that's what you make. Okay, so the next day it's just about any questions. So does anyone have any questions that we might be able to answer right now? And this can be anything related to the U cat, if that's OK, Um, feel free to put on the zoom chatter and do it yourself. Um, and then, after this will be going through about an hour and a half of, uh, practice questions and theory on the U cat. I got very quiet audience today. Maybe we'll do is we'll go through some of the practice questions. And perhaps towards the end, I think students might have a lot of questions, so we can come back to the Q and A afterwards. Okay, that's fine. Yeah, so do just feel free. I'm going to set up the thing for the questions now, but do just let me know if you have questions. As we go through and again, feel free to unlike, uh, a mute yourself and have a chat. Okay. Can you guys just see the full screen? Yeah, I can see it. Uh, I think we had a question from Joy over here. If you want to do one exam. Would you recommend that you can't more highly than the others? I'll quickly answer this one joy, if that's okay, um, so the one of the things you have to consider is your actual background as well. So consider your degree your A levels and which choices you're looking to apply to you. Cat is a lot easier, in my opinion, and I'm sure Megan agrees as well than the GAM sand. The GAM PSA is a very tricky exam, and you'll soon find out 5.5 hours almost, and there's a lot of content it often takes longer to prepare for as well The UK is. It's more of a timing test. There's an aptitude one, and you also and find out, Um, and it takes probably less time a role to prepare for. So if you have the opportunity to do the UK, let's say you're doing biomedicine. You've got to one or a higher and you're applying to graduate entry programs, which is the one of the most popular ones. Then the UK is probably easier than you're doing the gam sand, but let's say you're doing law, for example, or non science related degree. And you don't have any UK universities or than Southampton that will accept you. You've got to put down four choices. It might be better to concentrate in the camp stand, and as we're doing both exams at the same time, I think that is a little bit trickier, especially if you are doing a degree on the sink at the same time. It's about balancing things that we don't want to do is do both exams and so jeopardize one score. Yeah, I do agree. But I'm just going to say that, actually, that's exactly what I did. Um, so if that is something you want to do, it is possible, Um, I took the UK and the Gamma sat while doing the second year of my degree. Um, and I scored really highly in both of them, Um, so it is possible if that's something you want to do, and having both schools doesn't mean that you can apply to a wider range of universities. But again, like Ashley said, if you want to be strategic about where you're applying and you know, just do one exam, then that is, you know, it's a lot less work. But if you want more choice in your knees, then it is something that you can do, and it is possible. Um, so you just need to choose what's right for you. Okay. Uh, was there another question? How many times do you think most people need to take the exam before getting a competitive score? Um, so, specifically for the U cap? You can only take it once a year. Um, and you know, you might take it the first time and get a super competitive school. Or you might take it the first time and be like, Oh, this was really awful. The timing was worse than I expected and not do so. Well, I don't think, um, and Asher might, you know, have a statistic on this or something, but I don't think that there's a specific thing for how many times people will take the you cap. Um, uh, I don't really know for that. I know for gams that people can take it once or they there's people on my course that have taken it five or six times to try and get a competitive score. But for the UK, I think it's so dependent on the day that you take it and how you feel on the day you take it. Um, Could be one year. Could be three. Um, I don't know many people that took it more than twice, though. Um, actually, do you have any stats on that or anything? Very high. I took. Yeah, twice. I'd say. Overall. First time I got very low score. Second time ago. Very high school. So, um, you know, it varies for everyone. Like Megan says, the day really really matters, because it's an exam that has limited timing. In each question, you have 30 to 40 seconds or even less on some questions. Questions themselves on the UK Don't they are difficult. If you had unlimited time, you could probably do all the questions correct. They are very simple, straightforward questions a lot of the time, but because they put a very strict time limit to each question, you're running around reading everything, trying to solve the question, and you will be like a domino effect. You'll end up not being all of the questions if you're not well prepared. And that's what leads to the lowest floor. Essentially, um, and That's why some students don't do too well. It's all about strategy and, um, time management, really, than it is more than knowledge. So, uh, you know, that's what will matter not how many times you do it for the Gamm sat. I think some students there are some students who understand things straight away. Some students who have to repeatedly do some subjects. You know, you have to study again and again to understand something. Um, and maybe the Section three on the gaps. That especially if you have to do the sciences and that's in a long time. It might take you maybe more attempts that I'm generally seen, but that that's a generalization more than is uh, yeah, So, unfortunately, we can't give you a real good answer there, Abigail. Just it really depends on who you are and how the day goes. When you get there to try and help with that, though, we're going to do some examples. We're going to go through each section of the UK cat and try and have a look at some questions and try and give you some tips on what strategies you can use for each section. So the first one's going to be verbal reasoning. So these are the figures that you need to know about it. So you get 21 minutes to do your verbal reasoning section, and there's 44 questions, and I bet that as soon as I've said that half of you have gone okay, I see what you mean about the timing now, Um, yeah, it's extremely tightly timed, so you got 44 questions, but you've got 11 passages. So 11 things you have to read and then around about four questions on each thing you have to read, which rounds out to about 29 seconds per question. It's tight timing, but it's manageable. So this is an example of one type of question, Um, and how sort of it might be set out. So you've got this nice long passage they're not. They're not like three lines of text. They are like decent chunks of of writing that you have to read. Um, so you'll have a bit here and then the question so sometimes that's a statement will go into the different types of questions in the next bit. But, um, sometimes it's a statement. And then you have to choose one of the options. Um, they're usually, uh they're gonna be click things. So click the option you're not having to, like, write an essay or write paragraph or write a sentence on anything. So these are the different types of questions that you can get in verbal reasoning. So true force can't tell is the one that you just sort of saw a little example of? Then there's these other types that are more statement questions. Um, so there's two types of general a right, a question and reverse questions. Yeah, So 44 questions in 21 minutes. There's not very much time. So there used to be a lot more true. False can't tell questions. Um, the kind of flips that about and now we have a lot more statement questions and very few true force can't tell questions which, you know could work in your favor. Could could work against you if we have a little look at the true false can't tell questions. Um, it's very important that you understand what they mean when they say true, false and can't tell there's two different. The parents might disagree with me. There's two different types of true. There's directly, states stated. True, and there's inferred True. So a directly stated true means that you can literally find the answer in the passage. It's there. It's written somewhere. Um, and the example here that's given is Mark Zuckerberg became founder of Facebook in February 2004 whilst at Harvard University, and the True Statement would be Facebook was founded in 2004 because that's when the founder of Facebook found it and inferred truth. Um, is if it's not directly stated there, but it can definitely be inferred. It's one of those things where sometimes it's difficult for you to tell whether it's an inferred truth or you can't tell. So the example that's given here is altitude has grown significantly since its launch. To date, a vast number of firms are using altitude to boost their online marketing strategy, and a true statement or an inferred true statement is going to be altitude are one of the better social media management firms in the UK. The reason why that's going to be in third is that a vast number of firms are using altitude, So if a vast number of firms are using them, they're going to be one of the better social media, natural firms in the UK. Okay, so how that's different from they can't tell and why they make it confused is if the statement changes very slightly. So if we go from altitude are one of the better firms to altitude of the best social management firm now, we can't tell because they haven't given us quite enough information. And that can seem a little bit confusing at first. Um, but