Written Work and Written Tests

Written Work

Candidates for a number of subjects are required to send in some written work as part of their application. This work should not be prepared especially for this purpose but should be something that you have produced in the course of your studies at school or college. If you are unsure what to send, please discuss this with your teachers and consult the relevant part of the University’s admissions website, or feel free to contact the undergraduate admissions team at University College. The written work should reach us by 10 November.

Written Tests

Candidates for some subjects have to take pre-interview written tests on Wednesday 2 November 2011.

  • Candidates for Classics II and Classics II and English studying neither Latin nor Greek to A Level have to take the Classics Language Aptitude Test.
  • Candidates for Engineering have to take the Aptitude Test for Physics.
  • Candidates for English and English Joint Schools have to take the English Literature Admissions Test.
  • Candidates for Experimental Psychology and Psychology & Philosophy have to take the Thinking Skills Assessment.
  • Candidates for History and History Joint Schools have to take the History Aptitude Test.
  • Candidates for Law have to take the Law National Admissions Test (registration takes place between 1 November and 20 October and the test can be taken between 1 September and 20 October).
  • Candidates for Medicine and Biomedical Sciences have to take the Biomedical Admissions Test.
  • Candidates for Physics and Physics & Philosophy have to take the Aptitude Test for Physics.
  • Candidates for Mathematics, Mathematics Joint Schools, and Computer Science have to take the Mathematics Aptitude Test.
  • Modern Languages candidates for Russian, Russian with Polish, Russian and Linguistics or any of the joint degrees involving Beginner’s Russian (Russian ab initio) have to take the Linguistic Aptitude Test.
  • Candidates for PPE (Philosophy, Politics & Economics) have to take the Thinking Skills Assessment.

    If you are applying for one of the subjects mentioned above, you must sit the appropriate test in your school or at an approved test centre.

    Please remember: it is your responsibility to arrange to take the relevant test, and you will not be considered for the subject in question without having taken the test by the relevant deadline. Further information is given about the tests and how to register for them on the University’s admissions website.

    Candidates for certain other subjects are required to sit a test at University College during the interviews period in December. Please refer to the University’s admissions website for more details.

    Please note that the most up-to-date information on written work and written tests can be found on the University’s admissions website.