Medify vs MedEntry: UK prices, practice and mock-score limits
For short UK access, both providers currently list a £15 one-week option and a £30 option around a month. Medify bills its monthly subscription at £30 per month; MedEntry lists 30 days at £30. These are different access terms, not evidence that the teaching is equivalent. Try official free practice first, then compare sample explanations and the exact expiry or renewal terms.
Radiocarbon dating
Living things take in carbon throughout their lives, including a small amount of a radioactive form, carbon-14. When an organism dies, it stops taking in carbon, and its carbon-14 slowly decays at a known rate. By measuring how much carbon-14 remains in a piece of wood, bone or cloth, scientists can estimate how long ago the organism died.
The method has limits. After about fifty thousand years, too little carbon-14 remains to measure reliably, so older material cannot be dated this way. The amount of carbon-14 in the atmosphere has also varied over time, so raw results must be calibrated against records of known age, such as tree rings counted year by year.
Contamination is a further risk. A sample that has absorbed newer carbon, for example from groundwater or from careless handling, will appear younger than it really is. Laboratories therefore clean samples carefully and often date several samples from the same site.
Archaeologists also stress that the method dates the death of the organism, not the use of the object. A beam cut from an old tree, or reused from an earlier building, may give a date earlier than the building in which it was found.
Statement: A beam reused from an older building could make the building it was found in seem older than it is.
Worked answers
1. Statement: A beam reused from an older building could make the building it was found in seem older than it is.
Answer: A: True
- The method dates when the tree died, “not the use of the object”.
- A reused beam “may give a date earlier than the building in which it was found”: True.
2. All shortlisted applicants submitted a portfolio. No applicant who submitted late was shortlisted. At least one applicant who submitted a portfolio submitted late. For each statement, answer Yes only if it necessarily follows; otherwise answer No. Treat only the stated facts as certain.
Answer: At least one portfolio applicant was not shortlisted: Yes. Everyone who submitted on time was shortlisted: No. No shortlisted applicant submitted late: Yes. At least one shortlisted applicant exists: No. Every portfolio applicant was shortlisted: No
- The shortlist is a subset of portfolio applicants and excludes late applicants.
- An existing late portfolio applicant is therefore outside the shortlist; no shortlist member is guaranteed.
3. What percentage of all parcels were delivered in B? Give your answer to 1 decimal place.
Answer: A: 27.3%
- The relevant quantities are 360 and 1320.
- 360 ÷ 1320 × 100 = 27.2727%.
- Select 27.3%.
4. How appropriate is the following action? Pause use of the slide and ask the tutor to clarify permission before it is shown.
Answer: A: A very appropriate thing to do
- This prevents an uncertain use of the photograph.
- It obtains appropriate guidance without making an accusation.
Published UK prices checked 24 September 2026
| Provider and product | Published price in GBP | Access wording on the source |
|---|---|---|
| Medify weekly | £15 | Per week |
| Medify monthly | £30 | Billed per month |
| Medify yearly | £210 | Billed per year |
| MedEntry Essential | £15 / £25 / £30 / £55 | 7 / 14 / 30 / 60 days respectively |
| MedEntry Essential season | £65 | 2026 season package; future test years use a separate Headstart route |
Check the currency, access end date, renewal and cancellation terms before paying. MedEntry labels these packages for 2026.
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What the public descriptions establish
| Provider | What is advertised | What this does not establish |
|---|---|---|
| Medify paid plans | Practice explanations, mock exams with estimated scores and analytics | How accurately an individual mock predicts your official result |
| MedEntry Essential | Online platform, video curriculum and skills trainers | Whether a particular explanation suits your reasoning gap |
Provider feature descriptions are claims about their products, not evidence of official endorsement or comparative effectiveness. Open a sample and compare how each explains the same kind of mistake. Do not decide from the largest question count or a testimonial alone.
Is Medify harder than MedEntry or the real UCAT?
We have not independently calibrated their mocks against the live test. A forum report about mock 10 or a single candidate’s score cannot establish a general conversion. Paper content, timing, prior exposure and the candidate’s strengths can all change a practice result. The official UCAT practice page says its own tests do not provide a scaled score.
Worked example Compare the next action, not an invented prediction
A student gets a lower estimated score on one provider and a higher estimate on another. On both, they miss questions by reversing an implication. Which evidence should guide the next session?
Why this works: The repeated reasoning error is actionable across both attempts. Practise implication direction on fresh questions, then retest under comparable conditions. Preserve each provider’s estimate with its source and form name.
Why the tempting route fails: Averaging the two estimates or adding an arbitrary adjustment creates a prediction without calibration. Buying another bank does not itself repair the repeated mistake.
A practical purchase checklist
- Try the official tutorials and a fresh practice set before paying.
- Identify one recurring obstacle and test a provider’s sample explanation against it.
- Count how many study sessions remain before your booked test and choose access covering those dates.
- Check whether the feedback you want is included in the selected tier, and whether it comes from a person or software.
- Save the terms you accepted and check cancellation or renewal requirements. Do not assume access ends automatically.
If the free materials already let you diagnose and repair errors, keep using them. If you need extra structured practice, choose on demonstrated usefulness and affordable total cost.