Plymouth Medicine: the interview
A multiple mini interview. For 2025 entry, 67% of interviewees got an offer. Below: the numbers, what the interview looks for, your personal statement and SJT band, and questions to practise.
- interviewed
- 834
- 2025 entry
- offers
- 559
- Home applicants
- of interviewees offered
- 67%
- 2025 entry
- Format
- Multiple mini interview (MMI)
- From interview to offer
- MMI. Offers follow interview performance; about 150 Home places.
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 | 51% | 334 offers from 660 interviews |
| 2024 entry | 55% | 376 offers from 680 interviews |
| 2025 entry | 67% | 559 offers from 834 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 | 1,338 | 660 | 49% | 334 | 51% |
| 2024 | 769 | 680 | 88% | 376 | 55% |
| 2025 | 1,101 | 834 | 76% | 559 | 67% |
For 2025 entry 67% of interviewees were offered a place, 12 points up on 2024. Across the 3 years shown, 58% of interviewees were offered.
We have not added Plymouth’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.
Not scored
Not assessed.
It does not count at the interview. Plymouth states it does not assess the SJT band, and no band is automatically rejected.
Questions to practise
Written by MedOffr in the style of MMI stations. None is taken from Plymouth 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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