 What is up guys Karma medic here and welcome back to another dose quick life update before we get into today's video I finished all of my research in Toronto everything went very well And I had a fantastic time there and now I'm in Greece for some holidays and also to see my family and friends before starting 30 of medical school at Kings College London. So if you guys are seeing my videos for the first time My name is Nasser. I'm gonna be entering my third year of medical school at Kings College London And if you're interested in watching videos about medical school life in general You can subscribe to my YouTube channel over here or follow me on Instagram at Karma medic and yeah You guys can see what I'm up to over there Okay, so today's video is gonna be talking about time management in the UK exam And I honestly believe that time management is probably one of the most important things that's gonna help you guys improve your scores And that's because there's no point in doing all of the questions very very quickly and not being able to get them Correct, but there's also no point in only doing a couple of questions and taking your time and getting those right But then leaving a bunch of questions at the end that you haven't been able to do And so you need to do a lot of practice in order to find your own personal balance where you can do as many questions as possible As quickly as you can but also maintain how many questions you're getting correct So as you'll know in the UK each question is worth the same number of marks Which is one mark and so you want to do as many questions as possible and also the easier questions So that you can maximize the number of questions you get right and maximize the number of marks that you get Before we jump into the specific tips of this video I want to give a shout out to medify who's kindly partnering with me on this video They're an online question bank for the UK exam Which I've used many times in my previous videos in order to look at questions Tackle them on camera and talk about my thought process as I answer the questions And you can check out their links in the description down below Okay, so moving on to the first and probably what I think is the most important tip for the UK exam and time management And that is being able to triage the more difficult questions So what I mean by triage is that you look at a question You assess that it's going to be difficult or it's going to take you a long period of time You guess an answer for that question You flag it and then you move on and you continue with the rest of the section And if you have time at the end of that section You can come back to it and start thinking about how you would tackle that question The reason this is so so important is that like I said each question is worth the same number of marks And so you want to skip the questions that are going to take you a minute to solve for that one mark And go on to the questions that are going to take you 10 seconds to solve to get that same one mark You want to maximize the number of easy questions that you complete and leave the harder questions till the end Because even if you spent a lot of time on them either you've spent a lot of time on them Which isn't good to begin with or you're gonna end up getting it wrong because it is more difficult Now you can identify these types of questions in many different ways and obviously in each section There's gonna be different criteria for what constitutes a harder question So let me go through each of the sections and tell you guys what I think or what I consider to be harder questions And how you should look for them and identify them so an abstract reasoning This will be a pattern that is taking you way too long to solve Let's say you're looking at a set and you're trying to figure out What's the pattern is it numbers a shape is a color or whatever and you're just not getting it the pattern is not Jumping out at you and you've passed your allocated time per question and you feel that you're taking too long Just guess flag and move on you don't want to waste a whole minute looking at that set trying to figure out What the pattern is because you're wasting precious precious seconds that you could be using on the next pattern Which might be super easy to identify in verbal reasoning This will be questions that don't have very strong keywords in the question stem. So for example, there's no names. There's no dates There's no capitals or anything like that and that will make it harder for you to scan the passage for something relevant to that question So those questions might be worth guessing flagging and moving on from and also the questions where it asks you to Individually assess for different statements so in questions that say which of the following are true and they have four different statements You have to look at each one individually in order to figure out whether it's true or false and those questions tend to take a lot of time So if you find that those are wasting or sucking your time in the ucat test make sure that you triage them in the quantitative reasoning section I think this rule of triaging is more important than ever in quantitative reasoning as soon as you read the question You need to be able to identify whether this is a one calculation question two three four five six Whatever you need to be able to intuitively guess or I guess understand whether the question that you're reading is gonna Take you five calculations or just one and if you know that it's gonna take you five calculations Then you know that it's gonna take you a lot of time and so you're gonna want to triage those questions So for example, let's say I read a question that asks me to take the average I know that for example, I'm gonna have to add up five different values get the total and then divide by five So that's gonna be at least four or five inputs into the calculator Which means I know that it's gonna take me time However, since I know it's a calculation that is so simple, which is an average I know that I'm basically guaranteed that mark So it might be worth investing that time because I know that I can get the question correct for sure However, let's say the question asked me to take an average But one of the values that I need to add is something that I need to calculate Well, then that adds in a whole other layer of complexity First I need to do this calculation to figure out one of the values for the average Then I need to add up all the values for the average and divide by five So there you can see that there's an whole other step There's more calculations to do and so you need to intuitively be able to identify that just from reading the question And figuring out what you think is gonna take you too long Or whether you can do within the allocated time for that question The second thing you need to look at in the quantitative reasoning section is questions Which you personally find difficult for me for example when I was doing the UCAT exam I just sucked at taxes and I sucked at time changing questions So questions talking about flights moving from A to B. I don't know why just