UCAT 2026 Results: Average Score, Deciles and SJT Bands Explained

30 Sept

Testing closed on 24 September, and the University Clinical Aptitude Test (UCAT) Consortium has now published the final figures for 2026. They are built on 42,359 tests — the whole cohort, not the half-finished snapshot everyone was arguing about a fortnight ago.

Here's the headline, and it's good news for most people reading this. Every single decile boundary came in below the preliminary table. If you worked out your position in mid-September and quietly panicked, you were almost certainly ranking yourself too low.

This guide goes through every final figure, shows you what percentile your score sits at, compares 2026 with 2025 properly, and sets out what to do with the two weeks left before the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) deadline. 📊

Last updated 30 September 2026, using the Consortium's final 2026 statistics.

Looking for school-by-school thresholds? Those live in our UCAT cut-off scores guide for medical schools and our UCAT cut-off scores guide for dental schools. This page is about the numbers themselves.

UCAT 2026 Results at a Glance 📌

Tests counted: 42,359 — the final figure
Final average total score: 1,918 out of a possible 2,700
Subtest averages: Verbal Reasoning 602 · Decision Making 640 · Quantitative Reasoning 675
Middle score (5th decile): 1,920
Top 30% (7th decile): 2,050 and above
Top 10% (9th decile): 2,250 and above
Situational Judgement Test (SJT): Band 1 15% · Band 2 40% · Band 3 34% · Band 4 11%
UCAS deadline: 18:00 UK time on 15 October 2026

Two sentences worth carrying through the rest of this page. The preliminary average of 1,970 fell to 1,918 once everyone had tested. And compared with last year, this cohort is only modestly stronger — nothing like the leap September's numbers implied.

What the UCAT Consortium Has Published for 2026

The average UCAT score in 2026: 1,918

The final mean for the total cognitive score is 1,918. That total is your three cognitive subtests added together — Verbal Reasoning, Decision Making and Quantitative Reasoning — each scaled between 300 and 900, giving a range of 900 to 2,700.

Your SJT isn't part of that figure. It's reported separately as a band, and we'll come to it shortly.

A word on what "average" means here. It's the mean of all 42,359 tests sat this cycle. It is not the score medical schools are aiming for. Plenty of schools interview applicants below the mean, and some won't look twice at applicants comfortably above it. The average tells you where the middle of the crowd is standing, and that's all.

Subtest averages: where this year's cohort was strong, and where it wasn't

📖 Verbal Reasoning: 602
🧩 Decision Making: 640
🔢 Quantitative Reasoning: 675

The spread is the interesting part. Quantitative Reasoning finished 73 points ahead of Verbal Reasoning, a gap that has widened from 59 points last year. Candidates find it far easier to score highly on the numbers section than on the reading section, which means the same scaled score represents a very different achievement depending on where you earned it. We put numbers on that in the percentile section below.

The UCAT 2026 decile table (final)

A decile boundary is simply the score at a set percentile. The 1st decile is the 10th percentile, the 2nd is the 20th, and so on up to the 9th, which is the 90th percentile. Here is the final table:

1st decile (10th percentile): 1,590
2nd decile (20th percentile): 1,700
3rd decile (30th percentile): 1,780
4th decile (40th percentile): 1,850
5th decile (50th percentile): 1,920
6th decile (60th percentile): 1,980
7th decile (70th percentile): 2,050
8th decile (80th percentile): 2,140
9th decile (90th percentile): 2,250

So a score of 2,140 means you did at least as well as roughly 80% of this year's candidates. In plainer terms: top 20%.

The detail most people miss: the gaps aren't even 🔍

Look at the distance between each boundary. The whole middle 40% of candidates, from the 3rd decile to the 7th, is squeezed into 270 points. The step from the 8th decile to the 9th is 110 points on its own.

That has two practical effects.

In the middle, small differences move you a long way. Between roughly 1,780 and 2,050, every 70 points or so is worth about ten percentile points. A 1,850 and a 1,920 feel almost identical, yet one sits at the 40th percentile and the other at the 50th.

At the top, each step costs more. Climbing from the 80th percentile to the 90th takes 110 points. That's why the gap between a very good score and an exceptional one feels so wide.

