UCAT SJT bands: what your result means
Band 1 is the highest of four. For 2027 entry, Band 3 rules you out only at Manchester, and at Sheffield for dentistry. Band 4 rules you out at 18 schools. Pick your band to see which.
SJT Band 3
3 of 79courses rule you out
Manchester, Sheffield dentistry
Rules you out 3
Manchester MBChB Medicine A106
Ruled out: needs Band 1 to 2Applicants with SJT Band 3 or 4 are not considered.
Manchester: MBChB Medicine, 2027 entry · checked 26 Sep 2026Manchester BDS Dentistry (first-year entry) A206
Ruled out: needs Band 1 to 2Applicants with SJT Band 3 or 4 are not considered.
Manchester: BDS Dentistry, 2027 entry · checked 26 Sep 2026Sheffield Dental Surgery BDS A200
Ruled out: needs Band 1 to 2The first screen for 2027 entry needs SJT Band 1 or 2, with an average or above cognitive total.
Sheffield: BDS admissions and selection, 2027 entry · checked 26 Sep 2026
Only last cycle's rule is published 2
Imperial Medicine MBBS/BSc A100
Cleared last cycle's bar; 2027 rule not publishedThe 2027 course page lists the 2026-entry thresholds: SJT Band 3 minimum, with Band 4 discounted, for Home and contextual applicants. It does not state the 2027 rule.
Imperial: Medicine, 2027 entry · checked 26 Sep 2026Kent and Medway Medicine BM BS A100
Cleared last cycle's bar; 2027 rule not publishedThe only rule published is for an earlier cycle (labelled 2025-6): SJT Band 3 or above, or Band 2 or above for graduates. KMMS says it does not commit to the same threshold.
Kent and Medway Medical School: entry requirements · checked 26 Sep 2026
Your band is not a bar 51
Anglia Ruskin Medicine MBChB A100
AcceptedApplicants with SJT Band 4 will not be invited to interview. Its guaranteed interview scheme also needs Band 1 to 3.
Anglia Ruskin: Medicine · checked 26 Sep 2026Anglia Ruskin Medicine with Gateway Year MBChB A101
AcceptedThe medicine page says applicants with SJT Band 4 will not be invited to interview. The UCAT Consortium links A101 to the same page.
Anglia Ruskin: Medicine · checked 26 Sep 2026Birmingham Medicine and Surgery MBChB A100
Accepted, used at interviewThe SJT band is left out of the interview shortlist score and is used at the interview stage.
Birmingham: medicine selection for interview · checked 26 Sep 2026Brighton and Sussex Medicine BM BS A100
AcceptedOnly applicants with SJT Band 1, 2 or 3 are ranked by UCAT score for interview. Band 4 is rejected.
Brighton and Sussex Medical School: entry requirements · checked 26 Sep 2026Brunel Medicine MBBS A100
AcceptedBrunel does not accept applicants with SJT Band 4.
Brunel: Medicine MBBS · checked 26 Sep 2026City St George's Medicine MBBS A100
Accepted, used at interviewFor 2027 entry the school will consider SJT bands in its decisions: after interview it ranks MMI and SJT scores to make offers. It publishes no band that rules you out.
City St George's: Medicine MBBS · checked 26 Sep 2026UEA Medicine MBBS A100
Accepted, used at interviewThe SJT score is included within the interview score, which counts equally with UCAT when offers are made. No band is ruled out.
UEA: MBBS Medicine · checked 26 Sep 2026UEA Medicine with a Gateway Year MBBS A104
Accepted, used at interviewThe SJT score is included within the interview score, which counts equally with UCAT when offers are made. No band is ruled out.
UEA: MBBS Medicine with a Gateway Year · checked 26 Sep 2026UEA BDS Dental Surgery A200
Accepted, used at interviewThe SJT score is included within the interview score, which counts equally with UCAT when offers are made. No band is ruled out.
UEA: BDS Dental Surgery · checked 26 Sep 2026Edge Hill Medicine MBChB A100
AcceptedAny candidate in SJT Band 4 is automatically rejected.
Edge Hill: Medicine MBChB · checked 26 Sep 2026Edge Hill Medicine with Foundation Year MBChB A110
AcceptedAny candidate in SJT Band 4 is automatically rejected.
Edge Hill: Medicine with Foundation Year · checked 26 Sep 2026Edinburgh Medicine MBChB A100
Accepted, and scoredBand 4 is not accepted, whatever your widening-access status. The SJT band is 7.5% of the final selection score.
Edinburgh: Applying for Medicine, 2027 entry booklet (PDF) · checked 26 Sep 2026Hull York Medicine MB BS A100
Accepted, and scoredBand 4 is not accepted. Bands 1 to 3 earn up to 15 points in the interview shortlisting score.
