BMAT, UKCAT help!

Okay, i decided to investigate today whether specific universities had 'cut off' scores i.e. below a certain score the candidate wouldn't be looked at.

However, after looking at the university sites and actually phoning admissions i found that Edinburgh and Southampton don't have UKCAT cut off scores and also Cambridge and Oxford don't as well.

So i was wondering whether this is just the universities way of not telling potential candidates too much about the screening process or whether they just didn't like me and they infact do have cut off points lol

Thanks

Barts has a published cut-off point. EDIT: I thought they did but I can't find it on their website.

i thought they had it on their website but dont seem to find it. i remember when I rang the lady said that it varied every year but the year before (2007) it was 2400. i had 2390 and got an offer but last years UKCAT was very messed up so i dont know what it was really.

Yeah, I reckon it used to be there and they've taken it off?

maybe we are ancient and they dont have a cut-off score anymore

Cambridge don't take anyone with a low BMAT score. (Not yet seen anyone who's got in with less than 22)

I have.

Oo, really?? What score did you get?

Sorry, that was 'I have seen people who've got in with less...', not 'I got in with less..'.

I did get in, with a score above 22, but I have a friend who also got in with a score just below 22.

I mean, 5,5,9 which UCL have is not very high, and that's 19.

I'm taking it you haven't done the BMAT yet then...you'll think differently once you've sat the exam. (5,5,9 is the median mark, and everyone sitting the exam is applying to Oxford, Cambridge, UCL, Imperial or the RVC, so the academic calibre is high). At my school, three of us applied to Cam Medicine. We all got in, and none of us had scores in the first section above 7, or essays above 12. (Just to give you an idea, achieving a score of 7.5 in the second section would put you in approximately the 95th percentile).

In my opinion, very few applicants will have scores over 26. I'm reckoning the figure is a complete guess on your part?!

You sussed me out lol. Nahh, I was basing it on the fact that the max score is 9,9,15 which is 33. So 19 can't be that high, but it seems high now after what you said lol