Estimate or round with confidence.
Many QR points come from answering questions the fastest way. Train the 'fast' instinct as much as the 'accurate' one.
Quantitative reasoningUCAT with Dr. Dibah Jiva
Beat the clock.
It's like riding a bike. Once you have the skill, you have it.
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Week 1 · 16 - 20 Jun 2026
How I teach.
Know what to do in the first 10 seconds of every question. And me, tracking your progress.
Know what to do in the first 10 seconds of every question.
And me, tracking your progress class to class so I can adjust the teaching to where you actually are.
Answer % questions in 20 seconds.
Six clean rules show you how to speed up on QR percentage questions, freeing time for the harder ones in the section.
Quantitative reasoningReliably score Band 1 on the SJT.
I designed a new method for SJT 5 years ago. 99% of the students I have taught with it score Band 1, year after year.
Situational judgementDrop the right questions on purpose.
Top scorers do not answer everything. They know which questions to walk away from, why, and where to spend the time saved.
Cross-section · timingFind VR answers on the first look.
I help you stop the habit that has you re-reading the passage, or parts of it, many times before you commit to an answer.
Verbal reasoningSolve syllogisms on first read.
Learn to spot the logical structure as you read the question. Once you know how to look, the pattern shows up immediately.
Decision makingOpen every question with a plan.
The hardest moment is when you don't know where to start. Know the first move for every question type, before the timer is moving.
Cross-section · approachRead with intent, not with speed.
Where your eyes go on a passage matters more than how fast they move. Most people lose VR points by trying to read everything quickly. There's a better way to read.
Verbal reasoningSpot when patient safety is being tested.
Some SJT questions look like teamwork or communication; they're really about safety. Band 1 students recognise those and answer them differently.
Situational judgementThe thing that decides your score
The first ten seconds.
When you sit down for the UCAT, every section gives you a question and a clock that's already moving. The thing that decides your score isn't whether you know how to solve the question. Most people, once you show them the right answer, will agree it's the right answer.
The thing that decides your score is what you do in the first ten seconds.
These are the questions every UCAT taker wrestles with on every question, and the difference between top 40% and top 10% is mostly the answers you've trained yourself to default to before the timer starts.
The course is built around that moment.
- 1.Should I read the question, or read the problem first?
- 2.Shall I write down numbers, or skip the working?
- 3.Shall I guess and move on? Shall I round? Shall I skip?
- ★When do I skip??
What every class looks like.
You're not coming to sit and listen to a lecture. Every class runs the same shape. Verbal reasoning, decision making, quantitative, SJT.
Practice. Observe. Learn.
I show you the most common ways people lose points on this section, and the techniques the people who score best consistently share. With interactive practice on all questions, then live demonstrated by me, not just told.
You discover, you think, you try, and then you watch me work through real questions in front of you, with the reasoning out loud.
Worked example. Hover for the full walkthrough.
See the variety.
Across the session, you see the full range of question types, passage types, and structures the test will throw at you. Every shape the test makes.
Every shape. Passages, graphs, syllogisms, scenarios.
Train the first five seconds.
For each question type, we drill the question you must answer before you can start solving:
Should I do this one or skip? · Read the question or the passage first? · Write numbers or not? · Round, or not?
When you've trained the answer, you don't burn time deciding.
Five seconds. Five default moves, trained.
Mini-mock. Then coached review.
Once we have covered everything, you practise a mini-mock on the platform that simulates the real Pearson VUE interface. Then we review every question you just did, with the whole approach, while the practice is fresh.
The way research shows learning works: practise, then review with the method, immediately. That's what cements the skill.
Pearson VUEQuestion 14 of 3608:32
Decision Making
A study reviewed 150 patients to record three symptoms of stroke: face drooping, arm weakness, and speech difficulties…
- A17
- B65
- C80
- D82
Sole instructor
It's always me.
I designed this course. I teach every session. Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday across the five weeks, it's me in the room. After your first session, I'm tracking what costs you marks and what doesn't.
- T − 48h
Pull your data
Whichever platform you use, I log in and pull your most recent block of practice.
- T − 36h
Read the gaps
Where the points are coming off, where the time is going, what your tendencies are.
- T − 24h
Adjust the lesson
I swap in examples that target your gaps for the class, and skip the generic ones.
- T − 1h
Re-check the cohort
Final scan of who's at what stage. Exam in a week needs different prep than in two months.
- Class
Coach you specifically
Live, with me. Examples chosen for your current level, not the average student's.
“I'm coaching you on your actual starting point, not the average student's.”
Dr. Dibah · sole instructor
When you come back the next week, the next month, or for a third visit, the coaching is tuned to where you actually are. You don't pay extra for any of it. It's the course.
