UCAT Courses 2024

The live in-person UCAT course is taught by Dr Abdul Mannan, fully qualified NHS doctor and medical school tutor. 🥇

The UCAT can be overwhelming, but it does not have to be! You need to learn before you sit this exam. Develop your revision technique and an intelligent approach. It’s not just about doing questions - every student does questions! 😀

We partner with our friends at Medify, giving you access to 20,000+ questions, 24 mocks and 40+ mini mocks, plus over 50 hours of Medify video tutorials. Also included are Dr Mannan’s video tutorials, giving you everything you need to prepare for this exam. 💾

For 2025 entry, we are running our course in person, in Manchester, England, or you can join the class remotely from home using Zoom/Teams. 💻

Also, please look at our Medical School Interview Course to help you convert interviews into offers. We also offer Mock MMI Circuit Days.

Why should you choose Dr Abdul Mannan for your UCAT training?

  • Fully qualified, experienced medical school tutor at NHS Hazelvalley Surgery 🎓

  • Over 5000 students secured medical school places 🏆

  • Over 200 medical students and 20 foundation doctors trained 💎

  • Trusted to teach at top UK schools at all levels, state and independent, as well as Undergraduate Medical School Tutor at the University of Manchester and UCLAN Medical Schools 🤝

  • Proven, evidence-based training that gets results - average student scores 2800+ with SJT Band 1 or 2 ✅ consistently over several years.

  • Teaching UCAT strategy since the launch of the old UKCAT exam ⭐️

  • The team includes members of the BMA, RCGP, NHS Health Education England, and NHS Primary Care Network trained at Masters level in Medical Education 👑

Trusted Intensive Blue Peanut Medify UCAT Course

We offer you what we believe to be the most comprehensive UCAT training package, giving you all the live training, tutorials and question banks that you need to get a top score.

Prepare with qualified Medical School Tutors.

  • In-person teaching of each section of the UCAT exam using tried and tested evidence-based methods ⚖️ Fully updated for the 2024 exam.

  • You need to learn before you sit this exam. Develop your revision technique and an intelligent approach.

  • Identify your high-risk areas, “Nightmare areas”, and plan the right time to sit. You only get one chance with the UCAT exam.

  • Seven hours of live interactive teaching in person with Dr Mannan in a live classroom, or you can log in to the class using Zoom/Teams 💎

  • Dr Abdul Mannan will teach you each in person on every course. He is a fully qualified, experienced GP with his own NHS GP Practice, and here is on ITV discussing remote consultations 🎓

  • Your tutor is critical to the quality of your teaching. We teach every course ourselves. Poor quality training puts your medical school place at risk.

  • Situational judgement is fully updated with the latest GMC Good Medical Practice guidelines 📚

  • We will show you how to recognise each question type and approach it 🔎 We will use examples of questions to illustrate this, and you can have a go as a class.

Include a Medify Subscription and Dr. Mannan’s tutorials.

Put into practice what Dr Mannan has taught you on the UCAT course 📚

Remember, question banks are a method of testing and not learning ⚠️ If you don’t use them correctly, they can give you a false sense of security 😬

They are suitable for speed and technique and can be used to develop further learning 🏃🏻‍♀️

You can also check your performance against peers with caveats. 📊

This gives you 20,000+ questions ✅

  • 24 Full Mocks and 40+ Mini Mocks ✅

  • 50+ Hours of Medify’s Video Tutorials ✅

  • Feedback on your Performance ✅

  • Access for one month from your course date (can be extended)

  • Our UCAT courses include one month of access to Medify. This will begin after you have attended the day course. It is possible to extend your access 💾 If you already have a Medify subscription, we will extend it by one month.

  • We also include 5+ hours of Dr Mannan’s video tutorials which reinforce what you learn on the course 📽 Packed with strategy and worked examples to continue your revision.

You can learn how to answer UCAT questions more quickly and accurately.

  • The UCAT consortium will try to play on your emotions, make you falsely assume things that are not facts, and trick you into choosing answers that look right but are not. 😡

  • Questions will ask you to undermine colleagues, cover up mistakes, and blackmail your career. 💰

  • UCAT questions can deliberately twist meanings and try to slow you down using comprehension. However, they are written by humans, and there are only so many things to test you on. 🧐

  • We will teach you how to look for patterns and trends. We will teach you frameworks and mnemonics to help you remember ❄️

  • We include our tutorials, developed by Dr Mannan, to help you reinforce your learning.

