Mathematical thinking
- Reading graphs
- Interpreting formulas
- Simultaneous equations
- Orders of magnitude
- Ratios and proportion
- Numerical reasoning in everyday settings
The Scientific Thinking bank
6,000 practice questions for the ten Scientific Thinking questions that open the HUMAT, in 100 sets of 60, each with a worked solution.
- 6,000
- questions
- 100
- sets of 60
- 53
- question families
Why Scientific Thinking
The ten questions that open the exam.
Section SA begins with ten Scientific Thinking questions: short, everyday scenarios that each ask for one precise inference. They need no specialist knowledge, but the formats are unfamiliar and the 45 minutes are shared with ten Academic Literacy questions.
| Programme | Right | Wrong | Blank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine & Surgery | +22 | −5.5 | 0 |
| MEDTEC | +10 | −2.5 | 0 |
For Medicine & Surgery, no section is worth more per question than SA.
Three areas
The three areas of the syllabus.
The 2026 syllabus divides Scientific Thinking into mathematical, procedural and visual thinking. The bank’s 53 question families cover all three.
Procedural thinking
- Algorithms and flow charts
- Sets and overlapping criteria
- Concept maps
- Conditional rules
- Filtering by several rules
- Tables of options against constraints
Visual thinking
- Rotation in three dimensions
- Cube nets and folded cubes
- Mirror images
- Complementary shapes
- Visual patterns
- Shape transformations and spatial constraints
How a set works
Sets of 60, reviewed question by question.
Sets open in Vettamed Desktop. When you submit, every question opens with its worked solution, and the questions you missed join your review queue.
How review worksTry eight questions to the same standard.
The free calibration is eight timed Scientific Thinking questions at exam pace, each with a worked solution. 18 minutes, no account needed.