UCAT ditches abstract reasoning test because it doesn’t predict if you’ll be any good at med school
For decades, those with medical aspirations have been required to demonstrate their abilities to rotate black dots and other miscellaneous geometric shapes with their minds.
The skill is meant to demonstrate that they had the intellectual chops to make it through medical school.
But no more.
Late last year, the organisation behind the University Clinical Aptitude Test said it was ditching the abstract reasoning component which assesses the ability of candidates to analyse visual patterns.
