St George's Medical School Interview Questions for 2027 Entry

4 Sept

f you're applying to St George's this autumn, there's one thing you need to understand before anything else: at this medical school, your University Clinical Aptitude Test (UCAT) score decides whether you get an interview, and your interview decides whether you get an offer. Almost nothing else does.

That's unusual, and it's brilliant news for two very different types of applicant. If your UCAT went well but your grades are merely solid, St George's is one of the fairest doors in the country. And if you're a strong talker who freezes at the thought of a formal panel, you'll be glad to know the whole thing is six short, separate questions — none of which can sink the others.

This guide covers everything about the St George's interview for 2027 entry: how the shortlisting works, what the six stations look like, when interviews happen, how they're scored, when offers land, and 55 practice questions written in the school's own format. 💙

🏥 First, a Quick Word About the Name

You'll see two names used interchangeably, so let's clear it up now.

In August 2024, St George's, University of London merged with City, University of London to form City St George's, University of London. Medicine is still taught where it has always been taught — at the Tooting campus in south-west London — and the course codes haven't changed. Applicants, students and just about everyone in the National Health Service (NHS) still say "St George's", so this article does too.

An Introduction to the Medical School

St George's Hospital opened in 1733 at Hyde Park Corner with room for thirty patients. Teaching began there in 1752, and the medical school was formally established in 1834 before joining the University of London two years later. The place has form: John Hunter, the father of modern surgery, trained there. So did Edward Jenner, who gave the world the smallpox vaccine. And Henry Gray wrote Gray's Anatomy there in 1858, a textbook you'll still be handling in your first term.

In the 1970s the whole institution moved south to Tooting, and that move produced the single feature that defines St George's today.

⭐ How Does St George's Stand Out From Other UK Medical Schools?

It shares its site with a major teaching hospital

This is the headline. The medical school and St George's Hospital, one of the largest teaching hospitals in the country, occupy the same site in Tooting. You don't get a bus to your placement — you walk down a corridor. Lecture theatres, clinical skills labs and busy wards sit within a few minutes of each other, which means patient contact starts early and stays constant.

It's a specialist health campus, not a medical school bolted onto a big university

The Tooting campus teaches medicine alongside nursing, midwifery, paramedic science, radiography, physiotherapy and occupational therapy. You'll be learning next to the exact professionals you'll later be phoning at 3am. For a career that is relentlessly multidisciplinary, that's not a small thing.

The admissions process is unusually transparent

Very few medical schools publish, in plain English, exactly how they rank applicants — and then publish their historic UCAT cut-offs alongside applicant, interview and offer numbers going back years. St George's does. If you like knowing where you stand, this is the medical school for you.

The applicant pool is genuinely diverse

South-west London is one of the most mixed populations in Europe, and the student body reflects the patients. Graduates, career-changers and mature students sit alongside school leavers, partly because St George's also runs a four-year graduate entry course (A101) at the same site.

📊 Rankings and Student Experience Ratings

Post-merger, the university's league table position is still settling — City and St George's were assessed separately until recently, so treat any single number with care. Here's the honest picture.

League table positions

Medicine subject table: ranked 24th in the UK in the Complete University Guide 2027, with entry standards scored at 67%, student satisfaction at 82% and graduate prospects at 86%.
Overall university ranking: 59th of 130 in the Complete University Guide 2027.
The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2026: 48th in the UK and 7th in London, with a notable 14th place for graduate prospects.
Worldwide: the merged university is listed at around =361 in the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings, which is what you'd expect of a small specialist institution rather than a sprawling research giant. Judge St George's on its medical school metrics, not its global position.
Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) 2023: Silver overall, with Gold for student outcomes — one of only 33 providers in the UK to earn Gold in that aspect.
Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021: 86% of research rated world-leading or internationally excellent.

