Understand how your test result relates to other candidates and the scores used by Universities in past years. This will be useful to those wishing to apply to Universities who use a threshold score.
The following data is valid up to the 26 September 2025 based on 41,354 tests taken. The final total cognitive mean scaled score is 1891. The mean scaled scores of the cognitive subtests are below:
| Cognitive Subtest | 2025 |
|---|
| Verbal Reasoning (VR) | 602 |
| Decision Making (DM) | 628 |
| Quantitative Reasoning (QR) | 661 |
The following table gives the decile ranges of candidates. Each decile represents 10% of candidates based on their overall test performance. The 1st decile represents a score at the 10th percentile; the 2nd decile represents a score at the 20th percentile, and so on. Not all percentiles are observed due to the high frequency of some scores.
| Decile Rank | 2025 | VR | DM | QR |
|---|
| 1st | 1580 | 500 | 520 | 520 |
| 2nd | 1680 | 540 | 560 | 570 |
| 3rd | 1760 | 560 | 590 | 590 |
| 4th | 1820 | 580 | 610 | 630 |
| 5th | 1880 | 600 | 630 | 650 |
| 6th | 1950 | 620 | 650 | 680 |
| 7th | 2010 | 640 | 670 | 710 |
| 8th | 2100 | 670 | 700 | 750 |
| 9th | 2220 | 700 | 740 | 820 |
For Situational Judgement Test, full marks are awarded to those whose answer match the correct answer and partial mark is awarded for those whose response are closer to the correct answer.
For such tests, raw scores are into 4 bands, with band 1 being the highest. In addition, students will give full interpretation of their performance.
| 2025 |
|---|
| Number of candidates | 41,354 |
| Band 1 | 21% |
| Band 2 | 39% |
| Band 3 | 29% |
| Band 4 | 10% |
| Band | Description |
|---|
| Band 1 | Those in Band 1 demonstrated an excellent level of performance, showing similar judgement in most cases to the panel of experts. |
| Band 2 | Those in Band 2 demonstrated a good, solid level of performance, showing appropriate judgement frequently, with many responses matching model answers |
| Band 3 | The performance of Those in Band 3 demonstrated a modest level of performance, with appropriate judgement shown for some questions and substantial differences from ideal responses for others.
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| Band 4 | The performance of those in Band 4 was low, with judgement tending to differ substantially from ideal responses in many cases. |