the it's the the decisiveness of it, the completeness of it. So altitude do the best. You can't say that. They haven't said, You know, they're the only firm used in the UK. They haven't told you that they're the best. They haven't give you figures to figure that out. All they've told you is that a vast number of firms are using them, which means they're good, but you don't know if they're the best. Okay, so you can tell and it is true. It's inferred, true that they're one of the better firms, but you can't tell if they're the best. You've not been given the information to tell that, and that's where quite a few people will trip up again. Your parents won't disagree, but False also has two different types to it. So you've got a contradiction or the statement going too far. So a contradiction is going to be something that's literally the opposite of what is put in the text. So King William's the third sought to modernize his kingdom's finances to pay for its wars. And that's the first government Bonds were issued in 16 93 and the Bank of England was set up the following year and a false statement. Contradiction would be The Bank of England was set up in 16 93. It doesn't say that it literally tells me the Bank of England was set up the following year, which would have been 16 94. The other type is kind of similar to the inferred truth versus that can't tell. So this is when the statement goes too far. So with raw materials from Amory extract becoming scarce, customers are forced to buy from dominant retail that Prandin one of the very few suppliers left and then the false statement would be Crandon are the only supply of Amaru extract left to date, So it's not true. They're one of the few suppliers left, but they're not the only supplier left. So this is just the statement going a bit further than you've got the information to say cannot tell. So we've already had a little look at a cannot tell when we're comparing it to an inferred truth, but cannot tell me is exactly what you think it means. It means you cannot tell based on the information in the text. And that's what's key here. You can't use external knowledge, so anything you know in your head to be true or false can't be used unless it's said in the passage. So, for example, if the passage says Barack Obama became presidente of US A. In 2008 and then the statement was, Barack Obama was elected in November 2008. It doesn't matter if you know that that's true. You know that. That's what happened from your knowledge. The passage hasn't told you that. So that's I can't tell. All you know from the passage is that he became Presidente in 2008. It doesn't tell you when he was elected and therefore it's I can't tell. Okay? And I think that trips a few people up as well. Because obviously, if you know something is true, you're gonna wanna put true. But you have to think about whether the paragraphs told you that or whether your brain has told you that. Uh huh. So what does external knowledge mean? So let's have a look at this. David Schwimmer has had several notable TV roles in friends The Wonder Years and Monte. His parents are both attorneys. So if I was to give you the statement of David Schwimmer worked in America, what do you think you would put? Would you put a true be false or C cannot tell. Do we have, like, the ability to do polls in this? Does anyone know? Yes, there is. But, um, we haven't created any polls. Okay, that's fine. So if you guys could maybe just pop in the chat somebody what you think it would be you can put it anonymously if you want. I think, uh, everybody gets it, so yes, it cannot tell. So the external knowledge you'd be using there was that friends is American. Okay? You've not been told that you don't know where, Um, all the shows that I mentioned were filmed. So you don't know if Davidson has worked in America. But obviously, most people in the UK do know that friends has phoned in America, so that would trip some people up. So if I gave you the statement instead that David Schwimmer's parents were both lawyers. What answer would you give me for that? A true be false or C cannot tell. Great. OK, accidents you guys have got there so you can put a true which is the answer, because a definition or knowing, you know, when words mean the same things is not external knowledge. So you can take the fact that his parents are both attorneys, understand that attorney is lawyer and therefore know that the statement David tremors, parents or employers is true. So that's kind of hopefully explaining the difference between external knowledge and not so we've got a few questions here that we're just going to have a look at, um and see if you guys obviously you guys are happy to work in the chat for me, so yeah, might as to get Yeah, that's a lot better. Okay, now everybody can do it without putting their name to it. Um, so I'll give you guys a just a little bit of time to have a read through that, um, and answer the question for me. How many do we have in this chat? In this? There's around 12, 13 people, and we are here to answer is in right now. And that's what. Sorry, uh, again, A few answers in about half. We have half the people who have answered so far. Excellent. Okay, so I'll just give you another five seconds. Anybody that's not answered have a guess. Okay, so Oh, swaying the balance there. So we're all stuck between a and see. Oh, there we go. Let's show us. Yeah. So you can see that four of you guys have gone for a, um, and six of you have gone for say, and then is there anything in the No. Okay, right. So let's see what the answer is. So it's c cannot tell. Um, so the key word is going to be Olympic games and dates. Um, looking for dates leads us to the 17th of February 2013. Okay, So the Olympic Games again in August 2012 on 17th February 2013 at sports conference Blah, blah, blah. Counting back six months goes to August. However, we're not sure if this is in reference to the start of the month and or both. Oh, sorry. Yeah. So, basically, you can't tell um where it began, okay? I know it's it's difficult when you think you could understand it based on what you've been given, but just purely from that you cannot tell for short. So next one another sporty one. If we can get the pole back up again, I'm just going to give you guys know seconds for this one. See how far we see how many of you were able to answer it. Okay, 30 seconds have gone, uh, everybody getting the last minute ones in Lovely. OK, so again, we're stuck between Oh, in fact, we're let's share results. Yeah. Um, so we're 50 50 on a N. C. So let's have a look. The answer is true. This one, you can get the answer just by reading through the first paragraph. So if we look at this is based on the information federal has at least four Children, so If we go through and count Children, we'll know when we hit four. So traveling tutors for his school age daughters. Okay, more than one daughter there? Nah. Needs to look after his twin boys. So that's two boys. We've got two boys and more than one daughter. That means we have to have at least four, so it has to be true. So statement questions. Um, so this we've looked at the truth. Forces can't tell questions. They tend to be ones that you can do quite quickly. Uh, statement questions. They take a bit more time. Um, and this is an example. So which of the following can be inferred from the passage, and then it gives you four different things that could be inferred so more realistically you might have to read the whole pack, the whole passage to figure this out. So how to approach the statement questions? Um, so you're gonna have to spend more time reading the passage for it. Unfortunately, um, So this is suggesting that you read the first two lines in the last two lines of the passage to sort of gauge it if you have time or if you know, you're a quick reader, you can read the whole thing. Great on you. If you know you're a slow reader, now is the time to kind of find out what strategies you can use. And that might be reading the first two and last two lines of the passage. So you're going to read the Passage introduction, pick out the key words that you've been given from the statement or the question read around that keyword and then choose your answer. And again, the big challenge of these statement questions is that they take so much time. Um, and as we've already said, timing is so tight when it comes to the UK, um, other things is that the statements can be just completely unrelated on random things. So which could be inferred it might be. You know, one statement might be about the first half of the passage. The other statement might be about the second part, and it could be, you know, really anything that they could talk to you about. So it's a bit confusing. Um, and you've got more options. So instead of just having true false can't tell which are really predictable and only three options. You've got four options that you, you know, can't really predict very much of. I'm just to let you know, is the question in the chat? Yeah. If we have dyslexia, can we get extra time for the U cap? You used to be able to when I took it? I think you possibly still can. What I would do is go into the UK website. They do usually have information and stuff like that. If you can't find anything, um, then I would get in touch with them. Um, I think they do have things they do have, like extra time sittings and things like that. I'm not sure whether dyslexia comes under it. I can't imagine why it wouldn't, um, but I would definitely ask them about it. Because if you can get a bit of extra time to help with your with your reading and your ability to read the things properly, then then that's what you need to do. I would definitely just get in touch with them and check with