Course
University of Manchester selection
A General Mental Ability (GMA) test. The course states that applicants meeting all the minimum entry requirements “will be invited to sit a GMA (General Mental Ability) test, which must be completed in order for them to be considered”.
North West
- Before interview
- Reasoning test
- When
- February or March 2027
- Last checked
- 11 September 2026
Before interview
A General Mental Ability (GMA) test. The course states that applicants meeting all the minimum entry requirements “will be invited to sit a GMA (General Mental Ability) test, which must be completed in order for them to be considered”.
A published reasoning test before interview.
At interview
A single panel interview held over four or five days, with programme staff, regional NHS clinical psychologists and other representatives.
- Panel interview
Worth knowing
Manchester requires a full valid UK driving licence and regular access to transport at application, unless not driving is a necessary and reasonable adjustment for a disability or long-term health condition.
Practice here will not help with the test
If you have applied here
Your first hurdle is a reasoning test, and this site does not prepare you for it.
What to do
- Read the course’s own selection page before you prepare. It is linked on this page and it is the only authority on its own process.
- Practise deductive reasoning with the test publisher’s own materials, which the course links to.
Where this site does not help
- This site has no practice for the reasoning test that decides whether you reach interview. Nothing here trains it, and clinical scenario practice is not what it measures.
Practice material here reflects what research and first-hand accounts indicate these assessments are like. No course publishes its test, so nothing is confirmed and this site claims no inside knowledge. Not affiliated with University of Manchester, the Clearing House, the BPS or the HCPC.
Sources
- clearing-house.org.uk — selection procedurePage last updated 7 September 2026. We checked it 11 September 2026.
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