2026 and 2027 entry42 schoolsFinal 2026 deciles

Your UCAT, against every line actually published.

Two decisions, not one: the cognitive total sets which schools are reachable, and the rules schools out or costs you points. A school’s is where last year’s ranking stopped, not a promise for this one. Switch between them below. For a verdict that weighs both against your grades, GCSEs and contextual indicators, use the school finder.

Key dates this cycle

15 October at 18:00: UCAS deadline for Medicine, 6pm (UCAS, opens in a new tab)
Week of 1 November: UCAT results reach your universities (UCAT, opens in a new tab)

Interview dates vary by school; each school’s page has its own.

Read for a UK applicant on the standard route. Applying as an international student? Switch: schools set different lines for you, so the bands are different too.

schools with a line: 16; published, or confirmed under FOI
schools read: 42; that use the UCAT; 2 international only
score bands: 18; one page each, with every verdict
publish no figure: 22; read against what they did release

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Read this before you use any figure on the page

A cut-off is not set in advance. With three exceptions below, every figure here is where a ranking stopped once that year’s applications were in. It moves with the number and quality of applicants, so last year’s line is a guide, never a promise. Schools say so themselves.
Only 16 of the 42 schools have a confirmed figure at all. The rest either rank by decile within the year’s applicants, score the UCAT against GCSEs and grades, or have released nothing on the current scale. A school missing from these tables is not an easier one. Buckingham and Greater Manchester (formerly Bolton) do not use the UCAT for 2027 entry, so they are not counted here. Hertfordshire and St Mary's, Twickenham are counted but marked international only: they take only international students for 2027 entry, so a UK applicant cannot apply there this cycle.
Every figure is on the current scale out of 2,700. Abstract Reasoning was removed in 2025, so a cut-off quoted out of 3,600 anywhere else is not comparable with these.
Read the row for your own group. Scottish, rest-of-UK, international and contextual applicants are ranked separately at most schools, and the figures differ by hundreds of points.
The deciles here are final for the 2026 test, and about 30 higher than 2025’s. That is why the finder reads each school against where we expect its line to fall this cycle, not only where it fell last time. Those are our readings, marked as such.
The UCAT is one part of an application. An SJT band, A-level subjects and GCSE minimums rule people out independently of the score.

Published minimums for 2027 entry

3 schools

Published in advance: below it the application is not considered. Clearing it is the start, not the end. Only three schools publish one on the current scale; everywhere else the line appears after the cycle.

School	Rest-of-UK applicant	By group	What the figure is
Edinburgh	1,850	All applicants 1,850	Published minimum — Above it applicants are ranked into deciles and scored, so 2,100+ is the practical target. SJT Band 4 is rejected.
Sheffield	1,800	All applicants 1,800	Published minimum — Access to Sheffield and recognised pathway applicants are interviewed from this floor; everyone else is ranked, and the 2026 ranking stopped at 2,120.
Keele	1,700	Home 1,700 · International 1,950	Published minimum — Above the floor the total only sets your quintile, worth 5 of the 25 shortlisting points; the personal statement is worth 15.

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Where the line fell for 2026 entry

14 figures

Where the ranking stopped in that cycle. Set after applications closed, so it moves with the next cohort. Rows marked “lowest score invited” are not thresholds at all: they are the lowest total that actually reached an interview, so someone was simply the last one in.