What medical students actually say

The National Student Survey (NSS) results for the Medicine course, published on Discover Uni, are worth reading properly rather than skimming:

84% positive about teaching on the course
82% positive about learning opportunities
80% positive about support from teaching staff
72% positive about assessment and feedback
71% positive about learning resources
64% positive about student voice being heard and acted on
59% positive about organisation and management

And the outcomes that matter most: 99% of students continue on the course after first year, 98% are working or studying within 15 months of graduating, and 91% say they're using what they learnt in their current job.

Read that honestly. Teaching and clinical exposure score strongly; timetabling and communication are the recurring gripe. That's a fair summary of most medical schools, and it's also a genuinely useful thing to mention at an open day.

🎯 How Does St George's Decide Who to Call for an Interview?

This is where St George's differs most sharply from its neighbours — and where a lot of applicants get it wrong.

Step one: do you meet the entry criteria?

You'll need:

A Levels: AAA including Chemistry and Biology (or Human Biology). General Studies and Critical Thinking aren't accepted.
International Baccalaureate: 36 points overall with 18 at Higher Level, including a minimum of grade 6 in both Biology and Chemistry.
GCSEs: five subjects at grade 6 (B) or above, including English Language, Maths and Science (Double or Triple Award).
Graduates: a 2:1 honours degree in any discipline (or a postgraduate pass with a 2:2 undergraduate degree).

Qualifications must normally have been achieved within the last five years — St George's wants evidence of recent engagement in education.

Step two: your UCAT score decides the rest

Every applicant who meets the entry criteria is ranked by UCAT score. Interview places go to the highest scorers until the interview slots are full. That's it. There's no scoring of your grades, no points for your work experience, and — read this twice — no formal assessment of your personal statement.

St George's states plainly that it reads your personal statement, but that it isn't formally assessed and isn't used to decide whether you're invited to a Multiple Mini Interview (MMI). Write it well for your other four choices; don't expect it to rescue a low UCAT here.

Step three: four separate ranking pools

Because of government caps on overseas places (roughly 9% of the cohort) and an internal cap on graduates on the five-year course (around 25%), applicants are ranked in four separate groups, each with its own cut-off:

Home non-graduates
Overseas non-graduates
Home graduates
Overseas graduates

Within each group, everyone who hits that group's cut-off is invited. If a lot of applicants are tied on the cut-off score, St George's will flex the number of interviews up or down so that everyone on that score is treated the same. It's a small detail that tells you a lot about how the school thinks.

📈 Historic UCAT cut-off scores

Cut-offs are set fresh each year based on the strength of the applicant pool, and they're published once interview invitations have gone out. For reference:

The 2026 cycle (the first on the three-subtest UCAT, maximum 2,700): 1,880 for home non-graduates and home graduates; 1,640 and 1,630 for overseas non-graduates and graduates.
The 2025 cycle (the old four-subtest UCAT, maximum 3,600): 2,600 for home applicants, rising to 2,750 for overseas non-graduates.

Alongside the overall cut-off, there's a hard floor: you need a minimum of 500 in each individual UCAT subtest. Miss that in one section and a strong total won't save you.

Please don't try to predict the 2027 number from these. St George's says explicitly that you can't, and it's right — the cut-off is set by how many interview slots exist and how strong the pool is that year. Aim as high as you can and check the school's admissions statistics page in November.

Contextual admissions

If you're eligible under the contextual admissions policy — care experience, low-participation area, a lower-performing school, free school meals, caring responsibilities, first in your family to go to university — you may receive a conditional offer up to two grades below the standard one. A travel bursary is also available to help eligible applicants attend in person.

Once your score gets you the interview

Your UCAT gets you the interview. The interview gets you the offer.

A mid-range score can win offers when your interview is strong, and even a high one can fall short without preparation. Our interview course is taught in small groups by NHS doctors, with realistic MMI practice and feedback on every station.

