2027 Entry · 3 cognitive subtests + SJT · July–August window

The complete
UCAT-ANZ guide

Q: When do I sit UCAT-ANZ?

UCAT-ANZ runs over a single multi-week window each year — UCAT ANZ 2026 ran 1 July to 5 August 2026, and UCAT ANZ 2025 ran 1 July to 17 August 2025. Bookings opened 3 March and closed 15 May, with late bookings to 29 May (+AUD $85) and final late bookings to 5 June (+AUD $185). Year-12 applicants sit between their mid-year exams and the close of state admissions-centre applications (UAC, VTAC, QTAC, SATAC or TISC, depending on your state). The score is valid for one application cycle only — there is no rollover.

Q: Can I sit UCAT-ANZ twice in the same year?

No. The rule is the UCAT ANZ Consortium's, not Pearson's: you may only take the test once in any test cycle, and multiple testing in the same year is treated as candidate misconduct. If you want to apply with a different score next cycle, you sit again the following July. This is the single biggest difference from many other admissions tests where multiple sittings are permitted — UCAT-ANZ is a one-shot test each year.

Q: How does UCAT-ANZ differ from UCAT UK?

Largely the same test, but separate cohorts and separate test windows. UK candidates sit between July and September; ANZ candidates sit in July only. Both report the three cognitive subtests on the same /2700 scale — for UCAT-ANZ that scale began at the 2025 sitting, the first test used for 2026 entry — and both use the same subtest names. The one real scoring difference is Situational Judgement: UCAT UK reports it in Bands 1-4, while UCAT-ANZ reports it as its own 300-900 scaled score. Cut-off scores quoted by UK and Australian schools are not directly comparable either, because they reflect different applicant pools. A UCAT-ANZ score cannot be used in a UK application and vice versa — you must sit the relevant version.

Q: What is a good UCAT-ANZ score for Australian medicine?

There is no single number to hit, and most Australian schools decline to publish one because the threshold is set by each year's applicant pool — UWA says plainly that there is no set minimum and the threshold is set by ranking within each quota, and Western Sydney that its threshold is not made public. Calibrate against the official distribution instead: on the UCAT ANZ 2026 sitting (17,341 candidates, used for 2027 entry) the mean total cognitive score was 1,964 and the median 1,950, with the 8th decile at 2,220 and the 9th at 2,340. The published figures that do exist are school-specific and not interchangeable — UNSW, for example, requires a UCAT-ANZ percentile of 50 or above for general entry and 40 or above for its Rural Entry Admission Pathway, which are eligibility floors, not competitive scores. Check each school's own selection page and treat any third-party 'cut-off' as an estimate.

Q: How is the Situational Judgement Test scored?

The SJT is reported separately from the three cognitive subtests, as its own scaled score between 300 and 900. It is not added to the /2700 cognitive total. UCAT-ANZ does not band this subtest — Bands 1-4 are the UCAT UK convention. Different Australian schools use SJT differently — most use Band 1 or 2 as a threshold, with Band 3 reviewed individually and Band 4 typically excluded. Some schools weight SJT into a composite alongside ATAR and the cognitive subtests.

Q: Do international applicants sit UCAT-ANZ?

Some do, not most — the UCAT ANZ Consortium says only that some of its member universities require international students to sit UCAT ANZ, and several accept ISAT instead (UNSW, for example, takes either a UCAT-ANZ percentile of 50+ or an ISAT score of 165+, and will not consider the other test if you submit it later). Check each school's international admissions page before booking. International applicants sit at Pearson VUE test centres overseas, and the overseas fee is materially higher: AUD $405 against AUD $335 in Australia or New Zealand for UCAT ANZ 2026. Confirm specific test requirements with each school — a small number of programmes accept ISAT or use a separate international ranking system.

Q: Are there contextual adjustments for UCAT-ANZ?

Some Australian schools apply contextual adjustments — bonus weighting to ATAR or composite rankings — for applicants from rural backgrounds, low-SES postcodes, or Indigenous heritage. Most adjustments operate on the ATAR or final composite rather than the raw UCAT-ANZ score, but the score itself is not always treated identically: UNSW sets its UCAT-ANZ minimum at the 50th percentile for general entry and the 40th percentile for its Rural Entry Admission Pathway. The equity schemes belong to the admissions centres and the universities, not to Universities Australia — the Educational Access Scheme, for instance, is administered by UAC on behalf of participating NSW and ACT institutions, and each state centre (VTAC, QTAC, SATAC, TISC) runs its own equivalent.

Q: How long should I prepare for UCAT-ANZ?

Three months of focused preparation (10-12 hours per week) is typical for competitive candidates. Some applicants prepare longer with lighter weekly loads, building familiarity over six months. Shorter than three months risks under-preparation on the decision-making subtest, which takes the longest to learn. Beyond three months, returns diminish — the test is heavily speed-based and over-practising can lead to mechanical answering.

Q: What if my score is lower than I expected?

Apply strategically. Lower-ATAR-weighting schools (Western Sydney, Curtin, WSU rural pathway) may still be reachable. If the score is significantly below your target threshold, consider applying once with what you have, supplement with a strong portfolio for schools that weight non-cognitive factors, and plan to re-sit the following July if you don't receive offers. Don't withdraw or skip a cycle unless your score is genuinely uncompetitive at every school.

Q: Can I use UCAT-ANZ for dental school in Australia?