School	Rest-of-UK applicant	By group	What the figure is
Imperial	2,320	Home 2,320 · Home, contextual 2,170 · International 2,310	Where the line fell — For 2025 entry the line was 3,020 out of 3,600, at about the same place among that year's candidates (about the 96th percentile), so a score only just over it is not safe.
Bristol	2,240	Home 2,240 · International 2,270	Where the line fell — Shortlisting is UCAT alone, so 2,280 or more is the safer target.
UCL	2,190	Home 2,190 · Access UCL 2,080 · International 2,300	Where the line fell — The SJT band separates tied scores.
Sheffield	2,120	Home 2,120 · International 2,070	Where the line fell — Sheffield calls this its ranking cutpoint. Everyone must also clear the 1,800 floor below; pathway applicants are interviewed from it.
Manchester	2,060	Home 2,060 · WP+ (widening participation) 1,960 · International 2,250	Where the line fell — Aim above 2,100 to be safe. SJT Bands 3 and 4 are both rejected.
Anglia Ruskin	2,010	Standard, no uplift 2,010 · East of England 1,960 · Essex, or widening access (WAMS) 1,920 · East of England and WAMS 1,870 · Essex and WAMS 1,830	Where the line fell — The lower figures are raw scores that are uplifted before ranking, so they all land near 2,010.
Glasgow	1,990	Rest of UK 1,990 · Scottish 1,870 · International 2,150	Where the line fell
Brighton and Sussex (BSMS)	1,990	Home 1,990 · Home, contextual all invited · International 1,990	Where the line fell — At 1,990 the SJT band was the tie-break (Band 1). A Band 4 is rejected from 2027 entry.
Liverpool	1,960	Home 1,960 · International 2,080	Where the line fell
Lancaster	1,920	Home 1,920 · Home, contextual 1,870 · International 1,900	Where the line fell — A borderline pool up to 10 below was also interviewed, in order of academic performance.
Leeds	1,900	Home 1,900 · Home, widening participation 1,810 · International 2,020	Lowest score invited — There is no pre-set cut-off: academics and UCAT are combined, and Leeds refuses to publish the point values.
City St George's, University of London	1,880	Home 1,880 · International 1,640	Where the line fell — At least 500 in each section is required as well as the total.
Aberdeen	1,720	Rest of UK 1,720 · Scottish 1,700 · International 1,730	Lowest score invited — The average rest-of-UK interviewee had 1,990.
St Andrews	1,640	Rest of UK 1,640 · Scottish and home funded 1,500 · International 1,710	Lowest score invited — Widening-participation applicants get a 10% uplift before the ranking, so the raw score behind a figure can be lower.

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Reading the groups

Every row uses these terms. The large figure in each row is the one a UK school leaver on the standard route should read.

Home: A UK applicant on the school's standard route, outside any contextual scheme.
Rest of UK: At a Scottish school, an applicant from England, Wales or Northern Ireland: the row most readers here want.
All applicants: One figure for everyone, whatever their fee status or background.
Standard, no uplift: Anglia Ruskin raises some groups' scores before ranking; this is the line for everyone it does not.
Scottish: At a Scottish school, an applicant living in Scotland, who is often read against a lower figure.
International: An applicant paying international fees.
Contextual, widening participation and named schemes: A lower line for applicants who meet that school's own criteria. The university checks eligibility itself, so the row applies only if it agrees you qualify.

Final 2026 UCAT deciles, and how they moved

What percentile is your score?

Your 2026 UCAT total, out of 2,700

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An estimate from UCAT’s final 2026 decile boundaries, so it can differ slightly from UCAT’s own figure, most at the ends of the scale. For the exact percentile, use UCAT’s percentile lookup. Some universities rank you against their own applicants instead.

UCAT’s final figures for the 2026 test, the one you sat for 2027 entry. Every decile on this site is now read against them. The preliminary boundaries published on 13 September 2026 are kept beside them, and so is 2025, the test last cycle’s lines were drawn on. The score shown is the one at each decile rank: the 1st is the 10th percentile, the 9th the 90th.

Decile	2026 final	2026 preliminary	2025 final	Change on 2025
1st	1,590	1,630	1,580	+10
2nd	1,700	1,750	1,680	+20
3rd	1,780	1,840	1,760	+20
4th	1,850	1,910	1,820	+30
5th	1,920	1,980	1,880	+40
6th	1,980	2,040	1,950	+30
7th	2,050	2,110	2,010	+40
8th	2,140	2,190	2,100	+40
9th	2,250	2,300	2,220	+30

A score above the 9th decile (2,250) is in the 10th. The final boundaries came out 40 to 60 lower than the preliminary ones, so your final decile may be one higher than the preliminary table showed.

What the final deciles mean for your four

The deciles are about 30 higher than last year’s. The rise is 10 at the 1st decile and 40 through the middle and upper deciles, so the same score sits lower in the field this year than it did last year.

Higher deciles do not mean you cannot apply to the schools with high UCAT lines. They mean there is more risk in doing so.

A school with a high cut-off attracts a higher proportion of students with high scores. Applicants who know they clear the lines at Imperial, Bristol or UCL are more likely to apply there, so those schools’ applicant pools are made up of higher UCAT scores. Their lines are drawn by ranking that pool, so with more high scorers in it the ranking stops higher, and the cut-off rises.

