UCV Medicine Admission Test 2027: Complete Preparation Guide

Eight areas across 60 items, 60% of the paper, and the single largest block in this set of guides.

• Molecular and physicochemical basis of life: the chemical components of the cell, primary, secondary and trace bioelements, biologically important ions, the structure and anomalous properties of water, mineral salts and osmotic balance, pH and biological buffer systems, true solutions, colloids and suspensions, diffusion, osmosis, dialysis and tonicity, carbohydrates, lipids, proteins and their levels of structure, nucleic acids, nucleoside against nucleotide, enzymes with their cofactors, inhibitors and pH and temperature dependence, and vitamins in their coenzyme roles
• Cell structure and function: optical against electron microscopy, cell theory and its historical development, the endosymbiotic origin of mitochondria and chloroplasts, prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, animal against plant cells, the fluid mosaic membrane with its fluidity, asymmetry and amphipathic structure, simple and facilitated diffusion, osmosis, active transport and the Na⁺/K⁺ pump, cotransport, endocytosis and exocytosis, nucleus and nucleolus, ribosomes, rough and smooth endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, lysosomes and peroxisomes, mitochondria, chloroplasts, cytoskeleton, centrosome and centrioles, vacuoles and the cell wall
• Cell cycle, mitosis and meiosis: the G1, S, G2 and M phases and their checkpoints, chromosome duplication in S phase, the stages of mitosis and cytokinesis, mitosis in animal against plant cells, the two meiotic divisions, crossing-over, recombination and independent assortment, gamete formation and genetic variability, the biological meaning of each division, haploid against diploid, chromosome against chromatid, and homologous chromosomes against sister chromatids
• Metabolism and bioenergetics: metabolism as the whole set of cellular reactions, catabolism against anabolism, ATP as energy currency and energy coupling, NAD⁺, NADH, FAD, FADH₂, NADP⁺ and NADPH, enzymatic regulation, feedback inhibition and compartmentalisation, aerobic against anaerobic respiration, glycolysis, pyruvate oxidation and the Krebs cycle, the electron transport chain and oxidative phosphorylation, lactic and alcoholic fermentation, photosynthesis and the light-dependent reactions, the Calvin cycle, and chemosynthesis
• Molecular genetics: DNA as the genetic material, the double helix with antiparallel strands and complementary base pairing, the gene concept, semi-conservative replication, the replication fork and its enzymes, leading and lagging strands and Okazaki fragments, prokaryotic against eukaryotic replication and telomeres, mRNA, tRNA, rRNA and regulatory RNAs, transcription and translation, promoters, terminators and untranslated regions, capping, polyadenylation and splicing, introns against exons and alternative splicing, the genetic code and its degeneracy, regulation of gene expression and epigenetic concepts, reverse transcription and retroviruses, point and chromosomal mutations and mutagens, and recombinant DNA with restriction enzymes, vectors, PCR, sequencing, GMOs and cloning
• Mendelian genetics, inheritance and evolution: alleles, dominant and recessive traits, homozygosity and heterozygosity, genotype against phenotype, monohybrid and dihybrid crosses and the test cross, the chromosomal theory of inheritance, linked genes and recombination frequency, polygenic and multifactorial traits, multiple alleles and the ABO blood group, sex determination and sex-linked and sex-influenced inheritance, the evidence for evolution from fossils, comparative anatomy, embryology, molecular data and biogeography, Darwinism and neo-Darwinism, punctuated equilibrium, gene pools, allele frequencies and genetic drift, and adaptation, speciation, extinction and biodiversity
• Microbiology and biotechnology: the concept of a microorganism and the major groups including bacteria, microscopic fungi, protozoa, microscopic algae and viruses, bacterial structure, reproduction, plasmids and metabolism, viral capsids, genome types, host specificity and the lytic and lysogenic cycles, culture, isolation, sterilisation, asepsis, staining and growth conditions, microorganisms in the carbon, nitrogen and sulfur cycles and in nitrogen fixation, infection, transmission, pathogenicity and virulence, antibiotic resistance through mutation, selection and horizontal gene transfer, industrial fermentation, enzymes, antibiotics and GMOs, and bioremediation, biodegradation, wastewater treatment and biofuels
• Immunology: the concept of immunity and the role of the immune system, innate against adaptive, natural against artificial and active against passive immunity, the primary barriers of skin, mucosae, secretions and microbiota, inflammation, phagocytosis, complement, fever and natural killer cells, lymphoid organs, B cells, T cells and antigen-presenting cells, clonal expansion and clonal selection, cellular against humoral immunity, primary and secondary responses and immune memory, antigens and immunoglobulin structure and classes, agglutination, neutralisation and opsonisation, autoimmunity, hypersensitivity and immunodeficiency, HIV and AIDS, immune surveillance in cancer, and sera, vaccines and monoclonal antibodies

Six areas across 30 items. UCV's own sample questions lean disproportionately on organic chemistry and carbon structure, so weight that area above its share of the syllabus headings.