SJT band distribution in 2026 (final)

🟢 Band 1: 15%
🔵 Band 2: 40%
🟠 Band 3: 34%
🔴 Band 4: 11%

Band 1 is the highest. This year, 55% of candidates landed in Band 1 or Band 2, and 45% in Band 3 or Band 4 — up from 39% last year. That shift matters, and we come back to it below.

Why the Preliminary Scores Fell ⚠️

Early testers aren't a typical group

Think about who sits the UCAT in July and August. Largely it's the organised crowd: students who booked the day slots opened, practised through the summer and wanted the test out of the way before term. It's a group that leans well-prepared.

The final fortnight brings a broader mix. Later starters, students who couldn't get an earlier slot, people who needed longer to get ready. As their results came in, the average slid — exactly as it did last year.

What actually happened in 2026

Preliminary mean (20,794 tests, to 13 September): 1,970
Final mean (42,359 tests): 1,918
Change: down 52 points, about 2.6%

For comparison, last year's preliminary mean of 1,939 fell to a final 1,891 — down 48 points, about 2.5%. Two years running, the early figures have overstated the cohort by roughly two and a half per cent. Worth remembering next September, whether you're applying, reapplying or advising a younger sibling.

The 21,565 candidates who tested after 13 September pulled every boundary down with them.

How close was our projection? 🎯

When the preliminary figures came out on 13 September, we published our own estimate of where the final table would land, by applying last year's fall to this year's numbers. Here's how that worked out:

Mean: we projected around 1,920 · actual 1,918
1st decile: projected 1,590 · actual 1,590
2nd decile: projected 1,710 · actual 1,700
3rd decile: projected 1,790 · actual 1,780
4th decile: projected 1,860 · actual 1,850
5th decile: projected 1,930 · actual 1,920
6th decile: projected 1,990 · actual 1,980
7th decile: projected 2,060 · actual 2,050
8th decile: projected 2,140 · actual 2,140
9th decile: projected 2,240 · actual 2,250

Every boundary landed within ten points, and the mean within two. We're not telling you that to show off. We're telling you because the same logic will apply next cycle, and because the method — assume the early numbers run about 2.5% hot — is one you can use yourself.

If you built your shortlist on the September figures 🔄

Then it was built on numbers that were too harsh, and your position has improved. Some examples:

A 2,000 sat around the 53rd percentile in September. On the final table, it's around the 63rd.
A 2,100 sat around the 69th percentile. It's now around the 76th.
A 2,250 was short of the top 10% in September. It is now exactly the 9th decile boundary.

Nobody's score changed. The comparison group did. If you deleted a school from your list in September because you thought you were out of range, this is the moment to look at it again — there are still two weeks before the deadline. ⏳

UCAT 2026 vs 2025: Is This Year's Cohort Stronger? 📈

Compare like with like

Now that the final numbers exist, the comparison is clean: 1,891 last year, 1,918 this year. A rise of 27 points.

That's a genuine increase, but a small one — and a long way from the 79-point jump people were quoting in September, when they were comparing this year's early snapshot with last year's finished figure.

The decile boundaries moved much less than September suggested

Here's how each boundary compares with 2025, final against final:

1st decile: 1,580 → 1,590 (up 10)
2nd decile: 1,680 → 1,700 (up 20)
3rd decile: 1,760 → 1,780 (up 20)
4th decile: 1,820 → 1,850 (up 30)
5th decile: 1,880 → 1,920 (up 40)
6th decile: 1,950 → 1,980 (up 30)
7th decile: 2,010 → 2,050 (up 40)
8th decile: 2,100 → 2,140 (up 40)
9th decile: 2,220 → 2,250 (up 30)

Every boundary is up by 10 to 40 points. In September, the preliminary table made it look like 50 to 100. So yes, your score is worth slightly less than the same number would have been last year — but only slightly. In practical terms, most applicants have slipped a few percentile points, not a whole decile.

Subtest by subtest

Final 2025 against final 2026:

📖 Verbal Reasoning: 602 → 602 (no change at all)
🧩 Decision Making: 628 → 640 (up 12)
🔢 Quantitative Reasoning: 661 → 675 (up 14)

This is the most striking thing in the whole release. The entire improvement in this year's cohort came from Decision Making and Quantitative Reasoning. Verbal Reasoning did not move by a single point.

