Our Lady of the Southern Cross College, Dalby
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Dalby QLD 4405, Australia
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Email: dalby@twb.catholic.edu.au
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University Clinical Aptitude Test

As you may already be aware a very big change took place on the 24th September in relation to the undergraduate medicine and dentistry admission process. The Undergraduate Medicine and Health Sciences Admission Test (UMAT) has now been replaced by the University Clinical Aptitude Test (UCAT). While the UCAT Consortium may have or have not sent you an email, the purpose of this email is to provide you with some quick facts about what is going on. We are certain that you will be approached by some worried students (and parents) with many questions, so these facts will come useful.

Quick UCAT Facts:

  1. This change is actually a very good news and should have really taken place a long time ago.
  2. UCAT Consortium is a much more transparent company than ACER and have far more relevant FREE resources on their very-well setup website.
  3. UCAT Official Website: https://www.ucatofficial.com/ucat-anz/
  4. Unlike ACER, UCAT Consortium helps students prepare in order to have a higher success opportunity.
  5. UCAT is a shorter and faster paced test.
  6. The questions are substantially easier than UMAT, but candidates need to be very quick in solving them. So, practice is far more important for UCAT.
  7. UCAT is a computer test and will be conducted in smaller testing centres over a period of time in July. Therefore, more ideal for NSW, ACT and any other students who may have had exam and assessment clashes in the past with the UMAT date. 
  8. The test is not all that different from the UMAT and many of the Construct 1 and Construct 3 UMAT preparation techniques are directly transferable to UCAT.
  9. Students who have already been preparing for UMAT will find UCAT question quite easy to solve, therefore they will have a slight advantage over the newcomers.
  10. The new Section of the UCAT - 'Situational Judgement' is very similar to Personal Qualities Assessment (PQA) Joint Medical Program (JMP)delivered jointly by the University of Newcastle and University of New England, and Bond University’s Psychometric Test, which was introduced in 2017. So, preparing for the UCAT certainly will help in other areas as well.