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ADMISSIONS TESTS
BMAT (BioMedical Admissions Test) — discontinued
The BMAT was used by Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial, UCL, and a small number of other schools. Cambridge Assessment discontinued the test after the 2023 sitting.
The BioMedical Admissions Test was used by a small group of UK medical schools — including the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, University College London, and Brighton and Sussex — and by a number of international institutions. It was administered by Cambridge Assessment Admissions Testing.
In late 2023, Cambridge Assessment announced that BMAT would be discontinued after the November 2023 sitting. The institutions that previously used the BMAT moved to alternative assessments from 2024 entry onwards. Oxford introduced the Test of Medicine (the TMUA / new medicine admissions assessment), Imperial introduced the UCAT for some programmes, and others have substituted with adjusted UCAT and academic-based selection processes.
If you are applying to medicine in 2025 or later, BMAT is no longer relevant. Consult each medical school's current admissions page directly — this is one area where outdated study guides and forum threads are particularly misleading.
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This page is one of a set of medical school and medical careers resources on chrispaton.org, replacing the category landings of New Media Medicine (newmediamedicine.com), an early digital health blog and UK medical school applications community I ran between 2004 and 2014. The original New Media Medicine forum threads — user-generated content from that community — are not republished here; this is original framing written to help current applicants find authoritative information. Always confirm details with the official sources linked above before acting on them.