The BioMedical Admissions Test (BMAT) is used by medical schools to assess the key abilities considered important to a student’s success on a course. Research conducted by Cambridge Assessment Admissions Testing considers the accuracy of BMAT as a predictor of a student’s future performance, also known as the test’s ‘predictive validity’. Using the same dataset (of over 1,200 students from one university in the UK), researchers undertook two studies. In the first, researchers correlated BMAT scores with university course performance; in the second, these correlations were averaged and included school examination results in order to establish incremental predictive validity. Overall, both studies showed that BMAT results are potentially a good predictor of first year exam marks at university.