Yes. For UCAT ANZ 2026 (2027 entry) the dental programmes in the Consortium are Adelaide University (Dental Surgery and Oral Health), Charles Sturt (Dental Science), Griffith (Dental Health Science), UQ (Dental Science) and UWA (Doctor of Dental Medicine via the Bachelor of Biomedicine (Specialised)). JCU dentistry does not use UCAT at all — it says applicants who sit UCAT or GAMSAT receive no advantage — and La Trobe is not a UCAT ANZ Consortium member. Graduate-entry dentistry is a separate track: Melbourne's Doctor of Dental Surgery ranks on weighted average mark and GAMSAT (or DAT, or a legacy BMAT score) with equal weighting. The same UCAT-ANZ sitting can be used across medicine and dentistry applications in the same cycle.

The University Clinical Aptitude Test for Australia and New Zealand (UCAT-ANZ) is the cognitive admissions test used by every major undergraduate medicine programme in Australia and New Zealand, plus several dental schools. Same format as UCAT UK — but a separate cohort, a separate July test window, and separate cut-offs at each school.

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~2 hrs

Total test time

/2700

Cognitive scale

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The difference

UCAT-ANZ vs UCAT UK — what differs

There are two versions of the test, each owned by its own consortium — UCAT for the UK Consortium and its associate members, and UCAT-ANZ for the UCAT ANZ Consortium in Australia and New Zealand. There is no separate UCAT International version; overseas candidates sit whichever of the two their target schools use, at Pearson VUE centres in their own country. The subtests and timings are identical, but Situational Judgement is reported differently — bands 1-4 in the UK, a 300-900 scaled score in ANZ. What differs is who you compete against and which schools accept your result.

Separate cohort. Your UCAT-ANZ percentile is benchmarked against other ANZ-region candidates, not the global UCAT pool. The mean and standard deviation drift year to year; a 2,200 in 2025 might be the 80th percentile, in 2026 it might be the 78th. Schools generally publish absolute thresholds (e.g. 2,150+) rather than percentile thresholds because the percentile shifts.

Separate test window. UCAT-ANZ runs over a multi-week window in July each year. UCAT UK runs July to September. The earlier ANZ window aligns with the Australian academic calendar (year-12 mid-year exams finish in late June). You cannot sit UCAT-ANZ outside this window.

Separate cut-offs. A UK school's UCAT cut-off is not transferable to an Australian school's. UCAT-ANZ cut-offs are published per Australian school each year. The /2700 scale (introduced at the UCAT ANZ 2025 sitting, the first test used for 2026 entry) replaces the historical /3600 scale — older guidance you find online may still reference the /3600 numbers, which are no longer directly comparable.

You can't use a UK score for an Australian application. Each cohort's score is sealed to that cohort's applications. If you're applying to both UK and Australian undergraduate medicine in the same cycle, you sit both tests. (Most candidates pick one country.)

The test

The four subtests

UCAT-ANZ is 111 minutes of testing time and just under 2 hours in total. There are no breaks — once the test has started it cannot be paused — but each subtest is preceded by a timed instruction section (1 minute 30 seconds, or 2 minutes for Quantitative Reasoning). Each subtest is timed individually — you cannot return to a previous one. Since the UCAT ANZ 2025 sitting it has three cognitive subtests reported on a /2,700 scale, plus a separately-scored Situational Judgement Test on its own 300-900 scale. (Abstract Reasoning was removed at that sitting.) Bars below are scaled to the minutes you get in each subtest.

VR01

Verbal Reasoning

22 minutes

11 passages of ~300 words, four questions each. True / False / Can't Tell plus inference and tone — roughly 30 seconds per question. The most under-prepped subtest; skim-reading discipline beats content knowledge.

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DM02

Decision Making

37 minutes

Logic puzzles, Venn diagrams, syllogisms, probability and argument recognition. Mixed single-best-answer and five-statement yes/no formats (multi-statement items are worth 2 marks, with 1 mark for a partially correct response), and a simple on-screen calculator is available here too. The most varied subtest — the question mix differs every sitting.

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QR03

Quantitative Reasoning

26 minutes

Applied numeracy — percentages, ratios, rates, unit conversions, simple algebra and data interpretation, with the on-screen calculator. about 43 seconds per question; speed of arithmetic matters more than difficulty.

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SJT04

Situational Judgement

26 minutes

Healthcare-team scenarios, professional conduct and ethics. "How appropriate" and "how important" question types, reported as its own 300-900 scaled score (not added to the /2700). Read the AHPRA / Medical Board of Australia codes cold.

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Verbal Reasoning22 min

Decision Making37 min

Quantitative Reasoning26 min

SJT

Situational Judgement26 min

Question counts and per-subtest timings are set by the UCAT ANZ Consortium and adjusted periodically — confirm the current cycle at ucat.edu.au before you book.

Timing

Test window and result release

Booking opens

3 March 2026 for UCAT ANZ 2026, closing 15 May, with late bookings to 29 May (+AUD $85) and final late bookings to 5 June (+AUD $185); Concession and Access Arrangements applications opened earlier, on 16 February. Confirm the UCAT ANZ 2027 dates on ucat.edu.au when they are published. Book early — the most desirable dates and locations (Sydney CBD, Melbourne CBD) fill within days of opening. Late bookings tend to land in less convenient Pearson VUE centres further from public transport.

Test window

UCAT ANZ 2026 ran 1 July to 5 August 2026 — a five-week window, and the 2025 window ran seven weeks to 17 August, so it is not a 3-4 week July window. You select a single appointment date and time. Rescheduling was free up to 29 June; after that a AUD $25 fee applied and you could still move your appointment up to 24 hours beforehand, subject to availability. Miss the appointment and the fee is forfeited — you pay the full standard fee again to rebook.

