Selection procedure

GCSE results (30 points)

Applications will be given an academic score based upon the best six achieved grades at GCSE for Medicine, or best five GCSEs for Medicine with a Gateway Year, or equivalent Year 11 qualifications.

UCAT score (40 points)

We award a number of points based upon your total UCAT decile, up to a maximum of 40 points. We do this once UCAT results are released to universities in November. As such, the number of points that each UCAT score will receive as part of our selection procedure will be determined after the UCAS deadline.

UCAT Situational Judgement Test (15 points)

Points are allocated depending on the SJT Band achieved, up to a maximum of 15 points. We do not accept Band 4.

Contextual data (up to 15 points)

We recognise that an applicants educational and socio-economic background may impact their achievements and potential. We use contextual information and data alongside your UCAS application so we can build a complete picture of you as an applicant, your characteristics and potential.

Due to the availability and comparability of data, the use of contextual information will apply to UK school leaver applicants only.

Contextual data points are only available for UK resident Home students. Contextual data points are not available for graduates or applicants who have previously started a university course, including foundation programmes.

Points are awarded as follows:

• Care experience or care leaver* – 15 points
• Refugee status – 15 points
• Contextual data markers (not to be used in addition to care or refugee status):
  • Recipient of the UCAT Bursary – 8 points
  • Home postcode is in POLAR 1 – 4 points
  • Home postcode is in POLAR 2 – 3 points
  • First in your family to go to university – 3 points
• Applicants who have satisfactorily completed one of the our recognised widening participation programmes and who do not meet any of the above three criteria, or who only meet one of the criteria, are awarded points as follows:
  • Widening participation programme – 7 points
  • Widening participation programme and one criteria – 7 points and criteria points
• The following recognised widening participation progammes must be completed within two years of application:
  • Hull York Medical School Pathways to Medicine
  • Realising Opportunities programme
  • University of York Black Access programme
  • University of York Next Step York programme
  • University of York Yorway programe
• The following recognised widening participation progammes must be completed in the year of application:
  • Hull York Medical School Year 12 Summer School / Residential
  • UKWPMED programmes (Birmingham, Brighton and Sussex, Hull York Medical School, Keele, Leicester, Manchester, Plymouth) - This is not applicable to Medicine with a Gateway Year
  • York Experience Summer School

We do not score your personal statement; however, it is an important part of your application to Hull York Medical School as it allows you to talk about your interests, achievements and ambitions.

We do read all of these and reserve the right to take them into consideration in selection decisions. We carefully examine all the information submitted on the UCAS form when making decisions about candidates who are borderline at the selection for interview or selection for offer stage.

If you are invited for interview, your statement is likely to prove useful preparation for interview questions. It is important that your statement is honest and accurate; we may check the claims that you made on your statement, and discovery of fabricated or exaggerated material may lead to the withdrawal of a future offer of a place.

We do not score pre-application experience at this stage, however you will be asked about your experience in your interview. We advise applicants to have a range of relevant work experiences in health or social care settings or in areas that provide person facing interactions.

Your experience will help you to demonstrate in your application and interview that you understand, and are committed to, teamwork and the social context of healthcare.

It will help you to develop some of the values, attitudes and behaviours essential to being a doctor.

Please visit our work experience page for more information.

Applications must also include an academic reference. Any application submitted without a completed academic reference will be rejected.

If it is a while since you were studying, and you have been in a full-time job for more than one year, we will also require a reference from your latest employer who will be asked to comment upon your suitability to study Medicine.

In-person interviews are scored as follows:

• Group exercise - up to 20 points
• Mini interview 1 - up to 20 points
• Mini interview 2 - up to 20 points
• Scenario station - up to 10 points
• Student station - up to 10 points

Online interviews are only available for international applicants and therefore do not include contextual data points.

Online interviews are scored as follows:

• Mini interview 1 - up to 15 points
• Mini interview 2 - up to 15 points
• Mini interview 3 - up to 15 points
• Student station - up to 10 points
• Individual scenario station - up to 10 points
• Group scenario station - up to 15 points