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How to Prepare for the Casper Test: Tips and Strategies

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If you're applying to medical school, you should be familiar with the Casper test. This is a situational judgement test that is designed to assess your interpersonal skills and decision-making abilities. It's an important part of the medical school application process, and preparing for it is essential if you want to do well. In this article, we'll share some tips and strategies to help you prepare for the Casper test, including CASPer Prep Courses and CASPer tutors . Understand the format of the test Before you start preparing for the Casper test, it's important to understand its format. The test consists of 14 sections, each with a scenario and three open-ended questions. You'll have five minutes to answer each set of questions, and you won't be able to go back to previous sections. The test is timed, so you'll need to manage your time carefully to make sure you can answer all the questions. Practice with sample questions One of the best ways to prepa...

Practise Free UCAT Test Questions & Answers (2023)

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Choosing a UCAT online course - or a UCAT preparation course - is vital to ensuring that you secure a high mark in the test, and thus the place that you deserve at medical school. We highly recommend BlackStone Tutors, who have agreed to provide us with a range of sample questions. Answers to the below, and hundreds more practice questions can be found on their site here. Verbal Reasoning Elaine Bromiley was a fit and healthy young woman who was admitted to hospital for routine sinus surgery. During the anaesthetic, she experienced breathing problems and the anaesthetist was unable to insert a device to secure her airway. After 10 minutes it was a situation of ‘can’t intubate, can’t ventilate’; a recognised anaesthetic emergency for which guidelines exist. For a further 15 minutes, three highly experienced consultants made numerous unsuccessful attempts to secure Elaine’s airway and she suffered prolonged periods with dangerously low levels of oxygen in her bloodstream. Early on n...