What is a good ESAT score?

A good ESAT score is about 5.5 or more in a module, roughly the top quarter. About 6.5 to 7.0 puts you in the top 10%; the middle candidate scores about 4 to 4.5.

Source: UAT-UK ESAT Technical Reports 2024-25 and 2025-26. By Shrey, Cambridge student, updated .

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Put a score on the real distribution

Drag the score to see where it landed among the 11,919 people who sat the ESAT for 2025 entry.

Where does a score land?

11,919 candidates, October 2024 and January 2025
5%10%15%123456789mediantop 10%5.4Candidate share
5.4

Top quarter

Above the 75th percentile (5.4), below the 90th (6.7). 21% of Mathematics 1 candidates scored in a higher band, and 8% were in the same band as you, 5.25 to 5.75.

Read it loosely: with a standard error of 0.67 to 0.75 (Table 18), 4.7 and 6.2 are not results you can reliably tell apart.

Mean
4.46
Median
4.2
Top quarter from
5.4
Top 10% from
6.7

Is 6.56.5 competitive for your course?

Imperial publishes 2025 outcomes by department; Cambridge publishes no offer-holder average.

Cambridge · 2027 entry

Engineering

Mathematics 1, Mathematics 2 and Physics.

6.56.5

Top quarter

6.56.5

Top quarter

6.56.5

Top quarter

Your score vs the field

Required-module mean
Your mean 6.56.5October cohort middle 4.54.5October top tenth 7.07.0
Cambridge publishes no offer-holder average to put beside your 6.56.5 module mean.

33 of your 33 selected scores reach the top quarter of their published module fields. Cambridge calls a strong test performance usually necessary for interview, but publishes no course average or cut-off.

Cambridge admissions-test policy2027 module requirements

What the number actually is

One score per module, and no total

Each module you sit gets its own 1.0 to 9.0 score, and any combined ESAT figure is invented.

Technical report, page 4

Read it within its module

Each module has its own distribution, so the same number means different things in Biology and Physics.

Technical report, pages 5 and 7

Built to be hard

27 questions in 40 minutes with no calculator, so school-exam percentages do not carry over.

Official ESAT site; technical report, pages 3 and 33

Guessing costs nothing

Wrong answers lose no marks, so never leave a question blank.

Official ESAT site; technical report, page 35

Have a mark out of 27?

UAT-UK publishes no raw-mark table, so the converter gives you a likely range instead.

Estimate an ESAT score from a practice mark

Sources

UAT-UK ESAT Technical Report 2024-25 (PDF) and 2025-26 (PDF): Table 5, Figures 1 to 5 and Table 18.

UAT-UK, Test Results: the score scale and how results reach universities.

UAT-UK, about the ESAT: format, modules and marking.

Imperial College London, Understanding your ESAT and TMUA scores: its 2025 department outcomes.

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