CEU San Pablo Medicine Admission Test 2027: Complete Preparation Guide

Ten areas from the first-year Biology, Geology and Environmental Sciences curriculum. The three animal physiology and reproduction areas and microorganisms carry the highest priority in the mapped curriculum; earth dynamics the lowest.

• Scientific method and data interpretation: hypotheses, scientific questions, variables, controls and experimental bias, laboratory and field work including design, measurement precision and error, reading data tables, graphs, diagrams, models and short scientific texts, basic statistics covering trends, correlation, regression and causality, and evidence-based conclusions from reliable sources
• Ecology and sustainability: ecosystem components and biotic and abiotic factors, energy flow, trophic relationships, food chains and webs and ecological pyramids, the carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur cycles, succession, self-regulation and regression, climate change causes, impacts, mitigation and adaptation, and biodiversity loss, waste, plastics, xenobiotics and the ecological footprint
• Earth history, evolution and classification: the geological time scale of eons, eras and periods, relative and absolute dating and radioisotopes, the geological record, fossils and mass extinctions, evolution, natural selection, adaptation and the evidence for evolution, Darwinism, neo-Darwinism and the synthetic theory, and taxonomy including the species concept, the six kingdoms and identification keys
• Earth dynamics and composition: structure, dynamics and functions of the atmosphere and hydrosphere, geosphere layers and discontinuities and direct and indirect study methods, plate tectonics, plate boundaries, earthquakes, volcanism and orogeny, internal and external geological processes, relief and geomorphology, soil formation, natural risks, the rock cycle, minerals and rocks
• Animal physiology (nutrition): the function of nutrition and its biological importance, digestive systems across animal groups and invertebrate models, circulatory systems and gas transport, respiration, gas exchange, respiratory pigments and respiratory systems, and excretion and the major excretory products
• Animal physiology (coordination): the function of relation, coordination systems, receptors and effectors, nervous system types, components and function, the transmission mechanism of the nerve impulse, the endocrine system with glands, hormones and physiological regulation, and sensory organs and types of receptor
• Animal reproduction and histology: sexual and asexual reproduction and their advantages and disadvantages, reproductive structures across animal groups, gametogenesis, types of fertilisation and embryonic development, epithelial, connective, muscle and nervous tissue, and the relationship between tissues, organs and systems
• Plant physiology and histology: photosynthesis (global balance, biological importance, phases and limiting factors), raw and elaborated sap composition, formation and transport, plant responses to stimuli and the role of phytohormones including auxins, cytokinins and ethylene, reproductive cycles, pollination, fertilisation and dispersal, and plant adaptations in relation to ecosystems
• Microorganisms and acellular forms: eubacteria against archaea, bacterial metabolism and ecological roles in symbiosis and biogeochemical cycles, microorganisms as infectious agents including zoonoses and epidemics, sterilisation, culture techniques and microbial growth, horizontal gene transfer and antibiotic resistance, and viruses, viroids and prions and their infection mechanisms
• Cell biology, genetics and immunity: cell theory, prokaryotic against eukaryotic cells, organelles and membranes, carbohydrates, lipids, proteins and nucleic acids, enzymes, metabolism, ATP and the basics of cellular respiration, mitosis, meiosis, DNA, RNA, protein synthesis and mutations, basic genetics and simple inheritance patterns, and immunity basics covering barriers, innate and adaptive immunity and vaccines

Nine areas from the Chemistry blocks of the first-year Physics and Chemistry curriculum. The knowledge test covers Chemistry only: there is no Physics section at all, which is why the Physics half of that curriculum is absent here. The mole concept and reactions and stoichiometry carry the highest priority.

