What is a good UCAT ANZ score?

"What score do I need?" is the question students type most, and it is the one with the least satisfying answer. No single number is right, because the Consortium does not set one and each university treats the score in its own way. What can be said precisely is how scores work and how candidates have been spread.

How scoring works

The Consortium's scoring page explains:

• Your mark is a count of correct answers, with no negative marking, and your performance on one question does not affect which others you see.
• Because Verbal Reasoning (44 questions), Decision Making (35) and Quantitative Reasoning (36) have different numbers of questions, raw marks cannot be compared directly. They are converted to scaled scores from 300 to 900.
• The total scaled score is the sum of those three, from 900 to 2700.
• Situational Judgement is a separate scaled score from 300 to 900.

Scaled scores are not percentages. A total of 1,800 is the middle of the possible range, but it is not a pass mark. What the numbers mean depends on how other candidates scored.

What the statistics show

The Consortium publishes summary statistics after each test. For 2026, covering 17,341 candidates, the summary shows:

The Consortium explains that deciles map to percentiles in tens (the 1st decile is the 10th percentile, then the 20th, and so on), so the 5th decile is the median and the 9th decile is the 90th percentile.

Reading the table:

• Half of candidates scored 1,950 or less on the total, and a quarter scored 2,170 or more.
• About one in ten scored 2,340 or more.
• The subtests are spread differently. Quantitative Reasoning had the widest range from the 1st quartile to the 3rd quartile (590 to 780), so each point of improvement there moves your place less than in Verbal Reasoning.

For 2025 (16,950 candidates), the summary gave a mean total of 1,941 and a median of 1,930, with a mean Situational Judgement score of 586. The numbers moved a little between years, which is a reminder that a score is always read against the group who sat that year's test.

Two years side by side

Comparing the Consortium's two latest summaries shows how stable and how variable the averages are. Mean Verbal Reasoning was 620 in 2025 and 619 in 2026. Mean Decision Making rose from 642 to 655, and mean Quantitative Reasoning from 679 to 691. The mean total went from 1,941 to 1,964. These are differences of a few points to a couple of dozen, small against a 600-point range but enough to show why last year's forum figures are only a rough guide.

How to find your percentile

The Consortium's test statistics page offers a percentile look-up for the total score each year. It also warns that a university may work out percentiles of its own from its own applicants. That matters, because the group applying to one university can be quite different from all candidates.

"Good" is up to the university

The results page says the Consortium delivers results directly to its universities in early September and that each university explains on its website how it uses the score in its admissions process. Some may use the cognitive total, some may use the Situational Judgement score, some may use percentiles, and some may combine the score with academic results and interviews. We therefore cannot, and will not, name a "safe" score.

A sensible approach is to:

1. Read the "how we use the UCAT ANZ" section for each course you are considering.
2. Note whether the university uses the total, subscores or the Situational Judgement score.
3. Look at what it says about how the UCAT ANZ combines with other criteria.
4. Treat any claim of a cut-off from a forum or a coaching site as unconfirmed unless the university states it.

Using your own scores in practice

The Consortium's practice tests do not provide a score, so any score you compute for yourself from practice is a rough guide at best. Practice sets differ in difficulty from the live test, and no practice score predicts a result. It is better to track:

• accuracy by subtest and question type;
• how often you finish a subtest with time to spare;
• the kinds of mistakes you make.

If accuracy is climbing and your mistakes are shrinking, you are improving, whatever number a practice set gives. A single practice score is a prompt for questions, not a verdict.

The mean is not a target

It is tempting to aim for "above the average" and stop. The mean tells you where the middle of the group was, which shifts a little year to year. The more useful target is a process one: understand the tutorials, cover the question banks, review your mistakes and sit when you feel ready. Marks and places are not promised by any preparation, including ours.

Where to go next

• How Situational Judgement is marked
• Verbal Reasoning and the clock
• UCAT ANZ practice papers are on our samples and pricing pages.

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