UCAT Score Calculator
Enter your raw marks for Verbal Reasoning, Decision Making and Quantitative Reasoning to see the scaled score our data predicts for each, and where that total places you against the official published 2025 deciles. Built from 247 real score reports from MedAdmit students, with the number of reports behind every figure shown next to it.
Built from 247 real student score reports
- This is the MedAdmit predicted conversion. The UCAT Consortium does not publish a raw-to-scaled conversion, so we built one from what our students actually scored. It is our prediction from our own data, not the board figure.
- The data behind it: Verbal Reasoning 82 reports, Decision Making 82, Quantitative Reasoning 83. Every result below tells you how many reports sit behind that specific raw mark, and the range those students landed in.
- The board sets its scaling per test version, so a result on the day can land either side of the figure here. That is why we show you the reported range rather than a single number pretending to be the last word.
Raw mark entry
Enter at least one raw mark above to see your predicted scaled score.
How UCAT raw marks become scaled scores
You get one mark for a correct answer and nothing is deducted for a wrong one, so there is never a reason to leave a question blank. Decision Making is the exception worth knowing about: some of its question types award 2 marks for a fully correct answer and 1 mark for a partially correct one, so a Decision Making mark total is a different quantity from a count of questions you got right.
Those raw marks are then converted onto a scale running from 300 to 900 in steps of 10, separately for each subtest. The conversion is not fixed. It is set for each version of the test so that candidates who sat a harder paper are not penalised for it. A raw mark of 25 on one paper and a raw mark of 25 on another can land on different scaled scores, and that is the system working as intended rather than a fault in it.
Why the mark you enter and the marks in our data are different numbers
A UCAT paper does not score every question it puts in front of you. Some are trial questions, seeded so the board can calibrate them for future years, and they do not count toward your result. You cannot tell which ones they are while you are sitting it, and the Consortium does not publish how many there are. So the number of questions you are presented with and the number that are actually scored are two different figures, and only the first one is public.
The second thing worth knowing: the UCAT does not give candidates a raw mark at all. Your result carries scaled scores and nothing else. That is true of every raw-to-scaled table you will find, this one included. None of them are built from official raw marks, because official raw marks are never issued. They are built from what students report.
Which brings it back to this table. You can enter up to 44 on Verbal Reasoning, 35 on Decision Making, 36 on Quantitative Reasoning, because that is what the current format presents. The reports behind our conversion cover a lower band than that: raw 19 to 39 on Verbal Reasoning, raw 17 to 32 on Decision Making, raw 20 to 32 on Quantitative Reasoning. Whether those students were working from a smaller scored-mark total, or whether nobody has simply reported higher yet, is not something the reports themselves can tell us. The consequence is the same either way, and it is the behaviour you want: a mark above the reported range gets no figure. The calculator says it is outside the data instead of extending the line into ground no report covers.
How we built our conversion
The Consortium does not release its conversions, so we built our own from the ground up. Students report their raw marks alongside the scaled scores that came with them, and every figure on this page is computed from those reports: 249 of them, covering raw marks from the high teens up.
Where several students reported the same raw mark, we average them and show you the range they landed in. Where a raw mark has not been reported yet, we read between the two nearest marks that have been. We tell you which of those two you are looking at, and how many students sit behind it, because a conversion you can see the workings of is worth more than one you cannot.
Two reports were held out as data-entry errors and one was corrected, in each case because the figure sat below scores at strictly lower raw marks. That is 2 rows removed and 1 amended out of 249. With those handled, every section rises without a single reversal, which is what a real scoring scale looks like.
Where the total puts you, and where that number comes from
A scaled total on its own is the least useful number on this page, so the calculator places it. Enter all three sections and it shows the decile band your predicted total falls in and the percentile that goes with it, then the schools whose published minimum that total reaches.
The boundaries it places against are the UCAT Consortium’s own published 2025 test statistics, used exactly as published: 1580 at the 10th percentile, 1880 at the 50th, 2100 at the 80th and 2220 at the 90th, across 41,354 tests. That is worth stating plainly, because it is the one part of this page that is not our own work. The raw-to-scaled conversion is the MedAdmit prediction. The placement is the board’s data, applied to it. Which also means the placement carries the prediction’s uncertainty into it, and moves when the total moves.