them, because I know they do do extra time sittings. Okay, So the statement questions then. So there's two different types of general statement questions. So type one is where you're talking about a specific topic. You've got a key word in the question stem that you can scan the passage for, and the statements are related to that sort of specific topic. So example an example. B. Which of the following is happening as a result of the economic turn downturn? So you'd scan for economic downturn and then read around that. Find your answer. The second type is generic. Um, each different statement has a separate topic or a separate keyword, and each treatment can be completely different. Um, so these are the ones that are possibly going to take you a little bit more time to figure out. So which of the following can be inferred from the passage would be a type two question. Um, so, yeah, As I said, this is your type. One question your economic downturn is your keyword that you're going to scan them for. And then you've got statements that are all related to things that might happen because of the economic downturn, whereas type two is more general and then you've got random statements, so best exercise for elderly, it's cheap. There's fewer people or there's more women. They're all different. They all might, You know, they're not all going to be necessarily found in one part of the passage. So how to approach type one questions, Um, is kind of what I've said. So read the introduction. Look at your question. Find what that keyword is. So, like the economic downturn. Find the key word in your passage. Read around that keyword. Choose your answer. Usually there's only one key word because the anti options are all related to one. So they're faster for you to do than the type two questions. Um, so using elimination. Um, this has to be one of my favorite exam techniques. Um, not just for the U cap, but in general, if you can quickly get rid of an option because it's ridiculousness or it definitely doesn't look right. Get rid of it. Yeah, um, you can get rid of things as you read through as well. So, you know, you might read something, I think. Okay, that gets rid of a that gets rid of, See, eliminate. As you go through. You don't necessarily just need to look for the right answer. You can also find wrong answers along the way and get rid of them. Then if you're running out of time, you have to make a guess. Your guess is going to be out of two options instead. About four. Okay, so we've got some questions here. If we could get up the polls again, So this one I'll give you a bit more time for this is a type one statement question. So try and use the things that we've discussed to get through it. I can see you're finding this one a little bit more challenging. Okay, Anybody? Anybody with a last minute guest want to come in? Okay, so we were stuck mainly between choice one and four. But then somebody also thought maybe choice, too, as well. So you can see that these are a little bit more challenging than the than they can't tell. Truth Falls can't tell one. So the answer is actually C, which nobody really went for the reason being that it's which one of the following is not a view expressed by Mark Von the passage. So if you scan through it, Okay, you scan through four. Marco. Okay. A plastic straw has a lifespan of around 20 minutes since thrown away, where recycling facilities exit most pubs and bars. Don't bother separating out. Use straws. So that's a He does think that, um, be the plastic, but I think we go through this, yes. So where recycling facilities exist, most pubs and bars don't bother. That gets rid of that one if it highlights it. It's better than me just saying it. Here's a bit about plastic bags. So the firm suggests the five p plastic straw tax in the footsteps of the plastic bag tax, which has radically cut the use of single use plastic bags. So the plastic bag tax is successful. Example. The scheme, which should also be used for straws. So he's thinking about that, and then the last bit. The waste of plastic bottles is similar problem than the issue of plastic straws. Um, a comparison in the size of problems is not mentioned, but so you You can't say that he's not saying that if that makes sense, so the only one left is going to be in reality. No one needs a plastic straw there beverage because he doesn't. I would say that actually what he says is, only kids need a straw with their fizzy, but okay, so he thinks kids need it. Not that no one needs it. And therefore, this view is not expressed by Marco. I think most of you have been tripped up by the not in this one. So yes, as we just as we, you know, experienced. And this one, it took you all a lot longer to answer the question. Um, and time pressure is a real thing. Um, in the the gam sat, but not the lancets are the you cap. Um, and one of the areas where I feel like students often lose a lot of their time is by trying to get the right answer for every question. Um, if you look at a question and you have no idea and you think this is going to take me ages to find, make a guess and move on because it's not worth it, it's not worth you wasting minutes on one question when you the next question might be something that you've already read and can answer really quickly. Um, obviously, it takes a little bit of time to get the knack for knowing when to skip a question and when to spend a bit more time on a question. But that can only come with doing lots of practice questions. Okay, but I don't think you have to absolutely no the answer for every single question. If you're struggling on a question, it's perfectly fine to make a guess and move on. You've got a 25% chance of getting the answer, right? Yeah, so this is kind of giving you an example of that. So if you analyze statement a C, it's false. Then analyze. Be and think it might be true. You can just click be and move on. Okay, If you think it's true, you don't have to. Then look for C and D. If you don't know. Still, go to C and D and try them again. But so this is another way to kind of get down your time. If you see 12. No, it's right. You don't need to look at the others. You can just click and move on. So logic puzzles. I'm going to go back just so that I'm not showing you all the question. These are the kinds of things that you know you read online on Facebook and then scroll through the comments to see why everyone has a different answer and all that sort of stuff, so they can be quite fun, but they can be quite time consuming, Unfortunately. So here's an example that we can just kind of, actually, let's do a tight time and see if people can figure it out. So can we get a pole up, please, For this one and you'll get extra time because I hadn't got the pole up, but I'm gonna give 30 seconds. Please try and get an answer. Okay? Just so you know, that's 30 seconds. Anybody wanna have a guess? Okay, let's leave it there. So these are the results we got. Most people going for choice three. Cassandra, just so you all know, um, I'm telling you when the 30 seconds are and I'm giving you tight timings for this because that's what you're going to get in the u cap. But don't forget that if you're not getting it today and you're not getting in the time today, that's okay. You have got time to practice and time to get used to the questions. This is literally just a taste of a few questions, so don't let that stress you out. If you're not getting it in the time or you're not getting immediately, you've got plenty of time for practice. So let's have a look at how this works. So the method that are suggesting here is golden clue method, which is looking for that one clue that's going to give you the answer. So we've got Andrew, Bridget, Cassandra and Daniel conveniently A, B, C and D. And they're all going on a different excursion. You've got the names of them and the prices are all listed as well out. And then you've got at the bottom. You've got all your clues. Let's do it. Okay. Okay. Yeah. So, applying the golden flu method, you've got all your clues here. Scan the text for something that's going to give you something definitive. So either the most expensive or the cheapest item. So it tells you at the bottom here, the cheapest activity is going to be cooking, right? So you know that the cheapest activity is going to be the cooking, so the cooking is going to be €28. Okay, so now we want to have a look and try and find out who spent the that €28 which is the cooking. So the only other in view that we have about payment. So just to summarize, we found the cheapest was cooking, which is what we're looking for. We know that cheapest means €28. Okay, So in order to find out who's paying the €28 we want to look for other clues about payment and money. So when it comes to payment of money, this first bit is. Andrew did not spend the most of his activity, but spent €10 more than Cassandra. So if there is a 10 year old gap between Andrew and Cassandra, Andrew and Cassandra either have to be 28 in the 38 or the 45 the 55 Okay. It also says that he did not spend the most. If he didn't spend the most, then he can't have spend the 55 So he's not spent the 55. He must have spent the 38. He spent the 38 Cassandra spent. Cassandra spent 10 less than him. She has to have spent the 28 which means that she went cooking. Okay, So Cassandra is the woman, okay? These ones, I feel if I find that either people get them straight away and are really good at these straight away, or they get good at them with just a little practice, Okay? Yeah. So timing tip. Always look at the answer options. And the question, Um, So what this is meaning is let me go back. So instead of looking at this and thinking Okay, so I've got four people for excursions and for amounts of money, you