Admissions Tests pages

Admissions Tests

If you are applying for certain courses, you will be required to take various tests. The LNAT (Law National Aptitude test) and UCAT (formally the UKCAT) should be taken at regional test centres over the summer holidays (or at the beginning of the Autumn term) before you apply to university, whilst the BMAT and entrance tests for Oxford and Cambridge will be taken in school on the 2nd November.

Please check the details of your course requirements carefully and we will organise a time for you to see the Examination Officer so register for the tests. Some universities (including some of the courses at Cambridge) set entrance tests for candidates when they are invited for an interview at the university. It would be wise to prepare for these over the summer. Details can be found on the university, college and faculty websites (it is important that you check all three), which often carry examples of past papers.

Admissions assessments at Cambridge

https://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/applying/admission-assessments

Admissions assessments at Oxford http://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/applying-to-oxford/gu ide/admissions-tests

Medicine (and please check for Dentistry/Vet Science) Biomedical Admissions Test (BMAT) https://www.admissionstesting.org/for-test-takers/bmat/

We will register candidates for the examination, which will be taken on 2nd November 2022 (TBC) and you will receive your individual BMAT identity number. The final deadline for registration is 30th September 2022 and you need to have your confirmed choices for which BMAT universities that you want to apply for when you register.

UCAT (formerly UKCAT) - University Clinical Aptitude Test

You must register for the UCAT yourself by logging onto the https://www.ucat.ac.uk/. There is no single date for sitting the exam, but candidates wishing to apply for entry to the participating universities in 2023 or deferred entry in 2024, are required to take the UCAT. It is sensible to take

it at the end of the summer holidays when you will have had time to prepare but will not yet be into the first term of Year 13 and busy with all of the other aspects of your application. Please avoid leaving it until the last possible date, both because you will be very busy at the end of September and because, if you are unwell or unable to attend, you may not be able to reschedule.

The LNAT (National Admissions Test for Law)

As well as taking the LNAT, you need to apply for your chosen programmes in the normal way. Sitting the LNAT does not constitute an application to any universities. The LNAT must be taken by all applicants (UK, EU and overseas) to undergraduate law programmes at:

● University of Bristol ● Durham University ● University of Glasgow ● King ' s College London ● The University of Nottingham ● University of Oxford ● SOAS, University of London ● UCL ● LSE ● University of Cambridge ● IE Law School (Spain) ● SUSS (Singapore)

You need to register on the website (www.lnat.ac.uk) yourself before November to be able to sit the test at one of the designated examination centres (not Channing School).