UCAT contextual offer

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Hi, so I was curious about how universities look at the UCAT for contextual students. I’m eligible for contextual offers in most universities, due to my school falling under the aspiring state schools, so my a level requirements might not be as high as regular offers, if I get any. I’m not too worried about that to be honest, my predicted is likely to be between A*A*A and A*A*A*, but it’s the UCAT I’m more curious about. I haven’t heard anything about UCAT scores cut offs for contextual students being different from regular students, and so I wasn’t sure if that was the case. It’s not that I want an easy way in necessarily, I was just curious to know if UCAT scores are looked at without any regard to contextual aspects. Thank you!!

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eobrien - UOS

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by Farissimo

Hi, so I was curious about how universities look at the UCAT for contextual students. I’m eligible for contextual offers in most universities, due to my school falling under the aspiring state schools, so my a level requirements might not be as high as regular offers, if I get any. I’m not too worried about that to be honest, my predicted is likely to be between A*A*A and A*A*A*, but it’s the UCAT I’m more curious about. I haven’t heard anything about UCAT scores cut offs for contextual students being different from regular students, and so I wasn’t sure if that was the case. It’s not that I want an easy way in necessarily, I was just curious to know if UCAT scores are looked at without any regard to contextual aspects. Thank you!!

Hi there,

This differs university to university. If you look under the entry requirements of each university you are applying too, you should be able to figure out what the contextual offers requirements are. Some universities will just lower grade boundaries, others you will progress direct to interview, it just depends.

Hope this helps,

Ellen
Y5 Medical Student,
Uni of Sunderland

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lilysilly_5454

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by Farissimo

Hi, so I was curious about how universities look at the UCAT for contextual students. I’m eligible for contextual offers in most universities, due to my school falling under the aspiring state schools, so my a level requirements might not be as high as regular offers, if I get any. I’m not too worried about that to be honest, my predicted is likely to be between A*A*A and A*A*A*, but it’s the UCAT I’m more curious about. I haven’t heard anything about UCAT scores cut offs for contextual students being different from regular students, and so I wasn’t sure if that was the case. It’s not that I want an easy way in necessarily, I was just curious to know if UCAT scores are looked at without any regard to contextual aspects. Thank you!!

It depends on the uni and how contextual a lot of unis do use same cutoffs sometimes to show specificity imperial lowers the ucat but exeter would allocate 5 extra points in scoring system to contextuals Nottingham only does grades nothing for ucat so literally need to look at the unis

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stilllearning123

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by Farissimo

Hi, so I was curious about how universities look at the UCAT for contextual students. I’m eligible for contextual offers in most universities, due to my school falling under the aspiring state schools, so my a level requirements might not be as high as regular offers, if I get any. I’m not too worried about that to be honest, my predicted is likely to be between A*A*A and A*A*A*, but it’s the UCAT I’m more curious about. I haven’t heard anything about UCAT scores cut offs for contextual students being different from regular students, and so I wasn’t sure if that was the case. It’s not that I want an easy way in necessarily, I was just curious to know if UCAT scores are looked at without any regard to contextual aspects. Thank you!!

As well as the above replies, depending on your context, you could get a 10% uplift in your ucat score, so look into that also.

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