for the life of me I couldn't get them. I couldn't understand them and they were taking me so long to solve compared to other questions So when I saw those questions on my test, I immediately just flagged them, guessed and moved on But the point is if you know your own weaknesses, you know things that are gonna take you longer than others There's no point in wasting time trying to figure those out Just guess flag and move on and you can always come back to them later if you have spare time Okay So moving on to tip number two in order to improve your time management on the UCAT exam What I say for this is you basically need to cut out all the unnecessary steps when taking your UCAT exam And so let me give you guys a couple examples of that So in quantitative reasoning for example any simple calculations anything really basic you're gonna want to do those things in your head Yes, you can do them with a calculator And then you'll know for sure if you got it right or wrong But you're gonna save so much time by doing the simpler calculations in your head instead of typing them out or typing on the number Pattern whatever that's really gonna go a long way in saving you time in QR The second thing that will save you time in quantitative reasoning is Memorizing all the different equations that come up over and over and over again in quantitative reasoning And I'm not gonna mention those equations in this video because I've talked about them countless times If you want a list of them go to my video on the 99% UCAT I'll leave a link to it somewhere up here and I'll leave links in the description down below as well I have a list of all the equations that just come up over and over and over again in the QR section So make sure that you memorize those you don't want to be in the exam wasting time trying to figure out What these equations are you want to have them already ready in your heads that you can just input the numbers that you need And then continuing on with QR the calculator I'm gonna make an entire video on this because this is just so so so important learning how to use the calculator properly is gonna be a Huge huge huge time saver. You want to also learn how to use the memory function on the calculator This is absolutely so so so important if you are a student taking the UCAT exam You have to learn how to use the memory function on your calculator So I'm gonna make a whole video about this I'll leave a link in the description down below as well So you guys can check that out after this video in verbal reasoning you need to become a master of skimming the passage You know, you're gonna read your question and you're gonna identify the keywords that you're then gonna go to the passage and search for And then you have to skim skim skim and the way that you can improve in this is by practicing skim reading Practicing reading things fast, but at the same time you have to pick out the important information that exists in the passage So it does take a little bit of practice and a bit of getting used to but it's something that you can definitely Accomplish in abstract reasoning by far the most important thing for me was having a list of all the patterns that I had ever found Previously and that way when I was tackling a new question and I looked at the shapes or whatever I could refer back in my mind to previous patterns that I've seen previous patterns that I'd written down on a list And I could figure out which of those patterns that I had seen before is most similar to what I'm looking at right in front of me And that way I always had a repertoire of patterns that I could refer to in order to figure out the questions that I was doing at that time And I found that very very useful and my third tip for improving your time management on the UCAT exam is to know How many seconds you have allocated or how many seconds you have allowed in order to solve each question for each section? So I'm gonna throw up on the screen right now a table which I've taken from the website the medic portal comm This is an absolutely fantastic website. It's an amazing resource for all things medical school related to this table That you guys can see on screen. It says that for the verbal reasoning section There's 21 minutes allocated plus a minute reading which means you have roughly 28 seconds per item or 28 seconds per Individual question. So when you're reading a verbal reasoning question, you have to start Understanding you have to start having an intuitive feeling for whether you're exceeding this 28 second allocated time or whether you're within that time So that you know how to pace yourself throughout the exam for example down here for abstract reasoning It says 14 seconds per item Which is really a short period of time and your mind is flying at like 100 miles per hour when you're trying to solve These abstract reasoning questions and I remember when I was practicing for the abstract reasoning section I simply for the life of me just couldn't meet this time constraint And so I literally had my phone out and I had a timer and I would just click and then quickly try and solve the question within that 14 seconds and if I exceeded the 14 seconds I would turn off the timer and start again and just kept going kept going and kept practicing so that I could Intuitively know what 14 seconds looked like what 14 seconds feels like when I'm trying to solve questions that way on the actual exam I could tell if I was ever folding behind or if I was ever good and had plenty of time left And that's what helped me pace myself throughout the exam and make sure that I completed all the questions within the time allocated So yeah, having a good understanding or a good feeling of how many seconds you have per question in each of the sections It's going to be very very useful and that leads me to the final point that I want to make in this video Which is that everything that I just talked about previously and generally for the you can't exam None of this is achievable without enough practice And I try to hit this home as often as I possibly can but practice practice practice is the key to this exam It is an exam that you can definitely improve on it is an exam that you can get better with over time You just have to study smart and you have to put in the time and the effort the earlier you start doing timed mocks The earlier you start doing timed sections the better you're going to be able to figure out your timing strategy throughout the exam And the better you're going to be able to do so I would highly recommend it as early as you can Start getting this practice in all right And I think that's everything that I wanted to cover in today's video on time management for the UK exam If you guys did enjoy this video Please do leave a like on it and also subscribe to my channel to see more medical school related content from me very shortly after this video I'm going to upload a video all about the you can't calculator. So do check that one out as well It's very important to save you time in the qr section. Anyways, that is it for me I hope you guys found this video useful and I will see you in the next one. Peace