 What is up guys Karma medic here and welcome back to another dose gonna make a quick video today talking about the ucat calculator because I think it's so important for saving time in the qr section and I think it'll help improve your scores a lot if you learn how to use it properly really quick before we start today's video I want to give a shout out to my two good friends Ami and Teddy who got me this karma medic branded sweater for my birthday. I really really like it So thank you very much. Also this video is made in partnership with medify. They're the online ucat resource that I'm sure you've seen me use a hundred times by now They have an online ucat question bank with thousands of questions to help you guys practice for your ucat exam So if you guys are interested in learning more about medify you can check them out in the links down below Okay, so talking about the ucat calculator I'm gonna walk you guys through every single bit of it so that you know how to use it in its entirety And hopefully it's gonna save you a lot of time in the qr section Alright, so I'm gonna pull up the calculator on my laptop and I'm gonna screen record it so you guys can see what it is that I'm doing Okay, so this is the ucat calculator It looks kind of similar to calculators that you might have used before But it doesn't have nearly as many of the functions as we want as many functions as we're used to And so you have to get used to this sort of dumbed-down version of a calculator Anyways, it works in a lot of the same ways as another calculator 9x9 is still 81, etc But it has a couple of functions that I think are very very useful for you to know if you're taking the ucat exam So the first thing that you have to know is how to use these three memory buttons up here So what these buttons stand for is MRC stands for memory recall So recalling what is in memory memory minus subtract from what is in memory and memory plus which is add to what is in memory So let me give you guys an example Let's say you're solving a ucat question and I don't know for some reason you have like 89 orange dogs And you have to multiply them by 536 dog walkers And you end up with this number of 47,704 Now instead of taking your pen going down and writing down this number While looking up and down in order to make sure that you've written down the correct thing You can simply store this number in memory And the way that you do that is that you click memory plus So memory plus means add to memory Since there's nothing in memory right now, we're going to add all of this to memory So memory plus, you'll see this little M appears over here in the corner Which lets you know that there is something stored in memory So now I can clear this, I can do some other calculations like 8 times 6 is 48 whatever I can divide by 3.2 I can still use the calculator to do any other calculations that I would want to do However, at any point I can now recall what is in memory by clicking this memory recall button So if I click it, it will show me what is in memory, which is fantastic Because I might have done a calculation and gone in some really long complicated number And instead of taking the time to write that out, I could just store it in memory So now let's say I want to add or subtract something from this number So let's say I want to subtract 704 from this number What I can do is after doing some other calculation for example I can say 704 and then I can click memory minus So that means take 704 and subtract it from memory So if I click memory minus and then we go do some other stuff whatever And then we go to recall what is in memory, you will see that it's now 47,000 So I removed 704 from memory In a similar way you can add 2 memory So let's say we want to add 53 to memory You click 53, memory plus, add to memory And then if we hit memory recall, you can see that it's 47,053 So this is honestly invaluable when you're doing your UCANN exam You can save so much time by saving numbers to memory And then recalling it and referring to it later Instead of having to write everything down and do calculations one by one And then also very importantly if you want to clear memory If you want to get rid of what is stored in memory You hit memory minus and then memory recall And you'll see that here in the top left corner the M disappears So let's say we had 8 stored in memory You'll see there's an M over here If we recall it, there's an 8 If we want to remove the 8 from memory, you click memory minus And then memory recall, the M is gone and it's gone from memory So please learn how to use these functions in order to solve questions in the QR section It's going to save you so much time and really you'll find it very, very valuable Now these three buttons up here, the plus minus, the square root and the percentage They work a little bit different than the graphic calculators that you might be used to Especially if you're doing the IB On a graphic calculator what I would normally be used to is saying The square root of 64 equals and then I would expect to get 8 However on this calculator what you have to do is hit 64 and then the square root button So it's like you're saying 64, what is the square root of that? And then it will give you 8 So you kind of have to do it backwards if that makes sense Also this button up here plus minus, it just changes the sign of whatever number you have on the screen So right now this number is positive 8 If you hit the minus, this number becomes negative 8 So if we do negative 8 plus 4, you'll get negative 4 as you can see So that's what this button does And then the percentage button, this is useful if you want to do For example, let's say you need to find out what is 75% of 100 Obviously we know that's 75, but just to make a simple example So what you can do is 100 times 75% Instead of writing out 100 times 0.75, which is what I would normally do So that's all the buttons of the calculator The second thing that can really help you save time when you're using this calculator Is learning how to use the shortcuts So the one that I found most useful for the calculator was using CTRL C And that's what makes the calculator appear or disappear Also if you want to close the calculator, you don't have to click the little X that is on it You can click anywhere on the screen and it will just disappear And then the last thing that I want to say about using the calculator on the UCAT exam Is please, please, please learn how to use the number pad on the right-most side of the keyboard In order to input your numbers into the calculator So yes, you can use your mouse to click on the numbers You can use the numbers at the top of the keyboard that are in a straight line But both of these are going to take you significantly longer than if you learn how to use the number pad on the right So yeah, if you can use the number pad, because honestly that's just the fastest possible way to do it If you find that to be a bit confusing or it's too much trouble Then you can use the number pad to input the numbers and you can use the mouse In order to click the different functions So multiplication, division, subtraction and addition Okay, and I think that's everything that I can say about the UCAT calculator Again, I want to emphasize how important it is to learn how to use those memory functions on the calculator They're going to save you a lot of time when it comes to exam day I hope you guys have found this video useful and if you have any questions for me You can leave them in a comment down below Make sure you like this video if you found it useful And subscribe to my channel if you want to see other medical school related content from me Anyways, that is it for me and I will see you guys in the next video Peace