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🎤 How Does St George's Interview? Format, Structure and Timings

St George's uses the Multiple Mini Interview (MMI) for every one of its interviewing programmes, and it says why: it believes the format is fairer and more accurate than a traditional panel, and better at assessing empathy, integrity and respect.

Six stations, five minutes each

The structure is the same whether you sit it online or on campus:

Six stations (or six questions, if you're online)
Around five minutes per station, including the time it takes for the question to be read to you
A 60-second break between each one
Each station assessed separately and independently by a different interviewer

Each station may be a question, a practical task, or a role play — for example, managing a difficult situation. You'll always have the question in writing in front of you as well as hearing it aloud.

That last point about independent marking matters enormously for your nerves. As St George's puts it, if one question doesn't go as well as you hoped, you can move on confidently to the next.

💻 Online or in person?

Here's the bit most applicants don't realise. For 2026 entry, the two routes were delivered differently:

The five-year Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) course, A100, interviewed entirely online, via a platform called SAMMI-Select.
The four-year Graduate Entry MBBS (A101) interviewed in person at the Tooting campus, or online.
Overseas fee payers are offered a Remote Multiple Mini Interview (RMMI) using the same software, with the option to book an on-site interview if they can travel.

Most mainland UK applicants can't opt for a remote interview when an in-person one is offered, and nobody can request a different format — St George's interviews everyone in a consistent way for fairness. Reasonable adjustments for a disability or specific learning difficulty are arranged individually; email the interviews team early if you need one. Note that no extra reading time is given, because nothing is read silently and there are no writing tasks — every word is read aloud to you.

⚠️ The delivery method is confirmed by the medical school each cycle. Check your invitation email and the school's selection process page rather than assuming this year will match last year.

The online SAMMI-Select interview, step by step

SAMMI stands for Scalable Automated Multiple Mini Interviews. You watch a pre-recorded question, filmed by members of the City St George's community, then record your own answer to camera. Trained interviewers review and score the recordings afterwards.

You get your login details 48 hours before your interview.
You must complete a practice setup first: internet check, webcam, microphone, plus an introductory video, an instructions video and a practice question. You can repeat the practice as many times as you like, and the practice recording is deleted automatically.
The real interview must be completed in one sitting. Allow up to an hour overall, including checks and up to 15 minutes of uploading.
Use a laptop or desktop on mains power — not a tablet, phone or 2-in-1. Use Chrome, Firefox, Opera or Edge; Safari and Internet Explorer aren't supported. Aim for at least 10 Mbps.
Headphones are fine, but connect them before you start and don't switch devices mid-interview.
Have your photo ID uploaded in advance.

🚫 One firm rule: using artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT during the interview is strictly prohibited, and SAMMI-Select runs detection software looking for it and for other unusual activity. Flagged interviews are investigated and offers can be withdrawn. They want your thinking, not a chatbot's.

The in-person MMI at Tooting

If you're invited on site, expect to be at the Tooting campus for about three hours.

Registration is at the desk near main reception in the Hunter Wing, open from 9:45am to 3:15pm.
Bring physical photo ID — a valid passport or a UK driving licence (full or provisional). Without it, you can't be interviewed.
You'll be given a name badge and sent to the Applicant Waiting Room, where student ambassadors, drinks and snacks are waiting. Friends and family aren't allowed in the waiting room or the MMI rooms, though they can stay elsewhere on campus.
Phones and smart watches must be switched off and in your bag. No notes, no note-taking, no leaving the room mid-circuit.
Water in a bottle with a secure lid is fine. Nothing else.
Afterwards there's a course presentation and question-and-answer session with tutors — 12:30pm for morning interviewees, 4:00pm for afternoon ones. Family are welcome at this part, space permitting.

There's also a fit-to-sit policy: by turning up, you're declaring yourself well enough to be assessed, and extenuating circumstances can't be considered afterwards. If you're genuinely unwell, contact the interviews team before you sit it.

📅 When Are St George's Interviews Held?

