Every BMAT paper we hold, from the specimen paper through to the final 2022 sitting, with answers and worked solutions where they exist. 88 files, free, no email required.
The last BMAT was sat in autumn 2023, for 2024 entry. Cambridge Assessment withdrew the test, and every UK medical and dental school that required it has since moved to the UCAT. There is no BMAT to register for and no BMAT score to submit.
We have kept this archive up because the reasoning is still good practice and people still ask for it. If you are applying this cycle, the test you need is the UCAT, and our UCAT cut-off scores page shows how each university uses it.
Newest first. The specimen paper and the 2018 to 2022 papers are closest to the test in its final form, so start there if you are using these for reasoning practice.
2020 is the one gap. Those papers were only ever hosted by Cambridge, and that site has since closed, so we no longer have a copy to give you. If you have one, send it over and we will add it.
Section 1
Section 2
Section 1
Section 2
Also useful: the BMAT Section 2 subject specification, which lists exactly what science was examinable.
Three of these are worth your time. One is not.
Problem solving and critical thinking under time pressure. This is the closest thing the BMAT had to UCAT Decision Making, and the data questions rehearse the same skim-then-calculate habit that Quantitative Reasoning rewards.
Twenty-seven science questions in thirty minutes. There is no UCAT equivalent, but it is an efficient way to find the GCSE science gaps that will otherwise surface in an interview.
The essay is gone and nothing in the UCAT replaces it. It is still a reasonable exercise in arguing both sides of an ethical question, which is interview preparation rather than test preparation.
No. The final BMAT sitting was in autumn 2023, for 2024 entry. Cambridge Assessment withdrew the test and every UK medical and dental school that used to require it has moved to the UCAT.
If you are applying this cycle, the UCAT is the admissions test you need to prepare for. These papers are an archive, kept because the reasoning they drill is still useful practice.
For UCAT preparation they are a supplement, never the main event. Section 1 problem solving overlaps genuinely with UCAT Decision Making and Quantitative Reasoning, and Section 2 is a clean, timed test of GCSE-level science recall under pressure.
What does not transfer is the format: the UCAT is on screen, the timings are tighter per question, and there is no essay. Use official UCAT practice for format familiarity and use these papers for raw reasoning practice.
The BMAT changed shape more than once over its life, and Section 1 was cut down in 2020. Papers from before about 2014 contain question types that were dropped, so treat anything early as general reasoning practice rather than a realistic mock.
The specimen paper and the 2018 to 2022 papers are the closest to the test in its final form.
Those papers were only ever available from us by email rather than as direct downloads, and they are the least representative of the test in any case. If you specifically want them, contact us and we will send what we hold.
The UCAT, taken in the summer before you apply. Our free UCAT guide covers registration, the four sections and how universities use your score, and the cut-off scores page shows what each medical and dental school actually does with it.
Ultimate Package students from our 2025/26 cycle, with their UCAT scores and offers, who trained with us for the UCAT, personal statements and interviews.
“Harry got my UCAT up to 2,590, working through the sections I kept dropping marks on week by week. Gemma then ran my interview practice so the MMI stations didn't catch me out, and Dr Akash mentored me the whole way through. I'm off to King's for Medicine.”
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