UCAT vs. BMAT
(BMAT will not be administered from 2024 onwards)
Any student planning to pursue medicine or dentistry in the UK at the undergraduate level requires to take either the UCAT (University Clinical Aptitude Test) or the BMAT (BioMedical Admissions Test) – two standardized tests that all medical schools require as an admissions test. Although more schools use the UCAT for admissions than the BMAT, many candidates take both tests in order to maximize their choice from a larger university pool (no one test can substitute the other).