The Engineering and Science Admissions Test is the admissions assessment for engineering, natural sciences and related degrees at the University of Cambridge and Imperial College London, and from 2027 entry at the University of Oxford, which adopted it in place of the PAT. Candidates sit three 40-minute modules of 27 multiple-choice questions each: Mathematics 1 is compulsory, with two further modules chosen from Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics 2. The test rewards rapid, accurate problem solving rather than long written method, giving roughly 89 seconds per question.
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Preparing for the ESAT with UAT-UK's free material — specification, guides, specimen and practice tests, the ENGAA/NSAA archive — with a 17-day sprint, a 12-week January 2027 plan and a tracker.
Taking the ESAT from India — the £133 fee, Pearson VUE centres, the ID rule that makes a passport the safe choice, booking and refunds, access arrangements, and why the UK bursary does not apply.
What official data says about ESAT scores — Cambridge's averages for accepted students, Imperial's department dashboard, the 4.5 and 7.0 anchors — and how Oxford and UCL use them.
The ESAT modules every 2027-entry course needs, from each university's own page: Cambridge, Imperial's required-modules table, Oxford's new ESAT courses and UCL EEE, with a chooser.
How the ESAT works — five modules of 27 questions in 40 minutes, no calculator, no negative marking, a 1.0–9.0 score per module with the median fixed at 4.5 — and last cycle's scores.
Every UAT-UK date for 2027 entry: January booking expected to open 28 October (delayed from 26 October), closes 21 December; tests 12–16 Oct and 4–8 Jan; results 16 Nov and 8 Feb.
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