Practice Scenarios: Professional Integrity — 10 Full Worked Scenarios

This lesson presents 10 complete SJT-style scenarios with full worked answers and explanations. Each scenario focuses on professional integrity and is designed to mirror the style, difficulty, and ethical complexity you will encounter in the real UCAT SJT.

Remember: The SJT is scored in Bands 1–4 (Band 1 = best). It uses partial credit scoring, so being one step away from the correct answer scores some marks. The UCAT now has four subtests: Verbal Reasoning (VR), Decision Making (DM), Quantitative Reasoning (QR), and Situational Judgement (SJT).

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Practice Scenario 1: The Copied Assignment

Scenario

You are working on a portfolio assignment. A fellow medical student sends you their completed portfolio entry and says: "Here — use this as a template. Everyone copies bits from each other." You know that the assignment is individually assessed and that copying would constitute plagiarism.

Question (Appropriateness Format)

Rate how appropriate each action is:

Action A: Use the portfolio entry as a "template," changing some words but keeping the same structure and content.