It fits what we see in teaching. Quantitative Reasoning and Decision Making respond quickly to practice, because the question types are learnable and the timing can be drilled. Verbal Reasoning is closer to a reading habit, and habits take longer to shift than techniques do.

For you, the practical consequence is that a strong Verbal Reasoning score is now rarer than a strong Quantitative Reasoning score — and a handful of schools look inside your total rather than only at the headline number.

SJT: Band 1 has become genuinely scarce

Final 2025 against final 2026:

🟢 Band 1: 21% → 15%
🔵 Band 2: 39% → 40%
🟠 Band 3: 29% → 34%
🔴 Band 4: 10% → 11%

Band 1 has fallen by six percentage points in a single year, from roughly one candidate in five to fewer than one in seven. Band 3 has grown by five points, and Band 4 has edged up.

It also confirms something many applicants don't realise: SJT bands aren't fixed quotas. Deciles split candidates into tens by definition. Bands don't. In 2024, 13% of candidates received Band 1 and 13% received Band 4. In 2025, it was 21% and 10%. In 2026, it's 15% and 11%. The share in each band rises and falls with how the cohort performs.

Two consequences. If you have a Band 1, it is worth more this year at every school that awards points for it. And if you have a Band 3, you have more company than last year's applicants did — 45% of candidates are now in Band 3 or Band 4, so this is a mainstream situation rather than a disaster. We've covered exactly which schools accept which band here:

A bigger field

2024: 37,913 tests
2025: 41,354 tests
2026: 42,359 tests

That's the largest of the three years the Consortium currently publishes, and about 1,000 more tests than last year. A larger field doesn't make your percentile any less accurate. It does mean more applicants competing for broadly similar numbers of interview places.

Why you can't compare with 2024 or earlier

Abstract Reasoning was removed from the UCAT in 2025. The maximum total fell from 3,600 to 2,700, so older scores sit on a completely different scale. The final 2024 mean, for example, was 2,523 — a total that simply can't be compared with anything on today's test. The Consortium carries the same warning on its own statistics pages.

Any average, decile or cut-off you find from 2024 or earlier doesn't apply to you. Check the year before you trust a number. ✋

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What Percentile Is My UCAT Score in 2026? 🎯

The Consortium publishes decile boundaries rather than a full percentile table, so we've estimated the values in between by reading proportionally from one boundary to the next.

UCAT 2026 score-to-percentile guide

Each line shows your approximate percentile on the final 2026 table, and then what the same score was worth in 2025, so you can see how much the ground has actually shifted.

1,600: around the 11th percentile (was around the 12th in 2025)
1,650: around the 15th (was around the 17th)
1,700: the 20th (was around the 22nd)
1,750: around the 26th (was around the 29th)
1,800: around the 33rd (was around the 37th)
1,850: the 40th (was around the 45th)
1,900: around the 47th (was around the 53rd)
1,950: around the 55th (was around the 60th)
2,000: around the 63rd (was around the 68th)
2,050: the 70th (was around the 74th)
2,100: around the 76th (was the 80th)
2,150: around the 81st (was around the 84th)
2,200: around the 85th (was around the 88th)
2,250: the 90th (was top 10%)
2,300 and above: top 10% in both years

Real score distributions don't run in perfectly straight lines between boundaries, so treat each figure as accurate to within a few percentile points.

The pattern to notice: the same score is worth about three to six percentile points less than it was last year. Annoying, but nothing like the one-whole-decile slide the September figures suggested.

Three students, three readings

These are illustrative composites to show how the numbers work in practice, not real applicants.

Priya scored 2,100 in August. She checked last year's final table, saw 2,100 sitting exactly on the 8th decile and relaxed. Then the preliminary table appeared and put her around the 69th percentile, which ruined a week. On the final table she's around the 76th — a strong score, just not quite the top-20% result she first thought. That matters mainly if she's leaning on schools that rank purely on UCAT.

Josh scored 1,900 in early September. The preliminary table put him around the 39th percentile, and he spent a fortnight convinced he'd blown it. The final table puts him around the 47th, within touching distance of the median. His score never changed. The crowd around him did.

Amara scored 2,310 with Band 3. Her cognitive total is comfortably in the top 10% on any version of the table. The thing that will actually shape her shortlist is her band, because a small number of schools won't consider Band 3 at all. 🚩

Is my Verbal Reasoning, Decision Making, or Quantitative Reasoning score good?