  • All our course materials and tutorials are developed in-house (so you will not find them anywhere else) 📇

  • You will be able to answer more quickly and more accurately in this time-pressured exam ⏱

  • We will show you how to recognise traps and pitfalls in each section of the exam so you don’t deliberately get led down a tangent and lose a mark 🪤

Blue Peanut Medify Course Timetable

Here is an example timetable of what will happen on the day of the UCAT Course. The exact timings will vary depending on the learning needs of the students and engagemnt of the group, so we may start later or earlier than this

  • Sign in and have some tea, coffee and refreshments.

  • Syllogisms, Logical Puzzles, Recognising assumptions, Probabilistic reasoning, Venn and Euler diagrams and Data Interpretation. Tips and Pitfalls, etc. Worked Examples. text goes here

  • Recharge your batteries: tea, coffee, refreshments.

  • Appropriateness and importance questions, GMC Good Medical Practice, Knowledge, Skills and Performance, Dealing with Patients, Limitations of Medical Students, Confidentiality, Behaviour and Morals, Probity etc. Tips and worked examples. text goes here

  • We usually provide vegetarian and halal options.

  • Format, Mathematical Knowledge, Concepts, Use of Calculator, Common formulae, etc. Tips and worked examples.

  • Stretch your legs

  • Critical reasoning skills, Logical order skills, Keywords and prioritisation, True, False and Can’t Tell, Keyword approach, Passage mapping, etc. Tips and worked examples.

  • Almost done. Just one section left.

  • Pattern recognition, Where students lose marks, Pitfalls, Starting points, Strategy, Shapes, Colours etc. Tips and worked examples.

  • How to access Medify and Online Tutorials. Final Tips. Q&A.

  • Get ready to score higher.

All our UCAT courses are taught in small classrooms. We expect students to engage with the tutor and each other 🔎

Students will be given questions and exercises during the course 📚

Every course is taught in person by Dr. Mannan 💎

This is the only way we can control the quality of your training.

We want students to learn and enjoy themselves in our courses.

In-person courses include a top lunch and opportunities to network 🍰

Why do students trust our doctors?

5000 +

Sixth-form Students Helped To Become Doctors

200 +

Medical Students (Years 1-5) Trained in our Practice

20 +

Doctors Completed Foundation Year Training in our Practice

98%

Students with at least one offer after our Interview Course

Get Into Medicine with Dr. Abdul Mannan

 

Dr. Mannan also teaches the Medical School Interview Course ⭐️ Turn your interviews into offers.

Learn communication skills, develop your confidence, experience role-play, practical tasks and much more 🎙

As we are also fully qualified doctors, we can also offer you Clinical Medicine Work Experience 🎓

See patients, learn life support and surgical skills with PPE (photo above during COVID-19 restrictions) 😷

We also offer the opportunity to experience 40 mock MMI stations.

This is as close to the real thing as you can get, except detailed feedback is given to each student after each station 📚

Top Tips and Advice for the UCAT Exam 2024

Dr Mannan has been teaching UCAT (former UKCAT) courses since this exam came out. We also work with local A-level teachers and have created a set of tips and statistics for you based on our own work. You will also find lots of tips and tricks on Dr Mannan’s YouTube channel.

 

Getting top GCSE and A-level grades is not enough.

  • Getting three ‘A’ grades in your A-levels is not enough. 90% of applicants to medical school have them or will get them. Everyone who applies meets the minimum requirements 😐

  • Most medical and dental schools in the UK use the UCAT. Without the UCAT, your choice of medical schools is severely limited.

  • Age, experience and practice all count. Only sit this exam when you have done lots of practice.

  • You need to get into the 6th decile (top 50%). If you do this, our statistics show your chances of getting an offer from at least one university are good 📈

  • The average score of our students is over 2800 with most having SJT Band 1 🏆 Many of them come to our medical school interview course and have 3 or 4 offers.

  • Don’t ignore Situational Judgement ⚠️ Band 4 is usually an automatic rejection. Band 3 risks a good student not getting an offer.

When do I sit the UCAT exam, and what scores do I need?

  • The best time to sit this exam may be in the summer holidays before you return to start Year 13 if you can ⏱

  • If you need more time to prepare, you can book a later sitting 🔎 You can reschedule, but be careful if you leave this too late as places may have sold out.