Hull York Medical School: selection procedure · checked 26 Sep 2026Hull York Medicine with a Gateway Year MB BS A108
Accepted, and scoredBand 4 is not accepted. Bands 1 to 3 earn up to 15 points in the interview shortlisting score.
Hull York Medical School: selection procedure · checked 26 Sep 2026Keele Medicine MBChB A100
Accepted, and scoredHome applicants with SJT Band 4 are rejected automatically. For Home applicants the band adds points to the interview ranking (Band 1: 2, Band 2: 1, Band 3: 0).
Keele: Medicine entry requirements · checked 26 Sep 2026Keele Medicine Health Foundation Year MBChB A104
Accepted, and scoredApplicants with SJT Band 4 are rejected automatically. The band adds points to the interview ranking (Band 1: 2, Band 2: 1, Band 3: 0).
Keele: Medicine entry requirements · checked 26 Sep 2026King's Dentistry BDS A205
Accepted, and consideredThe SJT is taken into account when shortlisting. No band is ruled out.
King's College London: Dentistry BDS entry requirements · checked 26 Sep 2026King's Enhanced Support Dentistry Programme BDS A206
Accepted, and consideredThe SJT is taken into account when shortlisting. No band is ruled out.
King's College London: Enhanced Support Dentistry Programme entry requirements · checked 26 Sep 2026Lancaster Medicine and Surgery MBChB A100
Within the expected bandsLancaster's admissions policy says it anticipates selecting A100 candidates with SJT Bands 1 to 3 and an overall UCAT score in the top seven deciles.
Lancaster Medical School: Admissions Policy, July 2026 · checked 3 Oct 2026Leicester Medicine MBChB A100
AcceptedThe 2027 scoring document rejects applicants with SJT Band 4. Leicester's site refused our check on 26 September, so this is the 24 September reading.
Leicester: A100 scoring document, 2027 entry (PDF) · checked 24 Sep 2026Leicester Medicine with Foundation Year MBChB A199
AcceptedThe 2027 scoring document rejects applicants with SJT Band 4. Leicester's site refused our check on 26 September, so this is the 24 September reading.
Leicester: A199 scoring document, 2027 entry (PDF) · checked 24 Sep 2026Lincoln Medicine MBChB A100
AcceptedApplicants with SJT Band 4 will not be considered.
Lincoln: Medicine MBChB · checked 26 Sep 2026Lincoln Medicine MBChB with Gateway Year A106
AcceptedApplicants with SJT Band 4 will not be considered.
Lincoln: Medicine MBChB with Gateway Year · checked 26 Sep 2026Liverpool Medicine and Surgery MBChB A100
AcceptedHome applicants with SJT Band 4 are unsuccessful.
Liverpool: medicine admissions FAQs, 2027 entry (PDF) · checked 26 Sep 2026Liverpool Dental Surgery BDS A200
AcceptedSJT Band 4 is not considered competitive enough for the BDS.
Liverpool: Dental Surgery BDS · checked 26 Sep 2026Newcastle Medicine and Surgery MB BS A100
AcceptedNewcastle's 2027 admissions policy does not consider candidates with SJT Band 4; Bands 1 to 3 add points to the final interview score.
Newcastle: 2027 Admissions Policy, Medicine and Surgery · checked 3 Oct 2026Nottingham Medicine BMBS A100
Accepted, and scoredBand 4 is not considered for interview. The band adds points to the interview score: Band 1 10, Band 2 6, Band 3 2.
Nottingham: undergraduate medicine selection process · checked 26 Sep 2026Nottingham Medicine with a Foundation Year BMBS A108
AcceptedThe selection page says Nottingham does not accept Band 4. The UCAT Consortium links A108 to the same page.
Nottingham: undergraduate medicine selection process · checked 26 Sep 2026Plymouth BMBS Medicine A100
May be consideredThe admissions panel may consider all aspects of the UCAT when shortlisting. No band rule is published.
Plymouth: BMBS Medicine · checked 26 Sep 2026Plymouth BDS Dental Surgery A206
May be consideredThe admissions panel may consider all aspects of the UCAT when shortlisting. No band rule is published.
Plymouth: BDS Dental Surgery · checked 26 Sep 2026Queen Mary Medicine MBBS A100
Accepted, used at interviewSJT Band 4 ends the application at the first shortlist. After interview, selection may also weigh the SJT.
Queen Mary: A100 selection criteria · checked 26 Sep 2026Queen Mary Dentistry BDS A200
Accepted, used at interviewSJT Band 4 ends the application at the first shortlist. After interview, selection may also weigh the SJT.