could theoretically go through and find out who spent and went or what for each person. But you don't need to do that. All you need to know is who went looking. So the tape on there was Just Just look for what you need to answer the question. You don't need to know what excursion Andrew went on. You don't need to know how much Bridget spent. You just need to know who went cooking. Okay, Another one. Here. Um, So let's get another pole up, and we can all have a go. I'll tell you, 1 30 seconds is again. You had 30 seconds. If you wanna have a guess. Anyone else wanna have a guess? It doesn't matter if you're wrong. Okay. So I guess that actually brings me to a bit of an extra tip. The gams that for the you can cat, which is to, you know, always make sure you put an answer even if it's a guess. Um, so you can see that again. We will split between B c and D on here with slightly more people going to see. But it was pretty, um, throughout it. Um, yeah. So even if you're like, Oh, I'm wasting so much time here, I need to move on. Just make a guess. Because like I said, you've got 25% chance of getting it right, and that's a higher percentage chance of getting it right. And if you don't write anything, Okay, so let's have a look at this one then. So we've got four hotel rooms conveniently A, B, C and D. We've got full price is for them, and we've got four currencies that they could have been paid for in We're looking for the numerical price of room D and the currency used for room A. Now, the first clue we have is that the price of A and D contain the same digits. So if I can just find everything from Rumi, I can figure out what the price was for Room D. Okay, the next I weight not the next. But, um, the question is just asking us for the price of room DM remain and only involves Corona and slotty. So try and stick to finding information involving those first. Yeah, So what that's saying is that we've only got actually the 75 57. So we know that A and D, because they contain the same desserts, are going to be 55 75. Um, and the only options are going to be zero t and danged krona. So thus the only things that we're having to look for so the currency is not low t for B and D great. That doesn't really help us too much. And the currency for C is euros or pounds. So it's not as low t for those either. So that means that B, D and C are not exerting. And that four therefore means that the currency used for a has to be selecting. So this here is showing you that if you want to sort of do it in a table, that's something that you can do as well. So it's also telling you that the products sold in zero t had the lowest numerical price whilst the products sold in euros was that priced. So actually, if we've already figured out based on these clues that a has to be low T, we now know that that had the lowest numerical price. So a was low T and it was also 57. Okay, that's that. Yeah. So a is low key in also 57 therefore there's a lot of steps on this power. 0.8 is low T, and it's also 57. If A and D contain the same digits, then the price for D has to be 75. So the answer is numerical. Price for Room D is 75 the currency used for roommate is 30. Okay, so that's everything for verbal reasoning. I think the main tips just to give you is it's really tight on timing. Don't read the whole passage if you don't have to um, find keywords. Look for keywords. Read around keywords. And if you're wasting a lot of time, make a guess, Make an educated guess and move on. Any questions on verbal reasoning before you go into quantitative reasoning? No. No questions in the chat. Know. Okay, let's move on to quantitative reasoning then. So these are the stats for it. So you've got 25 minutes for quantitative reasoning. 36 questions, nine scenarios which ultimately gives you 41 2 3rd seconds per question. The actual maths level that you need is gonna be G C S E maths. Okay, Uh, they're not asking you to do like, you know, a level integration or anything like that. It is G cm at GCSE maths, and it is more about application. So it's going to be things like formula or grafts or, uh, sorry, not grass. But it's it's going to be things like currency or tax was quite a common theme. Um, not necessarily Just giving you a formula, just giving you a graph and asking you to do it. It's going to be applied to sort of a real world example. Okay, um, and distinct topics that split into which it says will be covered in future tutorials for you. So why do they want you to do loads of maths in the UK? And also, if you do gams, that'll be math as maths involved in all of them. Why do the maths to be a doctor? Um, and it is necessary. So things like calculating drug doses. Um, that's a lot of maths. And actually that can get quite complicated sometimes, especially when you've got, like, a small kiddy versus, like, you know, a really large 40 year old. They can be different. Um, e C G s are based quite a bit on numbers if you're really figuring out differences with them, um, looking at BP, Um and then obviously there's the academic side to medicine where you're looking at papers and data and analyzing statistics and things like that. So what they're doing by having lots of maths in all of their entrance exams is just making sure that actually, you know, your level of maths is going to be able to get you through medicine. Unfortunately, um, the quantitative reasoning section is so varied, there might be one question that you look at and it's like, Oh, yeah, this is super easy. You know? All I have to do is times this by this. And then there's other questions where you're looking at it and there's, like five different rules you have to follow to get the tax bracket right. And it's it's literally there as a time trap because it's going to take you ages to figure them out. So it's there to trip you up and make you waste your time so you don't get to the easier questions. Are you allowed to have pen and paper during the exam? Yes. If nothing's changed recently, they do let you have. Actually, we had a white board, um, and a whiteboard marker, um, at the place where I sat it that they give you. So you know, you don't have chance to write anything on a piece of paper that you bring in with you, but they gave me a whiteboard, marker and whiteboard pen so you can do it like that. You also get the crappy calculator. Um, that comes with most, um, like if you think of just the computer calculator that you get that you have to like manually click on each button to go through. That's the calculator that they give. You can't bring your own in, but you can use that as part of the software. Um, so, you know, deciding whether you want to do something with pen and paper or calculation or deciding whether you want to just quickly put it into the calculator. It depends on what you have to do, but you do have those options there for you. So the multiplier method is what's being sort of recommended here. Um, and it's a way for you to apply a similar thing to to most of the different questions. Um, so here we're looking at percentage change questions and every percentage change question has three different variables. The percentage change, the new value and the old two original value. And the question is going to give you two of them ask you to work out the third. So if a book increases in price of this is just demonstrating it. But if a book increases in price by 20% from 10 lb 12 lb, you've got those three values, and this is sort of how you could write them out as a table. So even though this has now given you the three options, there's three different ways a question could be asked of you in the UK so they could ask you for the percentage change. You could say the book increases from 10 lbs 12 lbs. You know how much is what's the percentage is increased by. They could tell you it's increased by 20% and now the price is 12 lbs and ask you for the original price. Or they could tell you that the value is 10 lbs. They've increased by 20%. What's the new price? You can also use the sort of triangle method to work it out. I'm sure you've all seen these triangles before, especially if you've done sort of any chemistry, Um or indeed, any physics before. Um, these triangles are really common things to do, and there are really quick things kind of just jot down on that whiteboard. Um, if you have a question that needs them, um, so this is how you do it out. So you got the new value, the original value and the multiplier they just used multiply instead of percentage. Um, and that's because of the shortcut that they're about to tell you. Um, so let me talk through it a bit before I get you all doing a question. So has is there Is there anyone that hasn't seen these types of triangles before? If not, don't worry. It's just I'll go through them a bit more. If everyone's seen it, then I'm not gonna spend time telling you all things, you know. So you've all seen them before? Okay, um, if not ask me at any point, but we go through them, so yeah, so, you know, you've got all these three things. Um, this line is the division line. This line is the times line. So if you're looking for this multiplier, you're going to do the new divided by the original. If you're looking for the new, you're going to do the original by the multiplier. If you're looking for the original, you're gonna do the new over the multiplier. So that's how you use these tricycles. So the next one, the next slide is going to be a question. Um, and it's going to be quite a typical you cat question. I have to say I'm going to give you 45 seconds, and then I'm going to tell you that your 45 seconds are up. Try and get an answer in when I say 45 seconds, even if you don't actually know the answer, Okay? Just try. And I want everybody to have an answer in when I say 45 