Verbal Reasoning - Free Reflection Masterclass - Break Your UCAT Plateau

About the event

Doing question after question, but your Verbal Reasoning score will not move? You are not alone, and more practice is not always the answer.

Most students plateau in VR not because they cannot read fast enough, but because they are not reflecting properly after mocks and question banks, and keep repeating the same misreads under time pressure. In this live session, we will show you exactly how to diagnose what is going wrong, question type by question type, and how to turn every mock into real score improvement.

This is Part 2 of our two-part UCAT Reflection Series. Part 1 (Decision Making) ran on Monday 13th July.

When is it running?

• Thursday 16th July 2026

• 7pm to 8:30pm online, GMT (UK Time)

• FREE

Who is running the webinar?

• Rosie Sheppard, Cambridge Medical Student, top scorer in UCAT Decision Making and Verbal Reasoning, expert UCAT tutor

• Dr Akash Gandhi MA (Cantab) MBBS DGM DRCOG MBA MRCGP, qualified from Cambridge (1st class) and UCL (distinction), GP working in London, our lead medical and dental admissions expert

Who is it for?

• Students currently preparing for or sitting the UCAT in 2026

• Anyone who has completed question banks or mocks (e.g. Medify or MedEntry) and hit a plateau in Verbal Reasoning

• Students who want a proper framework for reflecting on mistakes, not just more questions

• International and UK applicants

What will we cover?

• Why practice alone does not improve your score, and what proper reflection looks like

• A simple framework for diagnosing what went wrong on every question you get wrong (misreading, over-inference, vocabulary, or time)

• The main VR question types and where students typically plateau: True/False/Cannot Tell, Inference, Author's Opinion and standard reading comprehension

• Skim reading technique: how to read a passage for structure rather than every word, and when to go back for detail

• Over-inference vs under-inference: how to judge what is a fair deduction from the passage and what goes too far

• Timing strategy and realistic per-question benchmarks, so your 22 minutes are spent on the passages worth the most marks

• Common traps: absolute language ("always", "never"), confusing the author's opinion with fact, and being misled by answer order

• Live worked examples with Rosie

• Q&A, put your own VR questions to Rosie and Akash

• This event is not recorded