The final release includes decile boundaries for each subtest, so you can place each part of your result individually.

📖 Verbal Reasoning deciles (1st to 9th): 500 · 540 · 560 · 580 · 600 · 620 · 640 · 670 · 710

🧩 Decision Making deciles (1st to 9th): 520 · 560 · 590 · 620 · 640 · 670 · 690 · 710 · 760

🔢 Quantitative Reasoning deciles (1st to 9th): 530 · 580 · 600 · 640 · 670 · 700 · 730 · 780 · 820

Here's why that matters. A 700 in Verbal Reasoning puts you around the 88th percentile. The same 700 in Decision Making is around the 75th, and in Quantitative Reasoning only around the 60th. Identical numbers, three very different achievements.

Notice too that the Verbal Reasoning boundaries are almost unchanged from 2025 — only the 9th decile moved, from 700 to 710. Quantitative Reasoning boundaries rose by 10 to 30 points across most of the table.

So if your total looks middling but your Verbal Reasoning is strong, you may be in better shape than you think, especially at schools that give Verbal Reasoning extra weight or use it to separate tied applicants. And if one subtest is unusually low, check whether any of your choices sets a minimum for individual subtests. Our medical school cut-off guide names the schools that do.

What Is a Good UCAT Score in 2026?

There's no single answer, because "good" depends on how your chosen schools use the score. In pure ranking terms, though, here's how the final table breaks down:

🟢 2,250 and above: top 10%. An excellent score by any measure.
🟢 2,140 to 2,240: top 20%. Very strong.
🔵 2,050 to 2,130: top 30%. Strong and competitive at many UCAT-led schools.
🟠 1,920 to 2,040: above the median. Solid, and this is where school choice starts to matter enormously.
🟠 1,780 to 1,910: below the median, but well within range at schools that weigh academics and context heavily.
🔴 Below 1,780: bottom 30%. Harder, not hopeless. Your shortlist needs to be very deliberate.

Which schools reward which range is a separate question with a long answer. These are the guides to read next:

Understanding Your UCAT 2026 SJT Band 🧭

What each band means

The Consortium describes the four bands roughly as follows:

🟢 Band 1: excellent performance, with judgement matching the expert panel in most cases
🔵 Band 2: good, solid performance, with appropriate judgement shown frequently
🟠 Band 3: modest performance, with good judgement on some questions but substantial differences from the ideal on others
🔴 Band 4: low performance, with judgement often differing substantially from the ideal

Marking rewards closeness. A response that matches the model answer earns full marks, and one that's near it earns partial credit.

Why your band deserves as much attention as your total

The SJT sits outside your 2,700, which makes it easy to glance at and move on. Please don't. Some medical and dental schools reject Band 4 outright; one currently won't consider Band 3 either; several convert bands into points; and a handful ignore the SJT altogether.

With 45% of this year's candidates in Band 3 or Band 4, that's a very large group of applicants for whom school choice could decide the outcome. Check all four of your choices against your band before you press submit, using our Band 3 and Band 4 guides, or the school-by-school detail in our medical and dental cut-off guides.

Is Band 2 a good SJT result?

Yes. At 40% of candidates, it's the most common band, and it's accepted everywhere. Bands 3 and 4 are the ones to check carefully against each school's policy.

Band 1 is worth more this year 🥇

Only 15% of candidates achieved Band 1, down from 21% last year. At the schools that convert bands into points, that scarcity works in your favour, because the points gap between you and the average applicant has widened. Our guide to medical schools that reward a SJT Band 1 or 2 shows where a strong band is genuine currency and where it's quietly ignored.

Got Your UCAT 2026 Score? What to Do Next ✅

1. Find your position on the final table

Look your score up against the nine boundaries above and write down your decile. This is now the real number — no more provisional figures, no more waiting.

2. Revisit any shortlist you built in September

If you drew up your four choices using the preliminary table, you were working from boundaries 40 to 60 points too high. Any school you crossed off as out of reach deserves a second look before 15 October.

3. Match your score to how schools actually use it

Some schools rank applicants on raw score. Some work from deciles. Some blend UCAT with GCSE (General Certificate of Secondary Education) grades, A-levels and contextual data. A few barely use it. The Consortium's own advice is to use your result to shape your UCAS choices so you don't waste an application, and it's right.

