What is a good ESAT score?

A good ESAT score is 5.5 or more in a module, about the top quarter. 7.0 is the top 10% in every module. The median is 4.2 to 4.5.

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Where does your score land?

Where does a score land?

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5.4

Top quarter

21% of Mathematics 1 candidates scored higher.

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

Is 6.56.5 competitive for your course?

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
33 of your 33 scores are in the top quarter.

How the score works

One score per module, no total

Each module is scored 1.0 to 9.0 on its own.

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6.0 in Biology and 6.0 in Physics are different ranks.

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