• Atomic structure and the periodic table: atoms, ions and isotopes, atomic number and mass number, atomic spectra and electronic structure, electron configuration and position in the table, the history of the periodic table from Döbereiner, Newlands, Mendeleev and Meyer to the current one, and trends in atomic radius, ionisation energy, electron affinity and electronegativity
• Chemical bonding and structure: stability of atoms and ions and predicting bond formation, covalent bonding, Lewis structures, molecular polarity and intermolecular forces, ionic bonding, ionic crystals and the properties of ionic compounds, metallic bonding and the structure and properties of metals, and linking bond type to physical and chemical properties
• Inorganic nomenclature: simple substances, ions and common inorganic compounds, binary compounds, oxides, hydrides, hydroxides, acids and salts, IUPAC naming rules and formula writing, naming from formulas and writing formulas from names, and recognising composition and common applications
• Mole concept, gases and solutions: the Avogadro constant and the mole, atomic, molecular and molar mass, formula mass, percentage composition and empirical and molecular formulas, ideal gas laws, molar volume, standard conditions and Dalton's partial pressures, solutions expressed as mass concentration, molarity and mole fraction, dilution, and unit conversion, significant figures and scientific notation
• Chemical reactions and stoichiometry: the laws of Lavoisier, Proust and Dalton, balancing chemical equations, stoichiometric calculation, limiting reagent, excess reagent, reaction yield and purity, and quantitative reaction problems in practical contexts
• Thermochemistry: thermodynamic systems, state variables, temperature and thermal equilibrium, exothermic and endothermic reactions, enthalpy, thermochemical equations and enthalpy diagrams, enthalpy of combustion and of formation and bond enthalpy, and Hess's law and energy-cycle reasoning
• Types of reactions and applications: synthesis, decomposition, substitution and double substitution reactions, combustion reactions and their environmental relevance, identifying reaction types and checking stoichiometry, and the role of the chemical industry including links to conservation, sustainability and drug development
• Organic chemistry: characteristics of the carbon atom and single, double and triple bonds, functional groups and homologous series, hydrocarbons including alkanes, alkenes, alkynes and simple aromatics, oxygenated compounds including alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, esters and ethers, nitrogen compounds including amines and amides, and IUPAC nomenclature for simple mono- and polyfunctional compounds
• Chemistry problem-solving skills: dimensional analysis and unit-conversion discipline, rearranging formulas and tracking units through a calculation, reading tables, graphs and experimental data, using approximations safely under time pressure, and checking whether a numerical answer is realistic

Six areas at B1 to B2 level, sat as a separate paper from the science test. CEU describes it only as an English test; the breakdown below follows the national foreign-language competency framework. Reading comprehension and core grammar carry the highest priority. Everything is answered in multiple-choice form, so the writing-and-communication-skills content is tested as recognition, never as production.

• Reading comprehension: main idea, purpose and paragraph function, specific details and scanning for evidence, inference, implication and attitude or tone, reference words, linking phrases and text structure, and short academic passages on science, health, education and society
• Core grammar: present, past, perfect and future tenses, zero, first, second and third conditionals, the passive voice and reported speech, modal verbs including can, could, may, might, must, have to and should, relative clauses, comparatives and superlatives, articles, quantifiers and prepositions, and question formation, word order, gerunds and infinitives
• Vocabulary: education, university and study-skills vocabulary, health, medicine, biology, environment and technology, society, current issues, work and professions, synonyms, antonyms and vocabulary in context, word formation with prefixes, suffixes and parts of speech, and collocations and common phrasal verbs
• Use of English: multiple-choice grammar and vocabulary items, gap-fill and sentence completion, sentence transformation and paraphrase recognition, error correction and distractor spotting, and false friends, collocations and preposition patterns
• Writing and communication skills: giving opinions, agreeing and disagreeing and justifying a view, summarising, reformulating, comparing and contrasting, explaining causes, consequences and predictions, describing trends, events and processes, and linking words such as however, although, therefore, moreover and in contrast, tested through multiple-choice recognition of the correct or appropriate language rather than free writing, since the whole paper is answered that way
• Scientific English: clinical and biological terms such as cell, tissue, organ, system, disease, infection, immunity and vaccine, research terms such as evidence, hypothesis, data, variable, control, sample and result, change and causation verbs such as increase, decrease, cause, correlate, indicate and suggest, environmental terms such as biodiversity, footprint, waste, climate and sustainability, and chemistry terms such as compound, bond, reaction, solution, concentration and yield

It is Universidad CEU San Pablo's own internal admission test for its Medicine degree at Campus Montepríncipe in Madrid, sat as two papers: a Specific Test, which CEU describes as a multiple-choice test in Biology and Chemistry, and a General Test, which is an English test. Together they supply 40 of the 100 points in the admission formula.

No. Spain's private medical schools each write, sit and grade their own paper; there is no shared national format. That includes the other CEU institutions: CEU Cardenal Herrera in Valencia and CEU Fernando III in Seville belong to the same network but run genuinely different exams, with different subject blocks and different published detail. A result from one is not transferable to another.