Queen Mary: A200 selection criteria · checked 26 Sep 2026Queen's Belfast Medicine MB A100
Only breaks tiesThe 2027 policy uses the SJT only to decide between borderline applicants with similar scores, before or after interview.
Queen's Belfast: medicine admissions policy, 2027 entry (PDF) · checked 26 Sep 2026Sheffield Medicine MBChB A100
Accepted, used at interviewThe SJT is reviewed only for applicants invited to interview. No band is ruled out before then.
Sheffield: Medicine MBChB, 2027 entry · checked 26 Sep 2026St Mary's Medicine MBBS A100
AcceptedApplications are considered with SJT Band 1 to 3 and each subtest at 500 or above.
St Mary's Twickenham: MBBS Medicine · checked 26 Sep 2026Sunderland MBChB Medicine A100
AcceptedYour SJT must be in Band 1 to 3, and your score in the top eight deciles.
Sunderland: MBChB Medicine · checked 26 Sep 2026UCL Medicine MBBS BSc A100
Only breaks tiesApplicants are ranked by total UCAT score for interview and the SJT breaks ties. UCL's site refused our check on 26 September, so this is the 24 September reading.
UCL: MBBS selection procedure · checked 24 Sep 2026Aston Medicine MBChB A100
Band not usedAston does not consider the SJT band in its ranking and has no lower cut-off for the SJT.
Aston Medical School: admissions FAQ · checked 26 Sep 2026Bangor Medicine BMBS A100
Band not usedBangor says UCAT situational judgement scores are currently not considered, but this may change.
Bangor: FAQs, studying medicine · checked 26 Sep 2026Bangor Gateway to Medicine (6 year) BMBS A103
Band not usedBangor's medicine FAQ says UCAT situational judgement scores are currently not considered, but this may change.
Bangor: FAQs, studying medicine · checked 26 Sep 2026Birmingham Dental Surgery BDS A200
Band not usedThe SJT band is not used at any stage, although the school says this may change in future.
Birmingham: dentistry selection for interview · checked 26 Sep 2026Bristol Medicine MB ChB A100
Not used to shortlistThe combined score of every subtest except Situational Judgement selects applicants for interview. The page gives no other use of the SJT.
Bristol: MB ChB Medicine, 2027 entry · checked 26 Sep 2026Bristol Dentistry BDS A206
Not used to shortlistThe combined score of every subtest except Situational Judgement selects applicants for interview. The page gives no other use of the SJT.
Bristol: BDS Dentistry, 2027 entry · checked 26 Sep 2026Cambridge Medicine MB BChir A100
Band not usedCambridge will not use the situational judgement score in its assessment for 2027 entry.
Cambridge: Medicine · checked 26 Sep 2026Glasgow Medicine MBChB A100
Band not usedGlasgow does not consider the SJT portion of the UCAT (2027 entry).
Glasgow: How we use UCAT, 2027 entry · checked 3 Oct 2026King's Medicine MBBS A100
Not used to shortlistThe SJT is not taken into account when shortlisting. The page gives no other use.
King's College London: Medicine MBBS entry requirements · checked 26 Sep 2026King's Extended Medical Degree Programme MBBS A101
Not used to shortlistThe SJT is not taken into account when shortlisting. The page gives no other use.
King's College London: Extended Medical Degree Programme entry requirements · checked 26 Sep 2026Oxford Medicine BA / BM BCh A100
Not used to shortlistOxford will not use the situational judgement score when shortlisting. It does not say it is used later.
Oxford: medicine application process · checked 26 Sep 2026Southampton Medicine BM5 (BMBS) A100
Band not usedSouthampton says it does not currently use the Situational Judgement Test.
Southampton: how we use the UCAT · checked 26 Sep 2026Southampton Medicine BM6 Widening Participation (BMBS) A102
Band not usedSouthampton says it does not currently use the Situational Judgement Test.
Southampton: how we use the UCAT · checked 26 Sep 2026Swansea Medicine MB BCh A110
Band not usedSwansea will not assess the SJT result.
Swansea: Medicine MB BCh · checked 26 Sep 2026
No SJT rule published 23
Aberdeen Medicine MBChB A100
Not published: ask the schoolThe page we checked does not say how the SJT band is used.
Aberdeen: Medicine A100 · checked 26 Sep 2026Greater Manchester Medicine MBChB A100
Not published: ask the schoolThe page we checked does not say how the SJT band is used.
University of Greater Manchester: Medicine MBChB · checked 26 Sep 2026Bristol Gateway to Medicine MB ChB A108
Not published: ask the schoolThe page we checked does not say how the SJT band is used.
Bristol: Gateway to Medicine, 2027 entry · checked 26 Sep 2026Bristol Gateway to Dentistry BDS A208
Not published: ask the schoolThe page we checked does not say how the SJT band is used.
