Free UCAT mock test — 115 timed questions across VR, DM and QR
One UCAT (UK & ANZ) paper in the real exam format: 115 questions across 3 timed sections, 1 hr 25 min on a server-controlled clock.
About the real exam The aptitude test that opens UK, Australian and New Zealand medicine and dentistry - four timed subtests, one high-stakes sitting.
Free, reversible until you begin · one attempt per account · no retake, no card.
What you get back
You get your raw marks and per-section scores. No scaled score, band, rank or percentile is estimated for this paper.
- Scored out of 115 raw marks, with per-section totals.
- There is no negative marking anywhere in this paper.
How the real UCAT (UK & ANZ) is scored
The three cognitive subtests (Verbal Reasoning, Decision Making, Quantitative Reasoning) are each scaled to roughly 300-900 and added together to give a cognitive total of 900-2700. Situational Judgement is not scaled - it is reported as a Band from 1 to 4. Universities weigh the cognitive total, the SJT band and often subtest balance differently, so there is no single national pass mark.
- Cognitive ~2500+Top-decile cognitive total. Strongly competitive at the most UCAT-selective UK and ANZ medical and dental schools.
- Cognitive ~1900-2199Around the typical average. Workable for less UCAT-heavy schools, especially with strong academics.
- SJT Band 1Judgement closest to the expert panel across the scenarios - the strongest professional-judgement band.
- SJT Band 4Judgement furthest from the panel. Some schools screen out Band 4 regardless of cognitive score.
Context only - this free mock returns: You get your raw marks and per-section scores. No scaled score, band, rank or percentile is estimated for this paper.
The paper, section by section
Sample questions with worked answers
8 original practice questions written by Myndaq in the UCAT (UK & ANZ) style. They are not taken from this mock paper or from official past papers. Try each one, then open the answer.
- Question 1Verbal ReasoningOne correct answer
Managed realignment is a coastal engineering approach in which an existing sea wall is deliberately breached so that low-lying farmland behind it floods at high tide and slowly turns into salt marsh. Supporters argue that the new marsh absorbs wave energy, reducing the height of the defences needed further inland, and that its vegetation traps sediment, allowing the marsh surface to rise alongside the sea. Critics point out that the land is usually lost to agriculture for good, and that the compensation paid to landowners has, in several schemes, exceeded the amounts originally estimated.
Ecological results have been mixed. Plant communities tend to establish within a decade, but surveys of realigned sites have often recorded fewer invertebrate species in the mud than in nearby natural marshes. Some researchers link this to decades of ploughing and heavy machinery, which leave the ground compacted, poorly drained and low in oxygen.
Where managed realignment has been used, the compensation paid to landowners has stayed within the amounts originally estimated.
- True
- False
- Can't tell
Show answer and explanation
Answer: B
The passage states that compensation to landowners has, in several schemes, exceeded the amounts originally estimated. The statement claims compensation stayed within the estimates wherever realignment has been used, which the passage directly contradicts, so the answer is False.
Can't tell would only be right if the passage said nothing about compensation against the estimates; here it gives explicit counter-examples, so the statement cannot be true.
- Question 2Verbal ReasoningOne correct answer
Urban beekeeping has grown quickly in many European cities over the past fifteen years, helped by municipal schemes that place hives on the roofs of offices and hotels. These hives are often promoted as a boost to biodiversity. However, the honeybee is a managed, domesticated species, and a number of ecologists now argue that dense clusters of hives may harm wild pollinators such as solitary bees and hoverflies, which visit the same flowers but forage over much shorter distances.
A survey in one capital city found that the number of hives had tripled in ten years, while the area of flowering plants in its public parks had barely changed. The authors calculated that, in the central districts, the nectar available would no longer be enough to sustain the colonies already present, even before wild insects were taken into account. They recommended that new rooftop hives be licensed only where planting is expanded at the same time.
