What interview format does University of Bristol use for medicine?

Bristol's medicine interviews page describes a formal interview lasting approximately 30 minutes in a structured interview format, hosted remotely via Zoom. There are six stations, each assessed by three assessors whose scores combine into a total for that station; a candidate sees six assessors in total, in two groups of three marking three stations each, and the six station scores together produce the final interview score. Bristol does not call this an MMI or a panel; neither word appears on the page. The interview dates on that page still read December 2025 to February 2026, so its timings describe the 2026-entry cycle. The 2027-entry course page says only that applicants must be available for an interview from November to April immediately following submission of their application..

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

Q: What UCAT score do I need for University of Bristol Medicine?

University of Bristol has not published a fixed minimum score for 2027 entry. Instead: Bristol's medicine admissions statement says that once minimum academic entry requirements are met, predicted or achieved, an application is scored with a 100 per cent weighting on the UCAT result, and that this is used to select candidates for interview. The combined score from all subtests except Situational Judgement is the score used. Bristol does publish the figures actually applied last cycle: for 2026 entry the final UCAT threshold score to be invited to interview was 2240 for home applicants and 2270 for overseas applicants. Bristol adds that the number used as a threshold for interview is subject to change year on year.

University of Bristol has not published a fixed UCAT cut-off for 2027 entry. Here's how UCAT, A-levels, SJT and the interview all fit together for medicine.

2027 UCAT cut off

Not published

How the UCAT is weighted

Bristol's medicine admissions statement says that once minimum academic entry requirements are met, predicted or achieved, an application is scored with a 100 per cent weighting on the UCAT result, and that this is used to select candidates for interview. The combined score from all subtests except Situational Judgement is the score used. Bristol does publish the figures actually applied last cycle: for 2026 entry the final UCAT threshold score to be invited to interview was 2240 for home applicants and 2270 for overseas applicants. Bristol adds that the number used as a threshold for interview is subject to change year on year.

SJT policy

The Situational Judgement subtest is excluded from the combined score used to select applicants for interview; all other subtests are treated equally. No SJT band or cut-off is published.

A-level requirements

Standard offer AAA including Chemistry and either Biology, Physics, Mathematics or Further Mathematics. Contextual offer ABB including A in Chemistry and B in one of Biology, Physics, Mathematics or Further Mathematics. Graduates are required to obtain a 2:1 in their degree plus BBB at A-level, including Chemistry and either Biology, Physics, Mathematics or Further Mathematics. GCSE profile requirements: the advanced numeracy requirement, meaning grade 7 or A in GCSE Mathematics or equivalent, and the standard literacy requirement, meaning grade 4 or C in GCSE English or equivalent.

Interview

Bristol describes its interview without calling it an MMI or a panel, six stations, online, November to April.

Bristol does not publish two of the five things a candidate needs before an interview.

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

Resits

University of Bristol 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 used. Bristol states: “We no longer use the personal statement as a weighted component of our selection criteria.” Where two applicants finish interview on identical scores, UCAT is the differentiator, not the statement.

What the UCAT had to be, 2026 entry

University of Bristol does not publish one.

That is the university's own position, not a gap in our research. Any specific number quoted for University of Bristol elsewhere is somebody's reconstruction from reported scores, not a figure the medical school has confirmed. Treat it accordingly.

Bristol scores shortlisting on the UCAT with a 100% weighting once academic requirements are met, and has stopped using the personal statement as a weighted component. Where applicants tie at interview, the UCAT is the primary differentiator. Bristol's admissions statement sets no cut-off in advance, and its course page publishes the realised threshold afterwards: for 2026 entry the final UCAT threshold score to be invited to interview was 2240 for home applicants and 2270 for overseas. Those figures are last cycle's landing point rather than a bar to measure a score against, which is why no threshold figure is shown beside one: Bristol states that a specific score cannot be used with certainty to predict an invitation.

University of Bristol application data, checked 2026-09-01.

Applications, interviews and offers

University of Bristol publishes no figures for this course.

Bristol publishes admissions statistics by faculty and school rather than by course, so nothing it publishes is about A100 specifically, and it publishes no interview count at any level. For the 2022 cycle, the most recent in its dataset, undergraduate applications to Bristol Medical School as a whole were 2,055 home and 440 overseas, producing 395 and 25 offers and 195 and 10 registrations. Every one of those figures is rounded to the nearest 5 under Bristol's HESA rounding and suppression policy, which means a published 0 may be a real 1 or 2. Bristol's own advice on the same page is that applicants should not use the admission statistics as a guide to whether they might receive an offer. Its 2026 entry admissions statement for A100 describes the whole selection process and carries no counts of any kind.

University of Bristol application data, checked 2026-09-23.

National benchmark, for context

For context, the UCAT Consortium's own 2026 statistics report a mean cognitive score of 1918 (out of 2,700) across 42,359 tests, with the median (5th decile) at 1920 and the top decile at 2250+. This is a national figure, not University of Bristol's own threshold, since University of Bristol doesn't publish one for the current cycle.

UCAT Consortium, Test Statistics 2026

Standard A-level offer: Standard offer AAA including Chemistry and either Biology, Physics, Mathematics or Further Mathematics. Contextual offer ABB including A in Chemistry and B in one of Biology, Physics, Mathematics or Further Mathematics. Graduates are required to obtain a 2:1 in their degree plus BBB at A-level, including Chemistry and either Biology, Physics, Mathematics or Further Mathematics. GCSE profile requirements: the advanced numeracy requirement, meaning grade 7 or A in GCSE Mathematics or equivalent, and the standard literacy requirement, meaning grade 4 or C in GCSE English or equivalent. SJT policy: The Situational Judgement subtest is excluded from the combined score used to select applicants for interview; all other subtests are treated equally. No SJT band or cut-off is published. Worth knowing: Once the academic requirements are met, selection for interview is scored on the UCAT with 100% weighting, using the combined score from all subtests except the Situational Judgement Test. Bristol sets no cut-off in advance and publishes where the line actually fell afterwards, and both halves of that matter. Its admissions statement says there is no cut-off score for the UCAT and that a specific score cannot be used with certainty to predict an interview invitation, because the threshold moves year on year with the strength of the cohort. Its course page then names the realised figures: for 2026 entry the final UCAT threshold score to be invited to interview was 2240 for home applicants and 2270 for overseas. Those are Bristol's own numbers, published by Bristol, and they describe last cycle rather than this one. Always confirm against the official page before applying, since this is the most recent published position rather than a guarantee for the live cycle.

Source: University of Bristol's own admissions page. Last checked 14 September 2026.

Every figure above is taken from that page. Where University of Bristol publishes nothing, this page says so rather than quoting a number reconstructed from student reports.

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