Whilst the basic premise of the UMAT and the UCAT are similar, there are some fundamental changes.
StructureThe UMAT had three sections: Logical Reasoning and Problem Solving, Understanding People, and Non-verbal Reasoning. The UCAT, on the other hand, has
five sections, as follows. The numbers in brackets indicate how many questions there are per section.
1. Verbal Reasoning (44)
2. Decision Making (29)
3. Quantitative Reasoning (36)
4. Abstract Reasoning (55)
5. Situational Judgement (69)
You can find more about the time breakdown for each section
here.
LengthThe UMAT went for three hours; the UCAT is two hours long.
Actually sitting the testEverybody sat the UMAT on the same day. For the UCAT, however, you have more flexibility. In fact, testing runs for the entire month of July – from 1 July to 31 July (for 2019, at least).