The track record.
99%
Band 1 on SJTAcross the full cohort over seven years of teaching the UCAT.
90%+
Top 10% of UCAT test-takersLast year, out of all my students. Some complemented with 1:1 tutoring; the figure includes both.
19 yrs
UK med school admissionsSeven of those teaching the UCAT specifically. Every session of every course is mine.
I track every student's progress while we're working together and after. If your score isn't moving and we know what should fix it, I'll tell you what to do differently.
If you've finished the course and want me to look at your mocks before exam day, you can email me. The teaching doesn't stop on Friday.
Dr. Dibah Jiva
UCAT for 7 years · UK med admissions for 19
Come back any Monday. Mix and match.
Most UCAT courses ask you to commit to a single weekend or a single week.
If your weakness is verbal reasoning and you walk out of the VR session still uncertain, your option is to go home and practise alone.
The course runs five times between June and August. Each run is Monday to Friday. The same topic runs on the same weekday across all five runs. Verbal reasoning is Monday, every week. Quantitative is the same day, every week. And so on.
You can attend all five days of one week, or you can mix and match. Monday and Tuesday of week one, Thursday of week two, Wednesday of week four, whatever your prep needs. Every Monday teaches the same skill. The passages, the practice questions, the mini-mock examples are different every week.
If verbal reasoning is your weakness, it makes sense to come multiple Mondays. Same skill building, fresh practice. Because I'm tracking what you've done in the previous visits, each Monday builds on the last.
That's the course. Come back as many times as you need, on whichever weekdays you need. All five weeks, included in the £190.
The week, hour by hour.
Each day is 2.5 hours of live teaching. Twelve and a half hours across the week. Same shape every five weeks. Different practice questions every week.
Monday10:00 to 12:30
Verbal reasoning.
VR is the section where most students plateau around the top 40% mark, by reading faster or by trying to scan for keywords. It doesn't work because the test relies on understanding, not on word-spotting. The exam has changed over time. Scanning used to work; on the current passages it doesn't.
I teach a method I created by watching hundreds of applicants who score highly in VR and breaking down what they do in common. To my knowledge, this method is not described in any blog, video, or other course; it is unique to my coaching. We work on where your eyes go, what you write down, when you stop reading and answer.
Tuesday10:00 to 12:30
Quantitative reasoning.
QR rewards a small set of decisions made very fast. Identifying question types in seconds, when and how to estimate, when to skip and when not to, what to do with a table versus a graph versus a worded problem.
Too many students skip full QR stems because the data looks long. I teach you the recognition first, the maths second. Almost all QR questions can be done without calculating; that is why it is called ‘reasoning’. The UCAT QR is a “can I find the shortcut?” exam.
Wed & Thu2.5 hrs each · 5 hrs total
Decision making.
Most courses do DM in two hours. The reason I take five is that DM has more question types than any other section, and several distinct approaches per type. Logic puzzles, syllogisms, probabilistic reasoning, Venn diagrams. Each has its own pattern.
Five hours is what it takes to teach the patterns, practise them, then review the practice with the strategy in front of you. At the end of the five hours your skill in doing DM is improved, because you've used it.
Friday10:00 to 12:30
Situational judgement.
SJT is a judgement test, but it's an exam. What you'd do as a real doctor is often not what scores. Once you understand how the exam tests you, the same approach works on every question: for it to be A, what must be true? For it to be B, what must be true?
I developed a new SJT coaching strategy 5 years ago. I have never seen a question yet where the method does not work reliably. 99% of the students I taught with it score Band 1.
Timing.
In every section, timing strategies are taught alongside the approach, not as a separate slot. Timing isn't a section. It's how you do every section.
One price. Everything in.
£190
Booked once1.In class
Live small-group coaching with me12.5 hrs per week
All four sections plus timingVR · QR · DM · SJT
Strategies, practice, demonstrationEvery class
Mini-mock and coached reviewEvery class
Mix and match. Come back as often as you need.All 5 weeks included
2.Beyond class
Question bank and full-length mocks6,200+ questions
Pre-class review of your platform practice36 to 48 hrs before
Email and WhatsApp all summer24 to 48 hr response
there is no upsell ladder. The course comes with everything.
Stories
Over 1,000 students. Seven years of UCAT.
Here is some of what they have to say.
UCAT questions
You asked. I answered.
How is your course different? Why shall I attend this instead of another one?
A one-day UCAT intensive runs five to seven hours of teaching if you look at the timetable carefully. Consider the welcome remarks, the breaks, the lunch, etc. You can be told what each section looks like and walk out with familiarity on the question types. You cannot, in my opinion, in such a short time build the skill to do the questions well under timing.