Since rooftop hives became more common in the surveyed city, the number of wild pollinators in its central districts has fallen.
- True
- False
- Can't tell
Show answer and explanation
Answer: C
The survey reports three things: hive numbers tripled, the area of flowering plants in parks barely changed, and the nectar supply in the central districts is calculated to be too small for the existing colonies. It does not report any count of wild pollinators, before or after.
The ecologists' view that hives may harm wild pollinators is an argument about a possible effect, not evidence that a decline has happened in this city. Nothing in the passage contradicts the statement either, so it is neither True nor False: the answer is Can't tell.
- Question 3Verbal ReasoningOne correct answer
Urban beekeeping has grown quickly in many European cities over the past fifteen years, helped by municipal schemes that place hives on the roofs of offices and hotels. These hives are often promoted as a boost to biodiversity. However, the honeybee is a managed, domesticated species, and a number of ecologists now argue that dense clusters of hives may harm wild pollinators such as solitary bees and hoverflies, which visit the same flowers but forage over much shorter distances.
A survey in one capital city found that the number of hives had tripled in ten years, while the area of flowering plants in its public parks had barely changed. The authors calculated that, in the central districts, the nectar available would no longer be enough to sustain the colonies already present, even before wild insects were taken into account. They recommended that new rooftop hives be licensed only where planting is expanded at the same time.
Which of the following statements is best supported by the passage?
- Rooftop hives have caused solitary bees to disappear from the central districts of the surveyed city.
- Hoverflies usually forage over shorter distances than honeybees do.
- Municipal hive schemes were introduced mainly to increase local honey production.
- The surveyed city reduced the area of flowering plants in its parks during the decade studied.
Show answer and explanation
Answer: B
The passage describes solitary bees and hoverflies as wild pollinators that forage over much shorter distances than the honeybees they compete with, so B is directly supported.
A overstates the passage: ecologists say hives may harm wild pollinators, and no disappearance is reported. C is not supported, because the schemes are described as being promoted for biodiversity and honey production is never mentioned. D contradicts the survey, which found that the area of flowering plants had barely changed.
- Question 4Decision MakingOne or more correct answers
In a community music society:
Every member who plays the violin also plays the piano.
Some members who play the piano sing in the choir.
No member who sings in the choir works on Saturdays.
Which of the following conclusions follow?
- Some members who play the violin sing in the choir.
- Any member who sings in the choir does not work on Saturdays.
- Some members who play the piano do not work on Saturdays.
- No member who plays the violin works on Saturdays.
- Every member who plays the piano also plays the violin.
Show answer and explanation
Answer: B, C
B follows: it restates the third premise, since no choir singer works on Saturdays.
C follows: some pianists sing in the choir, and every choir singer does not work on Saturdays, so those pianists do not work on Saturdays.
A does not follow: the pianists who sing in the choir may all be pianists who do not play the violin. D does not follow for the same reason: violinists are only known to be pianists, and nothing links them to the choir or to Saturday work. E reverses the first premise; all violinists being pianists does not make all pianists violinists.
- Question 5Decision MakingOne correct answer
Five cyclists, Priya, Sam, Tomas, Quinn and Rhea, completed a time trial. There were no ties.
Tomas finished ahead of Quinn, and Quinn finished ahead of Rhea.
Sam finished immediately after Priya.
Sam finished ahead of Quinn.
Which of the following must be true?
- Tomas finished third.
- Priya finished first.
- Quinn finished fourth.
- Sam finished second.
Show answer and explanation
Answer: C
Quinn finished behind Tomas, Sam and Priya (Priya is ahead of Sam, who is ahead of Quinn), so at least three cyclists are ahead of Quinn. Rhea is behind Quinn, so Quinn must be fourth and Rhea fifth.
The first three places are Tomas, Priya and Sam with Sam straight after Priya, which allows two orders: Priya, Sam, Tomas, Quinn, Rhea or Tomas, Priya, Sam, Quinn, Rhea.
