South Australia, Australia
Adelaide University: UCAT ANZ
On the standard Medicine pathway, interview invitations rest on the UCAT ANZ alone, and the UCAT counts for 20% of the final ranking.
- Admissions test
- UCAT ANZ
- 3 courses
- Which test
- UCAT ANZ 2026
- for 2027 entry
- 2026 median
- 1,950
- Total out of 2,700
How the UCAT ANZ counts
- Uses UCAT ANZ for
- Medicine, Dental Surgery, Oral Health
- Medicine, standard pathway: who is interviewed
- Invitations are based on UCAT ANZ results only, not your academic record. Verbal Reasoning, Decision Making and Quantitative Reasoning count equally; Situational Judgement only separates equal totals at the cut-off.
- Medicine, standard pathway: interview places
- About 600 applicants are invited to a medical program interview. At least half of the school leavers invited are from South Australia.
- Medicine, standard pathway: final ranking
- UCAT ANZ 20%, interview 40%, academic score 40%.
- Minimum ATAR
- 90.00 to be eligible. Adelaide says the ATAR needed in practice is usually much higher.
- UCAT UK
- Not accepted in place of the UCAT ANZ.
- Without the UCAT
- The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander pathway and the Northern Community Care Stream do not need the UCAT ANZ.
- Northern Community Care Stream
- No UCAT ANZ. Ranked on a weighted mix of ATAR or IB score and interview score; its interviews are in late January 2027.
- Medicine, standard pathway: dates
- SATAC applications 3 August to 30 September 2026. Interview eligibility emails 22 October 2026. Interviews late November to December 2026.
- Dental Surgery and Oral Health
- Both use the UCAT ANZ (Consortium list). The Medicine rules above are not theirs; check each course page for how it ranks applicants.
- Which year's test
- UCAT ANZ 2026 for 2027 entry. A result cannot be carried over to a later year.
Prepare for UCAT ANZ 2027
The full UCAT course
A$459one payment
Score 2,250 or your money back. Before UCAT, finish the course (100% course work, 70% right on your latest 100 marked answers and 10 of the 25 full timed mocks); if your official total cognitive score is below 2,250, send your official result within 30 days of its release and we refund the price you paid. This guarantee applies to UCAT ANZ too. UCAT Pro bought in Australian or New Zealand dollars, or bought in pounds for the UCAT ANZ, carries the same guarantee on the same terms: the threshold is the same 2,250 total cognitive score on the 900 to 2,700 scale, read from your official UCAT ANZ result, and a successful claim refunds the price you paid, in the currency you paid it in. It still applies after you start. Full conditions
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Questions people ask
Does Adelaide require the UCAT ANZ?
Yes, for Medicine, Dental Surgery, Oral Health, as listed by the UCAT ANZ Consortium for 2027 entry. Some pathways at any university may not need it, so check the course page.
What UCAT ANZ score do I need for Adelaide?
Adelaide does not publish a UCAT ANZ cut-off that we found. As a guide, the 2026 median total was 1,950 and the top 10% scored 2,340 or more.
Can I use last year's UCAT ANZ result?
No. A UCAT ANZ result counts only for entry the following year: UCAT ANZ 2026 for 2027 entry.
Sources
- 1UCAT ANZ, Consortium universitiesChecked 6 October 2026.
- 2Adelaide University, Bachelor of Medical Studies (domestic)Checked 6 October 2026.
- 3UCAT ANZ, summary statistics for 2026Checked 6 October 2026.