For 2026 entry, the five-year MBBS interviews ran on Wednesday 3 December and Tuesday 9 December 2025, and the graduate entry interviews ran from 9 to 16 February 2026.

Expect a similar shape for 2027 entry: an early-December window for the five-year course and a February window for graduate entry, with exact dates published on the selection process page during the autumn.

Two practical points that catch people out every single year:

Interview dates are released on a rolling basis through the Applicant Portal, and slots are limited. Book the moment your invitation arrives. If you dither and the interview days finish, there's no alternative date.
The date you're interviewed says nothing about the quality of your application and has no effect on the outcome. Early or late, it makes no difference.

If you've applied for deferred entry, you still have to interview in this cycle — you can't roll your interview into next year.

🧮 What Is the Interview Scoring Method?

St George's is refreshingly clear about this.

Each of the six stations is scored independently by a different trained interviewer, who sees only their own station. Nobody has read your personal statement before scoring you, and nobody knows how you did next door. Your station scores combine into a total MMI score.

Once every interview in the cycle is finished — and only then — St George's ranks candidates on their MMI score together with their UCAT Situational Judgement Test (SJT) result, within each of the four applicant groups. The highest performers in each group receive offers. The school also notes that your overall UCAT score may be considered again after interview, and it may be used to rank the post-interview waiting list.

Three things follow from that, and they should change how you prepare:

The Situational Judgement Test matters here. At many medical schools the SJT is a tie-breaker or ignored entirely. At St George's it's explicitly part of the ranking after interview. Don't treat the SJT as the section you can coast through on test day.
No single station can wreck you. Six independent scores means one bad five minutes is one-sixth of your total, not a running theme an interviewer carries with them.
Consistency beats brilliance. Six solid, structured, thoughtful answers will outrank two dazzling ones and four vague ones every time.

📬 When Are Offers Released?

Decisions aren't made until every interview for the programme is complete, so that everyone is compared fairly against the same field. That means no rolling offers and no reading anything into a quiet inbox in January.

Five-year MBBS (A100): outcomes released by the end of February.
Graduate Entry MBBS (A101): outcomes released by the end of April.
Everyone who applied by the 15 October Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) deadline and attended an interview receives an outcome by the UCAS decision deadline in May.

Decisions come by email and through your UCAS Hub. If you're offered a place and then decide to defer, you must tell the school by 1 June of your application year.

🔢 How Many Are Interviewed, and How Many Get Offers?

St George's interviews a lot of people. In previous cycles it has interviewed roughly 800 to 1,200 applicants for the five-year course.

Here's the most recent published picture for the five-year MBBS (2025/26 entry, standard entry applicants):

Home: 1,279 applicants → 773 interviewed → 369 conditional offers
Overseas: 318 applicants → 121 interviewed → 27 conditional offers
Places available: 165 home, 19 overseas
A further 205 home and 35 overseas applicants were placed on the waiting list

For the four-year graduate entry course in the same cycle: 584 applicants → 245 interviewed → 123 conditional offers for 71 places. That route uses the Graduate Medical School Admissions Test (GAMSAT) rather than the UCAT, with recent cut-offs in the mid-50s.

The Medical Schools Council puts overall competition at 8 applicants per place for home students and 13.8 per place for international students.

Now look at what those numbers actually mean for you. Around 60% of home applicants were interviewed, and close to half of everyone interviewed received a conditional offer. That's the deal St George's is offering: a strong chance of an interview if your UCAT holds up, and a genuinely winnable interview once you're in it.

Your interview performance is worth more here than almost anywhere else. Prepare accordingly.

🗂️ What Topics Are Covered in the St George's Interview?

St George's describes its MMI as values-based recruitment. The stated aim is to check that your values match those expected of a healthcare professional in the NHS, not to quiz you on A Level biology.

The school names these qualities directly: empathy, integrity and respect, alongside communication skills, ethical reasoning, problem-solving and motivation for studying medicine.

