UEA Medicine: the interview
A multiple mini interview. For 2025 entry, 86% of interviewees got an offer. Below: the numbers, what the interview looks for, your personal statement and SJT band, and questions to practise.
- interviewed
- 699
- 2025 entry
- offers
- 599
- Home applicants
- of interviewees offered
- 86%
- 2025 entry
- Format
- Multiple mini interview (MMI)
- From interview to offer
- No cut-off: a high score is an advantage and a low one does not disqualify. The overall UCAT total ranks applicants for interview, and after interview the UCAT and interview scores together rank for offers. The SJT is folded into the 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 | 73% | 452 offers from 622 interviews |
| 2024 entry | 84% | 539 offers from 638 interviews |
| 2025 entry | 86% | 599 offers from 699 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 | 1,688 | 622 | 37% | 452 | 73% |
| 2024 | 1,139 | 638 | 56% | 539 | 84% |
| 2025 | 1,012 | 699 | 69% | 599 | 86% |
For 2025 entry 86% of interviewees were offered a place, 1 points up on 2024. Across the 3 years shown, 81% of interviewees were offered.
We have not added UEA’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.
Read with the application
Read, but not assessed or scored in any way.
It counts at or after the interview. No band is rejected and the SJT is not used before interview; it is folded into the interview score.
Questions to practise
Written by MedOffr in the style of MMI stations. None is taken from UEA 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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