Customer Reviews
Really not worth it. - By: Dan, 27 Sep 2008 
The guide kicks off with a lot of irrelevant information about general application to medical school, UCAS, personal statement writing etc - not useless by any means, but definitely not brilliant.
The real meat of the book is the practice questions, & I'm afraid to say that this is where it really falls over. The verbal reasoning questions are terrible, there are multiple typos, huge logical inconsistencies, many ambiguous questions & some of the answers are simply entirely wrong.
The other sections seem to be of a better quality, but on the basis of the second chapter, I really wouldn't bother with this book - no academic text (especially one with an emphasis on comprehension & critical thinking) should contain such elementary mistakes.
So far, so bad - By: Ms. Jenny C. Keates, 20 Sep 2008 I'm a magazine sub-editor & my flatmate is a patent attorney - we're both professional wordsmithsin our thirties. Following considerable analysis & debate (with diagrams!), we agree that there are flawsin the reasoning & the explanations of some of the verbal reasoning testsin this book. The logic applied also seems to be inconsistent across different questions. As a result, some of the questions seem ridiculously difficult.
The text also contains grammatical & typographic errors, which contribute to the sense of a badly produced guide.
The rest of the book may be more useful, but I am not impressed so far. It gets two stars because it could be worse!
Helpful for some sections - By: Iso, 26 Aug 2008 The book will help you mainly for the abstract reasoning & decision analysis. However the verbal reasoning section is terrible. A lot of the answers are wrong & provide invalid explanations.
Helpful? Some parts
Worth the money? No
Better alternatives? Buy the succeeding the UKCAT book.
OK-ish - By: Ms. K. V. Thompson, 17 Aug 2008 
I found the first section helpful, applying for Graduate Entry by myself means I haven't been told some of the things that I'm sure those applying straight from college will have about personal statements etc.
The questions were however too few & disproportionately difficult; though I guess being overprepared is better than under. There were also 3 errors (that I picked up on; there mayin fact be more) but they were quie obvious ones so don't really impede on your learning.
Worth the £10 I paid just to feel a bit more prepared but not great.
Disappointing - By: J. Wilson, 30 Jul 2008 Like most people, I bought this book for the practice questionsin order to supplement those already available on the UKCAT website, as well as some useful tips on tackling the questions, managing time etc.
However, I was dissapointed to see that the majority of the book was taken up with material irrelevant to the UKCAT (e.g. all the stuff about med school applicationin general, & the BMAT). I also found the practice questions VERY hard, which is odd as the test itself was comparitively easy & I scored well over 700 on each section.
If you're sitting the UKCAT & can borrow a copy of the book, then go for it, you might get something out of it, but not worth buying.
