Test Statistics

To help you make your university choices, you may want to understand how your test result relates to overall candidate performance. You may also be interested to know how your score compares with those used by universities in previous years.

Mean scores can shift between testing years and so direct comparison is not always possible. The information below provides you with decile distributions.

In 2025, Abstract Reasoning has been withdrawn from the test.


2025 Test Scores

2025 Mean Total Score

The following data is valid up to the 26 September 2025 based on 41,354 tests taken.

The final total cognitive mean scaled score is 1891.

The final mean scaled scores of the cognitive subtests are below:

Cognitive Subtest 2025
Verbal Reasoning (VR) 602
Decision Making (DM) 628
Quantitative Reasoning (QR) 661

The scaled score range for each cognitive subtest is 300 - 900.

2025 Decile Ranking

The following table provides deciles of candidate total scores. Each decile rank represents 10% of candidates based on their overall test performance. The 1st decile represents a score at the 10th percentile; the 2nd decile represents a score at the 20th percentile, and so on.

Decile Rank 2025 VR DM QR
1st 1580 500 520 520
2nd 1680 540 560 570
3rd 1760 560 590 590
4th 1820 580 610 630
5th 1880 600 630 650
6th 1950 620 650 680
7th 2010 640 670 710
8th 2100 670 700 750
9th 2220 700 740 820

2025 Situational Judgement Test (SJT)

The table below shows the percentage of candidates placed in each Situational Judgement Test band.

  2025
Number of candidates 41,354
Band 1 21%
Band 2 39%
Band 3 29%
Band 4 10%

 

Percentile Look Up (2025 Test Cycle)

Enter your 2025 total scaled score below to find out your percentile ranking. Please note that some universities generate their own percentiles based on their own applicants.

 

Previous Test Years

In 2025, Abstract Reasoning has been withdrawn from the test. The information below illustrates how candidates would have performed in previous test cycles without an Abstract Reasoning score.

Candidates who sat the UCAT in 2024 can find 2024 test statistics here.


Cognitive Subtests 2019 - 2024

The scaled score range for each cognitive subtest is 300 – 900. Mean scaled scores for the cognitive subtests are below:

  2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019
Number of candidates 37,913 35,625 36,374 37,230 34,153 29,375
Verbal Reasoning 601 591 567 572 570 565
Decision Making 620 623 616 610 625 618
Quantitative Reasoning 649 649 658 665 664 662
Total Score 1870 1864 1841 1848 1859 1845

The following table provides deciles of candidate total scores in each year. Each decile represents 10% of candidates. The 1st decile represents a score at the 10th percentile; the 2nd decile represents a score at the 20th percentile, and so on.

Decile Rank 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019
1st 1580 1590 1560 1580 1600 1600
2nd 1670 1680 1650 1670 1690 1690
3rd 1740 1740 1720 1740 1750 1740
4th 1810 1800 1780 1790 1810 1800
5th 1860 1860 1840 1840 1860 1840
6th 1920 1910 1890 1900 1910 1890
7th 1980 1970 1950 1950 1960 1940
8th 2060 2050 2030 2020 2030 2000
9th 2170 2150 2130 2120 2120 2090

 

Situational Judgement Test (SJT) 2019 - 2024

The table below shows the percentage of candidates achieving each SJT banding:

 

 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019
Number of candidates 37,913 35,625 36,374 37,230 34,153 29,375
Band 1 13% 25% 20% 14% 30% 17%
Band 2 36% 39% 36% 36% 36% 40%
Band 3 38% 26% 31% 33% 24% 33%
Band 4 13% 9% 14% 16% 9% 10%