Checked 23 October 2026. Percentiles from UAT-UK’s technical reports for the 2025 and 2026 entry cycles, read 23 October 2026. The October 2026 sitting reports results on 16 November 2026; its figures are added once UAT-UK publishes them.
A good TMUA score is one above the middle of your sitting: in October 2025 the median was 4.5 and the 90th-percentile score 7.0, while in January 2026 they were 3.6 and 5.9. UAT-UK publishes no pass mark. The technical reports (Table 2) fix the scale so that the median October candidate scores 4.5 and the 90th percentile scores 7.0 (one paragraph of UAT-UK’s Test Results page prints 9.0 for the 90th percentile, which conflicts with the reports and with that page’s own other text), and January candidates are placed on the same scale. This page sets out every overall-cohort percentile mark in Table 4 of UAT-UK’s two technical reports (October 2024 to January 2026), lets you check your own score against them, and explains why a score from before 2024 cannot be read the same way. ProSyllabus is an independent study site, not affiliated with UAT-UK or any university. UAT-UK’s pages and documents were read on 23 October 2026; the university pages and UAT-UK’s past-paper listing on 18 October 2026.
UAT-UK TMUA Technical Report 2025-26, Table 4, read 23 October 2026.
- 2 full mocks: Paper 1 and Paper 2, 20 questions each
- 75 minutes per paper, no calculator
- Logic and proof for Paper 2
- Step-by-step working for every answer
- Score by paper and by topic
- No marks lost for wrong answers, as in the test
Check your score against your sitting
The checker only places your score against the published percentile marks: between two of them, or below the lowest or above the highest. It uses the four overall percentile marks in Table 4 for each sitting and never estimates an exact percentile.
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| Sitting | Cycle | Candidates | Mean | 25th percentile | Median | 75th percentile | 90th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2024 | 2025 entry | 8,987 | 4.58 | 3.3 | 4.5 | 5.7 | 7.0 |
| January 2025 | 2025 entry | 4,868 | 3.51 | 2.4 | 3.3 | 4.4 | 5.4 |
| October 2025 | 2026 entry | 9,685 | 4.62 | 3.3 | 4.5 | 5.8 | 7.0 |
| January 2026 | 2026 entry | 6,407 | 3.78 | 2.7 | 3.6 | 4.6 | 5.9 |
| Both sittings | 2025 entry | 13,855 | 4.20 | 2.9 | 4.0 | 5.2 | 6.5 |
| Both sittings | 2026 entry | 16,092 | 4.28 | 3.0 | 4.1 | 5.3 | 6.7 |
From UAT-UK’s TMUA technical reports for 2024-25 and 2025-26, Table 4 (scaled score summary statistics), read 23 October 2026. “Both sittings” is the whole admissions cycle, October and January together.
Medians from UAT-UK’s technical reports. The October medians are 4.5 by design; the January medians are not fixed.
Why the October median is always 4.5
UAT-UK does not keep a fixed conversion from answers to scores. After each October sitting it fixes the scale on the October candidates: their median ability becomes a scaled score of 4.5 and the ability at their 90th percentile becomes 7.0. A straight line through those two points turns every candidate’s ability estimate into a score, capped at 1.0 and 9.0. The technical report says “The same scaling constants were used for both the October 2025 and January 2026 events to ensure the scaling was consistent and scaled scores were comparable across events.”
So an October median of 4.5 is not a sign that a sitting was hard or easy. It is how the scale is defined. A 4.5 is defined relative to each cycle’s October candidates, so do not treat it as a fixed measure of attainment across cycles.
Why January scores run lower
The January 2025 median was 3.3 and the January 2026 median 3.6, against 4.5 in both Octobers. Because January candidates are scored with the October constants, this is a real difference in performance on one scale, not a different scale. UAT-UK does not say why. Two facts it does state: most Oxford and Cambridge applicants must sit in October (its exceptions are mature applicants to a Cambridge mature college with a January deadline and applicants to Oxford’s Astrophoria Foundation Year programme), and, for applicants to all other institutions, “There is no advantage to sitting in either session, but you can only sit once within an admissions cycle.”
