Bristol Medicine: the interview
A multiple mini interview (six stations online, about 30 minutes). For 2025 entry, 90% of interviewees got an offer. Below: the numbers, what the interview looks for, your personal statement and SJT band, and questions to practise.
- interviewed
- 832
- 2025 entry
- offers
- 749
- Home applicants
- of interviewees offered
- 90%
- 2025 entry
- international, offered
- 64%
- 2025 entry
- Format
- Multiple mini interview (MMI) · Six stations online, about 30 minutes
- When
- For 2026 entry, interviews ran from December 2025 to February 2026, on Zoom.
- In detail
- Six stations online, about 30 minutes in all. Each station is assessed by three assessors, so you see six in total, in two groups of three, each marking three stations.
- How it is scored
- The three assessors' scores make each station's score, and the six station scores make your interview score.
Share of interviewees offered a place, 2023 to 2025 entry
Offers divided by interviews each year, Home applicants. Hover or tab to a year for the counts.
| Value | Detail | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 entry | 59% | 591 offers from 1,001 interviews |
| 2024 entry | 70% | 618 offers from 881 interviews |
| 2025 entry | 90% | 749 offers from 832 interviews |
Offers outnumber places, because not everyone offered accepts or meets the conditions; this is the share offered, not the share who get a place.
| Entry year | Applications | Interviewed | Share interviewed | Offers | Offers per interview |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1,571 | 1,001 | 64% | 591 | 59% |
| 2024 | 1,284 | 881 | 69% | 618 | 70% |
| 2025 | 1,416 | 832 | 59% | 749 | 90% |
For 2025 entry 90% of interviewees were offered a place, 20 points up on 2024. Across the 3 years shown, 72% of interviewees were offered. International applicants: 87 offers from 135 interviews for 2025 entry, 64%. Bristol's two FOI responses differ slightly for 2025 entry (752 Home offers in one, 749 in the other); this uses the one the finder reads.
We have not added Bristol’s own description of what its interview assesses yet. MMI interviews generally test motivation for medicine, communication, ethical reasoning, teamwork and what you learnt from work experience; the questions below cover each.
Tie-breaker only
Used only to separate applicants tied on UCAT; it does not lift a score under the line.
It does not count at the interview. The SJT is not used at any stage, so a Band 4 is not a rejection here.
Questions to practise
Written by MedOffr in the style of MMI stations. None is taken from Bristol or claimed to have been asked there.
01 · Motivation
Why medicine, rather than nursing, pharmacy or becoming a physician associate?
02 · Ethics
A 15-year-old asks a GP for contraception and does not want her parents told. What should the GP weigh up?
03 · Role play
You borrowed a friend's laptop and it has stopped working. The actor is your friend: tell them.
04 · Data
This table shows A&E waiting times at two hospitals over a year. What can and can't you conclude from it?
05 · Teamwork
Tell us about a time a group you were part of was not working well. What did you do, and what would you change?
06 · Work experience
What did you see on your work experience that surprised you about a doctor's job?
07 · The NHS
What is one pressure on the NHS at the moment, and what would you do about it?
Where this comes from
- Bristol's interview pages for 2026 entry, supplied by the site owner on 9 October 2026.
Compiled 9 October 2026. The figures are reproduced as tables and charts so nothing has to be downloaded. Check Bristol’s current pages before you apply; they win if anything here differs.
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