UCAT

Current Y13 with 2 medicine offers here ! The UCAT has recently changed its system which is effective from this summer. It's an admissions test for those wanting to med and dent, it has 4 parts: Verbal reasoning, Decision making, and quantiative reasoning - each containing around 40 questions and you get a score between 300-900 for each indicudual section. The 4th part is the Situational judgement test (SJT) which gives you ethics questions and you chose the most suitable answer. This is broken down into bands (1-4). Band 4 SJT is the lowest and will mean you are automatically rejected from medicine (if you apply), Band 1 is thes best, then 2, then 3. Most unis short list (for interview) based on highest UCAT score. Each uni is different, some give points for gcse results, ucat score, sjt, predicted grades - whilst others check you have the minimum predicted grades and shortlist from ucat scores. All of this means that once you sit the exam you will have a socre and band, for example 1980, band 2. This is different to the old UCAT as there was also abstract reasoning in the first part of the test meaning the maximum score was 3600, now they have removed it the maximum score is 2700. This could be a bit confusing for the people sitting the ucat this year as all previous ucat info for ppl that got offers / interviews will be to a different marking scale (E.g for KCL people often have 3200+ which isn't even possible anhymore) Hope this helps !

Hey what was your gcse and a level and ucat results? Also what unis did you strategically applied to and got offers?

GCSE: 888888776
Predicted: AAC (+ A* EPQ)
UCAT: 2540 Band 3
Because of my predicted C I was able to apply to 2x foundation years as well. Applied to Leeds and UEA foundation year, KMMS and Sunderland standard entry. Rejected by Leeds foundation pre-interview bc UCAT too low, rejected by Sunderland bc predicteds were too low. Interview from KMMS (interviews based on your GCSE performance compared to your schools - predicted grades not looked at, at all), and UEA foundation. Offers from both UEA and KMMS. Firmed KMMS standard entry AAB, insured UEA foundtion year ABC. I really am not too fussed with a foundation year as it's no different to just reapplying the following year - just means I won't have the stress of UCAT, and interviews again. Currently on track for AAA and KMMS so hopefully exams go well !

So are you first doing foundation medicine or going straight into medicine?