UAX Admission Test 2027: Complete Preparation Guide

Reproduced in the order the Guía lists them. Note that histology has a heading of its own, separate from cell organisation and cell physiology.

• «Los seres vivos: composición y función» (Living things: composition and function): the characteristics of living things (organisation, metabolism, homeostasis, response to stimuli, reproduction and evolution), the levels of biological organisation from molecule to organism, autotrophs and heterotrophs, nutrition and energy flow, and the role of water, mineral salts and pH in biological function
• «La base molecular y fisicoquímica de la vida» (The molecular and physicochemical basis of life): carbohydrates, lipids, proteins and nucleic acids, weak interactions in aqueous media, enzymes (active site, specificity, activation energy, the effect of pH and temperature, inhibition), ATP and energy transfer, catabolism and anabolism, the structure of DNA and RNA, nucleotides and base complementarity
• «La organización celular» (Cellular organisation): prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, animal and plant cells, membrane structure, diffusion, osmosis, facilitated diffusion and active transport, endocytosis and exocytosis, the organelles (nucleus, ribosomes, mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, lysosomes, peroxisomes and chloroplasts), and cell specialisation and communication
• «La célula viva: morfología, estructura y fisiología celular» (The living cell: cell morphology, structure and physiology): the cell cycle and its checkpoints, mitosis and meiosis, cellular respiration through glycolysis, the Krebs cycle and the electron transport chain, fermentation, photosynthesis with its light-dependent phase and the Calvin cycle, protein synthesis by transcription and translation, and the genetic code
• «Histología» (Histology): epithelial, connective, muscle and nervous tissue, blood, bone, cartilage, adipose tissue and the extracellular matrix, the differences between skeletal, cardiac and smooth muscle, neuron structure, glial cells and the synapse
• «Genética y evolución» (Genetics and evolution): Mendelian genetics, dominance and recessiveness, genotype and phenotype, Punnett squares, sex-linked inheritance, codominance and incomplete dominance, pedigrees, types of mutation and their consequences, genetic variability, natural selection, adaptation, speciation and the evidence for evolution
• «Biodiversidad» (Biodiversity): the classification of bacteria, archaea, protists, fungi, plants and animals, the taxonomic hierarchy and binomial nomenclature, species richness, ecosystems and conservation, and the basic differences between the major kingdoms and domains
• «Los animales: sus funciones y adaptaciones al medio» (Animals: their functions and adaptations to the environment): nutrition, digestion and absorption, respiration and gas exchange, circulation, excretion and renal function, nervous and endocrine coordination, homeostasis and feedback, reproduction, development, and adaptation to the environment
• «El mundo de los microorganismos y sus aplicaciones» (The world of microorganisms and their applications): bacterial structure, binary fission, plasmids and antibiotics, virus structure, host specificity and replication cycles, fungi and protozoa, the microbiota against pathogens, and biotechnological applications including fermentation, antibiotics, vaccines, PCR and basic genetic engineering
• «La autodefensa de los organismos: la inmunología y sus aplicaciones» (Self-defence in organisms: immunology and its applications): innate and adaptive immunity, barriers, inflammation and phagocytosis, B and T lymphocytes, antigens and antibodies, vaccination, immunological memory and herd immunity, allergy, autoimmune disease and immunodeficiency

Five headings only, and one real gap: UAX's list carries nothing on atomic structure, the periodic table or chemical bonding, although items on those topics plainly support the headings that are listed. Revise them as support for the official headings rather than as a sixth topic area of their own.