Quinn is fourth in both orders, so C must be true. A, B and D are each true only in the first order, so they could be true but need not be.
- Question 6Decision MakingOne correct answer
A board game uses a bag containing 5 green counters and 7 yellow counters. On each turn a player takes out two counters, one after the other, without putting the first one back.
Lena says: 'A player is more likely to take out two counters of the same colour than two counters of different colours.'
Is Lena correct?
- Yes, because more than half of the counters in the bag are yellow.
- Yes, because the probability of taking out two counters of the same colour is 37/72, which is more than 1/2.
- No, because the probability of taking out two counters of the same colour is 31/66, which is less than 1/2.
- No, because the probability of taking out two counters of different colours is 31/66.
Show answer and explanation
Answer: C
Without replacement there are 12 × 11 = 132 ordered pairs. Two greens: 5 × 4 = 20. Two yellows: 7 × 6 = 42. Same colour: 62/132 = 31/66, about 0.47. Different colours: 1 - 31/66 = 35/66, about 0.53. So a mixed pair is more likely and Lena is wrong, as C states.
B uses the with-replacement calculation (25/144 + 49/144 = 74/144 = 37/72), which does not match the rules of the game. D gives the same-colour probability as if it were the different-colour one. A is not a valid reason: having more yellow counters does not by itself make a matching pair more likely than a mixed pair.
- Question 7Quantitative ReasoningOne correct answer
A leisure centre offers three types of membership.
Standard: £42 per month. Off-peak: £29 per month. Family (two adults and up to three children): £96 per month.
Every new membership of any type is also charged a one-off joining fee of £20 in its first month.
In April the centre had 310 Standard, 185 Off-peak and 64 Family memberships. Of these, 26 Standard, 15 Off-peak and 4 Family memberships were new in April.
What was the centre's total membership income for April, including joining fees?
- £24,529
- £25,049
- £25,429
- £25,709
- £26,329
Show answer and explanation
Answer: C
Monthly charges: 310 × £42 = £13,020; 185 × £29 = £5,365; 64 × £96 = £6,144. Total = £24,529.
Joining fees: 26 + 15 + 4 = 45 new memberships, and 45 × £20 = £900.
Income for April = £24,529 + £900 = £25,429, which is C. A leaves out the joining fees, and B adds the fees for Standard memberships only (26 × £20 = £520).
- Question 8Quantitative ReasoningOne correct answer
A regional health survey recorded the number of adults newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in three towns. Assume that the adult population of each town did not change between 2023 and 2024.
Ashby: adult population 48,000; new diagnoses 312 in 2023 and 351 in 2024. Brenton: adult population 36,500; new diagnoses 259 in 2023 and 241 in 2024. Carrow: adult population 22,400; new diagnoses 130 in 2023 and 161 in 2024.
Which town had the highest rate of new diagnoses per 1,000 adults in 2024, and what was that rate to one decimal place?
- Ashby, 6.5
- Ashby, 7.3
- Brenton, 7.1
- Carrow, 7.2
- Carrow, 23.8
Show answer and explanation
Answer: B
Rate per 1,000 adults = new diagnoses ÷ (population ÷ 1,000).
2024: Ashby 351 ÷ 48 = 7.31; Brenton 241 ÷ 36.5 = 6.60; Carrow 161 ÷ 22.4 = 7.19. Ashby is highest at 7.3 per 1,000, so the answer is B.
A is Ashby's 2023 rate (312 ÷ 48 = 6.5). C is Brenton's 2023 rate (259 ÷ 36.5 = 7.1), which was the highest that year but not in 2024. D is Carrow's 2024 rate, which is close to Ashby's but lower. E is Carrow's percentage increase in diagnoses (31 ÷ 130 = 23.8%), not a rate per 1,000.