In practice: a 5.0 in January 2026 was between that sitting’s 75th-percentile score (4.6) and its 90th-percentile score (5.9), but between the median (4.5) and the 75th-percentile score (5.8) of the October 2025 candidates. Universities see one number on one scale, so compare yourself with the October figures as well as your own sitting.
Check before you rely on advice
A TMUA score from before October 2024 is not on today’s scale.
Advice you may come across instead: score advice written for the paper-based test, whose scale was designed so that about a third of candidates would score above 6.5.
The paper-based TMUA was scaled so that “approximately one third of candidates will achieve overall scores higher than 6.5” (Cambridge Assessment Admissions Testing, 2019). Since 2024/25 UAT-UK scales the test so the October median is 4.5 and about 10% score above 7.0, and it says “scores should not be compared directly with TMUA scores from earlier years.” A 6.5 on today’s scale sat between the October 75th and 90th percentiles in both published Octobers (2024 and 2025).
A good score in plain words
| Your score (October 2025 sitting) | Where it sat |
|---|---|
| Below 3.3 | In the lowest quarter of October 2025 candidates |
| 3.3 to 4.4 | At or above the 25th-percentile score, below the median |
| 4.5 to 5.7 | At or above the median, below the 75th-percentile score |
| 5.8 to 6.9 | At or above the 75th-percentile score, below the 90th-percentile score |
| 7.0 and above | At or above the 90th-percentile score (UAT-UK: about 10% of candidates score higher than 7.0) |
Bands built only from UAT-UK’s published October 2025 percentile marks (Table 4 of its 2025-26 technical report). Scores are reported to one decimal place, so 4.4 is the highest score below the median of 4.5.
What universities publish about TMUA scores
No university checked for our guide to scores by university publishes a TMUA pass mark. Two publish figures you can measure against, both from their own pages:
| University | What it publishes | Caveat |
|---|---|---|
| Imperial | Mean TMUA score of applicants offered a place, 2025 entry: Computing 6.2, Joint Maths and Computing 7.5, Mathematics 7.6, Business School 5.3 | Imperial: “historic data … should not be taken as indicative of requirements or outcomes for the current or future admissions cycles.” |
| Warwick | Mathematics, 2025 entry: “the majority of offers were made to applicants with a TMUA score of 5.0 and above” | Warwick: some offers went below 5.0 “after a holistic assessment of their overall profile” |
| Oxford, Cambridge, LSE | No TMUA score on their TMUA and course pages | Compulsory for the listed Oxford and Cambridge courses; at LSE mandatory for two programmes and recommended for the programmes on its list (headed “eight”, though the page lists nine entries). See our guide to scores by university |
Imperial’s figures from its dashboard “TMUA scores: applicant outcomes - 2025 entry cycle”, Warwick’s from its Admissions Tests page, and the Oxford, Cambridge and LSE rows from their TMUA and course pages, all read on 18 October 2026.
Put next to the percentiles, Imperial’s Mathematics offer holders (mean 7.6) averaged above the October 90th-percentile score, and Warwick’s 5.0 line sits a little above the October median. For every course that requires the test and what each university says, read what TMUA score you need for Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial and LSE.
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UAT-UK’s 2025-26 technical report gives a standard error of measurement of 0.62 to 0.64 for the October 2025 scaled scores. Read the way the report describes it, there is about a 68% chance that a candidate’s “true” score lies within one standard error of the score reported. Our reading, not the report’s: a 5.0 and a 5.4 are closer than they look; a 4.5 and a 7.0 are not.
When the October 2026 results come out
UAT-UK says October 2026 candidates receive their results in their UAT-UK account on Monday 16 November 2026, and January 2027 candidates on 8 February 2027. It also uploads an explanation of results to its Test Results page. The technical reports for the last two cycles, which carry the percentile table, were published in September 2025 and July 2026; we will add the new figures if and when UAT-UK publishes them.
Raise the score before January
UAT-UK recommends answering practice questions under timed conditions. Its 18 official papers (Paper 1 and Paper 2 for 2016–2023, plus an early specimen pair) are free (see our TMUA past papers guide); our TMUA practice tests add two full mocks in the same format, 20 questions in 75 minutes per paper, with the working for every answer. Try the five free questions first. Here is one of them:
Free question · Binomial expansion · original, TMUA style
What is the coefficient of x³ in the expansion of (2 − x)⁶?