Between two published boundaries the percentile is read across, and it is rounded down rather than to the nearest, so it never claims a boundary your total has not reached. Past the top boundary and below the bottom one you get the band and no number: the Consortium publishes nine points and we do not extend the line past them, for the same reason a raw mark above our reported range gets no scaled score.
What to use the prediction for
It is a position check. Part way through a question bank, it converts your raw marks into the currency universities actually use, so you can see how far you are from the scores your targets ask for. Only a handful of schools publish a fixed minimum at all, and the rest rank applicants within that cycle’s own pool, so a threshold is a direction rather than a target line. The full picture per school is on the cut-off scores page.
As it stands 3 of the 60 schools in the directory publish a fixed 2027-entry minimum: University of Edinburgh medicine at 1850, University of Sheffield medicine at 1800 and Keele University medicine at 1700. Each of those pages states the figure with the university’s own admissions page as its source and the date it was last checked, which is worth doing before you plan around any of them.
Everything above is about the number. Which schools that number is worth applying to is the other half, and it turns on how each one weighs the score, what it asks for at A-level and how it interviews. That is one page per school across the directory of all 60 UK medical and dental schools, each sourced from that school’s own admissions pages, and the admissions hub lists all of them beside the interview and A-level guides.
UCAT score calculator questions
- Where does this UCAT score calculator get its conversion from?
- From our own students. The UCAT Consortium does not publish a raw-to-scaled conversion, and it does not give candidates a raw mark either, so no calculator anywhere is working from official raw marks. Ours is built from student score reports: raw marks paired with the scaled scores reported alongside them. We show you how many reports sit behind each raw mark, which is more than most calculators will tell you.
- How is a UCAT scaled score worked out?
- One mark per correct answer, with no penalty for a wrong one. Decision Making is the exception: some of its question types award 2 marks for a fully correct answer and 1 mark for a partially correct one. That mark total is converted onto a scaled range of 300 to 900 in steps of 10, separately for Verbal Reasoning, Decision Making and Quantitative Reasoning. Not every question you see is scored either, because papers carry trial questions seeded to calibrate them for future years. The Consortium sets the conversion per test version, which is how it keeps scores comparable between candidates who sat different papers on different days.
- Why can I enter more raw marks than your data covers?
- Because the box should match the paper you sit. The current format presents 44 on Verbal Reasoning, 35 on Decision Making, 36 on Quantitative Reasoning, so those are the ceilings. Our student reports currently run raw 19 to 39 on Verbal Reasoning, raw 17 to 32 on Decision Making, raw 20 to 32 on Quantitative Reasoning. Enter a mark above that and the calculator tells you it is beyond our data rather than putting a figure on it. We would rather collect the reports than extend the line.
- How many raw marks do I need for a given scaled score?
- Across our data, a mark in the middle of the range is worth roughly ten to twenty scaled points, and marks near the top are worth more than that. Enter your raw marks above to see where yours land. The pattern is consistent enough to plan against: the last few questions in a section move your score further than the first few.
- What percentile is my UCAT score?
- Enter all three sections above and the calculator places your predicted total against the UCAT Consortium's published 2025 decile boundaries: 1580 at the 10th percentile, 1880 at the 50th, 2100 at the 80th and 2220 at the 90th, out of 2,700. Those boundaries are official published data rather than anything we have estimated, which makes them the one part of this page that is not our prediction. The total going into them is ours, so the placement is worth what the total is worth. Past the 90th and below the 10th you get the band rather than a number, because the Consortium does not publish points beyond those and we do not extend the line into them.
- How should I use the prediction?
- As a position check between mocks. It tells you what your current raw marks are worth in the currency universities actually use, then places that against the national distribution and the schools that publish a minimum, so you can see how far you are from the scores your targets ask for. A published minimum is the score that keeps an application in the running, not a promise of an interview, and schools revise them yearly.