In practice, six stations across a values-based MMI will draw from:

Motivation for medicine and realistic insight into the career
Reflection on work experience and volunteering
Communication, including explaining things to non-experts
Empathy and compassion
Ethical reasoning and the four pillars of medical ethics
Teamwork and leadership
Integrity, honesty and professionalism
Resilience and self-awareness
Understanding of the NHS and current healthcare issues
Problem-solving and prioritisation
Role play and scenario handling

⚠️ Nobody outside the admissions team knows the actual questions, and you should be sceptical of anyone selling you a list that claims otherwise. What follows are practice questions written in the St George's format — one question per station, five minutes each, read aloud — covering exactly the domains above.

💬 55 St George's-Style MMI Practice Questions

Set a timer for five minutes per question. Answer out loud, ideally to a camera if you're preparing for SAMMI-Select. Take 60 seconds between each. Don't script anything.

🩺 Motivation for medicine and insight into the career

Five minutes each. They want reasons, not enthusiasm.

Why do you want to study medicine, and what specifically made you decide?
Medicine is a long, demanding and sometimes disappointing career. What do you think you will find hardest, and how have you prepared for it?
What are the main challenges facing junior doctors working in the NHS today?
Apart from medicine, what other careers did you seriously consider, and why did you rule them out?
Describe one thing you have read, watched or listened to recently about medicine that changed your view of the profession.

💡 A good answer names something specific you saw or did, then says what you learnt from it. "I've always wanted to help people" is the weakest sentence in medical admissions.

🧑‍⚕️ Work experience and reflection

They are testing what you took from it, not where you went.

Tell us about a time during work experience or volunteering when you saw excellent care being delivered. What made it excellent?
Describe something you observed in a healthcare setting that made you uncomfortable. How did you make sense of it afterwards?
What did volunteering teach you about the people who use health and care services?
You spent time with a healthcare team. Who was in it, what did each member contribute, and what surprised you?

🗣️ Communication

Explain to a 12-year-old what a clinical trial is and why it matters.
Teach the interviewer how to do something practical you are good at, using words alone.
A patient who speaks very little English needs to understand how to take a new medicine. How would you approach this?
A relative asks you a question you don't know the answer to. What do you say?

💡 In an online station, remember the camera is your listener. Slow down, look at the lens, and pause between ideas.

💙 Empathy and compassion

What does empathy mean to you, and how is it different from sympathy?
Describe a time you supported someone who was upset. What did you do, and what would you do differently now?
A patient waiting more than a year for a hip replacement tells you they've given up hope. How would you respond?
What difficulties would a doctor who lacked empathy face in their working life?

⚖️ Ethical reasoning

Argue both sides before you land anywhere. That's the mark scheme.

A 15-year-old asks you not to tell her parents about a health problem. What issues does this raise?
Should patients who smoke be given lower priority for certain operations? Explain your reasoning.
A new cancer drug extends life by three months and costs £100,000 per patient. Should the NHS fund it?
What are the four pillars of medical ethics, and can you describe a situation where two of them conflict?
Do you think it is right for doctors to prescribe drugs that help patients end their lives?

🤝 Teamwork and leadership

Describe a time when a team you were part of failed. What was your contribution to that failure?
What qualities make someone a good leader in healthcare, and are they the same as those that make a good doctor?
A group project is being held back by one member who isn't contributing. What do you do?
Tell us about a time you had to follow someone else's decision that you disagreed with.

🛡️ Integrity, honesty and professionalism

A fellow student regularly misses lectures. Does this mean they wouldn't make a good doctor?
You notice a classmate has copied part of an assignment. What do you do, and what would stop you?
What does professionalism mean for a medical student outside the hospital, including on social media?
Why do you think honesty and the duty of candour matter so much in medicine?