That is not a reason not to apply. It is a reason to be careful: nobody knows this year’s cut-offs until the cycle is over, so pick your four to get four interviews from four choices, not to apply to the places you would most like to go and hope.

Studying somewhere you want to be matters, but it means nothing if that school does not interview you. Put getting four interviews ahead of applying to a high-risk school simply because you want to study there.

Where we expect each school’s line to fall this cycle is in the next section, and the finder reads every score against it.

The subtests, 2026 against 2025

Decile	VR	DM	QR
1st	500	520	530(+10)
2nd	540	560	580(+10)
3rd	560	590	600(+10)
4th	580	620(+10)	640(+10)
5th	600	640(+10)	670(+20)
6th	620	670(+20)	700(+20)
7th	640	690(+20)	730(+20)
8th	670	710(+10)	780(+30)
9th	710(+10)	760(+20)	820

In brackets, the change on 2025 where there is one.

SJT bands, 2026

Band	Share of candidates
Band 1	15%
Band 2	40%
Band 3	34%
Band 4	11%

Of 42,359 candidates.

Scores from other years, and the old 3,600 scale

Every school’s figure from before 2025 is converted this way on the site: by where it sat among its own year’s candidates, not by a ratio, because taking out a whole subtest changed the spread of totals, not just their size.

Convert a UCAT score from another year

For a score, or a school’s figure, from before 2025, when the test was out of 3,600: it finds where the score sat among that year’s candidates, then the score at the same place on the other year’s test.

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Our estimate, from UCAT’s published deciles for each year. The same place among a different year’s candidates is not the same ability, and taking Abstract Reasoning out changed who scores where, so treat a converted score as a guide.

Decile	2018 testout of 3,600	2019 testout of 3,600	2020 testout of 3,600	2021 testout of 3,600	2022 testout of 3,600	2023 testout of 3,600	2024 testout of 3,600	2025 testout of 2,700	2026 testout of 2,700
1st (10th percentile)	2,160	2,170	2,170	2,150	2,120	2,150	2,140	1,580	1,590
2nd (20th percentile)	2,280	2,280	2,290	2,270	2,250	2,270	2,260	1,680	1,700
3rd (30th percentile)	2,360	2,360	2,370	2,360	2,340	2,360	2,360	1,760	1,780
4th (40th percentile)	2,420	2,420	2,450	2,430	2,420	2,440	2,440	1,820	1,850
5th (50th percentile)	2,490	2,480	2,510	2,500	2,500	2,510	2,520	1,880	1,920
6th (60th percentile)	2,550	2,540	2,580	2,570	2,570	2,580	2,590	1,950	1,980
7th (70th percentile)	2,610	2,610	2,650	2,640	2,660	2,660	2,680	2,010	2,050
8th (80th percentile)	2,690	2,690	2,730	2,730	2,750	2,760	2,780	2,100	2,140
9th (90th percentile)	2,810	2,800	2,850	2,850	2,880	2,890	2,920	2,220	2,250

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UCAT’s final tables (2018 to 2021 as compiled by The UKCAT People), with 2022 as of 29 September 2022 and 2023 as of 28 September 2023. Up to 2024 the total included Abstract Reasoning and was out of 3,600. Each test was for entry the following year.

Decile, 2024 test	Verbal Reasoning	Decision Making	Quantitative Reasoning	Abstract Reasoning
1st	510	500	530	530
2nd	540	550	570	570
3rd	560	570	600	600
4th	580	600	620	620
5th	590	620	640	640
6th	620	640	660	660
7th	640	670	690	700
8th	660	690	720	730
9th	700	740	770	810

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Where we expect the lines to fall this cycle

Our reading, not the schools’ figures: nobody knows this cycle’s cut-offs until it is over. Each line is read as a percentile, where it sat among that year’s candidates, so lines out of 3,600 and out of 2,700 can be compared. Last cycle’s line is carried to the same place on this year’s test, then pulled towards where the school’s line sat in earlier cycles, never below last cycle’s place. We tested that on every school with several years of lines: a line’s move one year said nothing about its move the next, so we do not carry last year’s change forward, and even the best reading misses by about 8 percentile points in a typical year. Between last cycle’s line and ours, the finder reads “possible”: you can apply, but it is a risk.