• Atomic structure and periodicity: atoms, nuclei, electrons, isotopes and ions, atomic number, mass number, relative atomic mass and molecular mass, atomic spectra and the quantisation of energy, the Planck hypothesis and the photon, the Bohr model and its limits, the quantum-mechanical model and electron probability, de Broglie duality, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, s, p, d and f orbitals, the principal, azimuthal, magnetic and spin quantum numbers, the Aufbau principle, Pauli exclusion and Hund's rule, valence electrons, groups, periods and blocks, metals, nonmetals and metalloids, and trends in ionisation energy, electron affinity, electronegativity and atomic and ionic radius
• Chemical bonding and molecular structure: the chemical bond and the octet rule with its exceptions, ionic bonding, lattice energy and the Born-Haber cycle, covalent bonding, Lewis structures, formal charge, bond order and resonance, VSEPR geometries, bond angles and lone-pair effects, valence bond theory and sp, sp2 and sp3 hybridisation, sigma and pi bonds, molecular geometry and polarity, molecular against network covalent solids, metallic bonding, band theory, semiconductors and superconductors, London dispersion, dipole-dipole, hydrogen and ion-dipole forces, and the peptide, glycosidic, ester and phosphodiester bonds of biological molecules
• Reaction kinetics and chemical equilibrium: reaction rate, its units and average against instantaneous rate, collision theory, the activated complex and activation energy, the effect of concentration, temperature, pressure, surface area and the nature of the reactants, catalysts and why they do not shift the equilibrium position, dynamic equilibrium and the law of mass action, Kc and Kp and the interpretation of large and small constants, gas, heterogeneous and precipitation equilibria, Le Châtelier's principle, and industrial and biological equilibria including the logic of the Haber process
• Acid-base equilibrium: the Arrhenius and Brønsted-Lowry concepts of acid and base, conjugate acid-base pairs and amphoteric species, strong against weak acids and bases, degree of ionisation, Ka, Kb and pKa, the water equilibrium Kw, pH and pOH, neutralisation, titrations, equivalence points, indicators and titration curves, salt hydrolysis and qualitative prediction of a salt solution's pH, buffer solutions and biological buffers, and acids and bases in industry and consumption including acid rain
• Redox and electrochemistry: oxidation and reduction as loss and gain of electrons, the rules for assigning oxidation numbers, oxidising and reducing agents, balancing redox equations by the ion-electron method in acidic and basic media, redox stoichiometry and redox titrations, standard reduction potentials, cell voltage and spontaneity, electrolysis and Faraday's laws relating charge, current, time and mass deposited, and batteries, fuel cells, electroplating, corrosion and its prevention
• Organic chemistry and materials: carbon tetravalence, chains and rings, saturated against unsaturated compounds, line-angle formulas, IUPAC nomenclature of alkanes, alkenes, alkynes and aromatic compounds, alcohols, ethers, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, esters, amines, amides, halogen derivatives, thiols and peracids, sp3 tetrahedral, sp2 trigonal planar and sp linear geometry, structural, positional, functional, chain, geometric and optical isomerism, substitution, addition, elimination, condensation, oxidation-reduction and polymerisation, counting empirical and molecular formulas from condensed and skeletal structures, amino acids, sugars and fatty acids as biologically important compounds, monomers and natural and synthetic polymers, and plastics, their uses, recycling and environmental persistence

Five areas across just 10 items, adapted by UCV for Health Sciences applicants who may not have studied Physics at Bachillerato. Keep this at formula-recognition depth. The mechanics and kinematics area carries an extra caveat: it is derived from the sample questions, which include uniformly accelerated rectilinear motion, rather than from a published UCV heading.