🌱 Resilience and self-awareness

What does resilience mean to you, and when have you shown it?
Tell us about a significant setback and what you actually changed afterwards.
What is your greatest weakness, and what are you doing about it?
How will you look after your own wellbeing during a five-year medical degree?

🏥 The NHS and current healthcare issues

What are the biggest pressures facing the NHS at the moment, and which would you tackle first?
Artificial intelligence is being used more and more in medicine. What are the risks?
Health outcomes differ significantly between wealthier and poorer areas of the same city. Why, and what can doctors do about it?
Should routine general practitioner (GP) appointments be delivered remotely by default?
What do you understand by the term "multidisciplinary team", and why does it matter in a large teaching hospital?

🧩 Problem-solving and prioritisation

You have four tasks on a ward and time for two. How would you decide, and who would you tell?
You are organising an event and your two key helpers drop out the day before. Walk us through what you do.
How would you persuade someone to change a decision you believe is wrong?
A hospital has funding for one new service: a mental health team, a rehabilitation unit, or a diagnostic scanner. Which would you choose and why?

🎭 Role play and scenarios

Talk to the person, not about the situation.

Your friend has been offered a place at their first-choice university and you have been rejected from yours. Speak to them.
A classmate confides that they are struggling and have started missing school. Have that conversation.
You are a shop supervisor and a colleague has arrived late for the third time this week. Speak to them.
You must tell a teammate that they have not been selected for a team they trained hard for.

🏫 Questions Specific to St George's

Every medical school likes to know you meant to apply to them. At a school that reads your personal statement but doesn't score it, the interview is the only place you can show it. Prepare these eight properly.

Why have you applied to St George's rather than another London medical school?
Our medical school shares its site with a major teaching hospital. What difference do you think that makes to how you'd learn?
You would train alongside student nurses, midwives, paramedics and physiotherapists. Why might that matter to you as a future doctor?
St George's serves an extremely diverse population in south-west London. What challenges and opportunities does that create for a doctor working there?
Our selection process deliberately ranks applicants by UCAT score rather than assessing personal statements. Do you think that's a fair way to choose medical students?
What have you done to find out whether our course is right for you, and what did you learn?
Some of our teaching is student-led and case-based. How do you learn best, and how would you cope with that style?
If you were offered a place here today, what would you want to get involved with beyond the course itself?

💡 For question 49, go beyond "more patient contact". Think about what a five-minute walk to a ward does to how often you can see patients, how casual that contact becomes, and how quickly the hospital starts to feel like your workplace rather than a visit.

🗣️ What Students and Applicants Say

The following are recurring themes from applicant forums, open days and student conversations rather than official statements — treat them as flavour, not fact.

"The online interview feels strange until you practise it." Talking to a webcam with no nodding, no smiling and no follow-up questions is the thing applicants mention most about SAMMI-Select. Those who recorded themselves beforehand consistently say it made the biggest difference.

"Five minutes is longer than you think." Applicants routinely run out of material at ninety seconds and then flounder. The ones who felt calm had a structure ready — a point, an example, a reflection — rather than a script.

"The waiting room was surprisingly friendly." For in-person interviews, students describe the ambassadors as genuinely helpful and the atmosphere as far less cut-throat than expected. Several say the course talk afterwards was what actually sold them the place.

"You are close to everything." Current students talk about how quickly the hospital becomes normal — that you stop thinking of placements as trips and start thinking of the wards as part of campus.

"Tooting is underrated." Cheaper than central London, well connected on the Northern line, and with a food scene that students bring up unprompted.

"Organisation can be patchy." The NSS score of 59% for organisation and communication isn't an accident, and students say the same: teaching and clinical exposure are strong, timetabling sometimes isn't. Worth asking about honestly at an open day.

🚀 Top Tips to Succeed at the St George's Interview

Chase the UCAT first, and don't neglect the Situational Judgement Test. Your UCAT gets you the interview; your SJT is ranked alongside your MMI score afterwards. At most medical schools you can half-ignore the SJT. Not here.