• «La actividad científica» (Scientific practice): units, conversions, significant figures and scientific notation, variables and controls, interpreting data and graphs, experimental error, accuracy against precision, basic laboratory safety, and identifying the data, the unknowns and the equations a problem actually needs
• «Aspectos cuantitativos de la química» (Quantitative aspects of chemistry): the concept of the mole, Avogadro's constant and molar mass, empirical and molecular formulas, percentage composition, stoichiometry, limiting reagent and percentage yield, solutions, concentration, molarity and dilutions, and basic gas calculations
• «Reacciones químicas» (Chemical reactions): balancing equations and classifying reactions, acid-base reactions, pH, neutralisation and salts, oxidation-reduction reactions and oxidation numbers, precipitation, solubility and simple ionic equations
• «Transformaciones energéticas y espontaneidad» (Energy transformations and spontaneity): exothermic and endothermic processes, enthalpy changes, activation energy and catalysts, entropy and qualitative spontaneity, Gibbs free energy and the criterion for spontaneity, and the basics of reaction rate
• «Química del carbono» (Carbon chemistry): the bonding of carbon, chains, rings and isomerism, hydrocarbons (alkanes, alkenes, alkynes and aromatics), functional groups (alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, esters, amines and amides), basic organic reactions including combustion, addition, substitution and esterification, and organic molecules of biological importance such as amino acids, sugars, fatty acids and nitrogenous bases

It's the prueba específica de Biología y Química that Universidad Alfonso X el Sabio sets for its Grado en Medicina: an online proctored test with an estimated duration of 30 minutes, sat in Spanish through the UAX Admissions Portal. It is worth 20% of a composite admission mark out of 10, alongside your academic record at 70%, a competence test at 5% and a language test at 5%.

No. There is no shared national admission test among Spain's private medical schools: each writes and grades its own. UAX's is distinctive even within that group for how short it is and for how much of the decision sits outside it: the specific science test is 20% of the mark, while the first-year Bachillerato record alone is 70%.

The specific Biology and Chemistry test is a 'Test online supervisado': an online proctored test taken through the UAX Admissions Portal. It is an additional 30 minutes on top of the general admission tests (the TCAP competence test and the language test, roughly an hour and a half between them), which may be taken either online or in person at the Villanueva de la Cañada or Chamberí campus.

Spanish. Both the Grado en Medicina and the prueba específica are delivered in Spanish. Candidates whose mother tongue is not Spanish sit a Spanish language test worth 5% of the mark; the 2026/27 Guía sets no minimum level for Medicine, where the 2025/26 edition required B1. The IvyTest study guide and simulator questions for UAX are in Spanish too; on this page the official content headings are reproduced in Spanish exactly as UAX publishes them.

50 questions: UAX's own Grado en Medicina page describes a multiple-choice test of 30 Biology and 20 Chemistry questions (the Guía gives only the 30-minute duration). The scoring is not published: no option count and no marking scheme, so IvyTest records one mark for a correct answer and nothing for a wrong one as a neutral working assumption. Re-checked on 28 September 2026 against both Guía editions and the live uax.com pages.

None is published: no nota de corte, no minimum for the specific test and none for the overall admission mark; UAX's general FAQ says many of its degrees apply no cut-off, while some programmes have their own processes. There is also no per-subject floor and no Spanish counterpart to the Italian OFA additional learning requirement. What UAX does publish is the weighting and a figure of 170 minimum places on the Bachillerato route.

At most 2.00 of the 10 admission points, since it carries 20%. Concretely: raising your score on the test from 7.0/10 to 9.0/10 raises the admission mark by 0.40 points. For comparison, one full grade point on your first-year Bachillerato average is worth 0.70 admission points, roughly equivalent to 35 percentage points of accuracy on the science test. The test is the largest piece still in your control, but the academic record is the larger piece overall.

UAX publishes no exam date: the general tests run Monday to Friday at 10:00 and 16:00 in person (or online, booked at least 48 hours ahead), and UAX's access page says the Medicine specific test is moved to set Saturdays, without publishing them. Medicine places are allocated by ranking, with the definitive list on 31 July in 2026/27; no 2027/28 Guía was out on 10 October 2026, so confirm the date with UAX Admisiones.

UAX's official list gives five Chemistry headings: scientific practice, quantitative chemistry, chemical reactions, energy transformations and spontaneity, and carbon chemistry. It carries no heading at all for atomic structure, the periodic table or chemical bonding: a genuine gap in the published list, even though questions on the listed headings plainly rest on that material. Revise it as the foundation beneath the official headings rather than expecting a question labelled as bonding.

UAX's Guía publishes 170 minimum places on the Bachillerato route (its Medicine page says 240) but no applicant volume and no historical admission mark that secured a place, so any acceptance rate quoted elsewhere is an estimate rather than a university figure. The weighting is the more actionable number: compute your own composite mark with your real academic record and see what margin the tests need to create.