Result release

Pearson emails you within 24 hours of finishing with instructions to open your UCAT ANZ Score Report in your Pearson account. You don't send your score yourself — the UCAT ANZ Office delivers results for every candidate to the Consortium universities in early September (early September 2026 for the UCAT ANZ 2026 sitting), and the universities match them to the application you lodged through your state admissions centre. Preliminary statistics appear in late August and full summary statistics and Total Score percentiles in September.

Cost

UCAT ANZ 2026 (the sitting used for 2027 entry): AUD $335 for a test taken in Australia or New Zealand, AUD $405 overseas. A late fee of AUD $85 applies to bookings made after the 15 May deadline and up to 29 May, and a final late fee of AUD $185 to bookings up to 5 June; cancelling for a refund deducts AUD $50. UCAT ANZ publishes no bursary scheme — the Concession Scheme cuts the fee to AUD $240 for candidates named on a current Australian Health Care Card or Pensioner Concession Card (Australia only; applications open 16 February and close 11 May, before you book), and hardship on any other basis is not considered. Access Arrangements for a documented disability or medical condition are applied for separately and must be approved before the test is booked. Confirm UCAT ANZ 2027 fees at ucat.edu.au once they are published.

Where it's used

Australian schools using UCAT-ANZ (2027 entry)

17 Australian medicine and dentistry programmes on our tracker use UCAT-ANZ. The full UCAT ANZ Consortium list also includes provisional-entry pathways we don't card below — at Central Queensland University, the University of Southern Queensland and the University of the Sunshine Coast — so confirm on ucat.edu.au before you book. Click any school for the full how-to-get-in guide including cut-off, ATAR threshold, MMI format and intake size.

Adelaide (medicine)

Adelaide, SA · undergraduate entry

UCAT ANZ alone decides who is interviewed (except Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander pathway and Northern Community Care Stream applicants, who do not sit it): Sections 1–3 carry equal weight, and Section 4 (Situational Judgement, reported separately on 300–900 and not part of the /2700 cognitive total) separates only lower-ranked candidates with equal totals across the other three. UCAT ANZ then carries 20% of the final domestic offer ranking, alongside Interview 40% and Academic 40%. Adelaide publishes no cut-off and will not comment on score competitiveness; the South Australian advantage is structural — a minimum 50% of school-leaver interview invitations must go to South Australian applicants — not a published score gap. For national calibration only (not an Adelaide threshold), the official UCAT ANZ 2026 sitting used for 2027 entry had a total cognitive mean of 1,964, median 1,950, 8th decile 2,220 and 9th decile 2,340 across 17,341 candidates.

Adelaide Dental (dentistry)

Adelaide, SA · undergraduate entry

UCAT-ANZ alone ranks applicants for interview invitation (Sections 1-3 equally weighted; the Situational Judgement Test is used only to split tied candidates at the lower end). Adelaide University publishes no cut-off and states it 'will not comment on the competitiveness of your score'. For scale only — these are whole-cohort UCAT-ANZ figures, not an Adelaide threshold — the official UCAT-ANZ 2026 sitting (2027 entry, 17,341 candidates) had a Total Cognitive mean of 1,964/2700, a median of 1,950 and a 9th decile of 2,340. Offers are then ranked Interview 40% + Academic 40% + UCAT-ANZ 20%.

CDU / Flinders — NT Medical Program (medicine)

Darwin, Northern Territory, NT · undergraduate entry

Contributes 10% of the admission rank; no cut-off published.

Charles Sturt (Rural) (medicine)

Orange, NSW · undergraduate entry

UCAT ANZ alone produces the ranked list that determines interview invitations, and it then carries 25 per cent of CSU's published final selection criteria against 75 per cent for the MMI. ATAR is a hurdle, not the ranking device. CSU states the required UCAT level 'will vary each year, determined by the performance of all applicants competing for a place in the... course and will not be disclosed', so no cut-off can be quoted. Sit UCAT ANZ in the same calendar year you apply; scores are valid for that year only. For scale, the UCAT ANZ 2026 sitting (2027 entry, 17,341 candidates) had a mean total cognitive score of 1,964/2700, an 8th decile of 2,220 and a 9th decile of 2,340.

Charles Sturt Dental (dentistry)

Orange, NSW · undergraduate entry

UCAT-ANZ is required on both the general and rural pathways; First Nations applicants are exempt, and UAC tells current Charles Sturt students on the internal GPA pathway that they do not need it. No numerical cut-off is published, and Charles Sturt does not publish how it uses the score beyond UAC's statement that applicants may be selected for interview "on the basis of their UCAT score". Note the UCAT-ANZ cognitive total has been out of 2700 (Verbal Reasoning + Decision Making + Quantitative Reasoning) since the 2025 sitting, which fed 2026 entry; the 2024 and earlier sittings included Abstract Reasoning and were scored on the retired /3600 scale. Situational Judgement is reported separately as a band, scaled 300-900.

Curtin (medicine)

Bentley, WA · undergraduate entry

No official Curtin-published cut-off. Curtin ranks total UCAT score, not a fixed threshold. Curtin publishes no UCAT-ANZ cut-off, minimum or competitive band in any year — the 2027 guide contains no quartile, decile or percentile figure. Note the scale change: UCAT-ANZ dropped Abstract Reasoning at the UCAT ANZ 2025 sitting (2026 entry), so the cognitive total is now out of 2700, not 3600, and Curtin's 2027 guide ranks on the "UCAT ANZ score (out of 2700)". Any figure in the 2900-3000 range comes from the retired /3600 scale and exceeds the current maximum, so it is neither achievable nor comparable. For orientation only, the official all-candidate UCAT ANZ 2026 statistics (the sitting that feeds 2027 entry) show a mean cognitive total of 1,964, a 3rd quartile of 2,170 and a 9th decile of 2,340 — national figures for every test-taker, not a Curtin applicant profile. Interview shortlist ratio 35 ATAR : 35 Casper : 30 UCAT-ANZ, per Curtin's own guide.. Interview shortlist ratio 35 ATAR : 35 CASPer : 30 UCAT (per MedEntry / Curtin official Q&A — Fraser's 35:35:40 reporting is an error).