Bristol: Gateway to Dentistry, 2027 entry · checked 26 Sep 2026Cardiff Medicine MBBCh A100
Not published: ask the schoolThe page we checked does not say how the SJT band is used.
Cardiff: Medicine MBBCh · checked 26 Sep 2026Cardiff Dental Surgery BDS A200
Not published: ask the schoolThe page we checked does not say how the SJT band is used.
Cardiff: Dental Surgery BDS · checked 26 Sep 2026Lancashire Medicine and Surgery MBBS A100
Not published: ask the schoolUCAT is for UK applicants only and the score helps decide who is interviewed. The page does not say how the SJT band is used.
University of Lancashire: Medicine MBBS, how to apply · checked 26 Sep 2026Dundee Medicine MBChB A100
Not published: ask the schoolThe page we checked does not say how the SJT band is used.
Dundee: Medicine entry requirements · checked 26 Sep 2026Dundee Dentistry BDS A200
Not published: ask the schoolThe page we checked does not say how the SJT band is used. Dundee's site refused our check on 26 September, so this is the 24 September reading.
Dundee: Dentistry entry requirements · checked 24 Sep 2026Exeter Medicine BMBS A100
Not published: ask the schoolThe 2027 admissions policy scores UCAT by decile alongside grades. It does not mention the SJT band.
Exeter: BMBS admissions policy, 2027 entry (PDF) · checked 26 Sep 2026Glasgow Dentistry BDS A200
Not published: ask the schoolThe page we checked does not say how the SJT band is used.
Glasgow: Dentistry · checked 26 Sep 2026Hertfordshire Medicine MBBS A100
Not published: ask the schoolThe page we checked does not say how the SJT band is used.
Hertfordshire: MBBS Medicine · checked 26 Sep 2026Lancaster Medicine with a Gateway Year MBChB A104
Not published: ask the schoolThe page we checked does not say how the SJT band is used.
Lancaster: Medicine and Surgery, how to apply · checked 26 Sep 2026Leeds Medicine and Surgery MBChB A100
Not published: ask the schoolThe page we checked does not say how the SJT band is used.
Leeds: Medicine and Surgery MBChB · checked 26 Sep 2026Leeds Gateway Year to Medicine MBChB A101
Not published: ask the schoolThe page we checked does not say how the SJT band is used.
Leeds: Gateway Year to Medicine · checked 26 Sep 2026Leeds Dental Surgery BChD A200
Not published: ask the schoolThe page we checked does not say how the SJT band is used.
Leeds: Dental Surgery BChD · checked 26 Sep 2026Newcastle Dental Surgery BDS A206
Not published: ask the schoolThe page we checked does not say how the SJT band is used.
Newcastle: Dental Surgery A206 · checked 26 Sep 2026Plymouth BMBS with Foundation Year A102
Not published: ask the schoolThe page we checked does not say how the SJT band is used.
Plymouth: BMBS with Foundation Year · checked 26 Sep 2026Portsmouth BDS Dental Surgery B758
Not published: ask the schoolThe page we checked does not say how the SJT band is used.
Portsmouth: BDS Dental Surgery · checked 26 Sep 2026Queen's Belfast Dentistry BDS A200
Not published: ask the schoolThe page we checked does not say how the SJT band is used.
Queen's Belfast: Dentistry BDS A200 · checked 26 Sep 2026St Andrews Medicine BSc (Hons) A100
Not published: ask the schoolThe page we checked does not say how the SJT band is used.
St Andrews: medicine selection · checked 26 Sep 2026St Andrews Medicine MBChB ScotCOM A10C
Not published: ask the schoolThe page we checked does not say how the SJT band is used.
St Andrews: medicine selection · checked 26 Sep 2026St Andrews Medicine BSc (Hons), Canadian route A990
Not published: ask the schoolThe page we checked does not say how the SJT band is used.
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The four bands
| Band | Meaning | 2026 candidates |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Excellent judgement | 15% |
| 2 | Good, solid | 40% |
| 3 | Modest | 34% |
| 4 | Low | 11% |
SJT sits apart from your cognitive total. A close answer earns partial credit.
Judge the action as written
Ask what the concern is, whose role it is, and what this exact action does. Do not add a sensible follow-up the action never mentions.
Worked example Protect a student's work
A student sees that a classmate has copied another student's confidential placement reflection into a group chat. Proposed action: forward it to more classmates to find out who wrote it. How appropriate is this?
Why this works: Very inappropriate. Forwarding spreads the private material further, and it is not needed to deal with the problem.
Why the tempting route fails: Wanting to find the author does not justify sharing it more widely.
Practise on real questions: UCAT SJT practice questions