4. Check your SJT band and subtest scores against every choice

Two short checks that can save you a whole application cycle.

5. Work backwards from 15 October

The UCAS deadline for medicine and dentistry is 18:00 UK time on 15 October 2026, which is roughly a fortnight away. Your application needs a completed personal statement, a reference from your school and the fee paid before it can be sent, so aim to be finished several days early rather than on the evening itself.

6. Make your fifth choice count

You can apply to a maximum of four medicine courses, and the same limit applies to dentistry. Use your fifth UCAS choice on something you'd genuinely enjoy, such as Biomedical Science, Pharmacology or Physiology, rather than treating it as an afterthought. A good degree keeps graduate-entry routes open later. 🎓

7. Accept the score you have, then make it work

The UCAT can only be sat once in a testing year, and a second attempt is treated as misconduct. The Consortium also doesn't adjust scores after the event, because its Fitness to Test policy covers illness and difficult circumstances before you sit.

If you're disappointed, that's completely understandable. The Consortium has a wellbeing page worth reading, and our guide to where to apply with a low UCAT score is a practical next step. Lots of applicants who were unhappy with their score still end up with offers, because they chose their schools carefully.

8. Start thinking about interviews now

Results reach universities in early November, and most interviews run from December onwards. When invitations arrive, the students who've already practised under timed conditions have a clear head start — and the weeks after the UCAS deadline are the quietest you'll get.

If you want to rehearse properly, our Mock MMI (Multiple Mini Interview) Circuits and MMI Courses run full timed stations with individual feedback, delivered by interviewers who are current UK medical and dental students. Your UCAT gets you the interview. The interview gets you the offer. 🎤

Common Mistakes When Reading UCAT 2026 Results 🚩

Still using the September preliminary table. It covered fewer than half the cohort, and every boundary came in lower. Use the final figures.

Comparing a 2026 score with the 2025 table. Boundaries are up by 10 to 40 points, so last year's table flatters you slightly.

Using averages or cut-offs from 2024 or earlier. They're on the old 3,600 scale and meaningless now.

Assuming the average is the target. Schools don't aim for the mean. Some interview well below it, and others ignore anyone near it.

Forgetting the SJT. A top-decile total paired with the wrong band can still end an application at the wrong school.

Looking only at your total. A few schools look inside it, and a 650 in Verbal Reasoning is a much better result than a 650 in Quantitative Reasoning.

Trusting cut-offs from group chats and forums. They're often from the wrong year, the wrong scale or the wrong applicant group. Go to the university's own admissions page every time.

Sitting the UCAT in 2027? What These Results Mean for Year 12 🗓️

If you're in Year 12 and reading ahead, well done. Three things from this year's final figures are worth knowing now.

Verbal Reasoning is where the cohort is stuck. The average didn't move at all between 2025 and 2026, and the decile boundaries barely shifted. Everyone else is improving in the two number-based subtests and standing still on reading. Consistent Verbal Reasoning practice, started early, is the clearest way to separate yourself from the pack.

The other two subtests are getting more competitive. Decision Making and Quantitative Reasoning averages both rose, so what counted as a good score last year counts for slightly less each cycle.

The SJT deserves real preparation. Band 1 fell to 15% this year. It isn't a section you can glance at the night before.

The Consortium's official practice materials are free and should be your starting point. If you'd like structured teaching across every subtest, take a look at our UCAT Online Course. 📚

⏰ Key Dates for UCAT 2026 and 2027 Entry

13 July 2026: testing began
13 September 2026: cut-off date for the preliminary statistics, based on 20,794 tests
24 September 2026: last test day, with 42,359 tests taken in total
Late September 2026: final means, deciles and subtest deciles published
15 October 2026, 18:00 UK time: UCAS deadline for medicine and dentistry
Early November 2026: UCAT results sent directly to universities
November 2026: several schools calculate their thresholds for this cycle
December 2026 onwards: most medical and dental school interviews begin

❓ UCAT 2026 Results: Frequently Asked Questions

What is the average UCAT score in 2026?

The final average total cognitive score is 1,918, based on all 42,359 tests taken this cycle. Subtest averages are 602 for Verbal Reasoning, 640 for Decision Making and 675 for Quantitative Reasoning.

Have the final UCAT 2026 results been published?

