University of Birmingham Medicine: UCAT, A-Levels & Interview Requirements

2027 UCAT cut off

Not published

How the UCAT is weighted

No minimum UCAT cut-off score. Applicants are scored on UCAT (Verbal Reasoning, Decision Making and Quantitative Reasoning only) alongside GCSEs and contextual factors to produce a total application score used to rank for interview.

SJT policy

Not used in the initial ranking score; the SJT result is used at the interview stage instead.

A-level requirements

Standard offer AAA including Chemistry and a second science from Biology/Human Biology, Physics or Maths, with applicants required to be predicted a minimum of AAB. Contextual offer AAB, with applicants required to be predicted a minimum of ABB. Birmingham states no preference for the third A-level, but General Studies, Critical Thinking and EPQ are not accepted as a third A-level, EPQ is not considered as part of selection, and Further Maths is not considered in addition to Maths. Three A-level subjects must normally be taken in the final year of secondary school, practical elements in the sciences must normally be passed, AS grades are not used for selection, and the A-level thresholds must be achieved at first sitting. GCSEs: a total of seven must be offered and all seven are scored, with English Language, Mathematics (or one, but not both, of Methods in Mathematics and Applications of Mathematics), and Biology and Chemistry or dual award science each required at grade 6/B or higher. English Literature is not itself required but is one of the identified subjects Birmingham scores. These are Birmingham's published requirements for 2027 entry.

Interview

Multiple Mini Interview, six or seven stations, 8 minutes a station, both, depending on the applicant, January to February.

Birmingham interview: full format, stations, dates and what is not published

Resits

University of Birmingham publishes no resit policy. That is not the same as resits being accepted, and it is worth asking admissions directly before relying on either reading.

Personal statement

Not scored when selecting for interview, but not ignored either: Birmingham says it considers the personal statement and reference both before and after interview to check the application as a whole. For international applicants it goes further, and the final stage of selection for interview is an assessment of non-academic qualities made on the evidence in the personal statement.

Standard A-level offer: Standard offer AAA including Chemistry and a second science from Biology/Human Biology, Physics or Maths, with applicants required to be predicted a minimum of AAB. Contextual offer AAB, with applicants required to be predicted a minimum of ABB. Birmingham states no preference for the third A-level, but General Studies, Critical Thinking and EPQ are not accepted as a third A-level, EPQ is not considered as part of selection, and Further Maths is not considered in addition to Maths. Three A-level subjects must normally be taken in the final year of secondary school, practical elements in the sciences must normally be passed, AS grades are not used for selection, and the A-level thresholds must be achieved at first sitting. GCSEs: a total of seven must be offered and all seven are scored, with English Language, Mathematics (or one, but not both, of Methods in Mathematics and Applications of Mathematics), and Biology and Chemistry or dual award science each required at grade 6/B or higher. English Literature is not itself required but is one of the identified subjects Birmingham scores. These are Birmingham's published requirements for 2027 entry. SJT policy: Not used in the initial ranking score; the SJT result is used at the interview stage instead. Worth knowing: Birmingham publishes no minimum UCAT: it states plainly that there is no cut-off score. Applicants are ranked on a total application score out of 10, weighted 45% GCSE, 40% UCAT and 15% contextual, with the UCAT converted to points from national deciles. The SJT band is deliberately kept out of that algorithm and used at the interview stage instead. Birmingham expects to interview over 1,100 standard applicants and publishes no upper bound; its own 2025 entry statistics record 1,061 home applicants interviewed and 385 enrolled. Its detailed score tables are worth reading but are all on the old 3,600 UCAT scale: for 2025 entry the standard candidates it interviewed had a median UCAT of 2940 and a minimum of 2680, and contextual candidates a median of 2780 and a minimum of 2430, none of which can be compared with a score sat under the current 2,700 maximum. Always confirm against the official page before applying, since this is the most recent published position rather than a guarantee for the live cycle.