seconds. Okay? Are you ready with the pole? Just so that I can Yeah. Okay. How do you go? Uh uh. Okay, that's 40 seconds. Try and get your answers in the next five. Okay? Ending the pole at one minute just so that I can show you both. Actually, at 45 seconds, nobody had had an answer in. Um, And then four people managed to get an answer in, um, in the last couple of seconds. So if anybody sat at home freaking out that they have no idea how to do this and how he's supposed to do this in 45 seconds. Don't worry. Clearly, everyone's in the same boat. It is difficult, and it just takes practice. Okay? It just takes doing lots of questions. So let's have a look at this one and see how we might do it. So what? They're telling us so bakery slash its prices. Panel chocolates usually sold for 1 85 or reduced about 8%. Croissants, usually sold for 1 75 are reduced by 56. Which product ends up being cheaper? So you've got to basically do two things you need to find out the new price for the panel chocolates and for the lessons. So you're looking for the new, which means that your times in the original by the multiplier So if we look at the Punisher Blah, um, you've got the original, which is given to you here and in the question. And you know what the multiplayer is because it tells you what it's reduced by. Okay, so if it's reduced by 80% then you've got 20% left, which means your times by not 200.2, that's your mortar fire. Okay for this one. So you do that. You put that in your little computer calculated thing, and it tells you that panel chocolates are now 30 70. Now, if we look at the croissants, we're doing our original just given to us here and here, and we're times by not 0.166, which is 1/6 because it's reduced by 5/6. We've got 16 left, so 16 of 1.75 is 29 p. Okay, these multipliers are essentially the decimal equivalent of fractions and the entire 0.2 this tip is to learn your decimal equivalent of fractions. It's much easier to just put a decimal into the calculator than it is to spend time working out that decimal from the percentage and then putting it in if you know you're decimals and this makes it much quicker. So either way, now we've got our new prices. We can calculate the difference. So we've got 37 29 p, which means that the PA Masekela is going to be more expensive. The question is going to be cheaper, and the difference is eight p that asking us which products ends up cheaper. Now we know that it's the croissant and it's by eight p. So, yeah, here's the tip. Memorize your fractions, memorize your percentages and just know the decimals for it. So this tip is like it seems like such a silly tip to give you because it's literally saving one click But when you if you go on the, um, they've got, like, the simulator, Um, and you'll be able to see the calculator. You'll understand. We're actually not having to press. One of the buttons does save you a bit of time. And when you're as tight for time as 43 2 3rd of a second, it is worth saving that even a fraction of a second. So instead of typing, not something for the decimal, just type the decimal point and the two. It's what it saves one click, which might save half a second. But if you can do that on every question you do save up for a few seconds. So here's another one again. I'm going to give you guys 45 seconds to try and figure it out. That's 45 seconds. A more guesses. Okay, stop that now and again just to share with you. There was only one person that hadn't answered by 45 seconds. Um, so if you didn't get that, then don't freak out. But everybody else didn't either. Um and then we've got a big mix of answers between choice 34 and five. So let's see what our answers are. Okay, so the answer is See, so a couple of you got that? So well done. Um And essentially, this is all about using the table to figure out what the exchanges for the Bangladeshi taka. Um, and which is more? So? What you need to do is you've got 100 and 50 Fiji dollars. So where's the Bangladeshi taka? So you could either go this way or this way up to you. I'd go this way just because that's you know how I see it a bit better, Um, all down this way. But either way, so for, uh, Bangladeshi Taka. So it does, actually, actually, Do you have to use it on him? Um but either way, you've got 100 and 50 Fiji dollars. Um and the exchange rate is going to be 38.94. So you're gonna time to them and get this many bank B g b d t going to do the same thing for the Danish krone. Um, and the exchange rate for that is going to be 12 69 which is here. Um, So you're going to exchange it that way and get 5710. And so now you know which gets you more. So the Fiji dollars gets you 5851. So that's more well, so that means that it's going to be a or C. So if you're really running out of time, just pick a R C. Move on. But if you've got that little bit of extra time, you can figure out what the difference is here. So 5841, minus 57, 10.50 gives you 100 and 30. So now you know if it's by over 100 or less than 100. So now you can tell that it seems so. There's two parts to that figuring out how many BDT you get so actually putting in the exchange rates and then figuring out what the difference is and how much the difference is. So if you only get through the first part, at least you've you know, you've whittled it down to two different options, and you can just making a guess of one of them. Move on to the next one if you need to. But if you've got that little bit those few extra seconds. Then you can figure out the second part and get a more specific cancer. Another one here. Mhm, Mhm. It's 45 seconds. Okay, so one person had it in at the 45 2nd mark. The rest are good in after we've got a real range of answers as well. So the answer was E 42 which some people did go for. And the way that you would figure out is using this calculation here. So you're convert when converted to Egyptian pounds between 100 and 75 Argentine pesos and 100 75 Bangladeshi taka. Um, so you've got 100 75 for both of them. The quick way to do this is to look at the exchange rates. So the Argentine passos is 43 9.43, and then the Bangladeshi Tugger is not 0.19 to figure out the difference between them. You can figure out the difference overall, so if you figure out the difference between them times up by 1 75 and it comes out to 42 So we're going to go into abstract reasoning now. Does anyone have any questions about quantitative reasoning. I know that it's it's quite it's possibly the hardest one when you're starting out. But I feel like once you do more questions and it does get a bit easier, you get into the right mindset for it. You get a hang of how to sort of cut your times down on it. But does anyone have any questions? No. Okay, let's have a look at abstract reasoning then, um, this was a fun one, Um, in the way that if you had all the time in the world and it was a lazy Sunday afternoon, you probably really enjoy doing these questions. However, when you've got 13 minutes to do 55 questions, it's not quite so fun. They do come in sets, Um, so there's 11 sets, five questions per set amount about, um, which just give you 71 seconds per set. So each set has its own kind of pattern type things. You've got 11 of those to figure out. Um, but yeah, 13 minutes for 55 questions is is quite tough. Has anybody seen these? These abstract reasoning questions before they look a bit odd. I don't know. Um Okay. So, again, instead of just being like there's abstract reasoning questions, you can split them up into different types. So type one is going to be spotting a pattern for set A and for set be. So you get given two different sets, you have to find the pattern, and then you get five questions asked, Um, And if you want to split it up into different times for different types of questions, you there's about 60 seconds per pattern. So here's an example. Set a and set B and then here your five different questions and what they're asking you is is each box is it part of CT Set a set B or neither. I'm not going to get you to, you know, do a poll for each of the answers. But what I would like you ought to do is, if you've got a pen and paper with you, I'm gonna give you 30 seconds or so. Um, well, no, probably a minute. Um, just try and drop down. What answers you think you put Okay, So if you all got your answers, I'm just going to move on and show you the right answers. Now which is this now, How I kind of learned to do these questions was by trying them, looking at the answers and then trying to use the answers to figure out the patterns if I hadn't already figured it out. So does anybody want to be really brave and either unlike or right in the chat for me? What do you think? What are the patterns here? There's nothing nature. But if I was to get, um, like the ones going back and all are both sided, And then if that makes sense that the shapes going one side or four side or the other side, it doesn't matter for, uh Okay, So it's a good guess. There are things like that that come up. So there's a set. A If both shapes are odd or even then the crosses diagonal. Okay, so you've clearly all had a look at questions like these and know that the rules can get a bit complicated. Try and take a little step back from this. Okay? The pattern is not as complex as that. Okay? If you just take a little step back, you'll see that the crosses in each box have a different color. So in set A, the crosses have all white shapes. Instead, be the crosses have all black shapes. That's the main rule here. Okay, um, and in set A. So for the crosses. If there's anything, if there's a black shape, then it's going to be in across and instead be. If there's any white shapes, it's going to be in across. That's right, Yeah, it's gonna be across. So I guess they're both crosses. Actually, let's go. Let's