Flinders (medicine)

Bedford Park, SA · dual entry

UCAT-ANZ required; check the school page for the latest cut-off.

Griffith Dental (dentistry)

Gold Coast, QLD · undergraduate entry

No discrete numerical cut-off published by Griffith — UCAT ANZ Total Score alone decides who is invited to GUDAP. No Tier-1 source supports the "~78th percentile" or "90th+ percentile" figures, so both are dropped. For scale only, the official UCAT ANZ 2026 distribution (17,341 candidates, three cognitive subtests scored out of 2700) has a mean total cognitive score of 1,964, a median of 1,950 and a 9th decile of 2,340. Scores from the 2022–2024 sittings were on the retired /3600 four-subtest scale (2024 mean 2,588) and cannot be converted to the current scale.

Monash (medicine)

Clayton, VIC · dual entry

Domestic Direct Entry only (international applicants sit ISAT). Monash publishes its December-round interview cut-offs. On the current three-subtest /2700 scale, 2026 entry cleared at 2380 (94th percentile, 192 interview offers) for Victorian-based non-DRL applicants and 2050 (66th percentile, 193 offers) for Dean's Rural List applicants. The 2027-entry cut-offs are not yet published - invitations are scheduled for release on 12 and 14 October 2026. Earlier cycles sat on the retired /3600 four-subtest scale (2025 entry 3140 non-DRL / 2730 DRL; 2024 entry 3020 / 2670; 2023 entry 2990 / 2620) and are NOT convertible: UCAT-ANZ dropped Abstract Reasoning from the test sat in 2025 (first used for 2026 entry), so no ratio conversion between the scales is valid. Situational Judgement is banded separately and is used only to break ties on equal cognitive totals.

Newcastle / JMP (medicine)

Newcastle, NSW · undergraduate entry

No published cut-off: once the ATAR hurdle is met, invitation to the JMP Assessment is decided on the UCAT ANZ aggregate of Verbal Reasoning, Decision Making and Quantitative Reasoning alone, with no minimum on any individual subtest. The JMP states the cut-off is not set until after direct applications close because it depends on the applicant cohort that year, and that separate, lower thresholds apply to rural (RRAS), Communities Entry List and UoN Biomedical Science Pathway applicants. It does not publish past cut-offs, and no lowest-UCAT-to-interview figure is published by the university, UAC or UCAT ANZ. For scale, UCAT ANZ 2026 (2027 entry) had a mean total of 1,964 and a 9th decile of 2,340 out of 2,700.

Tasmania (medicine)

Hobart, TAS · dual entry

No published domestic cut-off — UCAT-ANZ only separates applicants who share an ATAR, so there is no threshold to quote. UTAS sums the three cognitive subtests only (Verbal Reasoning, Decision Making, Quantitative Reasoning); Situational Judgement is excluded. International applicants must reach the 50th percentile or above: on the official UCAT ANZ 2026 distribution — the sitting used for 2027 entry — the 5th decile (median) total was 1,950/2700 (mean 1,964; 9th decile 2,340; 17,341 candidates).

UNSW (medicine)

Sydney, NSW · undergraduate entry

UNSW publishes a hard minimum: UCAT ANZ 50th percentile or above for General, Gateway, Lateral and international entry, and 40th percentile or above for the Rural Entry Admission Pathway. It publishes no competitive cut-off. On the current /2700 three-subtest scale the official UCAT ANZ 2026 sitting (used for 2027 entry) had a median total cognitive score of 1,950 and a 9th decile of 2,340, so on the national distribution the 50th-percentile gate maps to roughly 1,950 for that sitting - our derivation, not a UNSW figure, and it moves with each cohort. Interview shortlisting uses selection rank and UCAT ANZ total cognitive score only; Situational Judgement is reported as a separate scaled score (300-900) and is not part of the cognitive total.

UQ (medicine)

St Lucia, QLD · dual entry

Required for Provisional Entry (school-leaver) and for the new 6-year BMedSc/MD direct-entry dual; must be sat in the year you apply. Latest published figures are for the 2026 intake: the lowest UCAT ANZ score invited to interview was 2290/2700 for applicants not eligible for the Rural Background Sub-Quota and 1960/2700 for those who were. No 2027-entry threshold has been published, and UQ has said it is reviewing how the recent UCAT ANZ format change affects interview selection. Shortlisting is on the UCAT ANZ aggregate, subject to a minimum 50% of domestic MMI invitees being Queensland Year 12 students. The final offer rank is a combined score of ATAR, MMI total and UCAT ANZ aggregate — UQ and QTAC publish no weightings.

UQ Dental (dentistry)

Herston & St Lucia, QLD · undergraduate entry

Mandatory. All applicants at/above the ATAR floor are ranked directly on UCAT-ANZ aggregate — ATAR acts as a hurdle, not a differentiator. UCAT section scores may separate tied applicants. UQ has never published a UCAT cut-off or percentile for this program, and no Tier-1 source supports one — QTAC says only that 'entry to this course is highly competitive' and that 'UCAT scores are used for selection'. For calibration, official UCAT ANZ 2026 (2027-entry) Total Cognitive Scaled Scores are out of 2700: median 1,950, 8th decile 2,220, 9th decile 2,340. Treat any quoted 'UQ Dental UCAT percentile' as an estimate, never a published threshold — and note that UQ's published rule aggregates 'all 4 sections' of the UCAT, which it has not reconciled with the current three-subtest cognitive total.

