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6 UK tutors who teach UCAT at Admissions tests. £26–£150/hr · median £73

The UCAT (formerly UKCAT) is the medical and dental admissions test used by most UK medical schools. It has five timed sections (verbal reasoning, decision making, quantitative reasoning, abstract reasoning, and situational judgement) totalling about two hours of intense, time-pressured work. The challenge is the timing as much as the content; questions are answerable but few students finish unaided. Tutoring helps most with section-specific strategy (the five sections reward different approaches), with timing technique, and with the situational judgement section, which is unfamiliar to most students. Look for tutors with explicit UCAT preparation experience and recent test-taker familiarity.

Admissions tests are the university-entrance exams sat in Year 12 or Year 13 alongside (or instead of treating as) A-level prep: TMUA and STEP for maths-heavy courses, ESAT for engineering and sciences, LNAT for Law, UCAT for Medicine and Dentistry, GAMSAT for graduate-entry medicine, plus Oxbridge interview and written-work preparation. They're distinct from school qualifications — most schools don't teach to them — and the landscape has shifted (UAT-UK suite from the 2026 cycle; MAT, BMAT, PAT and TSA retired or replaced). Tutoring helps most with format-specific past-paper practice, timing, and the problem-solving style these papers reward. Match the tutor to the specific test; a strong A-level Maths tutor is not automatically a STEP tutor.

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