switch how I say that. So insert A. The diagonal processes have four white shapes. Any black shapes go in horizontal cross inset day. The diagonal process all have black shapes, and if there's any white shapes there in a horizontal cross, okay, so you can see that See has a mix of pullers and is diagonal, so that's not going to fit in any of them. So that's neither. This one is a bit different, so it actually fits both because there's a black and a white. But if it fits both and it can't just fit a off it be, and there's not really an option for both, Um so it would be neither, actually, in the exam. Sometimes you get the option. That said both that says both. So you you probably get that here, This one. You've got a diagonal cross, and it's all black. That means it goes in step B. Here, you've got a horizontal cross. That's all white, um, white shapes in the plus sign or the horizontal cross fit in the be pattern, but the shapes aren't really identical. So it's so this one here if you don't care, um, on in every single one of them, the shape on the opposite side of the line is exactly the same. Um, so this doesn't actually fit in any. And here you've got a white diagonal cross, Um, and therefore it's going to fit in. Say so. Those are your type one questions. And really, they are the key to getting a high score in abstract reasoning just because they're the most common question. And once you figured out the pattern, you can answer all five questions really quickly. Okay, um, there's from what I can tell, uh, from doing this myself and from sort of teaching it and stuff. There's two different types of people. There's people that can look at it and intuitively know where something goes and those people have some kind of magic going on. Or there's the people that need to sit there for a little bit and figure out what pattern is. If you do enough practice questions of these, you get used to the types of questions the types of patterns that they use. Um, and you can sort of figure them out a bit more quickly because you know what types of patterns you're looking for. The next type of questions in abstract reasoning are type two questions, and this is where you identify the next one in the pattern. Um, there's one question for pattern. Um, and so you have to be quite quick, um, with some. So here is an option. Can we get a pole up for this one? Because there's only one of them. So it's asking you which of the following completes the sequence. So what's the next one? No. So you've had 20 seconds now, so that's over the time. I'll give you guys a bit longer to answer any other guesses. Okay, so we're all stuck between, uh, a and see. So let's have a seat. What we? Our answer is. Actually, does anybody wanna either a Knute or put in the chat what they think the pattern is here or what they think the sequence is? Yeah, I think it increases in number by one shape each time. And the new shape is black. Think, yeah, and what happens to the previously black shape? I think they get smaller or they go somewhere else. Something like that. Yeah, So they get smaller and they go white. So knowing what that would be So let's look at the last one. So here's the black shape. Um, it's an up pointing diamond, so that's gonna go white, and it's probably going to get a little bit smaller, and we're going to get a new shape that's going to be black so we can get rid of be because we've got a new shape. But it's not black. I would let's just do it. So the answer is gonna be D. Let's have a look why? It's not the other. So it's not be because there's no black shape. So there's even though there's an extra shape, it's not black. It's not going to be a because, even though there's this new circle here. The diamonds stayed black and the circle hasn't been black. It's not, See, because even though we've got this new nice black circle which fits with the pattern we're missing our, um, trapezium from before. So we've not got five shapes, so it has to be d so it follows are patterns. We've got all five of our shapes that we've had throughout are diamonds gone white and run a little bit smaller. And we've got a new shape, which is a circle which is black. So the next type type three questions. And this is, um if something is to something, then this is two this. It's kind of like a based on the type of S A. T s that they can get in America sometimes, I think, but you're finding a pattern that links box a inbox be and then applying that same pattern to something else. So again, you get 15 seconds for the question. Um, so let's have a look at a question and see if anyone can get Yeah, so that's 15 seconds. Okay. So again, stuck between A and STI, but most people going for a this time and that is the right answer. So does anybody want to just and meat or put in the chat and tell me why that's the answer. What the pattern is or what the rule is, Is it just the shape rotates anti clockwise nine degrees and turns black. It is exactly Yeah. So this is just another little timing tip. Um, it can be easy to forget that they're they're just more question. Um, but yeah. So if you've got type two or type three, then you just You just need you to be quicker with them, or I think somebody's got there. Mike still on, So I'm getting a bit of feedback. There you go. Okay. Yeah. So you just need to be a bit quicker with those ones. 34 questions. The last one for the abstract reasoning. Um, so this is spotting a pattern set, um, for set A and B. And then you've got five questions again similar, um, to type one, but there's usually a bit of a little bit of a twist with it, so it's just asked in a different way. Um, So I'm not going to get a pole up and ask you to do them because there's multiple questions. Um, but just have a look. Um, And think about what you might have written for these answers. Okay? So if you've all sort of managed to have a quick look at that, does anybody want to run mute and tell me what they think the rule might be for Set A or set B? No. Okay, then. So let's have a look at the answers. There's an answer in the chap, but I don't. Okay, Sorry, I I didn't see the thing. So set a black circle with regular shape set be black skirt square with irregular shape. So definitely good. Good. Go on there. And almost almost perfect. Um, so it's just that you've said regular irregular, um, and the way that it's kind of set is actually more set A. You've got a black circle with a straight edged white shape and be you've got a black square with a curved edged white shape. Okay, just cause obviously when you're saying regular and irregular circle could be a regular or irregular shape, depending on your definition. So just to make it a bit more specific for people, so which of the following fits into set. So we've just said that CT is a black circle with a straight sided shape, so that's going to be D black circle. Straight sided shape. Set B is a black square with a curved shape, so that's going to be see Black Square with white curved shape and then which the following fits into set. Be so As we said, it's a black square with a white curved shape, so that's going to be D okay, so similar to type one questions, but type one questions. They're asking you where the square you're given fits and this one they're asking you sort of Which of the following fits in a specific set. So again, because there's so many different questions, it's not going to really be helpful for us to do a poll for it. But just go. Just have a look at this and drop down a question. Drop down and answer for yourself. Yeah, okay, let's have a look at some answers. So here are the answers. I'm not gonna ask anybody what they got right, But does anybody want to tell me what pattern they thought there was? And it's not. It's not as complicated of pattern as you think It is. A nice, easy one there. Anybody wanna tell me what they thought? Adam has an answer in the chat. Yeah, a black be white. Yeah. Perfect. So I'm going to keep my trap down here so I can see Mhm. Yeah. Said great. That's exactly the right one. This one here. Now, again. Just drop your own answers down with yourself, and you can check them. Um, and I'll just ask you more about the pattern, please. Uh huh. Okay, So these are the answers if you're checking yourself, um, and does anybody know what the pattern is for this one? Yeah. So there's always a black circle for a and there's always a white triangle for be perfect. Exactly. Same again. So drop your own answers down and try and figure out the pattern for me. Okay, So here are the answers. If you're marking yourself and does anybody know what the pattern is for this one? A force fighter shapes be three sided shapes. Yeah, Adam in the chart. Well done. Another one. And here are the answers. And can anybody think of what the pattern might be. So a one shape. Be four shape. Yeah. Perfect. Okay, so now we're going to move on to the situational judgment test, which is a illness going on here. So the situational judgment test, Um, so this, like I said before, it's about understanding how you're going to deal with real world situations and what your sort of ability to understand appropriate and inappropriate actions is about. And like I said, it's kind of a mini version of an exam that you have to take your final year of medical school. So they used all over. Um So, like I said, you'll take it in medical school for when you're becoming a foundation doctor that you take it later on in specialty exams, two different specialties like G. P. Um, and it's all about the appropriateness of response to a situation or the importance of a factor in making a decision. Um, so it's all about who you are and what your values are and what you think is appropriate to do. Um, and it's it's kind of trying to assess your ethics and