School	Line for 2026 entry	Its percentile	Same place this year	Earlier cycles	Our reading for 2027
Imperial	2,320	96th	about 2,350	95th on average, 2025 entry	about 2,350
Bristol	2,240	92nd	about 2,270	93rd on average, 2023 to 2025	about 2,280
UCL	2,190	88th	about 2,230	82nd on average, 2025 entry	about 2,230
Sheffield	2,120	82nd	about 2,160	83rd on average, 2021 to 2025	about 2,170
Manchester	2,060	76th	about 2,110	74th on average, 2019 to 2025	about 2,110
Glasgow	1,990	67th	about 2,030	75th on average, 2019 to 2025	about 2,050
Anglia Ruskin	2,010	70th	about 2,050	none held	about 2,050
Brighton and Sussex (BSMS)	1,990	67th	about 2,030	56th on average, 2025 entry	about 2,030
Liverpool	1,960	62nd	about 2,000	60th on average, 2023 to 2025	about 2,000
Lancaster	1,920	56th	about 1,960	59th on average, 2025 entry	about 1,960
City St George's, University of London	1,880	50th	about 1,920	66th on average, 2020 to 2025	about 1,950

Every line is read as a percentile, so lines out of 3,600 and out of 2,700 compare. Our reading is seven parts last cycle’s percentile to three parts the school’s earlier average, never below last cycle’s, rounded up to the next ten. The standard route, the one a UK school leaver applying from England, Wales or Northern Ireland reads.

Contextual, international and Scottish lines

The same schools’ other routes, moved with the deciles only. Far fewer applicants stand behind each of these lines, so there is no field to add a margin for, and they swing more from one cycle to the next: treat them as a rougher guide than the table above. The finder reads a contextual applicant’s score against the contextual line this way.

School	Route	Line for 2026 entry	Deciles moved	Our reading for 2027
Imperial	Home, contextual	2,170	+34	about 2,210
Imperial	International	2,310	+26	about 2,340
Bristol	International	2,270	+27	about 2,300
UCL	Access UCL	2,080	+41	about 2,130
UCL	International	2,300	+26	about 2,330
Sheffield	International	2,070	+41	about 2,120
Manchester	WP+ (widening participation)	1,960	+31	about 2,000
Manchester	International	2,250	+28	about 2,280
Glasgow	Scottish	1,870	+40	about 1,910
Glasgow	International	2,150	+36	about 2,190
Anglia Ruskin	East of England	1,960	+31	about 2,000
Anglia Ruskin	Essex, or widening access (WAMS)	1,920	+34	about 1,960
Anglia Ruskin	East of England and WAMS	1,870	+40	about 1,910
Anglia Ruskin	Essex and WAMS	1,830	+32	about 1,870
Brighton and Sussex (BSMS)	International	1,990	+37	about 2,030
Liverpool	International	2,080	+41	about 2,130
Lancaster	Home, contextual	1,870	+40	about 1,910
Lancaster	International	1,900	+38	about 1,940
City St George's, University of London	International	1,640	+17	about 1,660

A contextual or widening-participation line applies only if the school agrees you meet its own criteria. Anglia Ruskin’s lower figures are raw scores it uplifts before ranking, so they move with its standard line.

Where can you apply with your score?

One page per band, each reading the score at all 42 schools that use the UCAT. Two of them, Hertfordshire and St Mary's, Twickenham, take only international students for 2027 entry: they are counted and marked international only, because a UK applicant cannot apply there this cycle. A band is as wide as the data allows: where consecutive totals give exactly the same answer at every school they are a single band, which is why the top of the scale is one page and the middle moves in smaller steps. Everything below 1,640, the lowest line any school publishes, falls in two bands, split at 1,340, the lowest figure any school has published for any route; both set out the alternatives to Medicine. Each page reads the score at the bottom of its band, says where a school’s line falls inside it, and for the 22 schools that publish no figure at all, reads the band against whatever they did release.

reject a Band 4: 23; the application stops there
score the band: 7; points before interview
use it at interview: 7; or after, in the offer decision
ignore it: 12; the band costs nothing at all

The SJT is a separate decision from the total. It rules you out at 23 of the 42 schools and is scored at 16 of them, so it decides which schools are worth one of your four choices, and 12 ignore it entirely. This is what each one does with it. Buckingham and Greater Manchester (formerly Bolton) do not use the UCAT for 2027 entry, so they are not counted here. Hertfordshire and St Mary's, Twickenham are counted but marked international only: they take only international students for 2027 entry, so a UK applicant cannot apply there this cycle.

