Leicester Medicine: the interview
A multiple mini interview. For 2026 entry, 53% of interviewees got an offer. Below: the numbers, what the interview looks for, your personal statement and SJT band, and questions to practise.
- interviewed
- 1,347
- 2026 entry
- offers
- 717
- Home school leavers with predicted grades
- of interviewees offered
- 53%
- 2026 entry
- international, offered
- 53%
- 2026 entry
- Format
- Multiple mini interview (MMI)
- From interview to offer
- About 1,400 Home interviews and 100 international. Offers go in order of interview score (out of 105) with the whole application read; the lowest interview score offered was 73 for Home applicants in 2025 and 2026. Applicants rejected after interview may reapply only if their interview score was within 5% of that year's waiting-list line, and the two interview scores are then averaged.
| Entry year | Applications | Interviewed | Share interviewed | Offers | Offers per interview |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1,743 | 1,347 | 77% | 717 | 53% |
For 2026 entry 53% of interviewees were offered a place, about 1 in 2. International applicants: 55 offers from 104 interviews for 2026 entry, 53%.
We have not added Leicester’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
Not routinely scored; read for borderline and tie-break decisions and when offers are ranked.
It does not count at the interview. Band 4 is rejected pre-interview. Bands 1 to 3 are treated alike in the 96-point score.
Questions to practise
Written by MedOffr in the style of MMI stations. None is taken from Leicester 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?
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