Both are offered. Each of the three sessions in a cycle runs on-site at Campus Montepríncipe in Boadilla del Monte and online, so you can choose. The sessions published for 2027 entry are 16 October 2026 at 18:00, 16 January 2027 at 10:00 and 10 April 2027 at 10:00.

Each question has exactly one correct answer, and wrong answers carry no penalty, both confirmed in CEU's own published FAQ. So guessing always helps: with no penalty, a blind guess is worth 1/n of a mark, where n is the number of options, and a blank is worth exactly zero. CEU does not publish the option count; four is a corroborated inference rather than a stated fact, which is why this guide leaves it as pending.

Not for the knowledge test. The current admission PDF, a separate official waiting-list and scoring PDF, and six further official CEU sources were each checked and none sets a floor on the exam. The only numeric thresholds are route-specific: the bilingual Medicine route requires at least 7/10 in the English block, plus proof of B2 Spanish before the exam, and health-science graduates, who sit no exam, need a degree average of at least 7.

40% of the admission score, split very unevenly: 35 points for the Biology and Chemistry knowledge test and 5 for the English test. Your first-year Bachillerato average supplies the remaining 60%. In practice that means ten percentage points of accuracy on the science paper is worth 3.5 admission points, and the same gain on the English paper is worth 0.5, a seven-to-one difference that should drive how you split your study time.

Because CEU says so itself: "no tenemos publicado ni exámenes de años anteriores ni temario": no past papers and no syllabus. That extends further than most candidates expect. The total number of questions, the per-subject split, the exam duration and even the number of options per question are all absent from every official CEU source checked. Rather than fill those in from rumour, this guide states them as unknown and cites the unofficial candidate report where one exists.

Yes. CEU runs three sessions in a cycle and the highest score across them counts, though each sitting carries its own exam fee. A later sitting cannot lower a score you have already achieved, which makes the earliest session effectively a scored, full-length rehearsal against the real paper. One exception: if you are offered a place after the 1st sitting and decline it by not paying the reservation, your 1st-sitting score no longer counts for the 2nd or 3rd sitting's allocation. That is one sentence of CEU's FAQ; the same answer also says the higher of the two tests counts, so ask CEU admissions which applies.

CEU San Pablo's Medicine page gives 200 places, without saying how they divide between the Spanish and bilingual modalities, and CEU publishes no acceptance rate and no historical cutoff. Selection is by rank on the 60/35/5 formula plus up to 2 additional points, across three sittings where your best score counts.

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 practice in the confirmed format (single-best-answer items, +1/0/0 marking, Biology and Chemistry reported both separately and as the combined 35% block) in timed, tutor and review modes, with a free diagnostic available without payment. Where CEU publishes no figure, the simulator is explicit about which parameter is an assumption rather than silently adopting one.

No. CEU San Pablo's own admission FAQ says it publishes neither past papers nor a syllabus ("no tenemos publicado ni exámenes de años anteriores ni temario"), only that the content is the national first-year Bachillerato course. So there is no official sample test or PDF to download. The practice questions on this page are IvyTest's own, written to that level, and the closest thing to the real paper is a first sitting.

There are three sittings for September 2027 entry, each on campus at Montepríncipe or online: 16 October 2026 (18:00 to 20:30), 16 January 2027 and 10 April 2027 (both 10:00 to 13:00). Applications run from 9 September to 8 October 2026, 20 October 2026 to 8 January 2027 and 19 January to 1 April 2027; admissions and waiting lists come out on 28 October, 28 January and 22 April.

Two multiple-choice papers on the national first-year Bachillerato course: a knowledge test in Biology and Chemistry, worth 35% of the admission score, and an English test, worth 5%. Each question has one correct answer and a wrong one costs nothing. CEU's 2027-28 exam instructions allow a calculator on campus and a scientific one (not a phone) online, where books and papers such as periodic tables are banned. CEU publishes no question count and no topic list.

CEU San Pablo publishes none. Places go by rank on the admission score: 60% first-year Bachillerato average, 35% knowledge test and 5% English test, plus up to 2 additional points (for schooling at a CEU school, family at CEU or a disability, among others). PAU grades do not count, and the bilingual group also needs at least 7 in the English test. A cutoff quoted elsewhere is not CEU's figure.