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Read this before you shortlist on a band

A Band 4 is fatal at 23 schools and costs nothing at 12: Oxford, Cambridge, Bristol, Southampton, Aberdeen, Aston, Cardiff, Exeter, Plymouth (Peninsula), St Andrews, Bangor (North Wales Medical School), Hertfordshire (international only). If you are holding one, those are the 12 worth looking at first.
Manchester is the only school that rejects a Band 3 as well as a Band 4. Everywhere else a Band 3 is allowed, though it costs points at 16 schools.
A Band 2 rules you out nowhere. It still costs marks at 16 schools that score the band, and the gap is largest where the band carries real points before interview: King's College London, Edinburgh, Leeds, Nottingham, Hull York (HYMS), Keele, Lincoln.
Bands are set against the whole cohort each year, like the deciles, so a band is not comparable across cycles. The schools that score the band use the band, not a percentile.
The school finder applies your band to every school at once and marks the ones it rules out.

What each band costs you

How many of the 42 schools each band rules out, and how many score it rather than ignore it.

Band 1

Rules you out nowhere

Full marks everywhere that scores the band.

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Band 2

Rules you out nowhere

16 more score the band, so it costs marks there; 26 ignore it.

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Band 3

Out at 1

16 more score the band, so it costs marks there; 25 ignore it.

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Band 4

Out at 23

7 more score the band, so it costs marks there; 12 ignore it.

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Band 4 is rejected at

Imperial, King's College London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Glasgow, Newcastle, Nottingham, Anglia Ruskin, Barts and The London (Queen Mary), Brighton and Sussex (BSMS), Dundee, Hull York (HYMS), Keele, Lancaster, Leicester, Liverpool, Sunderland, Brunel, Edge Hill, Kent and Medway (KMMS), Lancashire (formerly UCLan), Lincoln, St Mary's, Twickenham (international only).

At BSMS this starts with 2027 entry: a Band 4 was interviewed for 2025 entry, its first UCAT year, and that will not happen again.

Band 4 costs you nothing at

Oxford, Cambridge, Bristol, Southampton, Aberdeen, Aston, Cardiff, Exeter, Plymouth (Peninsula), St Andrews, Bangor (North Wales Medical School), Hertfordshire (international only).

If you are holding a Band 4, these are the schools where the rest of the application still decides. Check their UCAT lines before you commit a choice.

Where the band is scored, and what it is worth

7 schools put the band into the pre-interview score and 7 use it at or after interview. The points below are the schools’ own.

School	When	What the band is worth
King's College London	Before interview	Band 4 is rejected. The band is then worth 10 of the 150-point score, alongside 100 for the UCAT percentile and 40 for GCSEs.
Edinburgh	Before interview	Band 4 is rejected. The band is scored separately from the UCAT total in the ranking for the Assessment Day, and is 7.5% of the final ranking after it.
Leeds	Before interview	No band is rejected. The band feeds the pre-interview total, but Leeds refuses to publish how much it is worth.
Nottingham	Before interview	Band 4 is not accepted. The band is worth 10 points for Band 1, 6 for Band 2 and 2 for Band 3, inside the 50-point UCAT score.
Hull York (HYMS)	Before interview	Band 4 is not accepted. The band is worth 15 of the 100 selection points, against 35 for GCSEs and 35 for the UCAT decile. It no longer counts as an extra interview station.
Keele	Before interview	Band 4 is not considered. Band 1 adds 2 points and Band 2 adds 1 to the 25-point shortlisting score; Band 3 adds nothing.
Lincoln	Before interview	Band 4 is rejected. Band 1 earns 15 points, Band 2 10 and Band 3 5, towards the 60-point shortlisting score.
Birmingham	At or after interview	No band is rejected, and the band plays no part in shortlisting. After the interview it is scored like one more MMI station, weighted the same as the others: Band 1 earns full marks, Band 2 two thirds, Band 3 one third and Band 4 nothing.
Newcastle	At or after interview	Band 4 is not considered. At interview the band counts as one MMI station: Band 1 scores 5, Band 2 scores 3, Band 3 scores 1.
Sheffield	At or after interview	No band is rejected. The SJT quartile becomes an interview score out of 5 (1st quartile 5, 4th quartile 2), added to the eight MMI stations for a total out of 45.
Barts and The London (Queen Mary)	At or after interview	Band 4 is rejected at the first screen. After interview Band 1 adds 2 points and Band 2 adds 1.
City St George's, University of London	At or after interview	No band is rejected, but after the MMI the band is added to the applicant score: Band 1 adds 15, Band 2 10, Band 3 5, Band 4 nothing. For 2027 entry City St George's will consider the band in its decisions.
University of East Anglia (UEA)	At or after interview	No band is rejected and the SJT is not used before interview; it is folded into the interview score.

