Admissions Assessments
Depending on the subject for which you are applying, these will either be pre-interview assessments or they will be at-interview assessments. The table below outlines which subjects require which sort of assessment.
For pre-interview assessments, it is essential that you register at an assessment centre near you (this will often be your school) by the same date that you are required to submit your application to UCAS, which is 15 October.
University-wide assessments are required for all subjects except Mathematics.**
More details about each type of assessment can be found below.
Pre-Interview Assessments: what you need to know
It is essential that applicants for subjects requiring pre-interview assessments register themselves to sit the assessment at an authorised testing centre by 15 October. This is process is separate from and additional to the submission of your application.
Applicants for Medicine should note that the deadline for registration for the BMAT is earlier, on 1 October.
The assessments themselves take place in centres across the UK and overseas on 4 November.
Full details about how to register for them can be found here and links to details about the individual assessments can be found here.
At-Interview Assessments: what you need to know
If you are applying for a subject with an at-interview assessment, then you do not need to register separately for the assessment. If you are invited for an interview, then arrangements will be made by the College for you to sit the assessment at the same time as your interviews.
Please see here for details of the at-interview assessments.
Interview assessements for applicants for History with Modern Languages are TBC.
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Applicants for the following subjects may be required to take a College at-interview assessement (TBC)
- Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic
- Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
- Education
- Geography
- History
- History and Politics
- Human, Social, and Political Sciences
- Mathematics**
- Music*
* Applicants for Music do not sit a written assessment. Instead, at the time of their interview, candidates will be asked to take a simple harmony or composition test, a short analysis test (based on an unseen), ear tests (a mistake-spotting exercise, dictation of melodies, chords and a chorale) and some elementary keyboard harmony.
** Applicants to Magdalene for Mathematics and Natural Sciences are also asked to sit a College test at the time of their interviews.