How hard is it to do well in the BMAT and get into Cambridge, Medicine?

Hello! I really want to get into Cambridge to do Medicine, does anyone have any tips on getting in and how to do well in UCAT? What is the cut off score?
Also, is it possible to get a scholarship??
Thanks!!

Hello! I really want to get into Cambridge to do Medicine, does anyone have any tips on getting in and how to do well in UCAT? What is the cut off score?
Also, is it possible to get a scholarship??
Thanks!!

Very hard as BMAT is no longer being used. It is UCAT now.

Hey! Here are my UCAT tips as someone who got 3400 B2 last year. A lot of this probably won't make much sense until your actually getting ready to prep for the real thing, which should be somewhere between 4 and 8 weeks before you sit it.
Start off doing untimed practice questions for the first week or so to get yourself used to the question types before you try a mock. You might want to try a mock as the first thing you do, which isn't a bad idea, but don't get too bogged down with your result because everyone is rubbish first time round. I think I got 1900 on my first one! Look at how they are scored as well. For example, it's much better to spend the last 20 seconds guessing your remaining unanswered questions than finishing the question you're on.
Basically, do lots of practice questions. Make a point of looking through the solutions to any questions you get wrong. Especially AR & SJT. Literally all the mocks have the same layout as the actual exams so doing full mocks is a great way to familiarise yourself with exactly how the test will go.
VR: there are basically two ways you can do this. What I did was to immediately read through the passage and then do the questions after I had fully read through. The other way is to check the first question and skim through to find the paragraph you think you can find the information in, then thoroughly read that paragraph to get the answer. The second method works best if you are a slower reader but is not as reliable because some of the questions are trying to trip you up by mentioning something twice in slightly different ways. Don't panic. Literally no one finishes VR. It's probably the tightest section for time because of all the long passages. Don't worry about guessing a couple of the passages, especially if you can see that it is a significantly longer passage than the others, because the shorter passages are worth the same number of points anyway, so you might skip past a long one to spend more time on shorter passages.
DM: don't be worried about drawing everything out. If there is anyone out there that does DM completely in their head, they are crazy. Also, spot the ones that take you the longest. They will always be in the same place in the group of questions, so you can easily spot them, flag them and save them for the end if you have any extra time.
QR: write every single number you've calculated on your notepad. Chances are, if it's a part of a group of questions, that number will be needed again. If you wrote it down, you won't need to do all the working again. Obviously don't "show all your working", my page in the exam just had random numbers anywhere I could make space. Once again, if you notice there's a type of question you hate (for me it was the business-y graphs!) flag and save it for the end.
AR: get as many practice questions done as possible to familiarise yourself with the most common patterns. If you keep working at it, you'll eventually be able to make a good guess at what the pattern will be just by looking at the shapes present. For example, anything with lines is going to be no. of lines or no. of intersects. You can then quickly check and whiz through that set. Also a very tight section so don't worry about missing a set if you can't figure it out.
SJT: you've probably figured this out by now, but this is nowhere near as time pressured as the other sections. Read the statements carefully and get practice. You'll notice things like lying is always very inappropriate. I found especially at the start, it felt like what I thought was the right answer was probably not exactly what I would actually do in that situation especially the ones involving professional or personal relationships. Med schools are obviously aware of this, but they think it's important to know if you know what you should do even if it might not be exactly what you would do.
Good luck!

There isn't a cutoff score but unless you have really great extenuating circumstances then applying with anything less than 2700 is pointless and anything less than 3000 you would have to be pretty lucky to get an interview.