Your Score on Test Day: What You Receive and How to Access It
Immediately after completing your UCAT at the test centre, the system displays your scores on-screen. Before you leave, you are given a printed score report. This report shows your scaled score for VR, DM, and QR individually, your total cognitive score, and your SJT band. It also shows your SJT scaled score (which is used internally but is not the primary metric used by universities).
Your online score report is accessible through your Pearson VUE account within approximately 24 hours of sitting. Log in to confirm the online report is available and matches your printed report. Keep the printed report in a safe place — while the online version is authoritative, the printed report serves as your personal record in case of any data query.
Your UCAT account (on the UCAT website, not Pearson VUE) also shows your score in the test results section. This is the account through which your score is transmitted to universities.
When and How Universities Receive Your Score
UCAT delivers results to Consortium universities in early November 2026 — after the UCAS medicine and dentistry deadline of 15 October. This means that at the point of submitting your UCAS application, universities do not yet have your UCAT score through official channels. However, universities know you have sat UCAT (or are scheduled to sit it) because UCAS records indicate your intended course, and they expect UCAT results to follow.
The practical implication: your UCAS application is submitted before universities see your score, but decisions about interview invitations are made after they receive it in November. This is why the UCAS personal statement should not be written assuming the university already knows your UCAT score — it should stand independently on its academic and personal merits.
Some students ask whether they should mention their UCAT score in their personal statement. Generally, this is not recommended. Personal statements are shared across all five UCAS choices, so mentioning a score that is competitive at one university may be below-threshold at another. Let your score speak for itself through the official channel.
What Happens After Results Are Delivered to Universities
Once UCAT transmits scores in November, universities begin their shortlisting process — ranking applicants against their admissions criteria, applying any UCAT thresholds or percentage cutoffs, and generating interview invitation lists. The timeline from score delivery to interview invitations varies by institution, but most medical schools send invitations between November and February for interviews held between November and March.
If you have not received an invitation by late February and have not received a rejection, check both your email and your UCAS account regularly — not all universities communicate through the same channel. UCAS track will update your offer status when a decision has been made. If you receive no invitation from any institution and your UCAS track shows active applications, it is reasonable to contact each admissions office individually for a status update — but do not do so before February.
