BMAT Crash Course

Welcome to the BMAT Crash Course! We’ll go through the basics to get everyone up to speed and get a good background on the exam.

Time to get your thinking caps on and we dive into Critical Thinking. We’ll go through each question type, how to identify each question and run through a practice question for each type together.

Onto the Biology questions! We’ll do a recap of the content you’ll need to know (it may have been a little while!) and run through an example question and answer for each question type.

We’ll outline what exactly is covered in the BMAT specification, then do a refresher on the topics you may have pushed to the back of your mind since GCSE. We’ll go through practice questions for each topic here.

After an intensive morning, it’s time for a spot of lunch and recharge our batteries. You’ll need it!

Ain’t no problem we can’t solve. We’ll jump straight back into Section 1 and cover each type of Problem Solving question and our secret tips and tricks to score highly on this section. As usual, we will do some practice questions to get real-world practice.

The (sometimes) dreaded Physics section. We spend a bit more time on this section because a lot of medics don’t pick Physics at A-level. We will cover the specification topics, do a recap of the content, then run through some practice questions. For the bigger topics, like Electricity, we will do a couple of practice questions.

Phew. Another break after we fry our brains with Physics. Grab your tipple of choice (we don’t recommend anything stronger than tea).

The last of the sections which have pre-requisitive knowledge! As with the other sections, we will go through the specification for Maths and do some practice questions as a group. If we’re finding certain topics tough, we’ll do a few questions to really wrap our heads around the concepts.

The final section of the exam, and the final topic of the day. We’ll explain exactly what is being tested with the BMAT essay, how best to use the time you have and other vital Section 3 information.

Then we’ll take a look at some example questions and model answers to get a feel for how you would approach it. You’ll be asked a lot of questions along the way. It’s nearly the end of day 1, but you’ll get no respite just yet!

Here’s the time to ask any burning questions you have. You are, of course, encouraged to ask questions throughout the day, but we find some time at the end of the day is helpful to reflect and consolidate what you’ve learnt.

And that’s Day 1 complete!