Calculate your Birmingham Medicine application score
Birmingham Medicine
Enter your decile and GCSEs
Your result
| UCAT decile | Points |
|---|---|
| Decile 1 | 0.000 |
| Decile 2 | 0.444 |
| Decile 3 | 0.889 |
| Decile 4 | 1.333 |
| Decile 5 | 1.778 |
| Decile 6 | 2.222 |
| Decile 7 | 2.667 |
| Decile 8 | 3.111 |
| Decile 9 | 3.556 |
| Decile 10 | 4.000 |
Birmingham Medicine scores applications out of 10: GCSEs give up to 4.5 points, UCAT 4 and contextual data 1.5.
Questions people ask
How does Birmingham score Medicine applications?
GCSEs make up 45% of the score (4.5 points), UCAT 40% (4 points) and contextual data 15% (1.5 points). Applicants are ranked on the total for interview.
Is there a UCAT cut-off at Birmingham?
Birmingham names no minimum UCAT score on this route. Your decile is turned into points, so a low decile scores fewer points.
Does the SJT count at Birmingham?
Not in this score. Birmingham uses the SJT at interview.
Who gets contextual points?
Applicants who were eligible for free school meals or have been in local authority care. The points then depend on your home postcode's POLAR4 quintile.
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How we work this out
What it does
Your score out of 10 from GCSEs, UCAT decile and contextual points, using Birmingham's 2027 tables.
University of Birmingham Medicine and Surgery (five-year), 2027 entry, standard Home school-leaver route. Graduate, international and Pathways to Birmingham routes are scored differently.
Method
- Five named GCSEs score 4 for an 8 or 9, 2 for a 7 and 1 for a 6: English Language, English Literature, Maths, Biology and Chemistry (or both Combined Science grades).
- Your two best other GCSEs score 2 each at grade 8 or 9.
- The GCSE points, out of 24, are scaled to 4.5.
- Your official 2026 UK UCAT decile scores from 0 at decile 1 to 4.000 at decile 10, in Birmingham's printed steps.
- Applicants eligible for free school meals or who have been in local authority care add 1.5 points in POLAR4 quintiles 1 and 2, 1.2 in quintile 3, 0.9 in quintile 4 and 0.6 in quintile 5.