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<div style="background:#eef3fb;color:#303846;border:1px solid #c9d7ee;border-radius:12px;padding:14px 18px;margin:0 0 18px"><p style="margin:0;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6"><strong style="color:#171d29">Checked 23 October 2026.</strong> Format, rules and dates read on UAT-UK’s pages on 23 October 2026 for 2027 entry; January booking opening re-read on 24 October 2026 (delayed from 26 October, now expected 28 October). Re-check UAT-UK’s TMUA and Key Dates pages before you book.</p></div>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7"><strong>The TMUA lasts 2 hours 30 minutes on computer at a Pearson VUE test centre: Paper 1 and Paper 2, each 20 multiple-choice questions in 75 minutes, with no calculator and no break between the papers.</strong> You work on an erasable notebook with a pen, wrong answers lose nothing, and you get one overall score from 1.0 to 9.0. The next sitting is 4–8 January 2027, with booking expected to open at 3pm GMT on Wednesday 28 October 2026 (UAT-UK delayed it from 26 October). This guide sets out the format from UAT-UK’s pages, the test-centre rules that catch people out, and what UAT-UK’s own timing data says about finishing. 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.</p>

<div style="display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:10px;margin:18px 0"><div style="flex:1 1 140px;background:#fbfaf6;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:10px;padding:12px 14px"><div style="font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#171d29;line-height:1.2">2h 30m</div><div style="font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;line-height:1.4;margin-top:4px">total, two papers back to back</div></div><div style="flex:1 1 140px;background:#fbfaf6;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:10px;padding:12px 14px"><div style="font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#171d29;line-height:1.2">3m 45s</div><div style="font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;line-height:1.4;margin-top:4px">per question on average (our arithmetic: 75 ÷ 20)</div></div><div style="flex:1 1 140px;background:#fbfaf6;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:10px;padding:12px 14px"><div style="font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#171d29;line-height:1.2">2:29:37</div><div style="font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;line-height:1.4;margin-top:4px">median time used, 2025-26 (15,481 candidates analysed)</div></div><div style="flex:1 1 140px;background:#fbfaf6;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:10px;padding:12px 14px"><div style="font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#171d29;line-height:1.2">£78 / £133</div><div style="font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;line-height:1.4;margin-top:4px">fee: UK and Republic of Ireland / elsewhere</div></div></div><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;margin:-8px 0 18px">UAT-UK TMUA page and TMUA Technical Report 2025-26 (Table 18), read 23 October 2026.</p>

From UAT-UK’s TMUA page, read 23 October 2026. UAT-UK: the TMUA “is based on content typically covered within Higher Level GCSE mathematics courses or AS level mathematics.”

From UAT-UK’s TMUA page, Test Day page, FAQs and TMUA Technical Report 2025-26, read 23 October 2026.

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7"><strong>There is no scheduled break between Paper 1 and Paper 2.</strong> UAT-UK’s test-day rules say there are no breaks between the papers of a test; unless you are approved for pause-the-clock breaks, the test cannot be paused and you lose time when out of the room. Practise both papers back to back: 150 minutes of mathematics without a pause.</p>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">UAT-UK’s 2025-26 technical report analysed test time for 15,481 candidates, after leaving out 610 whose time ran past 2:30:04 and who it assumed had a time-based access arrangement:</p>

From UAT-UK’s TMUA Technical Report 2025-26, section 5.2 and Table 18, read 23 October 2026.

<figure style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0;margin:18px 0"><figcaption style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">Time used by the median candidate</figcaption><div style="margin:0 0 10px"><div style="display:flex;justify-content:space-between;gap:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4;margin:0 0 4px"><span style="color:#303846">Time limit</span><strong style="color:#171d29;white-space:nowrap">150 min</strong></div><div style="background:#f1eee6;border-radius:6px;height:12px;overflow:hidden"><div style="width:100.0%;height:12px;background:#1f7a45;border-radius:6px"></div></div></div><div style="margin:0 0 10px"><div style="display:flex;justify-content:space-between;gap:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4;margin:0 0 4px"><span style="color:#303846">Median used</span><strong style="color:#171d29;white-space:nowrap">149.6 min</strong></div><div style="background:#f1eee6;border-radius:6px;height:12px;overflow:hidden"><div style="width:99.7%;height:12px;background:#2f6fb0;border-radius:6px"></div></div></div><div style="margin:0 0 10px"><div style="display:flex;justify-content:space-between;gap:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4;margin:0 0 4px"><span style="color:#303846">Mean used</span><strong style="color:#171d29;white-space:nowrap">147.0 min</strong></div><div style="background:#f1eee6;border-radius:6px;height:12px;overflow:hidden"><div style="width:98.0%;height:12px;background:#b7791f;border-radius:6px"></div></div></div><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472">UAT-UK TMUA Technical Report 2025-26, Table 18 (2:29:37 and 2:27:01 converted to minutes, our arithmetic).</p></figure>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">The report reads this as a test that “might be speeded” for some candidates, and adds that the items are designed to increase progressively in difficulty through each section. In plain terms: most candidates use nearly all the time, questions are designed to get harder as each section goes on, and 16% of candidates gave at least one answer in ten seconds or less or had a question they never reached. The report says a candidate answering in under 10 seconds was likely guessing; reading the two together as a timing problem is ours.</p>

A timing plan for 75 minutes (our suggestion)

Our plan, not UAT-UK’s. It leaves the later, harder questions for when the easier marks are banked.

What changed when the TMUA moved to computer

From UAT-UK’s TMUA Preparation Materials page, Test Results page and technical reports, and Cambridge Assessment Admissions Testing’s Explanation of Results (2019), read 23 October 2026.

