UKCAT Eligibility
Who can apply for the UKCAT?
All candidates from the UK and EU and most international candidates can sit for the UKCAT to study medicine or dentistry in 26 of the 31 UK Universities offering medicine and health science courses.
International students:
A majority of students from all other countries (excluding UK and EU) are also eligible to take the UKCAT. For more detailed information on the eligibility criteria for international students, click here.
When to sit for the UKCAT?
If you want to apply in 2010 for entry into the listed UK universities in 2011 or for deferred entry in 2012, you will have to take the UKCAT before the declared October 2010 deadline.
I am from a non-science stream. Can I apply?
Yes, definitely. The joint consortium of UK Universities has not made it compulsory for students to have curriculum knowledge of science subjects. UKCAT questions are designed to test your aptitude for the medical profession.
How long can you use your UKCAT score?
Your UKCAT score is valid for applying to the individual UK universities only in the year in which the test is taken. That means, if you are applying to University of Glasgow in the year 2010, you will need to sit for UKCAT this year.
How to register for the UKCAT?
Registration can be done through online only. Registrations for the UKCAT open in May and continue till September. Register and book a test as soon as possible to get a test date and time slot of your choice.
To register for the UKCAT, log on to the official UKCAT website
I did not do well in my first attempt at UKCAT. Can I re-sit the test?
With the Prepgenie UKCAT Test Preparation to guide you through each step, nothing can stop from getting through UKCAT. In the rare case, you don’t make it through in the very first attempt; you may apply the next year and re sit UKCAT. You can take the UKCAT only once per year.
Did you know?
You can also sit for UMAT (The Undergraduate Medicine and Health Sciences Admission Test). It is the med entrance test you must take before applying to the undergraduate medicine and health science courses in most institutions in Australia and New Zealand. It is held by ACER (Australian Council for Educational Research) on behalf of the joint consortium of Universities in Australia and New Zealand. For more details, log onto the official UMAT website .
Another test you can sit for is BMAT (The BioMedical Admissions Test), an aptitude test used as part of the admissions process for applying to the medicine, veterinary medicine or physiological science courses in these UK universities: Imperial College London, Royal Veterinary College, University College London, University of Cambridge, and University of Oxford. For more details, log onto the official BMAT website