Enter either GPA/GAMSAT or ATAR/UCAT, then see a school-by-school read of eligibility, selection weighting, bonus-sensitive pathways and realistic competitiveness. Official rules come first; community cutoffs are clearly marked as unverified estimates.
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After payment, Dan will contact you with available times for the call. This call provides general guidance based on publicly available information and community data. It is not professional admissions advice and does not guarantee any outcome.Choose undergraduate UCAT/ATAR, graduate GPA/GAMSAT, or international/overseas (GAMSAT, MCAT, DAT, Monash WAM). The calculator keeps official eligibility rules separate from community estimates, then gives a university-by-university read.
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For undergraduate medicine, Australian universities do not share one common formula. Some use UCAT heavily, some use it only as a tiebreaker, and some do not use UCAT at all. This calculator starts with official eligibility rules from university pages, then layers in community competitiveness estimates only where official cutoffs are not published.
The UCAT mode is most useful for school-leaver and recent school-leaver pathways at UNSW, WSU/CSU, JMP, UQ, Monash, Adelaide, Flinders, Curtin, UWA, UTAS, Griffith and related regional pathways. Reddit-style percentile targets are clearly labelled as unverified community estimates, not official university rules.
For graduate medicine, most GEMSAS-consortium medical schools rank applicants for interview on a combo score: GPA / 7 + relevant GAMSAT / 100. The important detail is that the relevant GAMSAT score is not identical for every university.
Deakin, ANU, Griffith, UWA and Macquarie use the ACER overall GAMSAT score. UoM, UQ, UNDS and UNDF use the unweighted average of Sections 1, 2 and 3. For postgraduate medicine, CASPer is used only by UoW, UNDS and UNDF. The other postgraduate universities do not factor CASPer in at all.
The big strategy point: if your combo is below about 1.70, or only barely competitive for the normal GPA/GAMSAT schools, CASPer may be the highest-return part of the application only if UoW, Notre Dame Sydney or Notre Dame Fremantle are on your list. Students often spend years protecting GPA and one to three years chasing GAMSAT, then do very little CASPer preparation. That creates an opportunity: Q4 is more attainable than many students assume with deliberate practice, and it is worth a lot at those three postgraduate CASPer schools.
For example, a 1.65 combo may not feel comfortable for the University of Melbourne, where CASPer is not considered at all, but it can be extremely live at UNDS or UNDF with Q4 CASPer. UoW is even more CASPer-driven: once GPA and GAMSAT hurdles are cleared, interview ranking is driven by CASPer and bonuses rather than the usual combo.
If your GEMSAS GPA is below about 5.8, the calculator treats GPA as the major constraint. In that case, consider UoW if you clear the hurdles and can build CASPer plus bonuses. Separately, consider a new bachelor if GPA repair is realistic, or Honours only if you can reliably aim for First Class and are specifically targeting schools where that changes the GPA treatment, such as UQ.
This tool compares your combo score against the actual 2026 interview and rejection cohorts at ten Australian medical schools, using distributions calculated from student-submitted data. The range bars show where your score sits relative to median and 1 standard deviation of students who were offered an interview at each school - not the rejected cohort.
University cutoffs vary every year based on the strength of the applicant pool, how many students ranked the school highly as a preference, and category-specific admission quotas (domestic, rural, bonded, etc). A cutoff that was 1.67 last year could be 1.69 this year. Use the cutoff line as a reasonable lower bound, not a firm threshold.
Where official formulas are published, this calculator now applies school-specific bonus handling: Deakin and ANU percentage adjustments, UQ/UWA/Griffith GPA overrides, Macquarie's capped GPA bonus, and UOW's 50% Casper / 50% bonus ranking estimate. CASPer is not applied to any other postgraduate school in this calculator because those schools do not use it. Where formulas are not published, the option is kept as a qualitative flag rather than an invented number.
For plain-English school-by-school rules, use the Australian medical school entry requirements guide. It breaks down Deakin bonuses, UOW CASPer ranking, UQ GPA overrides, Notre Dame CASPer selection, and the other GEMSAS school exceptions in one place.
Australian medical schools reserve a proportion of places for applicants from rural, regional, and remote backgrounds. Cutoffs for rural applicants are typically 0.08 to 0.20 combo points lower than non-rural cutoffs. The data for rural applicants is much sparser than for non-rural - treat rural results as a very loose guide and expect wider variation year-to-year.
It depends heavily on the university and your applicant pool. Official pages usually do not publish fixed UCAT cutoffs. As a planning guide, non-rural applicants often need roughly mid-90s percentile or higher at UCAT-heavy schools, while local/rural pathways can be lower. Griffith and UTAS are more ATAR-primary, and JCU/Bond do not use UCAT.
UCAT ANZ score scales and annual cohorts change, so percentile is usually the cleaner way to compare across years. The 2026 UCAT ANZ cognitive total is reported from 900 to 2700, with SJT separate. If you enter only a total, the calculator estimates percentile, but the official UCAT ANZ percentile table is better once available.