UWA (medicine)

Crawley, WA · dual entry

Required only for the domestic Assured Pathway (High Academic Achiever, Rural and Broadway quotas), and it must be sat in the year of application — a score cannot be carried over. UWA publishes no threshold: 'There is no set minimum score requirement; the UCAT ANZ threshold is set by ranking within each quota each year. Minimum results from previous years are not published.' Ranking uses the cognitive total only — the sum of Verbal Reasoning, Decision Making and Quantitative Reasoning, scored 900-2700 — while Situational Judgement is reported separately (300-900) and UWA 'reserves the right' to use it in future. Figures on the retired /3600 four-subtest scale are not comparable and cannot be ratio-converted to /2700. International school leavers sit ISAT, not UCAT-ANZ.

UWA Dental (dentistry)

Nedlands, WA · dual entry

UCAT-ANZ required; check the school page for the latest cut-off.

Western Sydney (medicine)

Campbelltown, NSW · undergraduate entry

No published cut-off. WSU states the threshold "is not made public to applicants since it is determined each year according to the performance of all other applicants for the program" (FAQ), and that it "is not determined by your overall UCAT ANZ score; individual sections may be subject to weighting" (General Applicants); GWS applicants may face a lower threshold than non-GWS applicants. UCAT-ANZ performance alone decides who is invited to interview; it is then weighted at 25% of the final offer ranking alongside 75% interview. UCAT-ANZ must be sat in the application year. For scale only — these are whole-cohort figures for every UCAT-ANZ candidate, not WSU applicants and not a WSU threshold — the official UCAT-ANZ 2026 sitting (2027 entry, 17,341 candidates) on the current three-subtest /2700 cognitive scale had mean 1,964, median 1,950, 8th decile 2,220 and 9th decile 2,340. Situational Judgement is reported separately and is not part of the /2700 total.

The numbers

School-by-school UCAT-ANZ cut-offs

Published UCAT-ANZ cut-off scores and ATAR threshold for each school. Cut-offs flex year to year with the applicant pool — these are our latest tracked numbers from the cycle ending 2026.