- A −160
- B −80
- C −20
- D 20
- E 80
- F 160
Show the worked solution
- Each term of (2 − x)⁶ is C(6, k) × 2^(6−k) × (−x)^k.
- For x³ take k = 3: C(6, 3) = 20, 2³ = 8 and (−1)³ = −1.
- Multiply: 20 × 8 × (−1) = −160, so the coefficient is −160.
- The traps: dropping the minus sign gives 160 (option F); forgetting the 2³ gives −20 (option C).
Answer: A, −160.
An original ProSyllabus question, not a UAT-UK question. It is one of the five free questions at the top of our TMUA practice tests; try all five free.
Frequently asked questions
What is a good TMUA score?
Anything above the middle of your sitting. In October 2025 the median was 4.5 and the 90th-percentile score 7.0; in January 2026 they were 3.6 and 5.9. UAT-UK publishes no pass mark, and universities set their own expectations.
What is the average TMUA score?
The mean was 4.62 in October 2025 and 3.78 in January 2026, and 4.28 across the whole 2026-entry cycle, according to UAT-UK’s 2025-26 technical report.
What percentile is a TMUA score of 7.0?
In both October sittings, 7.0 was the 90th-percentile score: UAT-UK fixes it there. In January 2026 the 90th-percentile score was 5.9, so a 7.0 was above it.
Why are January TMUA scores lower?
January candidates are scored on the scale fixed by the October candidates, and they scored lower on it: medians of 3.3 (January 2025) and 3.6 (January 2026). UAT-UK does not give a reason; for applicants to institutions other than Oxford and Cambridge it says there is no advantage to sitting in either session.
Is a TMUA score of 6.5 good?
On today’s scale, yes: in October 2025 it was above the 75th-percentile score (5.8) and below the 90th-percentile score (7.0). On the paper-based test, the scale was designed so that approximately one third of candidates would score above 6.5 (2019 Explanation of Results), so old advice about 6.5 does not carry over.
Can I compare my score with older TMUA scores?
No. UAT-UK says the scaling was revised for 2024/25 and scores should not be compared directly with TMUA scores from earlier years.
Is there a TMUA pass mark?
No. UAT-UK says there is no pass or fail for the TMUA and provides no grade boundaries or pass mark. Most universities use the score alongside other information from the UCAS application.
When do October 2026 TMUA results come out?
On Monday 16 November 2026, in your UAT-UK account, according to UAT-UK’s key dates. January 2027 results follow on 8 February 2027.
Sources
- official — UAT-UK: TMUA Technical Report 2025-26 (scaling, Table 2-4, reliability, test timing)
- official — UAT-UK: TMUA Technical Report 2024-25 (scaling, Table 2-4, reliability)
- official — UAT-UK: TMUA Explanation of Results, October 2024 and January 2025 (“This scaling process has been revised for 2024/25”)
- official — UAT-UK: TMUA Explanation of Results, October 2025 and January 2026
- official — UAT-UK: Test Results (how the tests are scored), read 23 Oct 2026
- official — UAT-UK: Key Dates for 2027 entry, read 23 Oct 2026
- official — Cambridge Assessment Admissions Testing: TMUA Explanation of Results 2019 (“approximately one third of candidates will achieve overall scores higher than 6.5”, archived copy)
- official — Imperial College London: Understanding your ESAT and TMUA scores, and its dashboard “TMUA scores: applicant outcomes - 2025 entry cycle” (read 18 Oct 2026)
- official — University of Warwick: Admissions Tests (TMUA), read 18 Oct 2026
- official — University of Warwick Mathematics: Our Offer (2027 entry)
- official — University of Oxford Mathematical Institute: Prospectus (admissions, 2027 entry)
- official — University of Oxford Department of Computer Science: How to apply
- official — University of Cambridge: Computer Science course page
- official — University of Cambridge: Economics course page
- official — University of Cambridge: Mathematics course page (STEP offers)
- official — LSE: Test of Mathematics for University Admission (TMUA), read 18 Oct 2026
official = a document published by the conducting body. reported = a news or coaching site we could not check against an original. Where sources disagree this page says so rather than picking one.
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