your thinking process. In some ways, it's not the best way to assess the thinking process purely because you're not having a conversation with someone, but it's the best they can do in a, you know, a standardized setting. These are the things you kind of want to have a look at, and these are the things that people always look at before they go to the interview. Um, but most people don't tend to look at them before the you cap back actually is probably a good idea to have a look at them and know what's kind of expected of you. So you've got 26 minutes to answer. Answer 66 questions, Um, based on 22 different scenarios, which means you get about 23 seconds per question. So there's there's three types of questions. So there's appropriateness so deciding if something's very appropriate, appropriate, but not ideal. Inappropriate but not awful or very inappropriate. Type two is important, and again it split into four. So very important, important of minor importance, not important at all. And then Type three is where you actually have to rank possible responses to it. Um, it's new, so you might not see it as often, but actually that's much more realistic. As to what you'll have to do later on in your career. So, um, yesterday t as a final year medical student is much more about ranking things. So type one is the appropriateness one so very appropriate, appropriate, but not ideal. Inappropriate and awful. Very inappropriate. Um, and then this is the very important important ones. And like I said, at the very beginning, these are marked in bands as opposed to giving you a score to the band you want is banned one. Um, but obviously it's scaled for people, so people will be banned. Three people will be banned for, um and what you just need to do then if you get the lower bands, is to just make sure that your UNI doesn't have a specific band that they're asking for. OK, so just to sort of think through what these things might be, So what would can anyone think of an example of a very appropriate thing to do or what that might mean? No. I guess I'll just go through these. So it's exactly what you think. It's the optimal thing to do. It addresses everything in the scenario. It's like best best, best possible answer appropriate but not ideal is going to mean that it's not your best, best best thing to do. But it's appropriate and no one gets hurt from it. There's no negative consequences, really. It can be done, but it's not what you really want to do. Inappropriate, but not awful again means you shouldn't really do it. But again, no one has really gotten hurt. It's not. It's not the worst of the worst, and then very inappropriate is poor approach. Negative consequences to patient's public profession. Deaf position happen would make things worse. So some examples here if we can get the poles up again. So a junior doctor on an acute surgery award completes their work efficiently within the hours they are contracted to work. They have a lot of spare time and do not find the work very challenging. How appropriate is the following response? They ask the consultant doctor if they can spend the spare time, they have to help other journey doctors who are in the wards that are busier than that. So is that very appropriate, appropriate, not ideal, inappropriate and awful, Very inappropriate. Anyone else want to have an answer? OK, everybody's going for the same one, which is good. So we've got a couple of different ones. Anyone else wanna have a go? Okay, So most people going through choice one a. So thinking, it's a very, very appropriate thing to do, and that is the right answer is a very, very appropriate thing to do. Um, I'm not sure how many people will do it, but it's a very appropriate thing to do next. One medical student is currently supporting the team on the ward round. She's struggling with the workload and has exams coming up, which is causing her to become stressed. How appropriate is it for her to tell the consultant they are withdrawing from where they are withdrawing from several cases effective immediately? I'm gonna make the timing very tight on this one. So you've got quite a lot of questions. I'm going to go 25 seconds, which is now. So you guys are all going for choice three and four. So you think it's an inappropriate thing to do. In reality, it is an appropriate thing to do because you know she's really struggling with her workload and has to do with her exam. She's a medical student, So that's actually her priority. Um, so to tell the consultant their withdrawing from several cases, effective immediately is an appropriate thing to do. It's not ideal. Ideally, you'd want to have a chat with your consultant and think about you know what sort of things might be might be able to be put in place. You can stay on case as well, continuing, but it's not an inappropriate thing to do to withdraw from cases to to focus on your studies while in medical school next one. So a junior doctor who developed a fear of needles is asked to do a lumbar puncture. And luckily for them, they've chosen a specialty which does not require them to use needles. How appropriate are the following sponsors? Um, which is telling the consultant they will only do the procedure if they accompany them? Yeah, okay, so everybody stuck between a B and C. As you can see, most people going for be appropriate. So in reality, it's an inappropriate thing to do. Um, purely because the more appropriate thing to do would be to discuss the fact that actually they're scared of needles. Um, and actually it would be an inappropriate thing to do the procedure at all, because if you're scared of needles, you're you know how you're going to react to. Putting the needle in somebody's spine might be very different. You might actually be putting the patient in danger, Um, but it's not awful, because they haven't just gone ahead and done it without any help. So it's inappropriate because there could be, You know, it's not a good thing to do. You need to be having discussions about it. You could potentially putting people in danger, but it's not very inappropriate because they haven't, you know, they haven't done it, just done it on their own mask. See, I I can see where you guys are coming from with all the answers that you're giving, and it's it's not quite as easy as you first think it's going to be. Is it so last one of these? So you're a medical student speaking to 67 year old lady Halima. She's waiting for results from a recent chemo. She's extremely nervous and anxious about what the results might bri. How appropriate is it for the medical student to tell the patient they think it was a success when in fact, they know that it is likely that the treatment has not actually worked anymore for anymore. No. Excellent. Yeah. So you all know that that's a very, very, very inappropriate thing to do. Yeah. Um, so you're misleading the patient, which is just getting that hopes that which is really inappropriate. So the ranking ones are more rare? Um, it's usually just at the end of the exam, but it's a similar type of thing. It's just that you're ranking most and least appropriate. Um, so make sure you look at all the statements because you're trying to find the most in the least. Don't just find when you think is appropriate and put that in the most appropriate box. So this would be an example. I'm not going to put the pole up or anything, and we'll just talk through it. So if you're a final year medical student one month away from becoming a doctor, you're speaking to your uncle who's asking you whether their prostate cancer should be treated with chemo or radio, or if they should leave it, choose the one most appropriate and the one least appropriate. So you refuse to give any medical advice Is your unqualified to do so and explain? They should speak to their doctor. You tell them that you can't tell them what route to take. But explain the different treatment options on the table or you tell your uncle you can't help them directly. But offer a recent paper you read about the effectiveness of chemo and radio, so just have a think about what you might put there. Okay, so these are the answers we've got, so the most appropriate would be to tell them you can't tell them what route to take, but explain the different treatment options on the table. Um, this would probably be different if you were a first year medical student, um, and therefore had, you know, no idea about what chemo and radio are, but it's most appropriate cause you're not actually making a decision for them. But you are trying to give them more information so that they can make a decision themselves, and then least appropriate is to say you can't help them directly, but offer a paper because it's not really appropriate to offer somebody paper. If you know, I mean, maybe if your uncle was like a scientist themselves or something like that. But it's not an appropriate thing to do to give them something which might, which might actually be really difficult to digest and really difficult to understand when, actually, they're trying to make a really more emotional decision. So the one that we didn't look at is you refuse to give any medical advice is you're unqualified to do so and explain they should speak to their doctor. Actually, that's an entirely appropriate response because you're not doing anything wrong, and it is true you're not qualified yet, and they should be speaking to their doctor. But it runs that it's not as appropriate as the other because you're not helping them out in any way. You're not doing what you can afford it, so the importance ones. This is where you're given a scenario with some factors, and you have to decide what they are. So we'll get the poles of again for these ones and see how you guys do so Think, think