I want to start my Medical degree in 2020: When do I need to sit the UCAT (UKCAT)?
6 years ago by Stan
If you wish to study medicine in the UK, most universities will require you to sit and succeed in UCAT (previously known as UKCAT).
You must sit the UCAT between July and October of the year BEFORE you intend to enter medicine. For example, if you want to begin your medical degree in 2020 you must sit the UCAT between 1 July 2019 and 2 October 2019.
You are permitted to sit the test only ONCE in any UCAT test cycle. However, there may be mitigating circumstances where you are unable to sit the test on the day you booked your UCAT test e.g. personal reasons, medical reasons. In such circumstances it may be possible to reschedule your UCAT test date.
Note that UCAT results cannot be carried over from one year to the next.
The UCAT consortium itself doesn’t grant any exemptions to students from sitting the UCAT. In circumstances where you are unable to sit the UCAT (for whatever reason), it is your sole responsibility to enquire with the universities themselves as to whether they can consider your application without having sat the UCAT test.