An intensive, one-day BMAT preparation course run by Oxford and Cambridge medical students. Priced at just £89.
LEARN MOREREGISTERWe'll take you on a rollercoaster ride through all 3 sections of the BMAT, leaving no stone unturned.
You'll get our handbook, containing notes covering the entire BMAT Science syllabus for you to revise from.
All our instructors are current medical students at Oxbridge, with years of teaching experience behind them.
You'll learn practical techniques for all 3 sections to save you precious time on test-day.
Our worked solutions to BMAT past papers will show you the most efficient thought process behind each question.
Our instructors will be happy to help with anything from BMAT and UKCAT to personal statement and interviews.
We’re going to take you on a rollercoaster ride through the 3 sections of the BMAT. We won’t ask you to do practice papers while you’re with us – you can do those in your own time. Instead, we’ll work through the different types of questions, teaching you methods and systems to use for most of them, and helping you develop the intuition needed for the rest.
Your primary goal in BMAT preparation should be to work through the problems as accurately and (perhaps even more importantly), as QUICKLY as possible. Anyone could get 100% if they had 4 hours, but the true test of the BMAT is in the timing. That’s what we’re going to help you with. We’ll teach you practical methods and systems to get you through section 1, we’ll teach you all the science you need to know to ace section 2, and we’ll work with you to maximise your section 3 essay score, both on the day and via email afterwards. You’ll find a more detailed breakdown of exactly what we do on the course below.
``The BMAT Crash Course was the best preparation possible for the exam. The teaching and resources were absolutely amazing, and made me understand exactly what I needed to do to succeed. The course was far cheaper than it should have been, and I can honestly say that the teachers (themselves Oxbridge medical students) were inspirational. If you're taking the BMAT, you need to go on this course.`` - Zeeshan (Offer from Churchill College, Cambridge)
Although this section is notoriously difficult to prepare for, we’ll be taking you through some of the more difficult questions in each category, and teaching you the best methods for dealing with them. Sure, some of them will involve pure number crunching, but there’s usually a shortcut to the right answer, and the “trick” to doing well in this section (and indeed, the whole paper) is to find that shortcut in the time given. That’s what we’re aiming to teach you.
This section is all about using your knowledge of Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Maths to beat the clock that only gives you a minute per question. On the course, we’ll be teaching you all the Physics you need to know for the BMAT (as most don’t do it at AS), and also going through some of the more difficult Biology and Chemistry questions that always come up. You’ll also get our excellent handbook which contains comprehensive notes on all the topics for you to revise from.
In the final hour of the course, we’ll be going through some past essay questions, and talking you through how to plan and structure your essays, how to write the perfect introduction and conclusion, and most importantly, how to ensure you meet any cut-off points that universities impose. This is arguably the easiest and least important section of the BMAT, so it’s a nice way to end an otherwise intense and exhausting day.
Our Course Handbook (which every attendant gets a free copy of) was universally praised by our students, both in terms of its usefulness and clarity. Last year, it took the form of a 150-page spiral-bound document, and contained revision notes for Biology and Physics, along with example questions to illustrate the concepts. It also had worked solutions and explanations to all BMAT past papers from 2009-2012 (sections 1 and 2) – students found these especially helpful when it came to doing past papers themselves, as they were able to see what the most efficient method was for solving the problems they struggled with.
Our updated 2014 handbook contains all of the above, but in addition (thanks to the feedback from our students), it now also contains a set of comprehensive Chemistry notes and examples for the topics that always come up in BMAT – mole calculations, percentage yields, chemical formulae, balancing equations, reactivity series, etc. We’ve also added a “Guide to Section 1″ that has tips, methods and practice questions (different to those we go over on the course) for critical thinking and problem solving. And finally, we’ve got worked solutions to the latest 2013 paper as well. You can view a sample of our Science notes (Physics – Electricity) and the explanations to the 2012 Section 1 paper in the “Resources” section of this website (or by clicking the links).
We’ve teamed up with Cambridge international medical students from Singapore to create a custom BMAT Crash Course programme, which will run in Singapore City on Saturday 27th September 2014. The course will be priced at $150 (SGD) per student.
2014 was the first year that Leiden University required students to take the BMAT for entrance into its Bachelor Programme of Medicine. In light of the fact that there weren’t any BMAT preparation courses available in Holland, we teamed up with current students at Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum (LUMC) to run the country’s very first BMAT Crash Course.
The BMAT exam took place on 8th March 2014 in Leiden, the Netherlands, and our BMAT Course ran successfully on Saturday 15th February 2014. We had a blast travelling to Leiden and exploring the nearby cities, and feedback from our students was overwhelmingly positive. We’ll definitely be running another course in 2015, so if you’re a prospective medical student applying to LUMC that year, we’ll have more information for you in January 2015 – please check back then!
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We’re a team of medical students (and friends) from some of the UK’s top universities. Our company (Crash Courses) started up in 2013 with a simple mission – to provide the most effective and yet most affordable exam preparation courses on the market, and to “level the playing field” warped by corporations profiting from the exploitation of budding medical students. Please visit the About Us page to find out more about our story and our company.
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