The UCAT (UK & ANZ) in four panels
The exam
The UCAT (University Clinical Aptitude Test) is the admissions aptitude test used by most medical and dental schools in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. It measures cognitive skills and professional judgement rather than curriculum knowledge. Since 2025 the exam has four subtests - Verbal Reasoning, Decision Making, Quantitative Reasoning and Situational Judgement - after Abstract Reasoning was removed. It is a computer-based test sat under strict time pressure at Pearson VUE centres, with one sitting allowed per annual admissions cycle. The three cognitive subtests are each scaled roughly 300-900 and summed to a cognitive total; Situational Judgement is reported separately as a Band.
The format
All four current UCAT subtests in the official 2025+ formats. Verbal Reasoning (44 items, 22 min) - reading comprehension and True / False / Can't tell inference. Decision Making (35 items, 37 min) - logical puzzles, syllogisms, interpreting information, recognising assumptions, Venn diagrams and probabilistic reasoning. Quantitative Reasoning (36 items, 26 min) - data interpretation and multi-step calculation with an on-screen calculator. Situational Judgement (69 items, 26 min) - rating the appropriateness and importance of responses to professional and clinical dilemmas. Every subtest is trained under exact official timings, because pacing is the hardest part of the UCAT.
The candidates
- School leavers applying to UK, Australian or New Zealand medicine or dentistry programmes that require the UCAT.
- Graduate applicants to medicine and dentistry who need a competitive cognitive score.
- Re-sitters improving on a previous cycle's score before their final application year.
- International applicants targeting UCAT-consortium universities across the UK and ANZ.
How people prepare for it
- Start with a timed diagnostic across all four subtests to find your weakest one and set a baseline scaled score.
- Train pacing from day one - the UCAT is failed on the clock, not on difficulty. Practise Verbal Reasoning at roughly 30 seconds per item.
- Learn the six Decision Making formats separately, then mix them; syllogisms and Venn logic reward drawing quick diagrams.
- Drill Quantitative Reasoning with the on-screen calculator, not your own - fluency with it saves seconds on every item.
- For Situational Judgement, study the four-point appropriateness and importance scales and the principles behind them (patient safety, integrity, teamwork) rather than memorising answers.
- Build up to full timed mocks in the final weeks to rehearse stamina across the whole ~2-hour battery.
Figures about the real exam, as recorded in the Myndaq course. They describe the real sitting, not this free mock paper - check current details with the exam body before you book.
What it opens up
- A competitive UCAT score for applications to UK, Australian and New Zealand medicine and dentistry.
- Confident pacing across all four timed subtests under exam pressure.
- A clear picture of your strongest and weakest subtests before results day.
- Familiarity with the official question styles, including the four-point Situational Judgement scales.
Course context for the real UCAT (UK & ANZ).
Figures above are as reported for the cycle named in each row and are refreshed each cycle. Sourced, dated facts for this exam (official links on every row) are on the UCAT (UK & ANZ) course page.
How this mirrors the real format
- The paper structure is the real format: 3 sections in exam order, 115 questions in total.
- Timing is server-controlled for the full 1 hr 25 min -- closing the tab does not pause the clock, exactly like our paid mock series.
- Marking follows the published paper: the per-section marks shown in the paper map are the marks the scorer applies.
- Sections run strictly in order and a completed section cannot be reopened.
- An on-screen calculator is provided in the sections where the exam allows one.
"Real format" means the paper shape, timing, marking and navigation above - not the official exam software, its visual identity, or any affiliation with the exam body.
What differs or is limited
- This free mock follows the same paper shape, timing, marking scheme and navigation as our paid UCAT (UK & ANZ) mock series. It is scored automatically. It does not include tutor explanations, analysis dashboards or practice content.
- The Situational Judgement subtest is not part of this mock, matching our paid UCAT mock.
Device and setup checklist
- A stable internet connection for the full duration.
- An on-screen calculator is provided where the exam allows one.
- A laptop or desktop is recommended for the closest exam experience.
One attempt, explicitly
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