• Gravitational interaction: the gravitational field as action at a distance, field intensity and field lines, Newton's law of gravitation and inverse-square dependence, the conservative nature of the field and path-independent work, gravitational potential energy, potential and equipotential surfaces, escape velocity and orbital velocity, the relationship between energy and orbital motion, artificial satellites, circular orbits, period and the geostationary idea, and dark matter as gravitational evidence at conceptual level
• Electromagnetic interaction: the electric field, its intensity and field lines, Coulomb's law and its analogy with gravitation, electric potential energy, potential and equipotential surfaces, the motion of charges in electrostatic fields and work between two points, electric flux and Gauss's law with the uniformly charged sphere, electrostatic equilibrium and the Faraday cage, the magnetic field created by moving charges and currents and the tesla as its unit, the Lorentz force, mass spectrometers and particle accelerators, field patterns from straight wires, loops and coils, Ampère's law and the non-conservative magnetic field, parallel currents and the definition of the ampere, and magnetic flux, the Faraday-Henry law, Lenz's law, induced EMF and the alternating-current generator
• Waves, sound and electromagnetic radiation: wave propagation as transport of energy without net transport of matter, mechanical against electromagnetic, transverse against longitudinal and periodic against pulse waves, the link between simple harmonic motion and wave motion, the transverse harmonic wave equation with amplitude, wavelength, frequency, period, angular frequency, wave number and phase, energy and intensity and inverse-square spreading, Huygens' principle and wavefronts, interference, diffraction, reflection, refraction and superposition, the Doppler effect, sound as a longitudinal wave with a speed in air of about 340 m/s, ultrasound, sonar and radar, electromagnetic waves, the spectrum, polarisation and the speed of light, and applications from radio to gamma rays
• Geometric optics: plane mirrors and thin lenses, ray diagrams and image formation through converging and diverging lenses, rectilinear propagation, reflection and Snell's law of refraction, real against virtual, upright against inverted and magnified against reduced images, the thin lens equation and magnification, the human eye with lens, retina and accommodation, myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism and presbyopia and their corrective lenses, and the magnifying glass, microscope, telescope and camera
• Mechanics and kinematics: scalar against vector quantities, SI units and dimensional thinking, position, displacement and distance, average and instantaneous velocity and acceleration, uniform rectilinear motion, uniformly accelerated rectilinear motion and its equations, free fall as constant-acceleration motion, period, frequency, angular velocity and centripetal and normal acceleration in circular motion, and Newton's laws, work, energy, power and conservation of mechanical energy as supporting material

It is the written knowledge test Universidad Católica de Valencia uses as part of admission to its Spanish-taught Medicine degree: 100 multiple-choice questions weighted 60% Biology, 30% Chemistry and 10% Physics, sat in person. A separate aptitude questionnaire is sat the same day, and a personal interview follows.

No. Spain's private medical schools each write and grade their own paper; there is no shared national format. UCV's is distinctive even among them for how heavily it weights Biology (60 of 100 items) and for wrapping the written test inside a four-stage funnel with a rank gate before it and an interview after it.

No. That is a common misreading. UCV's own admissions page confirms a real 100-question academic knowledge test in Biology, Chemistry and Physics. The Cuestionario de APTITUDES is sat alongside it on the same day and the interview comes afterwards; they are additional stages, not replacements for the written paper.

In person (presencial). UCV does not state where the tests are held; accreditation, the day before in the 2026 cycle, is at the Facultad de Medicina, Calle Quevedo 2, Valencia. UCV's page names a Saturday 9:00 start for the prior cycle. Whether the paper is answered on paper or by computer is not published.

UCV does not publish its marking rule (neither the value of a correct answer nor whether wrong answers are penalised), and this has been checked directly against its own Medicine and Dentistry admission pages. This guide records the neutral default of +1/0/0. Under that scheme a blind four-option guess is worth +0.25 marks and no blank is ever correct. Under a penalty scheme designed to neutralise guessing (−1/3 on a four-option item), a completely blind guess would break exactly even; but eliminating even one option before answering has positive expected value under either rule, which is why elimination technique, not a guessing policy, is what to practise.

Not on the academic test. UCV's page gives the full phase sequence and describes the phases as "eliminatorias" but publishes no cutoff for the 100-question paper, and its sibling Dentistry process is equally silent and selects by rank. The only numeric threshold in the entire published process is 5/10 at the interview stage, for placement on the waiting list. What UCV does publish is the final-mark weighting: 25% academic record, 40% academic test, 10% aptitude questionnaire, 25% interview.

Spanish. Both the Medicine degree and the admission test are delivered in Spanish. The IvyTest study guide and simulator questions for UCV are in Spanish too; the subject and topic material on this page is translated into English only to summarise it, and the paper you sit will be in Spanish throughout.

180 places. Up to 500 applicants are accepted through to the exam phase, ranked by their 2º Bachillerato average, so roughly one in 2.8 of the candidates who reach the exam room is admitted. Those two figures come from UCV's own published phase sequence, a level of concrete detail most Spanish private medical schools do not release.

Most are four-option. UCV publishes no option count, but its own Preguntas Tipo sample-question PDF is predominantly four-option (a to d) across Biology, Chemistry and Physics, with two Biology items presented as Verdadero/Falso. Treat true/false items as occasional exceptions inside a four-option paper rather than as a format in their own right, and note that a blind guess on one is worth twice as much as on a four-option item.

