Pre-assessment day scoring process

How we score your application.

The academic portion of each application to our Medicine programme is scored independently by two members of the Admissions Team. The academic scores outlined in the table below are doubled, to provide an academic score out of a total of 20 points. The academic portion of each application constitutes 25% of the overall application score.

Once the academic part of an application is scored, we await confirmation of each applicant's UCAT total score and Situational Judgement Test banding directly from UCAT. These are weighted separately, with the UCAT total score awarding 17.5% of the total application score and the SJT banding awarding 7.5%. Applicants who are awarded Band 4 in the SJT or whose UCAT total score falls below our cut-off score for that cycle are removed from the selection process (with the exception of Plus Flag applicants, who are exempt from the UCAT total score cut-off).

The total of these three components (50% of the overall application score) is used to shortlist for invitations to our Assessment Day (per fee category). The Assessment Day (Interview) score provides the final 50% of the overall application score. This final overall score is then used to shortlist for offers (also per fee category).

The tables below show our current academic scoring guidelines for our most common UK qualifications.

SQA applicants (school leavers)

Our only requirements at Nat 5 are Bs in the four required subjects as stated.  However, if these requirements are not met but the same subject is being taken at Higher, we will still consider the application and it will not be rejected from the process.  If however, this required subject is not being taken at Higher, the application would be processed as unsuccessful.

SQA (school leavers) bypassing National 5s

GCE A level applicants (school leavers)

* References would be checked for school policy issues which impact on qualifications and combinations available. If less than 8 GCSEs are taken overall and this was the applicant’s school policy, proportional scoring would be used.

* Our only requirements at I/GCSE are A/7 in the four required subjects as stated.  If these requirements are not met but the same subject is being taken at A Level, we will still consider the application and it will not be rejected from the process.  If however, this required subject is not being taken at A Level, the application would be processed as unsuccessful.

* One BTEC National Extended Certificate/Cambridge Technical/AQA Level 3 Extended Certificate in an approved subject stated on our webpages can be accepted in lieu of an A Level but NOT to replace a required subject with the exception of BTEC National Extended Certificate in Applied Human Biology which can replace A Level Biology/Human Biology.  BTEC in Biology will not be accepted alongside A Level Biology/Human Biology. (BTEC qualifications are awarded with three mandatory results eg DDD – applicants are required to meet our standard requirements in each component).

International Baccalaureate

We check that SL requirements or equivalent are met however these will not be used directly for scoring purposes.

Maths is classed as a science for scoring purposes – we accept both streams: analysis & approaches and applications & interpretations.