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The UK Clinical Aptitude Test (UKCAT) is a test used in the selection process by a consortium of UK university Medical and Dental Schools. It is run by the UKCAT Consortium, currently chaired by Nigel Siesage, in partnership with Pearson VUE. It was first introduced in 2006, and is entering the 10th year of testing in 2015. The test is designed to give information on the candidates' cognitive abilities through four reasoning tests, with a fifth test, the situational judgement test testing attitudes and professional behaviour. The test is used by universities to make more informed choices between medical and dental applicants. ==Format== The UKCAT is designed to be a test of aptitude and attitude, not academic achievement. The latter is already demonstrated by A-Levels, Scottish Highers or undergraduate degrees. It attempts to assess a certain range of mental abilities and behavioural attributes identified as useful. These mental abilities include critical thinking as well as logical reasoning and inference. For candidates sitting the examination in summer 2015, the UKCAT consists of five subtests: four reasoning tests, and one testing your professional demeanour. Each test has a time allocation as below: * Verbal Reasoning - assesses candidates' ability to think logically about written information and arrive at a reasoned conclusion. You are given 22 minutes, with 11 passages to read and 44 questions to answer in that time. * Quantitative Reasoning - assesses candidates' ability to solve numerical problems. You are given 25 minutes, 9 tables, charts, graphs etc. as information; and 36 questions to answer. * Abstract Reasoning - assesses candidates' ability to infer relationships from information by convergent and divergent thinking. You are allocated 14 minutes to answer 55 questions. * Decision Analysis - assesses candidates' ability to deal with various forms of information to infer relationships, to make informed judgements, and to decide on an appropriate response. You are allocated 32 minutes, 1 scenario full of information and 28 questions to answer. The situational judgement test is a different type of test to the tests above: * Situational Judgement - measures your responses in situations and your grasp of medical ethics. This section of the test is 27 minutes long, with 68 questions on 19 scenarios. The test is an online test taken at a (Pearson Vue centre ) near you. Candidates are not allowed to bring external materials in to the exam. A basic calculator is provided on the screen in the quantitative reasoning and decision analysis tests, along with a white board and a marker pen or paper with a pencil, for taking notes. The equipment and conditions vary slightly between different test centers. Including warm-up time (time allocated to reading the instructions), the test lasts a maximum of two hours. Each of the UKCAT subtests is in a multiple choice format and is separately timed. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「UK Clinical Aptitude Test」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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