Check the 500-per-subtest floor. A brilliant total with one section under 500 doesn't get you an interview. If you're borderline in one area, that's where your revision time goes.

Practise to a camera, not a mirror. If you're applying for the five-year course, assume the online format. Record five-minute answers on your laptop, watch them back, and fix the two things that make you cringe most. It's horrible. It works.

Build a structure, not a script. Something like: answer the question directly, give a specific example, say what you learnt, then acknowledge the other side. Interviewers spot memorised answers instantly, and scripts collapse the moment a station goes sideways.

Time yourself properly. Aim to fill roughly four of your five minutes with substance. Practise finishing cleanly rather than trailing off.

Treat every station as a fresh start. Different interviewer, independent score, no memory of the last one. If station three goes badly, station four genuinely doesn't know. Sixth formers lose more marks to carried-over panic than to bad answers.

Argue both sides on ethics, then commit. A balanced answer that reaches a clear conclusion beats a confident one-sided answer every time — and it beats an endless "on the other hand" that never lands.

Prepare your "why St George's" answer with real specifics. Shared hospital site, early and constant patient contact, an interprofessional campus, and a diverse patient population in south-west London. Say what that means for you.

Sort your technology the day before. Laptop on mains power, supported browser, headphones connected, quiet room, photo ID uploaded, Wi-Fi tested. Nobody thinks clearly with a spinning upload icon in the corner of the screen.

Book your interview slot the moment the invitation arrives. Slots are limited and released on a rolling basis. Applicants lose interviews every year to nothing more than hesitation.

Read around the NHS, don't cram it. Fifteen minutes a week on health news for two months beats a panicked evening the night before.

And do a proper mock. Self-practice builds fluency, but it can't tell you how you come across to a trained examiner. If you want a full timed MMI circuit with real examiners and written feedback, that's exactly what our MMI Courses are built for. 👉 Book a Mock MMI Circuit

📌 Key Facts at a Glance

💙 Medical school: City St George's, University of London (Tooting campus, south-west London)

💙 Courses: MBBS Medicine, 5 years (A100) · MBBS Medicine Graduate Entry, 4 years (A101) · institution code C60

💙 Application deadline for 2027 entry: 15 October 2026

💙 A Level requirement: AAA including Chemistry and Biology or Human Biology

💙 GCSE requirement: five subjects at grade 6/B or above, including English Language, Maths and Science

💙 Admissions test: UCAT — minimum 500 in every subtest plus an overall cut-off set annually

💙 Most recent published cut-off (2026 cycle): 1,880 for home applicants; 1,640 for overseas non-graduates

💙 Personal statement: read, but not formally assessed and not used for interview selection

💙 Interview type: Multiple Mini Interview — six stations, five minutes each, 60-second breaks

💙 Delivery: online via SAMMI-Select for the five-year course (2026 entry); in person at Tooting or online for graduate entry; Remote MMI for overseas applicants

💙 Online interview duration: allow up to one hour including checks and upload

💙 In-person interview day: around three hours on campus

💙 Interview window (2026 entry): 3 and 9 December 2025 (A100); 9–16 February 2026 (A101)

💙 Scoring: each station marked independently by a different interviewer; MMI score ranked alongside the UCAT Situational Judgement Test

💙 Offers released: end of February (A100); end of April (A101)

💙 Numbers (2025/26 entry, home standard entry): 1,279 applicants → 773 interviewed → 369 offers for 165 home places

💙 Competition ratio: 8:1 home · 13.8:1 international

💙 Medicine ranking: 24th in the UK, Complete University Guide 2027

💙 Not allowed: phones, smart watches, notes, and any use of artificial intelligence tools

Good luck. And remember — at a medical school that interviews close to half its applicants and offers places to nearly half of those, the interview isn't the obstacle. It's the opportunity. 💙

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