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UCAT Situational Judgement How To Prepare in 2024

Struggling with your preparation for UCAT Situational Judgement? We've put together these slides to get study tips, a breakdown of UCAT Situational Judgement question types and learn more about how to best organise your Situational Judgement preparation.

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UCAT Situational Judgement How To Prepare in 2024

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  1. UCAT Situational Judgement: How to Prepare in 2024

  2. UCAT® Situational Judgement Overview What is UCAT® Quantitative Reasoning? • The situational judgement test is the final subtest of the UCAT® examination. It is designed to measure the capacity of a candidate to understand real world situations and to identify critical factors and appropriate behaviours in dealing with them. Why is Situational Judgement Important for Medicine? • There are many situations that medical professionals will be placed in that will challenge their character beyond any problem solving, reasoning, or academic skills throughout their career. These skills are integral to being a medical professional and are difficult to assess through examinations of academic merit or reasoning ability.  

  3. UCAT® Quantitative Reasoning Structure UCAT® Situational Judgement questions are designed with a stem that describes a situation in which a character needs to make one or more decisions. These situations are often familiar to a candidate (i.e. high school or medical school) and the issue should be easily identified. How much time do you have on UCAT® Situational Judgement? • Each candidate is given 26 minutes of test time following 1 minute for the instruction section. This comes to around 23 seconds per question. UCAT® Situational Judgement Timing • Test Time: 26 minutes    • Number of Questions: 69 questions   • Average Time per Question: 23 seconds  

  4. UCAT® Situational Judgement Question Types There are 3 types of UCAT®  Situational Judgement questions: • Appropriateness (Type 1) UCAT® Situational Judgement Questions - provides the candidate with a person in a scenario and a number of questions, each of which being a separate response to the scenario. Each subsequent question would describe a different response by the person described in the scenario, and the candidate is required to assess the responses on a scale of appropriateness. • Appropriateness (Type 2) UCAT® Situational Judgement Questions  - provides the candidate with a person in a scenario and a single question with various responses to the scenario. The ensuing question asks the candidate to identify the most and least appropriate plans of action out of three suggested responses. • Importance UCAT® Situational Judgement Questions - provide the candidate with a person in a scenario and a number of questions. Each question is a factor to be considered in the said situation. The candidate needs to make this judgement from very important, important, of minor importance, and not important at all.

  5. How is the UCAT® Situational Judgement Subtest Graded? • For the appropriateness (Type 1) and importance questions, each question attracts partial marking , with more marks scored the closer a candidate gets to the answer the expert panel has agreed upon. • The second type of appropriateness question, where a candidate is required to identify the most and least appropriate plans of action within a given set, does not have partial marking. In these questions, both plans of action must be selected correctly for the marks for that question to be scored. • Similarly to the other four sections of UCAT ® exam, the situational judgement section is measured on a scale score range of 300 to 900. The total scale score range from 1200 to 3600 takes into account only the first four sections of UCAT ® exam (Verbal Reasoning, Decision Making, Quantitative Reasoning and Abstract Reasoning). The situational judgement score is reported separately and is visible to the Universities assessing your application. Therefore, it is important that a candidate’s situational judgement score does not fall too low.

  6. How to Prepare for UCAT® Situational Judgement • Do UCAT® situational judgement practice questions - The best way to familiarise oneself with the types of scenarios, types of questions, and types of answers that examiners want is to practise. • Read good medical practice (GMC) - The ethical and moral values of a medical professional tested in the UCAT® situational judgement stem from AHPRA (Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency) and their Good Medical Practice . • Identify the issues and principles - Common ethical issues and principles dealt with in scenarios include confidentiality, cheating, alcohol and drug misuse, dealing with priorities and pressure and patient safety. Linking these issues to each scenario will allow you to choose the most distinct answer. • Familiarise yourself with the role of each character - It is important to be able to recognise what various characters are able to do and what they should not be doing. • Review your answers - When practising, pay attention to reviewing your incorrect answers. Think about why the examiners are assessing this question differently to how you are.

  7. UCAT® Situational Judgement Tips for Exam Day • Time is not an issue - It may seem that 69 questions in 26 minutes is tight but each scenario is short and each question should not take long to answer. As there is partial marking, candidates are encouraged not to dwell on questions on which they cannot decide between two answers. If you need to come back to the question with a fresh mind, make an initial guess then simply flag the question to come back in the remaining time. • Think about the ideal response - Situations where moral or ethical conflict arise are given purposefully to test a candidate’s ability to respond aptly. Make sure you choose what the ideal answer would be, even if this is not what you may have seen happen in real life. • Remember hard and fast rules - Hard and fast rules include knowing boundaries of what a medical student is allowed to do, maintaining confidentiality, avoiding dishonesty, etc. If any of these hard and fast rules are broken, the answer should be clear.

  8. Further Materials • Australian Medical Schools: General Overview • Australian Graduate Medical Schools - Admission Requirements • Medical Pathways in Australia • Free GAMSAT Practice Questions and Materials • GAMSAT Results: The Definitive Guide • Don’t forget to tune in to our GAMSAT® To Med School Podcast! Listen as our experienced GAMSAT® tutors explore diverse topics about everything from the GAMSAT® exam to their journeys through medical school: https://gradready.com.au/gamsat-podcast

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