[3] 2001 - The Thinking Skills Assessment (TSA) was introduced for entry to a range of undergraduate courses at the University of Cambridge.
2004 - interest in fair admissions to higher education was fuelled by a UK government funded review - "the Schwartz Report".
[5][6] This led to a collaboration between TSAT and the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) and the development of uniTEST.
uniTEST explored if a single test could be used for admission to a broad range of courses and higher education institutions.
IMAT is used by a number of Italian universities for entry to English language-taught Medicine, Surgery and related degree courses.
Cambridge Assessment Admissions Testing delivers pre-interview assessments for the following University of Cambridge courses: Cambridge Assessment Admissions Testing administers the following admissions tests for the University of Oxford: TSA is used for entry to a wide range of undergraduate university courses, including: Economics and Management, Engineering, Land Economy, Human Sciences, Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE), Psychology and Philosophy.
It assesses whether applicants have the critical thinking and problem-solving skills which universities consider to be essential for success in higher education.
The assessment was developed over four years of research and trialling with general and vocational higher education (including medicine, nursing and healthcare institutions).