Within the EU, yes: automatically, as a standard Spanish medical degree from an accredited programme. Practising as a specialist in Spain additionally requires passing the MIR (Médico Interno Residente), Spain's mandatory national exam for entry into residency training, run by the Ministerio de Sanidad each autumn; that governs residency access within Spain and sits alongside, not instead of, EU 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, with one honest caveat. The IvyTest simulator runs practice across both UAX subjects, mapped to the ten Biology and five Chemistry headings the Guía publishes, in timed, tutor and review modes, with a free diagnostic available without payment. Because UAX publishes no option count or marking scheme, that practice is built to the official syllabus, the 50 questions and the 30-minute duration rather than to a fully confirmed paper format.

No. UAX publishes no sample paper, past paper or answer key for the Medicine specific test: the 2026/27 Guía lists only the ten Biology and five Chemistry content headings, and its Medicine pages give only the split of 30 Biology and 20 Chemistry questions. The 'Modelos de Examen' PDFs on UAX's over-25 access page belong to that separate access test. The practice questions on this page are IvyTest's own.

The 2026/27 Guía gives at least 170 places on the Bachillerato routes plus up to 10 on vocational and university routes, while UAX's Madrid Medicine page says 240 new-entry places, the figure the Ministry's register of the degree (RUCT) records for Madrid. For Oviedo the register records 120 first-year places, under a modification in effect from 18 June 2026; UAX's Oviedo page gives no figure and still calls the degree at the Centro Universitario Alfonso X el Sabio Asturias (Decreto 110/2025) 'en proceso de modificación' for 2026/27, with the same specific test and interview.

In Villanueva de la Cañada, on UAX's Madrid campus (Avenida de la Universidad 1), and in Oviedo: UAX's Medicine page lists both campuses. Medicine is not among the health degrees UAX lists for Málaga, which are Biomedicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Physiotherapy, Human Nutrition, Dentistry and double degrees. The general admission tests can be sat in person in Villanueva de la Cañada or Chamberí; the specific test is online.

€24,250 for the first year in 2026/27: a €3,000 place reservation, €1,350 enrolment and 10 monthly payments of €1,990; the schedule names no campus. The Guía sets the admission tests at €150 for Medicine (UAX's access page says €125). UAX's excellence scholarships exclude Medicine; it lists Comunidad de Madrid and Ministry grants, a 5% family aid, 2% for early payment and 20-50% for elite athletes.

Six years and 360 ECTS, with 1,680 hours of practical training. A new 2026 plan, still being approved according to UAX, starts with first year in 2026/27 and replaces the 2009 plan year by year until 2031/32. First-year subjects: Morphology, structure and function of organs and systems I and II, Biology, Biochemistry I, Statistics, Bioethics, Genetics, Immunology and History of Medicine. Sixth year is mostly Clinical Practice III (36 ECTS) and the final project.

IvyTest collects no student reviews, so this is what UAX itself states, checked where it could be: UAX says ConSalud places it among the top 5 Spanish universities to study Medicine (2024) and first among private universities where the best doctors are trained. The two ConSalud articles UAX links, both of 13 May 2025, are editorial lists without scores: one puts UAX 4th of the 5 Spanish universities it names, the other 2nd of 5 private ones, after Navarra; neither calls it first among private universities. UAX also reports a 96% pass rate in the MIR exam for its preparation programme and says more than 90% of the over 400 doctors it has trained are doing a MIR specialty. The student comments on its pages are its own selection.

The 2026/27 Guía accepts the over-25 access test as an access route in general (its certificate was due by 30 June 2026), and the Ministry's register of the Medicine degree (RUCT) lists the over-25 and over-45 access tests among the degree's access routes. The Guía's Medicine places table, though, lists only the Bachillerato routes and the vocational, university and transfer routes, so it names no places for them. UAX runs a preparatory course for the over-25 test and publishes model exams for it, a different exam from the Medicine specific test. Confirm with UAX Admisiones before applying.

Yes: r/uaxuniversity, where Universidad Alfonso X el Sabio applicants ask each other about the UAX 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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