Becoming a Vet in Italy: What to study to prepare for the veterinary medicine test?
What to study to prepare for the veterinary medicine test in Italy? How to do it at your best? What about animal science tests?
What are the differences? Which programme should I study?
Many many questions. But here you can also find a lot of answers
Let’s start with the Veterinary med test.
What to study for the Veterinary medicine test?
Also read: Veterinary medicine university in Italy
Becoming a Vet: the test
The test is a limited entry.
It is comparable to that for medicine and other university courses for the health professions.
For example, it is also very similar to the Biotechnology test, a limited number course which in the first year covers a program very similar to veterinary and medicine.
In addition, it is good to know that in some universities a certificate of English levels is required or a language standard test is taken.
Among the other thousand resources, I found a fun guide to the veterinary test: go and see it here. Frank and funny, I liked it.
The veterinary medicine test consists of:
- 6 maths and phisics questions
- 16 chemistry,
- 16 biology,
- 20 logics,
- 2 general knowledge.
In short, know that the “scientific” questions cover similar math, chemistry, biology, physics programs that are also required in the final exams of any scientific high school.
The detailed programme is available here.
Regarding logic questions, on the other side, it is only (or almost) necessary to practice.
The best advice I can give you is to read carefully (and re-read at least twice) all the questions, as they are often complex and sometimes even tricky.
Perfect exercise for any veterinarian, including technicians and assistants: when you have to interpret the strange questions of your future clients this will come in handy.
Let’s see now what there is to know about the test to enter the Animal Science course.
Read How to become a veterinary nurse in Italy
What is the structure of the test?
First of all, considering that in general, it is uniform for all L38degree courses.
So the same for agriculture, animal livestock, animal sciences, and so on.
Furthermore, it is called an aptitude test and the course does not have a defined number of participants.
What does it mean?
If you get a low score in the questions on a particular topic, you are asked to supplement your preparation with courses, before starting the university path. Essentially, the university wants to standardize the preparation of students as best as possible, so as to be able to get off with all the new specific subjects!
But don’t worry, in general, you will be allowed to attend, whatever your outcome.
The structure:
- 8 biology questions,
- 8 chemistry,
- 8 maths,
- 8 phisics,
- 8 logics,
- 10 textcomprehension.
Degree courses for veterinary nurses in Italy
Differences
The difference between the entrance test for veterinary medicine and animal sciences is that the result of the second one does not determine participation in the university course.
The programmes vary slightly and the main difference can be seen in the difficulty of the questions, but not in their articulation (as I told you, rereading them is essential!).
And then, to be honest, the questions of general knowledge and logic require the same level of reasoning, if we don’t want to say of ❤.
What to study to prepare for the veterinary medicine test in Italy
The best way to prepare for the test is to practice the quizzes. Only by answering a lot of them will you be able to quickly understand the type of question and assimilate the most requested concepts.
And above all, knowing how to easily discard certainly false answers.
In this, it can be essential to use a manual such as Alpha Test.
I’ve been through it too, and believe me, they are a guarantee.
The principal advantage, which I always share with all those who ask me why I recommend it so strongly, is that the volumes (and in general all their resources – I speak later on private or online lessons, for example) are built in such a way as to prepare students to pass the test, which, unfortunately, is not just academic preparation.
At this link you can find the Alpha Testoffer and all the support they offer.
Alpha Test offers a volume to study all these topics just mentioned and a volume to practice on all past editions and more (very useful!)
In this way, you will be able to practice the logics questions that everyone hates, and above all begin to understand how they are asked through real examples.
Together with the professors, it also offers private lessons, always following the educational method offered in their volumes.
They have also recently introduced an online platform which I believe is the turning point for us digital natives.
Having good notes on the programs carried out in the last year of high school is also very advantageous. Often reviewing your exercises and notes makes linking much easier and the review will be lightning fast.
Conclusion
Bottom line, if you want to enter one of these veterinary and medicine faculties, the best way to prepare for the test is to practice with the alpha tests.
Reviewing the programs of the last year of high school can also be helpful.