School	State	Course	UCAT-ANZ cut-off	ATAR
Adelaide	SA	medicine	UCAT ANZ alone decides who is interviewed (except Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander pathway and Northern Community Care Stream applicants, who do not sit it): Sections 1–3 carry equal weight, and Section 4 (Situational Judgement, reported separately on 300–900 and not part of the /2700 cognitive total) separates only lower-ranked candidates with equal totals across the other three. UCAT ANZ then carries 20% of the final domestic offer ranking, alongside Interview 40% and Academic 40%. Adelaide publishes no cut-off and will not comment on score competitiveness; the South Australian advantage is structural — a minimum 50% of school-leaver interview invitations must go to South Australian applicants — not a published score gap. For national calibration only (not an Adelaide threshold), the official UCAT ANZ 2026 sitting used for 2027 entry had a total cognitive mean of 1,964, median 1,950, 8th decile 2,220 and 9th decile 2,340 across 17,341 candidates.	Minimum entry ATAR 90.00 (adjusted selection rank). Adelaide states that 'the actual ATAR required for entry is typically much higher' than the 90.00 eligibility floor but 'does not disclose ATAR cut-off scores from previous years'. Its published ATAR profile for Semester 1 2026 (ABP171 and ABP271) suppresses every figure as '<5', because almost all offers are made on ATAR plus additional criteria rather than ATAR alone — so no median, lowest or guaranteed selection rank exists in the public record, and figures such as 99.75 are unsourced. Adelaide explicitly does not publish ATAR cut-offs.
Adelaide Dental	SA	dentistry	UCAT-ANZ alone ranks applicants for interview invitation (Sections 1-3 equally weighted; the Situational Judgement Test is used only to split tied candidates at the lower end). Adelaide University publishes no cut-off and states it 'will not comment on the competitiveness of your score'. For scale only — these are whole-cohort UCAT-ANZ figures, not an Adelaide threshold — the official UCAT-ANZ 2026 sitting (2027 entry, 17,341 candidates) had a Total Cognitive mean of 1,964/2700, a median of 1,950 and a 9th decile of 2,340. Offers are then ranked Interview 40% + Academic 40% + UCAT-ANZ 20%.	Minimum adjusted ATAR-equivalent selection rank of 90.00 for eligibility (selection rank = ATAR plus any adjustment factors). Adelaide University says the ATAR actually required is 'typically much higher' but explicitly does not disclose cut-off scores from previous years, and its published ATAR profile for the Semester 1 2026 intake reports fewer than five ATAR-based offers ('<5' in every cell), so no lowest or median rank is available. No 98-99 figure is published by any primary source.
CDU / Flinders — NT Medical Program	NT	medicine	Contributes 10% of the admission rank; no cut-off published.	Competitive at 90 or above; 85 or above for First Nations applicants. CDU frames these as competitive levels, not a published floor.
Charles Sturt (Rural)	NSW	medicine	UCAT ANZ alone produces the ranked list that determines interview invitations, and it then carries 25 per cent of CSU's published final selection criteria against 75 per cent for the MMI. ATAR is a hurdle, not the ranking device. CSU states the required UCAT level 'will vary each year, determined by the performance of all applicants competing for a place in the... course and will not be disclosed', so no cut-off can be quoted. Sit UCAT ANZ in the same calendar year you apply; scores are valid for that year only. For scale, the UCAT ANZ 2026 sitting (2027 entry, 17,341 candidates) had a mean total cognitive score of 1,964/2700, an 8th decile of 2,220 and a 9th decile of 2,340.	ATAR hurdle (2027 entry, CSU standalone): 95.50 non-rural; 91.50 via the Rural Entry Admissions Scheme. There is no Greater Western Sydney tier at Charles Sturt — the 93.50 Western Sydney resident hurdle belongs to Western Sydney University's own course (UAC 725505). The ATAR is a minimum to be met, not the ranking instrument; UCAT ANZ (25%) and the MMI (75%) do the ranking. Equivalents: IB 38 (non-rural) / 35 (rural); completed undergraduate degree GPA 5.5 (non-rural) / 4.9 (rural).
Charles Sturt Dental	NSW	dentistry	UCAT-ANZ is required on both the general and rural pathways; First Nations applicants are exempt, and UAC tells current Charles Sturt students on the internal GPA pathway that they do not need it. No numerical cut-off is published, and Charles Sturt does not publish how it uses the score beyond UAC's statement that applicants may be selected for interview "on the basis of their UCAT score". Note the UCAT-ANZ cognitive total has been out of 2700 (Verbal Reasoning + Decision Making + Quantitative Reasoning) since the 2025 sitting, which fed 2026 entry; the 2024 and earlier sittings included Abstract Reasoning and were scored on the retired /3600 scale. Situational Judgement is reported separately as a band, scaled 300-900.	Charles Sturt publishes no minimum ATAR for the BDS and lists the course entry score as "TBA"; its published selection criteria use UCAT-ANZ (or GPA for internal applicants) to select for interview, not ATAR. UAC's ATAR profile for ATAR-based offers in semester 1, 2026 records a lowest ATAR of 97.70, a median of 98.20 and a highest of 99.70 (selection ranks identical). Read that as a description of a very small group, not a bar: UAC's student profile for the same 2026 cohort shows fewer than 5 of 45 commencing students were admitted solely on the basis of ATAR, while 22 (48.89%) entered from prior higher education study and 19 (42.22%) were international.
Curtin	WA	medicine	No official Curtin-published cut-off. Curtin ranks total UCAT score, not a fixed threshold. Curtin publishes no UCAT-ANZ cut-off, minimum or competitive band in any year — the 2027 guide contains no quartile, decile or percentile figure. Note the scale change: UCAT-ANZ dropped Abstract Reasoning at the UCAT ANZ 2025 sitting (2026 entry), so the cognitive total is now out of 2700, not 3600, and Curtin's 2027 guide ranks on the "UCAT ANZ score (out of 2700)". Any figure in the 2900-3000 range comes from the retired /3600 scale and exceeds the current maximum, so it is neither achievable nor comparable. For orientation only, the official all-candidate UCAT ANZ 2026 statistics (the sitting that feeds 2027 entry) show a mean cognitive total of 1,964, a 3rd quartile of 2,170 and a 9th decile of 2,340 — national figures for every test-taker, not a Curtin applicant profile. Interview shortlist ratio 35 ATAR : 35 Casper : 30 UCAT-ANZ, per Curtin's own guide.. Interview shortlist ratio 35 ATAR : 35 CASPer : 30 UCAT (per MedEntry / Curtin official Q&A — Fraser's 35:35:40 reporting is an error).	Minimum ATAR 95.00 for every school-leaver applicant, WA and interstate alike — Curtin publishes one figure with no domicile split, and adjustment points are added on top of it rather than included in it. The 92.00 figure is the minimum notional ATAR for the non-school-leaver (graduate) pathway only; Curtin course switchers are assessed on a course weighted average of 80 instead. Rural or StepUp adjustment points (up to 5, from one scheme only) apply on top, capped at an adjusted 99.95. TISC 2026 Admission Ranks (Main Round, December 2025) for CUMBS: minimum rank for consideration n/a, lowest selection rank offered n/a — selection is NOT solely on ATAR.
Flinders	SA	medicine	—	—
Griffith Dental	QLD	dentistry	No discrete numerical cut-off published by Griffith — UCAT ANZ Total Score alone decides who is invited to GUDAP. No Tier-1 source supports the "~78th percentile" or "90th+ percentile" figures, so both are dropped. For scale only, the official UCAT ANZ 2026 distribution (17,341 candidates, three cognitive subtests scored out of 2700) has a mean total cognitive score of 1,964, a median of 1,950 and a 9th decile of 2,340. Scores from the 2022–2024 sittings were on the retired /3600 four-subtest scale (2024 mean 2,588) and cannot be converted to the current scale.	Griffith publishes no ATAR or selection-rank threshold for BDHS. QTAC renders both the "Minimum Selection thresholds (ATAR/Selection Rank)" and "ATAR/Selection Rank profile" sections for Trimester 1 2026 with no values, and records 0 recent-secondary students admitted solely on the basis of ATAR/rank and 0 admitted where ATAR/rank plus additional criteria were considered — so neither a floor nor a median ATAR can be quoted. Academic attainment is only one weighted component alongside UCAT ANZ and GUDAP.
Monash	VIC	medicine	Domestic Direct Entry only (international applicants sit ISAT). Monash publishes its December-round interview cut-offs. On the current three-subtest /2700 scale, 2026 entry cleared at 2380 (94th percentile, 192 interview offers) for Victorian-based non-DRL applicants and 2050 (66th percentile, 193 offers) for Dean's Rural List applicants. The 2027-entry cut-offs are not yet published - invitations are scheduled for release on 12 and 14 October 2026. Earlier cycles sat on the retired /3600 four-subtest scale (2025 entry 3140 non-DRL / 2730 DRL; 2024 entry 3020 / 2670; 2023 entry 2990 / 2620) and are NOT convertible: UCAT-ANZ dropped Abstract Reasoning from the test sat in 2025 (first used for 2026 entry), so no ratio conversion between the scales is valid. Situational Judgement is banded separately and is used only to break ties on equal cognitive totals.	Direct Entry minimum eligibility ATAR 90. Monash publishes lowest-offer ATARs rather than a competitive cut-off: for 2026 entry the lowest ATAR to receive an offer was 96.10 (standard School Leaver Entry), 95.05 (CSP Extended Rural Cohort) and 91.25 (CSP Bonded School Leaver Entry). Monash notes these are the lowest ATAR BEFORE equity-scheme/Dean's Rural List adjustment, while ranking itself uses the adjusted ATAR. No median and no guaranteed ATAR is published.
