Oxford's A100 is a classic pre-clinical course with a tutorial system and an intercalated degree. Like Cambridge, it only began using the UCAT from 2025 entry (when the BMAT ended) — and here the UCAT carries real weight, combined with your GCSEs to decide who's shortlisted for those famously academic interviews.
Oxford moved to the UCAT for 2025 entry. For shortlisting it combines your UCAT score with your GCSE performance (contextualised against your school's data), weighting them roughly equally to decide who's invited to interview. Oxford interviews only a minority of applicants, so the bar is high — for 2025 entry (the last year of the old four-section UCAT) the shortlist averaged around 3093 out of 3600, a figure that isn't comparable to today's 2700 scale. The interview then dominates the final decision.
Oxford rewards a high UCAT paired with excellent GCSEs, since the two are weighted together for shortlisting. If both are strong you've a real chance at interview — where the academic, tutorial-style discussion decides it. Note the published score data is from the old four-section test, so treat it as historical, not a target on today's scale.
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Contextualised GCSE performance is used in shortlisting, so a strong profile matters.
Oxford looks for scientific motivation and some understanding of medicine, probed at interview rather than scored.
Academic interviews. Tutorial-style interviews run by the colleges; only around a quarter of applicants are shortlisted.
Oxford contextualises GCSE data and runs widening-access routes such as its foundation year.
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Oxford doesn't publish a cut-off on the current scale. It combines your UCAT with contextualised GCSEs (roughly 50/50) to shortlist, and only interviews a minority — so a high score helps a lot. Its published averages (≈3093 shortlisted) are from the old four-section UCAT out of 3600 and aren't comparable to today's 2700 scale.
No — Oxford switched from the BMAT to the UCAT for 2025 entry.
For shortlisting, it weights your UCAT and your contextualised GCSE performance roughly equally to decide interview invitations. The interview then carries the most weight in the final decision.
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