UCAT Cheat Sheet 2026

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1. ● All figures in the table are in kilograms. ● 1 ml water = 1g Which of the subsequent claims is factually incorrect? → Cafés’ coffee use increased by 10% each year.
2. A cyclist covers 45 km in 1.5 hours. What is the average speed in km/h? → 30 km/h
3. Clark is 15 years old, and his younger sister is the same age as him. When Clark turns 19, how old will his sister be? → 34
4. A sequence of figures shows: 1 shape, 4 shapes, 9 shapes, 16 shapes. How many shapes appear in the 5th figure? → 25
5. A series of figures shows alternating arrow orientations: →, ←, →, ←, →... If the pattern continues, what is the orientation of the 20th arrow? → Left (←)
6. What is the value of 2³ + 4²? → 24
7. What is the series' next number? 13, 9, 14, 8, 15, → 7
8. If x + 7 = 22, what is the value of 3x? → 45
9. A jacket priced £80 is increased by 25%. What is the new price? → £100
10. What is the most common store-to-distribution-center distance? → 21 to 30 miles
11. In abstract reasoning, a 'distracter feature' is best described as: → An element included to mislead and obscure the true pattern rule
12. A map scale is 1:50,000. How many kilometres does 4 cm on the map represent? → 2 km
13. Three friends split a £126 bill equally. How much does each pay? → £42
14. A recipe for 4 people needs 600 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 10 people? → 1500 g
15. The ratio of cats to dogs in a shelter is 3:5. If there are 24 cats, how many dogs are there? → 40
16. A sequence shows shapes with an increasing number of black dots: 1 dot, 3 dots, 6 dots, 10 dots. How many dots appear in the next shape? → 15
17. If 2/5 of a number is 30, what is the number? → 75
18. A pie chart shows 90° for 'walking'. What fraction of people walk? → 1/4
19. If £500 is invested at 4% simple interest per year, how much interest is earned after 3 years? → £60
20. A rectangle has length 12 cm and width 7 cm. What is its area? → 84 cm²
21. A train travels 240 km in 3 hours. At the same speed, how far will it travel in 5 hours? → 400 km
22. A worker earns £12 per hour and works 38 hours. What is the weekly pay? → £456
23. The Hornets' budget, a premiership rugby team. How much money did the club spend in 2017–18? → £17.3875 million
24. A sequence of shapes has the following number of sides: 3, 5, 7, 9, ___. What number of sides does the next shape have? → 11
25. A car's value drops from £18,000 to £13,500. What is the percentage decrease? → 25%
26. A figure rotates 60° counter-clockwise with each step. Starting at 0° (pointing right), after 6 steps what is the total rotation? → 360°
27. A pattern alternates between open circles (○) and filled circles (●): ○, ●, ○, ●, ○... What is the 12th shape in the sequence? → Filled circle (●)
28. In Set A, all shapes are filled black. In Set B, all shapes are white (unshaded). A grey triangle is shown as a test shape. Which set does it belong to? → Neither set
29. A square has a perimeter of 36 cm. What is its area? → 81 cm²
30. In the era of the internet, have print newspapers lost their value? From the statements below, pick the one that makes the most sense. → Yes, as a result of the internet's speedy accessibility to the most recent news.