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Every school

Grouped by what the band does: screens first, then scored, then used at interview, then tie-break only, then not used at all.

ManchesterBand 3 and 4 rejected
Bands 3 and 4 are both rejected — the strictest rule in the UK. Only Bands 1 and 2 are considered, and they are treated alike.
Anglia RuskinBand 4 rejected
Band 4 is not invited to interview. Bands 1 to 3 are ranked on the uplifted UCAT total.
Barts and The London (Queen Mary)Band 4 rejected
Band 4 is rejected at the first screen. After interview Band 1 adds 2 points and Band 2 adds 1.
Brighton and Sussex (BSMS)Band 4 rejected
From 2027 entry a Band 4 is rejected before the ranking. At the 2026 threshold of 1,990 the band was the tie-break, and Band 1 got in.
BrunelBand 4 rejected
Band 4 is not accepted. Bands 1 to 3 are treated alike: Home applicants are ranked on the UCAT total.
DundeeBand 4 rejected
Band 4 is an automatic rejection whatever the rest of the application holds.
Edge HillBand 4 rejected
Band 4 is rejected automatically. Bands 1 to 3 are treated alike: the ranking is the UCAT total.
EdinburghBand 4 rejected
Band 4 is rejected. The band is scored separately from the UCAT total in the ranking for the Assessment Day, and is 7.5% of the final ranking after it.
GlasgowBand 4 rejected
Band 4 is rejected at the screen; above that the ranking is on the UCAT total.
Hull York (HYMS)Band 4 rejected
Band 4 is not accepted. The band is worth 15 of the 100 selection points, against 35 for GCSEs and 35 for the UCAT decile. It no longer counts as an extra interview station.
ImperialBand 4 rejected
Band 4 is rejected. Bands 1 to 3 are treated alike: the shortlist is the UCAT total.
KeeleBand 4 rejected
Band 4 is not considered. Band 1 adds 2 points and Band 2 adds 1 to the 25-point shortlisting score; Band 3 adds nothing.
Kent and Medway (KMMS)Band 4 rejected
Band 3 or better was part of last cycle's threshold, so Band 4 is not considered; above the threshold the band plays no further part.
King's College LondonBand 4 rejected
Band 4 is rejected. The band is then worth 10 of the 150-point score, alongside 100 for the UCAT percentile and 40 for GCSEs.
Lancashire (formerly UCLan)Band 4 rejected
Band 4 is rejected; Bands 1 to 3 are accepted, and its FOI response gives no other use of the band.
LancasterBand 4 rejected
For 2027 entry Lancaster expects Bands 1 to 3; a Band 4 is not selected.
LeicesterBand 4 rejected
Band 4 is rejected pre-interview. Bands 1 to 3 are treated alike in the 96-point score.
LincolnBand 4 rejected
Band 4 is rejected. Band 1 earns 15 points, Band 2 10 and Band 3 5, towards the 60-point shortlisting score.
LiverpoolBand 4 rejected
Home applicants need Band 1 to 3 for the application to be processed; international applicants may hold any band.
NewcastleBand 4 rejected
Band 4 is not considered. At interview the band counts as one MMI station: Band 1 scores 5, Band 2 scores 3, Band 3 scores 1.
NottinghamBand 4 rejected
Band 4 is not accepted. The band is worth 10 points for Band 1, 6 for Band 2 and 2 for Band 3, inside the 50-point UCAT score.
St Mary's, TwickenhamBand 4 rejectedInternational only
International only for 2027 entry. Only Band 1 to 3 is considered, and every UCAT subtest must be at 500 or above.
SunderlandBand 4 rejected
Band 4 is automatically rejected; Bands 1 to 3 are accepted and are not ranked or weighted against each other.
LeedsScored before interview
No band is rejected. The band feeds the pre-interview total, but Leeds refuses to publish how much it is worth.
BirminghamCounts at or after interview
No band is rejected, and the band plays no part in shortlisting. After the interview it is scored like one more MMI station, weighted the same as the others: Band 1 earns full marks, Band 2 two thirds, Band 3 one third and Band 4 nothing.
City St George's, University of LondonCounts at or after interview
No band is rejected, but after the MMI the band is added to the applicant score: Band 1 adds 15, Band 2 10, Band 3 5, Band 4 nothing. For 2027 entry City St George's will consider the band in its decisions.
SheffieldCounts at or after interview
No band is rejected. The SJT quartile becomes an interview score out of 5 (1st quartile 5, 4th quartile 2), added to the eight MMI stations for a total out of 45.
University of East Anglia (UEA)Counts at or after interview
No band is rejected and the SJT is not used before interview; it is folded into the interview score.
Queen's University BelfastTie-break only
No band is rejected. The band decides borderline cases twice: among applicants tied on the pre-interview score, and among those tied at interview.
UCLTie-break only
No band is rejected. The band separates applicants tied on the UCAT total at the threshold.
AberdeenNot used
Aberdeen has published no rule using the SJT band; its 20% UCAT weighting is the cognitive total.
AstonNot used
All four bands are accepted and the band plays no part in the ranking — the only school in the UK to take a Band 4 without penalty.
Bangor (North Wales Medical School)Not used
The SJT band is not considered at present, though Bangor says that may change; the ranking is the UCAT total.
BristolNot used
The SJT is not used at any stage, so a Band 4 is not a rejection here.
CambridgeNot used
Cambridge publishes the mean SJT band of applicants and offer holders but states no rule that uses it.
CardiffNot used
The SJT band is not considered at any stage.
ExeterNot used
The 2027-entry policy does not use the SJT band: the Exeter score is grades and UCAT decile only.
HertfordshireNot usedInternational only
International only for 2027 entry. The SJT plays no role in selection, its FOI response says; the ranking is the UCAT total.
OxfordNot used
Oxford has not published any use of the SJT band in shortlisting or at interview.
Plymouth (Peninsula)Not used
Plymouth states it does not assess the SJT band, and no band is automatically rejected.
SouthamptonNot used
The SJT is not used: selection for interview is the UCAT total alone.
St AndrewsNot used
The SJT band is not looked at; the ranking is the UCAT total.