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">So the old papers still teach the content and the question style (our <a href="/hub/tmua-past-papers-worked-solutions" style="color:#255a45;font-weight:600">TMUA past papers guide</a> links all 18), but their scoring does not carry over. How today’s score is made is in <a href="/hub/tmua-scoring-explained-raw-marks-scale" style="color:#255a45;font-weight:600">how TMUA scoring works since 2024</a>.</p>

From UAT-UK’s Key Dates page for 2027 entry, read 23 October 2026 (the January booking opening is from the 24 October 2026 reading). The January sitting is not for most Oxford and Cambridge applicants; UAT-UK’s exceptions are mature applicants to a Cambridge mature college with a January deadline and applicants to an Oxford Foundation Year programme with a January deadline.

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">UAT-UK warns that a bursary request can take up to five working days to review and an access arrangement up to ten, and both must be in place before you book. The test costs £78 in the UK and Republic of Ireland and £133 elsewhere.</p>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">Access arrangements are not rare. In the 2025-26 cycle 675 TMUA candidates had one, around 4% of all candidates, according to UAT-UK’s technical report; the most common were extra time (423 candidates), extra time with pause-the-clock breaks (177), pause-the-clock (64) and a separate room (59). If your school gives you extra time in public exams, ask for its letter early: UAT-UK needs it stating your usual way of working and the amount of extra time.</p>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">The habit that matters most is two 75-minute papers back to back, without a calculator, on rough paper you can wipe. Our <a href="/kits/tmua-practice-tests" style="color:#255a45;font-weight:600">TMUA practice tests</a> give you two full mocks in that format, Paper 1 and Paper 2 each, timed at 75 minutes with the working for every answer. <a href="/kits/tmua-practice-tests#fsp-try" style="color:#255a45;font-weight:600">Start with the five free questions</a>. Here is one:</p>

<div style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><p style="margin:0 0 6px;font-size:12px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.08em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#1f7a45">Free question · Coordinate geometry and tangents · original, TMUA style</p><p style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29;line-height:1.5">The line y = 2x + c is a tangent to the curve y = x² + 3. What is the value of c?</p><ul style="margin:0 0 12px;padding-left:4px;list-style:none"><li style="margin:0 0 4px;line-height:1.55"><strong>A</strong>&nbsp; 2</li><li style="margin:0 0 4px;line-height:1.55"><strong>B</strong>&nbsp; 3</li><li style="margin:0 0 4px;line-height:1.55"><strong>C</strong>&nbsp; 4</li><li style="margin:0 0 4px;line-height:1.55"><strong>D</strong>&nbsp; 6</li><li style="margin:0 0 4px;line-height:1.55"><strong>E</strong>&nbsp; 8</li></ul><details style="margin:0 0 8px"><summary style="cursor:pointer;font-weight:700;color:#1f7a45">Show the worked solution</summary><ol style="margin:10px 0 8px;padding-left:22px"><li style="margin:0 0 6px;line-height:1.6">Where the line meets the curve: x² + 3 = 2x + c, so x² − 2x + (3 − c) = 0.</li><li style="margin:0 0 6px;line-height:1.6">A tangent touches at exactly one point, so this quadratic has one repeated root: the discriminant is zero.</li><li style="margin:0 0 6px;line-height:1.6">Discriminant: (−2)² − 4 × 1 × (3 − c) = 4 − 12 + 4c = 0, so c = 2.</li><li style="margin:0 0 6px;line-height:1.6">Check: with c = 2 the equation is (x − 1)² = 0, touching at (1, 4), where the curve’s gradient 2x is 2, equal to the line’s.</li></ol><p style="margin:0;padding:10px 12px;background:#ecf7ef;border-radius:8px;line-height:1.6"><strong>Answer: A, 2.</strong></p></details><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472">An original ProSyllabus question, not a UAT-UK question. It is one of the five free questions at the top of our <a href="/kits/tmua-practice-tests" style="color:#255a45;font-weight:600">TMUA practice tests</a>; <a href="/kits/tmua-practice-tests#fsp-try" style="color:#255a45;font-weight:600">try all five free</a>.</p></div>

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<div style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><h3 style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">Sources</h3><ul style="margin:0;padding-left:20px"><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://esat-tmua.ac.uk/about-the-tests/tmua-test/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">UAT-UK: TMUA (format, fees, sittings), read 23 Oct 2026</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://esat-tmua.ac.uk/test-day/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">UAT-UK: Test Day (test centre procedures and rules), read 23 Oct 2026</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://esat-tmua.ac.uk/faq/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">UAT-UK: FAQs, read 23 Oct 2026</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://esat-tmua.ac.uk/deadlines/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">UAT-UK: Key Dates for 2027 entry, read 23 Oct 2026</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://uat-wp.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/07161815/UAT-UK-TMUA-Technical-Report-2025-26.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">UAT-UK: TMUA Technical Report 2025-26 (scaling, Table 2-4, reliability, test timing)</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://esat-tmua.ac.uk/tmua-preparation-materials/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">UAT-UK: TMUA Preparation Materials (past papers, worked answers, answer keys), read 18 Oct 2026</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://esat-tmua.ac.uk/test-results/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">UAT-UK: Test Results (how the tests are scored), read 23 Oct 2026</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/2024/https://www.admissionstesting.org/Images/563679-tmua-explanation-of-results-2019.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">Cambridge Assessment Admissions Testing: TMUA Explanation of Results 2019 (“approximately one third of candidates will achieve overall scores higher than 6.5”, archived copy)</a></li></ul><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472"><strong style="color:#1f7a45">official</strong> = a document published by the conducting body. <strong style="color:#8a5300">reported</strong> = a news or coaching site we could not check against an original. Where sources disagree this page says so rather than picking one.</p></div>

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