Twelve and a half hours over five days, with mix-and-match attendance across the five weeks, with unlimited returns, and different practice questions and passages each week, gives the learning, the practice, and the review enough room to move your score. DM alone gets five hours because DM has too many question types, with too many approaches per type, to compress. It's not a competition for the greatest number of hours. The hours are how long it takes to build the skill yourself, not just get a sense for it from seeing me do it.
There are several other unique things my course offers. I designed it the way I'd coach my own child. The VR and SJT approach are genuinely unique. No student I have ever encountered has seen my approach in any other course or online material, and these approaches make the difference in score for these sections.
I may have a brand and a logo, but in the end, I am one person behind this, not a corporate structure hiring and coordinating many tutors. I can maintain the quality because I deliver myself. I get to know you and your needs to adapt to them.
I'm sitting it in two weeks. Is the course still useful?
Yes. Students prep for two weeks and score well. Students prep for a year and score poorly. How you prep matters more than how much and how long, and the course is built around fixing approach. If your exam is close, attend a full week together, use the platform-review mechanism so the coaching is targeted, and keep practising in between. I will be in touch more between sessions to guide you if you need it.
What if I miss a session?
The same topic runs on the same weekday across all five weeks. If you miss Monday in week one, come Monday in week two. The teaching is the same skill; the practice questions are new. You don't lose the session.
Is the course recorded?
Live sessions are recorded for quality control and safeguarding monitoring. Recordings are not released to students for a few reasons. Firstly, UCAT classes regularly include under-18 students, and I follow strict procedures for storing and then deleting the recordings, in line with good safeguarding practices.
Also, part of what makes the coaching so effective is that it is a safe place where students can interact, interject, propose a different way to do a question, share their reasoning and emotions. I want every student to continue feeling safe to do so, and knowing that recordings can never be shared helps students feel comfortable participating in that way.
This is the same reason webcam-on is mandatory to attend. You wouldn't want to not know who is behind an avatar listening in, and neither would any other student. The coaching is designed to be interactive, and I also need to see your reactions to make sure you are okay and learning well.
How do I book a specific weekday rather than the full week?
Once you've enrolled, you'll get a booking link to pick the weekdays you want across the five course runs. You're not locked into one week. You pick as you go.
What if I need to cancel?
I don't issue cash refunds, but I'll transfer you to a future course date and make sure you don't miss any of the material. If you've already attended part of the course and your test date moves, the mix-and-match design usually solves the problem without needing a transfer.
I'm a re-sitter or a student already scoring quite well. Will I be sat alongside first-time students learning basics?
The skills and approach I teach don't change based on whether you are a first-time sitter, a re-sitter, currently have an average score or quite a good score already. I developed them based on what the exam is like and needs.
However, a few things are designed to make this course helpful for you. Firstly, the mix and match across the five weeks means you can pick just the UCAT sessions you find hardest if you wish, and attend those sessions multiple times, each time with different practice sets.
Also, the personalisation I offer allows me to help you with what you need now: I see your practice before a class (if you give me access), I see what is working and what is not for you, and I adapt my coaching to you accordingly.
Who is this course for?
Year 12 and Year 13 students sitting the UCAT this year. Graduate applicants preparing for UCAT. Re-sitters who already know which sections need work. International applicants joining live online from any time zone that works around the hours offered.
You can attend when you start your UCAT prep, with no or little familiarity with the UCAT, or if you have been preparing and you're stuck.
Let's say your score got better initially when practising or after attending another course, and then your score plateaued. My small group coaching will be helpful for you, but in that specific scenario you may wish to book a 1-1 diagnostic session with me first so I can identify what is causing your UCAT score to plateau and advise you on the most effective way forward. In some cases, 1 or 2 sessions with me make more sense than the whole course if we identify specifically what to work on to improve your score.
Do I need to do anything before the course starts?
You don't have to, but if you wish to, you can give me login access to the UCAT platform you are using to practise, and I'll review your most recent practice 36 to 48 hours before each class so the session is targeted at where you actually are. You can also send me results by email, but to accurately understand what you need I have to see the questions themselves, how long you took per question, and whether you got them right or wrong, so platform access is most practical if you are comfortable with it.
Is one-to-one tutoring available on top?
Some students find they want extra one-to-one work after the course, on a specific section that isn't moving. I do a limited amount of that, and I'll discuss whether it's the right next step at the end of the course. The course alone is enough for most students. If you'd like sessions with me 1-1, I do offer a focused support package and a full package to work with me.
What about abstract reasoning?
Abstract reasoning was retired from the UCAT in 2025. The four sections that remain are verbal reasoning, decision making, quantitative reasoning, and situational judgement, plus timing strategies that cut across all of them. That's what we cover.
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