University College London admissions-test requirements

• —Sitting 1: 12–16 October 2026, open to every 2027-entry applicant.
• —Sitting 2: 4–8 January 2027, which most Oxford and Cambridge applicants cannot use; check your course before relying on it.
• —The TMUA costs £78 in the UK and Ireland and £133 elsewhere; registration and booking deadlines are on the UAT-UK registration page.
• —Check your course page before booking: it decides which test, and for ESAT which modules, you sit.

Computer-based admissions test run by UAT-UK at test centres

Three 40-minute modules, with no calculator or dictionary

• Critical Thinking — 22 multiple-choice questions in 40 minutes
• Problem Solving — 22 multiple-choice questions in 40 minutes
• Writing Task — one essay from a choice of three, up to 750 words, in 40 minutes

• —Use the exact UCL programme page to confirm that the programme is in the tested group.
• —UCL owns this course requirement; the UAT-UK pages own registration and test format.
• —Do not transfer Oxford's TSA transition history to UCL.

No transition is asserted for this row in the repository source set.

• —Use UCL's current tests page and exact programme page for the UCL-specific deadline.
• —Check the LNAT website for the current registration and testing dates.

Computer-based law admissions test

95 minutes for Section A and 40 minutes for Section B

• Section A: 42 multiple-choice questions on 12 argumentative passages
• Section B: one essay from a choice of three questions

• —The requirement applies only to the UCL Law programmes named by UCL for this entry cycle.
• —Do not reuse Oxford's deadline for UCL.
• —Check the LNAT website for the sitting and resit rules before booking.

No transition is asserted for this row in the repository source set.

• —Use the UCAT Consortium's live annual dates page for registration, booking, and testing dates.
• —Confirm UCL's course and application deadlines separately.

Computer-based test with four separately timed subtests

Just under 2 hours, including a short instruction section before each subtest

• Verbal Reasoning — 44 questions in 22 minutes
• Decision Making — 35 questions in 37 minutes
• Quantitative Reasoning — 36 questions in 26 minutes
• Situational Judgement — 69 questions in 26 minutes

• —The requirement is scoped to UCL Medicine MBBS and the stated entry year.
• —The listed annual source establishes dates, not current attempt rules; verify those rules separately before booking.
• —Do not infer that every former BMAT course adopted UCAT.

• bmat → ucat

  This transition is recorded only for UCL Medicine. Other former BMAT users must be checked separately.

• —There is no current sitting on this historic hub.
• —Use the linked institution source and current-test page for the applicable cycle.

BMAT is represented here as a historic transition record, not a current booking route

No current sitting

• No current modules are published on this transition hub

• —Do not prepare for BMAT for UCL Medicine MBBS in the stated entry year.
• —Use the scoped UCL UCAT record and current annual UCAT source.
• —Do not infer the same transition for every former BMAT institution.

• bmat → ucat

  This transition is recorded only for UCL Medicine. Other former BMAT users must be checked separately.