General Queries Regarding UKCAT Scores
A lot of you are likely to have a huge lot of queries regarding the UKCAT scores. Here are some of the commonest queries that generally are asked by UKCAT candidates:
How are the UKCAT scores made known to the candidates?
This is the great thing about the UKCAT: you get to know your score as soon as you have completed the test. Since the UKCAT is an online test, marking is hassle free and done within minutes of completion of the test. Your answers are checked by the computer and the scores are immediately given out. The score that has been given out by the computer is considered final and cannot be questioned.
How do the scores reflect the candidates’ abilities?
The UKCAT is designed to test not the knowledge of the candidates, but the aptitude of the same. Therefore, every section of the exam will test you for various capabilities. For instance, the Verbal Reasoning section will be checking the candidates’ logical reasoning ability and interpretation of the verbal information provided. The second segment of the paper, that is, Quantitative Reasoning, will be testing the candidates’ ability to solve numerical problems. The Abstract Reasoning subtest is designed to see whether the candidate can come to conclusions from information that is both non-verbal and non-numerical. Section 4, Decision Analysis, tests the candidates’ ability to extract information from a set of codes, that is, break down complex pieces of information into simpler ones.
How do the universities get to know the scores of individual candidates?
There is only one door through which the universities may get to know of the scores of candidates, the UKCAT. You have to notify the UKCAT about the universities you have applied to, and Pearson Vue will send in the scores to the universities. Remember that if you try to send in the scores personally to any or all of these schools, your application will get automatically rejected. Pearson Vue states that you can also send your scores to universities that are not affiliated to the UCAS, but that they will not be able to compare your scores, since those of other UKCAT candidates will not be available to them.
A thorough understanding of the scoring system of the UKCAT will help you cope better. Moreover, if you fail to do as good as your expectations in this year’s UKCAT, the individual scores in the separate segments will give you a clear idea about you strong and weak zones.