Newcastle / JMP	NSW	medicine	No published cut-off: once the ATAR hurdle is met, invitation to the JMP Assessment is decided on the UCAT ANZ aggregate of Verbal Reasoning, Decision Making and Quantitative Reasoning alone, with no minimum on any individual subtest. The JMP states the cut-off is not set until after direct applications close because it depends on the applicant cohort that year, and that separate, lower thresholds apply to rural (RRAS), Communities Entry List and UoN Biomedical Science Pathway applicants. It does not publish past cut-offs, and no lowest-UCAT-to-interview figure is published by the university, UAC or UCAT ANZ. For scale, UCAT ANZ 2026 (2027 entry) had a mean total of 1,964 and a 9th decile of 2,340 out of 2,700.	ATAR hurdle: 94.30 standard; 85.00 under the Rural Bonus Scheme, which turns on the Modified Monash MM2-7 location of the high school where you sat Year 12, not where you live. Applicants with at least one full-time year of university study are assessed on their tertiary results instead (UAC describes the bar as results averaging close to credit level; the JMP Admission and Selection Policy states a UAC (ATAR-based) Rank of 88.40 or better). Once the hurdle is met, academic results no longer rank at all: UCAT ANZ alone decides who is invited, and the final selection rank comes from assessment-day performance, with UCAT used only to sub-rank ties.
Tasmania	TAS	medicine	No published domestic cut-off — UCAT-ANZ only separates applicants who share an ATAR, so there is no threshold to quote. UTAS sums the three cognitive subtests only (Verbal Reasoning, Decision Making, Quantitative Reasoning); Situational Judgement is excluded. International applicants must reach the 50th percentile or above: on the official UCAT ANZ 2026 distribution — the sitting used for 2027 entry — the 5th decile (median) total was 1,950/2700 (mean 1,964; 9th decile 2,340; 17,341 candidates).	Domestic: minimum adjusted ATAR 95 — explicitly the minimum needed for an application to be considered, not a guarantee of an offer (UTAS: "achieving the minimum entry requirements does not guarantee an offer of a place"). International: minimum ATAR or equivalent rank 90. UTAS publishes no competitive cut-off, median or lowest-offer ATAR for this course, and no ATAR/selection-rank or student profile is published for it on CourseSeeker.
UNSW	NSW	medicine	UNSW publishes a hard minimum: UCAT ANZ 50th percentile or above for General, Gateway, Lateral and international entry, and 40th percentile or above for the Rural Entry Admission Pathway. It publishes no competitive cut-off. On the current /2700 three-subtest scale the official UCAT ANZ 2026 sitting (used for 2027 entry) had a median total cognitive score of 1,950 and a 9th decile of 2,340, so on the national distribution the 50th-percentile gate maps to roughly 1,950 for that sitting - our derivation, not a UNSW figure, and it moves with each cohort. Interview shortlisting uses selection rank and UCAT ANZ total cognitive score only; Situational Judgement is reported as a separate scaled score (300-900) and is not part of the cognitive total.	Minimum eligibility ATAR 96.00 without EAS adjustment (General and international); 91.00 without adjustment for the Rural Entry Admission Pathway and the Gateway Entry Scheme. For 2026 entry UNSW published a lowest ATAR to which an offer was made of 99.75 (local General), 94.25 (Gateway, via a Gateway Early Conditional Offer) and 91.05 (Rural) - defined as the lowest ATAR before adjustment factors, not a threshold. UNSW publishes no interview-shortlist ATAR. It does publish a whole-programme ATAR Profile (highest, median and lowest ATAR and Selection Rank), but that is a past-intake cohort profile spanning all entry schemes and is not an entry cut-off.
UQ	QLD	medicine	Required for Provisional Entry (school-leaver) and for the new 6-year BMedSc/MD direct-entry dual; must be sat in the year you apply. Latest published figures are for the 2026 intake: the lowest UCAT ANZ score invited to interview was 2290/2700 for applicants not eligible for the Rural Background Sub-Quota and 1960/2700 for those who were. No 2027-entry threshold has been published, and UQ has said it is reviewing how the recent UCAT ANZ format change affects interview selection. Shortlisting is on the UCAT ANZ aggregate, subject to a minimum 50% of domestic MMI invitees being Queensland Year 12 students. The final offer rank is a combined score of ATAR, MMI total and UCAT ANZ aggregate — UQ and QTAC publish no weightings.	Adjusted ATAR 95 (or equivalent) is the published MINIMUM for both school-leaver routes — provisional entry (QTAC 721302 / 721402) and the 6-year BMedSc/MD dual (QTAC 721502) — and meeting it guarantees nothing. Actual Semester 1 2026 provisional-entry offer profile (latest published cycle), non-bonded: highest 99.95, median 99.65, lowest 95.00 excluding adjustments (99.95 / 99.95 / 98.10 including adjustments). Bonded: highest 99.95, median 99.20, lowest 93.25 excluding adjustments (99.95 / 99.95 / 97.25 including adjustments).
UQ Dental	QLD	dentistry	Mandatory. All applicants at/above the ATAR floor are ranked directly on UCAT-ANZ aggregate — ATAR acts as a hurdle, not a differentiator. UCAT section scores may separate tied applicants. UQ has never published a UCAT cut-off or percentile for this program, and no Tier-1 source supports one — QTAC says only that 'entry to this course is highly competitive' and that 'UCAT scores are used for selection'. For calibration, official UCAT ANZ 2026 (2027-entry) Total Cognitive Scaled Scores are out of 2700: median 1,950, 8th decile 2,220, 9th decile 2,340. Treat any quoted 'UQ Dental UCAT percentile' as an estimate, never a published threshold — and note that UQ's published rule aggregates 'all 4 sections' of the UCAT, which it has not reconciled with the current three-subtest cognitive total.	2026 entry: lowest rank offered 95.70 (unadjusted) → 99.00 (with adjustments); median rank offered 99.30 (unadjusted) → 99.95 (with adjustments); highest rank offered 99.95. ATAR floor 99.00 adjusted for QLD Year 12 — one of the highest in Australian dentistry.
UWA	WA	medicine	Required only for the domestic Assured Pathway (High Academic Achiever, Rural and Broadway quotas), and it must be sat in the year of application — a score cannot be carried over. UWA publishes no threshold: 'There is no set minimum score requirement; the UCAT ANZ threshold is set by ranking within each quota each year. Minimum results from previous years are not published.' Ranking uses the cognitive total only — the sum of Verbal Reasoning, Decision Making and Quantitative Reasoning, scored 900-2700 — while Situational Judgement is reported separately (300-900) and UWA 'reserves the right' to use it in future. Figures on the retired /3600 four-subtest scale are not comparable and cannot be ratio-converted to /2700. International school leavers sit ISAT, not UCAT-ANZ.	Direct Pathway: HAA / Broadway / Rural streams require ATAR 98 minimum; Indigenous school-leaver pathway minimum ATAR 90, with the School of Indigenous Studies (or askUWA) as first contact. The Boola Boola Djinda / CAMDH route is the GRADUATE Indigenous pathway and uses no ATAR at all. TISC publishes no rank data for UG056 (Doctor of Medicine via Bachelor of Biomedicine (Specialised) Assured Pathway) — both the minimum rank for consideration and the lowest selection rank offered are listed as n/a, because selection is not rank-only. The separate standalone Bachelor of Biomedicine (Specialised) (UP056) ran 92.00 minimum / 96.65 lowest selection rank (2024 admission), 92.00 / 97.50 (2025) and 95.00 / 97.70 (2026).
UWA Dental	WA	dentistry	—	—
Western Sydney	NSW	medicine	No published cut-off. WSU states the threshold "is not made public to applicants since it is determined each year according to the performance of all other applicants for the program" (FAQ), and that it "is not determined by your overall UCAT ANZ score; individual sections may be subject to weighting" (General Applicants); GWS applicants may face a lower threshold than non-GWS applicants. UCAT-ANZ performance alone decides who is invited to interview; it is then weighted at 25% of the final offer ranking alongside 75% interview. UCAT-ANZ must be sat in the application year. For scale only — these are whole-cohort figures for every UCAT-ANZ candidate, not WSU applicants and not a WSU threshold — the official UCAT-ANZ 2026 sitting (2027 entry, 17,341 candidates) on the current three-subtest /2700 cognitive scale had mean 1,964, median 1,950, 8th decile 2,220 and 9th decile 2,340. Situational Judgement is reported separately and is not part of the /2700 total.	Academic threshold, assessed only after the MMI: non-Greater Western Sydney applicants 95.50 (this band, not a lower one, catches interstate and regional applicants who are not REAS-eligible); Greater Western Sydney applicants 93.50, on a multi-year residence test against WSU's published list of GWS areas; Rural Entry Admission Scheme 91.50, requiring ASGS-RA 2-5 residence for five consecutive or ten cumulative years since age five; international applicants 93.50 ATAR-equivalent. Once met, ATAR no longer influences ranking — the offer is 75% interview / 25% UCAT-ANZ.