about things that are very important. Um, you know, that's something that you absolutely need to know about something that's important. It's something that you need to know about, but it's not to be all and end all minor importance is you know, it's nice to know, but we don't really need, you know, we don't necessarily need it, and then not important at all is I definitely don't need to take that into account. It's completely irrelevant. So here's the first one. So a junior doctor in A and A is struggling with his workload and is extremely tired. How important is the fact that they might make a mistake if we could get a polar? Please, Woman there. Uh, thank you. Okay, just do 20 seconds for these. So everybody going for well, most people going for a very important one person going to be important. So the answer there is gonna be very important. It's very, very, very important that they might make a mistake when we're deciding what to do about this. Um, you know, a mistake might mean patient's get hurt. Um, so that's a very, very important thing for us to consider. The main thing that they're concerned about is that you're going to be a safe student and that you're going to take patient safety into account patient safety compromise is always always going to be a very important option next one. So a junior doctor receives a small gift of flowers as a form of gratitude, gratitude for providing support during a difficult point in their life. How important is it that you know that that the patient is a regular in the practice and the gift is linked to a particular situation a little bit more split on this one? Five more seconds. Okay, let's see. So we all split between very important, important and of minor importance. So the answer is that it's important, okay? And the reason that it's important is because of how the sort of code works when it comes to gift giving from patient's patient's do want to give people that help them gifts. And it's okay if it's a small gift and it's a one off and it's for a particular thing, that's okay. So if this is literally for helping them through this one time, that's okay to give them flowers. You know, it's it's permissible and so long as it's not like super rare, expensive flowers within something, so it's important to know the situation. If this junior doctor was receiving flowers or gifts every week from this patient. Then you might become a bit concerned. So it is something that you need to know about. But it's not uber uber, uber important, like it's not be all and end all if you don't know the particular situation. But it is important to know so that you can make. You can kind of decide whether or not it's appropriate for this patient to keep giving them gifts or to have given a gift in this situation and therefore whether the junior doctor needs to report anything or, um, tell somebody about the patient's gift giving behaviors. It's not something we think about much, but it is probably worth having a look up, especially for your interviews when you have them, um, what the sort of code is and what the accepted, um, responses to getting gifts from patient's. So yeah, so it's staying here. Does the fact to help us understand the situation better, um, but doesn't usually change the app next one. So a junior doctor attends 30 sessions and disappears when there are other jobs to do in the ward they find monotonous and un interesting. How important is it that they say they will try to compensate with their absence by taking on more work later during the week? Okay, so again, everybody is mixed. So between B, c and D. I hope what you're getting from this is that actually, these are a little bit more difficult, and it's very dependent on where you're coming at the question from, um so let's see what the answer is here. It's of minor importance. Um, the reason kind of being is that does it really impact your decision making? It's nice to know that they're going to try and compensate for it, but does it really old to the situation? So I think this is the last one. You're a junior doctor working at Adelaide Hospital during a busy shift and have lots of patient's to see. Suddenly you notice a consultant is intoxicated during the war drowned. How important is it that the junior does not want to report it? Because it's the consultants word against that. Okay, so most of you went with Choice four, which is not important, or somebody went with very important, I think perhaps there's been a misunderstanding of the question there, Um, so it's not important at all. Whether you think you know, no one's going to believe me. I don't want to report it. It doesn't really matter. You still have to report it because someone's intoxicated and they're going to be putting patient's in danger. So your opinion on you know Oh, no one will believe me because it's the consultants. Word against mine doesn't matter. What matters is that it needs to be reported that the consultants intoxicated. So yeah, so we we just because it's about professionalism and you need it would be professionalism. You'd have to report that to somebody because you're wanting to make sure the patient stay safe. Okay, so that's everything from me on the UK, and actually decent timing as well as my laptop is about to die. But I hope that that's been helpful and giving you an idea of some of the questions. I think the main thing for me would just be to say, You know, make sure you're looking at what universities you're applying to and what they want your scores to be and what they want. Your S J T to be, um, and Just make sure you practice as many questions as you can. Um, I think you're going for a break now, Is that right? Yes. We're going for a break now. Thank you so much. That's been brilliant. Um, we've learned a lot about you cap from that session. So thank you for that. And we don't want to break until 12 o'clock, and we'll recoup for the beam at section. If anyone has any questions, feel free to drop them in the chat box, and we can forward them on so that we can. Okay, So you've got one question in the chat box. It says, Could you maybe talk a bit about how you prepared for both you cats and gam sat? I'm more than happy to. I'm just plugging where that top is. Ah, yes, I'm sure if you don't want to hear this, you can go for your break or whatever, but just because I've been asked, um, so yes. So I prepared for UK and grams that whilst I was doing my second year of university, um, in my first degree, which was pharmacology. Um, I took the UK at the beginning of the summer. Um So I took it as soon as I could because I wanted to know my scores. And then I took the GAM sat how I prepared for the gams. I put much more time and effort into preparing for the Gamm sat. I bought a book for the camps at the You know there's loads out there and I flicked through it during the year. And then when I broke up from uni after my second year, I really started going through the book. I started doing questions. I saved all of the ace of papers for the end. Um, and then I did those. And then I did the September sitting for the Gamm sat for the UK I pretty much revised two weeks before the UK I'm just did as many questions as I possibly could. Um, obviously, it really depends on your background what you've done, how you turn up on the day. Um, but essentially, I started if I was gonna give, like, a basic schedule of what I did started in the Christmas of second year with the GAM sat just flicking through the book. Mine are looking through things when I broke up. Um, from UNI. For my second year, I booked the gams out. That's where the UK, as soon as I could revised the two weeks before by doing lots of questions, took that. Then I came out with a score of 29 30. Um um, And then I spent the entire summer like I was working at the time, but using all of my free time going through the gaps out, um, what I needed to do and I did all of the ace papers and took advantage of everything else offered Um, And then I took the gams that in September and came out with score of 68 for that one. So it is possible to do them both at once, and it is possible to get decent scores in both of them. It's much more just about making the time to do them. And I will say that at that time I had very little social life trying to get those done. So if there's something you want to do, you just have to be able to commit to it. I think Is that helpful? Do you have any more specific questions? I'm sure how he's going to talk to you about the gaps out a bit later on and you'll be able to tell you loads of stuff about that. So if you did it in two weeks, you had the UK preparation in two weeks. Yes. Wow. OK, was that the first time that you did it? Yeah. All right. Okay. So did you find it? Uh, was it what you expected or like How was it? Yeah, it was. So you can find things online, so that are, like, practice tests. And there's also books that you can get. I think there's a book that has, like, 1250 questions in it. And I just work through those I got. I worked through all the questions I did. So so many practice questions. And that's how I How many was it? Like the whole book? Or I don't think I managed to get from the whole book. No, Um, but I got through as many as I could. So you say many, many practice questions would be the best way to prepare for the UK, But the UK I think so. And making sure you didn't find and you Sorry. Uh, do them time. So the first few questions you do don't bother about timing, but obviously once you get there, um, sorry. Once you've done a few questions, try and keep them time. Brilliant. Thank you so much. If you don't have any more questions, we'll go on a break now and we'll speak soon then. Megan. Thank you. Thanks a lot. Bye, guys. It's nice to meet you, Angie. Thank you.