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UCAT Score Converter

Enter your raw marks for each section to predict your scaled score per section, your cognitive total out of 2,700, and your SJT band — calibrated against the latest published UCAT consortium data.

Updated from 2023–2025 sittings±50–80 per section accuracyNo sign-up required

Cognitive sections: Each scaled 300–900 (VR, DM, QR)
Cognitive total: Three sections summed, out of 2,700
Situational Judgement: Reported as a band 1–4 (band 1 highest)

The tool

Convert raw marks into a predicted UCAT score

Enter your raw mark for each section below. The converter maps every section onto the 300–900 scaled scale, sums your three cognitive sections into a total out of 2,700, and reads your Situational Judgement band — all updating live as you type.

Convert your raw marks

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How the converter works

The UCAT's raw-to-scaled mapping is set by Pearson's per-sitting equating algorithm: each cognitive section is normalised so that students sitting different test forms aren't advantaged or disadvantaged by question difficulty. Because the algorithm runs separately for every sitting, two students who answer the same number of questions correctly on different days can receive slightly different scaled scores — which is exactly why a converter can only ever approximate your result, never guarantee it.

This converter approximates the typical mapping using anchor points from the UCAT consortium's published summary statistics across the 2023–2025 cycles, linearly interpolated between anchors. Expected accuracy is within ±50–80 per section. The anchors are cross-checked against the conversion tables widely circulated by Medify and Kaplan, and they're stored in a single file in our codebase so they can be refreshed each autumn when new consortium data is published.

SJT (Situational Judgement) is banded rather than scaled. Each SJT question can score 0, 1, or 2 marks against the full marking key, and the band you receive depends on your total as a percentage of the maximum. Pearson's percentage cut-offs typically sit around 78% for band 1, 60% for band 2, and 42% for band 3 — anything below that lands in band 4. Band 1 is the strongest outcome.

A note on accuracy. Treat every figure here as a planning estimate, not a result. The single biggest source of variance is per-sitting equating: a slightly easier sitting compresses scaled scores at the top, while a harder sitting stretches them out. The quality of the mock you took matters too — Pearson-style mocks track far closer to the real exam than coaching-provider mocks.

Per-sitting equating

Each cognitive section is normalised so students sitting different test forms aren't advantaged or disadvantaged by question difficulty. No two sittings convert identically.

Anchored interpolation

We use anchor points from the consortium's published 2023–2025 summary statistics, linearly interpolated between anchors. Expected accuracy is within ±50–80 per section.

SJT is banded

Situational Judgement is banded, not scaled. Your band depends on your total against Pearson's percentage cut-offs — roughly 78% (band 1), 60% (band 2), and 42% (band 3).

VRVerbal ReasoningRaw mark out of 44

DMDecision MakingRaw mark out of 42

QRQuantitative ReasoningRaw mark out of 36

SJTSituational JudgementRaw mark out of 91

Predicted result

Cognitive total

Enter VR, DM & QR to see your total out of 2,700.

Verbal Reasoning—

Decision Making—

Quantitative Reasoning—

Situational JudgementReported as a band, 1 (best) – 4—

Fill in all three cognitive sections to unlock your next steps.

Estimates based on published UCAT consortium data. Actual scaled scores depend on per-sitting equating and may differ by ±50–80 per section.

UCAT cognitive score bands

Where each cognitive total sits across the UK applicant distribution under the modern 3-section /2,700 scale (2027 entry context). Use this to set realistic targets when picking firm and insurance choices.

Cognitive total	Percentile	School competitiveness
2,475+	Top 1%	Competitive everywhere including Imperial, Cambridge, Oxford
2,175+	Top 10%	Competitive at all UK schools that weight UCAT heavily
2,025+	Top 25%	Competitive at most UK medical schools
1,875+	~Median	Acceptable at schools that weight GCSE / personal statement heavily
1,725+	Bottom 25%	Below cut-off at most non-contextual routes; widening-participation routes may accept
900+	Bottom 10%	Strongly consider contextual offers + dental schools; UK medicine harder at this band

For per-school predicted cut-offs (not just averages), see our NGMP TrueScore methodology page.

Frequently asked questions

Each UCAT cognitive section (Verbal Reasoning, Decision Making, Quantitative Reasoning) is scored 300–900 using an equating algorithm run by Pearson VUE after every test sitting. The algorithm adjusts for question difficulty so two students who answered the same number correct on different sittings can receive slightly different scaled scores. This converter approximates the typical mapping using anchor points from published UCAT consortium summary statistics across the 2023–2025 cycles.

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Reviewed by Isaac Butler-King, medical student at the University of Glasgow. Last reviewed: 2 July 2026