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Two full timed mocks per week for the first two weeks, with full review between mocks.
Rehearse pacing across the sections — VR (skim-reading), DM (varied formats), QR (calculator-driven), SJT last (lower cognitive load).
Week 11-12: one final mock, then taper. Sleep, exam logistics and travel planning matter more than last-week cramming.

Test-day logistics: arrive 30 minutes early, bring photo ID, plan transport with a 30-minute buffer. Pearson VUE provides a pen and laminated note board; you cannot bring your own. Familiarise yourself with the on-screen calculator interface before test day — many candidates lose minutes hunting for the calculator button.

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Calculator misuse. The on-screen calculator opens with a click and closes when you click off it. Many candidates lose 5-8 minutes on Quantitative Reasoning fumbling with it. Practise on the official Pearson VUE interface or a faithful third-party replica so the keystrokes are automatic.
SJT scores surprise. Many candidates score in the cognitive 80th percentile and then score poorly on Situational Judgement because they treated it as a knowledge test. SJT requires judgement under AHPRA and Medical Board of Australia rubrics — the Good Medical Practice code under AHPRA is the relevant document, not UK regulator materials. Read the codes of conduct cold.
Reading every VR passage in full. 30 seconds per question means roughly 2 minutes per passage — including reading. Train skim-reading techniques (signal words, paragraph topic sentences, question-first reading) from the start.
Burning through all the practice material early. Pace your high-quality practice material across all three months. ACER has nothing to do with UCAT — it runs GAMSAT. The reference material is the UCAT ANZ Consortium's own free question banks and practice tests at ucat.edu.au, and many candidates exhaust them too early and then have no realistic timed material for the final month.

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