How to book your Interview
All applicants who are successfully shortlisted are invited by email to book a Multiple Mini Interview (MMI). Interviews for 2026 entry will be held in person, on Campus at Bangor University.
Students who require a bilingual or Welsh language interview will be able to book one during designated slots. At other times, we will do our best to accommodate your request wherever possible.
Once you have booked your slot, you will receive a confirmation email from Bangor Events. The booking form will close at 6.00pm on Wednesday, 26th November 2025.
You will receive a reminder emails before your interview.
For further information or help with booking an interview, please contact us.
Reasonable Adjustments
If you have any accessibility requirements, please contact us as soon as possible to discuss. We will do our very best to make reasonable adjustments for your interview.
Arrival and Pre-interview Arrangements
- Interview candidates must register on arrival at the interview venue. Please note: Only applicants will be permitted entry to the interview venue until after that MMI session.
- After registering, you will be directed to wait in the Applicant Room until you are called for your ID check.
- After ID checks are completed, a member of the Medicine Admissions Team will explain the interview format and assign you to your first interview station.
- You will then be called to your first interview station.
Important: Please remember to bring ID with you. Acceptable ID formats are Passport or Drivers’ Licence. If you haven’t already submitted a copy of your GCSE results to the Admissions Team, please ensure you bring your transcripts with you to the interview as this will be your final opportunity to do so. Please contact us if you have questions about the ID and documents check.
Interview Format (MMI)
We’ll be using Multiple Mini Interviews (MMIs) to assess candidates.
- MMIs consist of six interview Stations, each with a different interviewer.
- At each station there will be two questions.
- Candidates with have three minutes allocated for each question, so six minutes in total.
- You will also be given three minutes before each station to read through the questions and consider your response.
- Each station is marked separately and independently. Therefore, if you feel one station hasn’t gone well you are still able to make up for it at others.
Interview Stations
The questions will be clearly displayed before each Station.
An announcement will be made to ‘Start Reading’. Please use this time to read through the question for your first assigned station and consider your response.
An announcement will be made to ‘Start Station’. The interviewer will read out the first question for you.
After three minutes, there will be an announcement to ‘Start Next Question’. Again, the interviewer will read out the question to you. There will be a further announcements confirming: ‘One Minute Remaining’ and ‘End Station’.
You will then move on to the next Station. The process is the same at all six Stations.
End of Interview
Once all Stations been completed, there will be a short debrief session.
You’ll also have the opportunity to take part in a Q&A session with a current Medicine student at Bangor University, who will share insights into their experience and answer any questions you may have about studying Medicine here. This will be followed by an optional tour of the Ffriddoedd halls of residence village. Guests are welcome to join you during this part of the day.
Please note: Recognition of Prior Education and Learning RPEL candidates will sit an Exam after interview. Please see further information below.
How are the Interviews assessed?
Interviewers will consider your ability to communicate effectively and suitability for the course as well as your understanding of important topics related to Medicine and the NHS.
- North Wales Medical School and Insight into a Career in Medicine
- Ethics, Professionalism, Teamwork and Empathy
- NHS/NHS Wales
- Resilience
- Reasoning/Self-Directedness
- Wales
Further information on preparing for interviews is available on the Medical Schools Council Website.
What happens after the Interview?
Offers are only made after the full interview round for the year of entry have been held. No feedback will be given on the day.
The Admissions Group meets with the Head of the North Wales Medical School and Curriculum Director as soon as possible after all interviews have been conducted to determine the threshold for offers based on interview score.
Successful applicants should be notified via UCAS by the end of March 2026.
In the event of illness, or other extenuating circumstance which prevents an applicant from participating in the interview, the applicant must contact us prior to their interview time. We will do our best to arrange an alternative interview date, but this cannot be guaranteed and we may not be able to rebook your interview.
Concerns before interview date: Applicants who have concerns or worries about the interview prior to the day are strongly encouraged to contact us.
Concerns on the day: Applicants who have concerns about the interview on the day must bring these to the attention of the Admissions Team on the day of the interview.
Important:
- Retrospective adjustments will not be made.
- Retrospective extenuating circumstances cannot be considered.
- Failure to attend a booked interview without exceptional reasons will result in the application being rejected and no offer for the medicine programme will be made.
Late Attendance
It is important that you arrive on time for your interview. Candidates who arrive late are not guaranteed an interview. We strongly encourage all applicants to allow plenty of time for the journey and that they aim to arrive 15 minutes prior to their interview time.
Recognition of Prior Education and Learning (RPEL) candidates will undertake a Multiple Mini Interview (MMI), followed by an Entrance Examination. These assessments will take place on designated days specifically scheduled for RPEL applicants. RPEL applicants should choose interview sessions at 08:45 or 13:00 on 1 or 2 December.
The Entrance Exam will be delivered using the Medicine School Council Assessment Alliance (MSCAA) platform.
Exam duration 72 minutes.
The Entrance Exam is mapped against the learning outcomes of Year 1.
All candidates required to take the exam will be notified in advance. Please visit our Medicine Entrance Exam pages for more information.
Contact Details
If you have questions about the interview process or date, please contact the Medicine Admissions Team.