UCAT Decision Making 2025

Items in the UCAT exam are typically presented as brief passages or figures that describe a situation. You must select an answer choice from among five options to each question. Items vary in difficulty and some require you to demonstrate stronger abilities than others. This is one of five sections within the UCAT test.

The Decision Making section is one of the four subtests in the UCAT, designed to assess your ability to make sound decisions and judgments using complex information. There are six different types of questions in the Decision Making subtest:

1. Logical Puzzles: These questions require you to use deductive reasoning and logic to solve puzzles or problems. You may need to identify patterns, relationships, or rules to determine the correct answer.

2. Venn Diagrams: You will be presented with sets of data represented using Venn diagrams, and you will need to interpret the diagrams to answer questions related to the data.

3. Probabilistic Reasoning: These questions involve using probabilities and statistical information to make decisions. You may be required to calculate or compare probabilities to determine the most likely outcome or the best course of action.

4. Interpretation of Information: You will be given text, charts, graphs, or tables containing information and asked to draw conclusions based on that information. This may involve identifying trends, making comparisons, or evaluating data.

5. Recognising Assumptions: In these decision-making questions, you will need to identify underlying assumptions or premises in arguments or statements. You may be asked to evaluate the validity of these assumptions or determine the impact of these assumptions on the conclusions drawn.

6. Evaluating Arguments: You will be presented with arguments and asked to assess the strength, validity, or relevance of those arguments. This may involve identifying flaws or weaknesses, determining the relative importance of different factors, or comparing and contrasting different arguments.

We cover all of these questions in our UCAT Courses and 1-1 UCAT Tutoring.

It is paramount that you practice all of these types of questions as all of them are likely to come up in your exam. Often, some students find that the Yes/No questions are more difficult, therefore, requiring more practice before their UKCAT exam.

Either there will be four answer options and you must seek only one correct answer. Other answers may require you to respond to five statements with a “yes” or “no” next to each statement. In this section, you may use an on-screen calculator or the whiteboard and pen provided.

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