Yes. The Consortium published final means, decile boundaries and subtest deciles after testing closed on 24 September 2026. The preliminary figures released on 13 September are now superseded and shouldn't be used.

Did the UCAT deciles go down from the preliminary figures?

Every one of them. The preliminary mean of 1,970 fell to 1,918, and each decile boundary came in 40 to 60 points lower than the preliminary table showed. Early testers tend to be the better-prepared group, so preliminary figures always run high.

What percentile is my UCAT score?

Use the score-to-percentile guide earlier on this page. As a quick reference: 1,700 is the 20th percentile, 1,920 the 50th, 2,050 the 70th, 2,140 the 80th and 2,250 the 90th.

Is 2,000 a good UCAT score in 2026?

Yes, it's above average. On the final table, it sits around the 63rd percentile. That's competitive at many schools, particularly those that combine UCAT with academic results, though it's unlikely to be enough at the schools that rank most heavily on score.

Is 1,800 a good UCAT score?

It's below this year's average, at around the 33rd percentile. It's still workable. Several schools set low minimums or none at all, and others weight GCSEs and A-levels far more than the UCAT. Our low UCAT guide goes through the options.

What percentile is 2,200 in the UCAT 2026?

Around the 85th percentile — a top-20% score, just short of the 9th decile boundary of 2,250.

Is the UCAT 2026 cohort stronger than 2025?

Slightly. The final mean rose from 1,891 to 1,918, a difference of 27 points, and decile boundaries are up by 10 to 40 points. The much larger gap people were quoting in September came from comparing this year's preliminary figure with last year's final one.

Is the UCAT harder or easier in 2026?

The figures can't tell you that. The Consortium equates its different test versions within each year so that scaled scores are fair between them, and it notes that averages can shift from one year to the next. A higher average may simply reflect a better-prepared group of candidates.

Why did Verbal Reasoning not improve this year?

The average was 602 in both 2025 and 2026. Decision Making and Quantitative Reasoning both rose. The likeliest explanation is that the two number-based subtests respond faster to practice, since the question types and timing strategies are learnable, while Verbal Reasoning depends more on established reading habits.

Is Band 2 a good SJT score?

Yes. Band 2 is the most common band at 40% of candidates, and it's accepted everywhere. Bands 3 and 4 are the ones to check carefully against each school's policy.

How rare is Band 1 in 2026?

Rarer than last year. Only 15% of candidates achieved Band 1, down from 21% in 2025. Bands aren't fixed quotas, so the share changes each year with how the cohort performs.

Can I resit the UCAT in 2026 if I'm unhappy with my score?

No. You can only sit the UCAT once in a testing year, and a second attempt is treated as misconduct. There's no penalty for sitting it again in a future year if you reapply.

Do I need to send my UCAT score to universities?

No. The Consortium sends results directly to your chosen universities in early November, after matching your details with UCAS. Make sure the name and date of birth on your UCAT account match your UCAS application exactly. If a university can't find your result, give them your candidate identification (ID) number. It starts with the letters UKCAT, from the test's former name, the UK Clinical Aptitude Test, followed by six digits.

Can I use my UCAT 2026 result for 2028 entry?

Only as a deferred entry. UCAT 2026 results are valid for the 2027 admissions cycle, which covers 2027 entry or deferred entry in 2028. If you apply in a later cycle, you'll need to sit the test again.

What is the highest possible UCAT score?

The maximum total cognitive score is 2,700, made up of 900 in each of the three subtests. The best SJT result is Band 1.

Can I compare my 2026 UCAT score with scores from 2024?

No. Abstract Reasoning was removed in 2025, cutting the maximum total from 3,600 to 2,700. Scores from 2024 and earlier are on a different scale and can't be compared.

The Bottom Line

The final 2026 figures say three useful things. This cohort is modestly stronger than last year's, not dramatically so. All of that improvement came from Decision Making and Quantitative Reasoning, while Verbal Reasoning stood completely still. And Band 1 has become genuinely scarce, which makes a strong band more valuable and a Band 3 far more ordinary.

For you, the job now is straightforward. Find your decile on the final table, check your band and subtests against every school on your list, and make sure your four choices suit the way those schools actually use the score. Then put the numbers down and turn to the part of the process where you can still make the biggest difference: the interview. 💪

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