Separate admissions tests are used by a small number of universities for specific subjects (particularly law, mathematics and medicine, and courses at Oxford and Cambridge), many of these administered by Cambridge University's Admissions Testing Service.
Being after the reply date for universities in the UK,[6] STEP is typically taken as part of a conditional offer for an undergraduate place.
The papers are designed to test ability to answer questions similar in style to undergraduate Mathematics.
The Mathematics Admissions Test (MAT) is a 2-hour 30-minute subject-specific admissions test for applicants to the University of Oxford, and until the 2024-2025 school year, also both the University of Warwick and Imperial College London[8] for undergraduate degree courses in mathematics, computer science and their joint degrees.
[9] The Physics Aptitude Test (PAT) is a 2-hour subject-specific admissions test for applicants to the University of Oxford for undergraduate degree courses in engineering, materials science and physics undergraduate degree courses.