No. Community pages can be useful because applicants share real outcomes, but they are unverified, self-selecting and can miss pathway details such as rurality, state quotas, preference order and interviews. This calculator labels them as community estimates and keeps official eligibility rules separate.
Combo = GPA / 7 + relevant GAMSAT / 100. GPA is the GEMSAS-calculated GPA (not your university's raw GPA - they're often different). The calculator uses ACER overall GAMSAT for weighted-score schools and the S1/S2/S3 average for UoM, UQ, UNDS and UNDF.
Based on 2026 intake student-reported data from the r/GAMSAT community results spreadsheet: Deakin 1.71, ANU 1.69, UQ 1.65, Griffith 1.66, UWA 1.63, UoM 1.66, Macquarie 1.62, UNDS 1.56, UNDF 1.56. Rural applicants typically need 0.08-0.20 lower. These figures are derived from self-reported community data, are not published by universities, and change year to year. Treat them as planning benchmarks, not hard thresholds.
A relevant GAMSAT score of 65 combined with a GPA of 6.5 gives a combo of ~1.58 - below most non-rural cutoffs except UNDS / UNDF. A 65 with a GPA of 7.0 gives a combo of ~1.65 - enough for many schools. For UoM, UQ and Notre Dame, use your unweighted section average rather than your ACER overall score.
A GEMSAS GPA of 6.5+ keeps many schools in reach, especially if your GAMSAT is solid or if UoW/UNDS/UNDF are realistic because those are the only postgraduate CASPer schools. Below 6.0 becomes difficult except at Notre Dame, which formally uses CASPer, and UoW, which uses hurdles plus CASPer and bonuses. A 7.0 GPA is powerful, but a GAMSAT around the low 60s is still not automatically competitive everywhere; the normal combo schools may still need a stronger GAMSAT.
For postgraduate medicine, CASPer matters only at University of Wollongong, Notre Dame Fremantle and Notre Dame Sydney. It is not considered at UoM, UQ, Deakin, ANU, Griffith, UWA, Macquarie or the other non-CASPer postgraduate pathways. If your normal combo is below about 1.70 and UoW/UNDS/UNDF are realistic targets, CASPer is often the highest-return area to improve because many applicants barely prepare it compared with GPA and GAMSAT. See the CASPer guide or use the CASPer practice tool.
It's built on self-reported student data from the publicly available r/GAMSAT community results spreadsheet — a volunteer-maintained Google Sheet where students submit their own scores and outcomes. The data includes obvious outliers, is self-selecting (only students who choose to share results are included), and cannot fully capture structured applications, unpublished bonus-point conversions, category-specific quotas, interview year-to-year variation, preference order effects, or post-offer rejections. Scores entered into this calculator are not stored or transmitted. Treat results as informational only.
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An informational, free, educational tool built by Key2MD - Dan (Australian medical school applicant coach) to help prospective Australian medical school applicants contextualise undergraduate UCAT/ATAR profiles and graduate GPA/GAMSAT combo scores.
This is not an admissions prediction, not legal or professional advice, and not affiliated with, endorsed by, or representative of any university, medical school, GEMSAS, the University of Melbourne, or any medical body, educational institution, or regulator. All views expressed are personal opinions of the author, not those of any university or organisation.
Results generated by this tool are for your personal reference only. They may not be reproduced, redistributed, published, or used as the basis for advice to third parties without written permission from Key2MD.
Official eligibility rules are drawn from publicly available university, UCAT ANZ and tertiary admissions pages. Competitiveness estimates are derived from publicly available, self-reported outcome data submitted by students to the r/GAMSAT community results spreadsheet — a volunteer-maintained public resource hosted on Google Sheets and linked from the r/GAMSAT Reddit community. This tool is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or authorised by the r/GAMSAT community or its maintainers. Community data is self-selecting, unverified, may include errors or outliers, and does not represent the full applicant population at any university. Rural/category data is particularly sparse.
Actual admission decisions depend on many factors this tool cannot fully model, including but not limited to: structured applications, unpublished bonus conversions, preference order, category-specific quotas, international vs domestic status, GAM (Graduate Academic Marker) adjustments, CASPer scaling at UoW/Notre Dame only, year-to-year cutoff variation, medical school-specific weighting changes, and interview performance itself.
No guarantee, warranty, or representation is made as to the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of results. Treat the output as a rough guide only. Users are strongly advised to consult official sources - GEMSAS, individual medical school admissions offices, and professional advisors - before making any application, enrolment, or financial decisions.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Dan, Key2MD, and any associated persons or entities are not responsible for decisions made, actions taken, or outcomes resulting from use of this tool — including but not limited to application decisions, school preference ordering, and enrolment choices. Users assume responsibility for verifying information and making their own informed decisions. Nothing here excludes rights or remedies that cannot legally be excluded.
Data and cutoffs may be updated without notice as new information becomes available. Competitiveness estimates were last reviewed: May 2026.
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