Within the EU, yes: automatically, as a standard Spanish medical degree. Practising as a specialist in Spain additionally requires the MIR (Médico Interno Residente), Spain's national residency-entry exam, which sits alongside rather than instead of that recognition. Outside the EU recognition isn't automatic as a rule, but the UK is an exception. Under the Medical Act 1983 (section 21B, as in force on 12 October 2026), a Spanish medical degree is a 'relevant European qualification', so a graduate who applies to the GMC with one, whatever their nationality, is not asked to show the knowledge and skills other international graduates prove through PLAB/UKMLA; evidence of English is still required, and the rule is UK policy that can change. US-bound graduates need ECFMG certification via USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK, the same requirement every international medical graduate faces.

Yes. The IvyTest simulator runs full 100-question, 120-minute mocks in UCV's confirmed 60/30/10 subject weighting, with per-subject reporting rather than one total, in timed, tutor and review modes, and a free diagnostic available without payment. Where UCV has not published a parameter (the marking rule, above all), the simulator says which value it is assuming rather than presenting it as fact.

UCV publishes no past papers. UCV's Medicine admissions page links two free PDFs: the Temario, the official content list for Biology, Chemistry and Physics, and Preguntas Tipo, a sample of 25 questions, 23 with four options (a to d) and two true/false, without an answer key. The practice questions on this page are IvyTest's own.

UCV has not published the 2027 dates yet: its admissions page still shows the 2026/27 cycle, with registration from 2 March to 15 May, the tests on Saturday 13 June at 9:00 and interviews from 15 to 18 June. Its Grado en Medicina page already gives 7 September 2027 as the start of the next course.

100 multiple-choice questions on the official Bachillerato curriculum: 60% Biology, 30% Chemistry and 10% Physics, with the Physics adapted for every Health Sciences applicant, whether or not they took it at Bachillerato. UCV's Temario lists the areas: the molecular basis of life, the cell, genetics and evolution, microbiology and immunology; atomic structure and bonding, reactions and organic chemistry; gravitation, electromagnetism, waves and geometric optics.

UCV publishes no nota de corte. Admission is a ranking: the 500 applicants with the best Bachillerato average sit the tests, and 180 are admitted on a final mark of 25% academic record, 40% test, 10% aptitude questionnaire and 25% interview. Preferential access goes to students in 2º de Bachillerato (Health Sciences) with at least 7 in 1º; candidates from the first sitting (primera convocatoria) of the PAU in 2023, 2024 or 2025 need 12.2 or more.

UCV's 2026/27 fee table gives €14,400 for a year of Medicine: €1,500 enrolment and €12,900 teaching. Its Grado en Medicina page now shows €15,780 beside a course start of 7 September 2027, without saying which year the figure is for. On top come the €50 management fee to sit the tests and, once admitted, an €800 place reservation deducted from the first year's fees.

Yes, but not through the admission test. If you have started Medicine elsewhere and will have more than 30 ECTS recognised (by July 2026, in the current cycle), UCV asks you not to register for the admission process: you apply from 1 to 31 March through its Sede Electrónica, with the form for admission with previous university studies (traslado de expediente). It depends on vacant places, and the window can be extended if places remain.

Six years and 360 ECTS under the 2024 plan: 90 credits of basic training, 192 compulsory, 12 optional, 54 of external placements and a 12-credit final project. The first year is Medical Anthropology, Cell Biology, Medical English, Biostatistics, Biophysics, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Embryology and Anatomy I. The sixth year is mostly placements (45 credits) and the final project.

In Valencia. Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicente Mártir, UCV's full name, teaches Medicine at its San Carlos Borromeo campus; the Faculty is at Calle Quevedo 2, where accreditation and interviews take place; UCV does not state where the tests are held. The degree is taught in person and in Spanish, with morning and afternoon classes.

Not in the Medicine degree. UCV offers it as a separate postgraduate course, the Máster de Formación Permanente en Medicina Estética y Rejuvenecimiento Integral: its second edition starts on 3 October 2026, hybrid, 60 ECTS, €11,900, at the San Carlos campus. Its admission is UCV's postgraduate process, not the Medicine admission test this page covers.

IvyTest publishes no student reviews of its own. What UCV itself states about the degree: early contact with patients and real clinical situations, simulation and clinical practice as teaching tools of great importance, with the lecture no longer the main method, and a MIR-preparation project from the first year, run by teachers from outside the Faculty. UCV also runs an open day (Jornada de Puertas Abiertas) and personalised visits (Visitas personalizadas) for prospective students.