One date per sitting: admissions and waiting lists come out on 28 October 2026, 28 January 2027 and 22 April 2027. Admitted candidates get an email and have 5 working days to pay the place reservation, or the place passes to the next person on the waiting list. CEU also publishes its waiting list as a PDF of anonymous codes, one list per group: the one of 9 September 2026 held 467 candidates for the Spanish group and 85 for the bilingual one.

For 2026/27 entrants the first year costs €24,500 in the Spanish or the bilingual group: a €3,300 place reservation paid once, €1,700 enrolment and 60 credits at €325 (€19,500); then €23,700 in year 2 and €22,800 a year after that. Prices for 2027 entrants are not out yet, and each exam sitting has its own fee. Up to 10 CEU Merit Program Medicina scholarships cover 100% of tuition for the best access marks of 8.5 or more.

Access by Bachillerato plus the PAU, a CFGS, an equivalent foreign system or a degree other than Medicine. Candidates by the first three routes upload ID and first-year grades and sit the exam; a Spanish-system place becomes final with the PAU in June, and foreign systems add the credencial de homologación and an equivalence report. Non-health graduates (1 place) sit it too, their degree average replacing the Bachillerato 60%; health-science graduates (6 places) and transfer students do not. The bilingual group adds 7 in English and B2 Spanish.

At Campus Montepríncipe, Av. de Montepríncipe s/n, 28668 Boadilla del Monte, on the western edge of Madrid, served by bus lines 571, 573 and 574 and Metro Ligero line 3; the in-person exam is sat there too. The campus has its own simulation university hospital, and from year 3 students train in linked hospitals such as HM Hospitales in Madrid, Hospital Rey Juan Carlos and Hospital Universitario Vithas Pardo-Aravaca.

Six years and 360 ECTS under the 2025 plan: 90 basic, 195 compulsory, 6 optional, 61 of clinical placements and an 8-ECTS final project. Year 1 is Cell Biology, General and Metabolic Biochemistry, General Histology, General Physiology, General Anatomy, Embryology, Medical Physics, Integrated Medicine I and two humanities courses; year 3 brings pathology, pharmacology and the first placement; year 6 is mostly Clinical Placements IV (40 ECTS). MIR preparation runs from year 4.

Yes, without the exam. For 2027 entry the transfer route opens in January 2027 (11 January in the admission PDF, 8 January on the admissions page); documents are due by 4 June and admissions come out from 17 June. You send an updated transcript, your study plan with credits, the subject programmes and a CV. At least 30 credits must be recognised and at most 144, with no subject failed at its fourth sitting; the provisional report costs €150, then €40 per credit recognised.

IvyTest publishes no reviews of its own. The closest thing CEU publishes is its 2025 survey of the 2022-23 graduates: 50 of 147 answered, 92% of those seeking work had a job, all of them related to the degree, they rated the degree 7.96 and the study plan 7.54, and 86% would take the same degree at CEU again. CEU also says it was in the MIR top 10 by results in 2024, and that QS by Subject 2026 placed CEU Universities 765th in the world in Medicine; QS's own Medicine table shows CEU Universities, the CEU group rather than San Pablo alone, in the 701-850 band.

CEU San Pablo openly publishes a teaching guide (guía docente), linked from the study plan, for each subject taught so far under the 2025 plan (years 1 and 2, bar one subject; the 2013 plan being phased out has one for every subject): learning outcomes, syllabus, assessment and reading list. Notes on sites such as Wuolah come from other students, not the University, and IvyTest has not checked them. The admission exam needs none of it: it tests first-year Bachillerato Biology, Chemistry and English.

It is the Faculty's page of practical information for enrolled students rather than applicants, and it links three documents: the first-year enrolment guide (Guía de Matriculación para alumnos de Primer Curso; for 2026-2027, enrolment opened online on 19 May), the academic calendar 2026-2027 (the year began on 3 September 2026) and the rules for requesting credit recognition. The admission exam itself is covered by the admission PDF and the admissions page.

Yes: r/CEUSanPablo, where Universidad CEU San Pablo applicants ask each other about the CEU San Pablo Medicine Admission Test and share how their preparation is going. It is run by the IvyTest team. Dates, rules and results come only from the university's own pages, listed under Official sources on this page.

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