12 of the 42 schools do not use the band at all before interview. Where a school publishes nothing about the SJT, that is what is recorded here rather than an assumption that it is scored.

Last updated 2 October 2026, from the universities’ published statistics and Freedom of Information responses. Each school’s own page carries its sources and the date its figures were last confirmed. Check the school’s admissions page before you apply; it wins if anything here differs. Spotted something missing or out of date? Tell me.

Decile, 2024 test	Verbal Reasoning	Decision Making	Quantitative Reasoning	Abstract Reasoning
1st	510	500	530	530
2nd	540	550	570	570
3rd	560	570	600	600
4th	580	600	620	620
5th	590	620	640	640
6th	620	640	660	660
7th	640	670	690	700
8th	660	690	720	730
9th	700	740	770	810

Decile, 2024 test	Verbal Reasoning	Decision Making	Quantitative Reasoning	Abstract Reasoning
1st	510	500	530	530
2nd	540	550	570	570
3rd	560	570	600	600
4th	580	600	620	620
5th	590	620	640	640
6th	620	640	660	660
7th	640	670	690	700
8th	660	690	720	730
9th	700	740	770	810

Decile, 2024 test	Verbal Reasoning	Decision Making	Quantitative Reasoning	Abstract Reasoning
1st	510	500	530	530
2nd	540	550	570	570
3rd	560	570	600	600
4th	580	600	620	620
5th	590	620	640	640
6th	620	640	660	660
7th	640	670	690	700
8th	660	690	720	730
9th	700	740	770	810