UCAT ANZ scores and percentiles

Each cognitive subtest

300 to 900

Total

900 to 2700

Average total, 2026

1,964

90th percentile, 2026

2,340

How the test is marked

• Verbal Reasoning and Quantitative Reasoning: one mark for each correct answer.
• Decision Making: one mark for each single-answer question. Questions with five Yes or No statements are worth two marks, with one mark for a response that is partly correct.
• Situational Judgement: full marks for the best answer and part marks for an answer close to it.
• No negative marking. A wrong answer scores the same as a blank, so guess if you are out of time.

From marks to a scaled score

The subtests have different numbers of questions, and different candidates sit different versions of the test. To make results comparable, raw marks are converted to a scaled score. Verbal Reasoning, Decision Making and Quantitative Reasoning are each reported from 300 to 900 and added to give a total from 900 to 2700. Situational Judgement is reported on its own, also from 300 to 900, and is not part of the total.

The conversion is not published, so nobody outside the test can tell you exactly what scaled score a number of correct answers will give. Any mock exam score, ours included, is an estimate.

What candidates scored in 2026

17,341 candidates sat the test in 2026. A percentile is the share of candidates you did better than: a total at the 80th percentile beat 80% of the field.

The official site also has a percentile look-up for exact figures. The table above shows the published deciles only, so the tool on this page places a score between two of them.

How 2026 compares with 2025

Quantitative Reasoning has the highest average and the widest spread of the three cognitive subtests, and Verbal Reasoning the lowest average. A strong Verbal Reasoning score is therefore harder to come by, and the top of the field is separated largely by Quantitative Reasoning and Decision Making.

What is a good score?

It depends entirely on where you are applying and how that university uses the test. As a rough guide from the 2026 figures:

• Around 1,950 is the middle of the field. On its own this is rarely enough for medicine.
• 2,220 or more puts you in the top fifth, which is competitive at a number of universities when paired with strong school results.
• 2,340 or more puts you in the top tenth, the range the most competitive courses have asked for. The University of Queensland, for example, set a minimum of 2,290 for its 2026 medicine intake.

Reading your own result

Your score report shows a scaled score for each subtest and your total. When the final statistics are released in September you can see your percentile. Universities receive your result directly, and it counts for that year's admissions round only. If you apply again next year, you sit the test again.