Maths Admissions tests

A brief introduction:

- More and more courses are using admissions tests

- Most are taken on the same day in November
o STEP is taken in June; no multiple choice section, so no questions on
this sheet. It is used for Cambridge Maths, but also possibly Imperial
Warwick, and some colleges at Cambridge may use it e.g. Engineering
- It is your responsibility to find out which tests you need and ask the school
to enter you.
- Examples included here are from
o TMUA (Maths at Durham, Warwick, ComSci at Cambridge)
o MAT (Maths and CompSci at Oxford; Maths at Imperial) – also has a
long-response section
o Cambridge NatSci
o PAT (Oxford Physics)
o Cambridge Engineering

Q1. (TMUA)

If log3 y  log9 3, then:

1
A. y  3 B. y  9 C. y  3 D. y 
3

Q2. (TMUA)

How many solutions are there to the equation

1
sin 2 2 x  180  x  180
4
Choose from the following options:
A. 2 B. 4 C. 6 D. 8

Q4. (MAT)
Q4. (Cambridge NatSci)

Q5. (Cambridge NatSci)

Q6. (Oxford PAT)

Q7. (Cambridge Eng)

Q8 (Cambridge NatSci)
Q9. (MAT)

Q10. (TMUA)

Which of the following provides a counter-example to the statement:

If 𝑥 2 > 9 then 𝑥 > 3

A. x=3
B. x=4
C. x = -4
D. x=2

Q11. (Cambridge Eng)

Q12. (Oxford PAT)

Q13. (Oxford PAT)

Q14. (MAT)