  • If you have a poor UCAT score, you need to look at medical schools that put less emphasis on the UCAT ✅

  • A high UCAT score can also be used to your advantage as some medical schools rank students and interview those with top scores 😀

  • From speaking to our top-performing students, we advise you to spend around 25-30 hours on revision. Start at least 4-6 weeks before your test ⏱

  • Get used to the online format, how to move around the screen and use the online calculator 🧮

Do I lose marks in the UCAT exam if I get an answer wrong?

  • If you are not studying A-level maths – revise your GCSE maths skills 📊

  • Practise the test timings for all sections of the UCAT exam - try to answer all the questions - don’t leave blanks 😶

  • Remember that no points are deducted for wrong answers, so if you’re stuck, use informed guesses ⚠️

  • If you really can’t work out the answer, it is better to eliminate the answers that you know to be wrong and then make your best guess from those that are left ✅

  • Use the Flag and Review functions of the test effectively to manage your time 🇬🇧 Answer the easy questions first. More complex questions don’t mean more marks.

  • If you are not well, you must reschedule your test to a later date – even if you lose your test fee 🤒 In presenting yourself for testing, you declare yourself fit; they won’t consider this a mitigating circumstance if you turn up ill.

  • Book your test early ⚠️ If you leave it too late, you might have to travel a long distance to sit your test, making you tired.

Who will be teaching me in the UCAT courses?

Your tutor is critical to the quality of your teaching. Dr Mannan and Dr Khan teach in person our UCAT courses. Poor quality training puts your medical school place at risk. We'd like to tell you more about us and what we do.

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Dr. Abdul Mannan MBChB, DFSRH, PG Cert, MRCGP

  • Dr Mannan qualified in Medicine in 2000 from the University of Manchester. After a brief stint as a junior surgeon, Dr Mannan decided he wanted to be a GP.

  • He is trained at a master's level in Medical Education and helps supervise medical students from local medical schools. He is also a GP trainer and educational supervisor for foundation doctors and GP specialist trainees.

  • Dr Mannan, as well as running a successful NHS university training practice, is also the Medical Director of the local Primary Care Network (PCN). He is currently helping with the COVID-19 vaccination role out in Rossendale.

  • Dr Mannan is an excellent public speaker and a talented tutor. He records many video tutorials and teaches in person in our courses.

  • Dr Mannan designs the UCAT courses and the highly successful NHS work experience placements. He also helps the local Deanery with postgraduate training assessments for the MRCGP exam.

  • In his spare time, Dr Mannan maintains his fitness by mountain biking.

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Dr. Imran Khan MBChB, LLM, DFSRH, FRCGP

  • Dr Khan qualified with Dr Mannan in Medicine in 2000 at the University of Manchester. Dr Khan initially wanted to be a physician and spent considerable time in cardiology, coronary care and oncology. He then decided to become a GP.

  • He is trained at a master's level in Medication Education and has a master's degree in Medical Law and Ethics from the University of Edinburgh. He has also qualified as a GP expert witness at the University of Cardiff.

  • Dr Khan is a GP with Dr Mannan in Hazelvalley Family Practice in Rossendale, Lancashire. He is the safeguarding and clinical lead there, supervising medical students and physician associates.

  • He has previously worked as a clinical lead in the local Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and has been a district representative for the Royal College of General Practitioners.

  • Dr Khan designs highly successful medical school interview courses and training for situational judgment.

  • Dr Khan is keenly interested in IT and looks after the Blue Peanut website and social media. He also has three cats to keep him busy at home.

 

Further answers and questions FAQs

  • We provide access to the Medify online course – including all video tutorials and question banks for one month from attending your day course. Dr Mannan’s tutorials are available until the date of the last exam.

  • The live day course includes at least 6 hours of intensive classroom teaching. In addition, over 5 hours of video tutorials are available online to continue our preparation and reinforce what you have learned during the day course.

    We do not feel students need a two-day course. Students can practice what they have learnt and practice questions after the course at their own pace using the Medify question bank. Students have little to gain by having a second day in a hotel to practice questions.

  • Absolutely. The courses are taught live in person, and we expect students to engage with the tutors and each other. This means engaging when answering questions and asking for help if they are stuck. The UCAT tutors are friendly and approachable and have extensive experience helping students who need extra help.

  • Please get in touch with your school for further details. Your course may be during the week during term time and include additional workshops (such as the UCAS application). We can help coach students in schools in all aspects of medical school admission and have proven results – schools who use us see an increase in the number of offers obtained by students. Schools can contact us at support@bluepeanut.co.uk to discuss bespoke requirements.