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TARA score interpreter
Place one module score in its cohort, then read what it can and cannot say about an Oxford or UCL application.
Critical Thinking
The published distribution has two clear concentrations, around and . A single mode would hide that shape.
Oxford: Economics and Management
Competitive means relative, not guaranteed
This module result sits between the cohort midpoint and the top-10% anchor. That is a wide band, not a hidden course cutoff. Oxford publishes no course cutoff or offer-holder TARA benchmark.
Sitting: October 2026 required.
Read both module scores. The Writing Task is separate, and its use depends on the university and course.
Two modules, two separate signals
UAT-UK reports Critical Thinking and Problem Solving separately. There is no official combined TARA score, so this tool does not average them.
The first published distributions are not smooth bell curves. Critical Thinking has visible concentrations around and , while Problem Solving peaks around . That is why the same scaled score can occupy a slightly different estimated percentile in each module.
Why raw marks produce a range
UAT-UK does not publish a raw-mark conversion table. It uses a Rasch model to account for item and form difficulty after the sitting, so a practice-paper mark cannot be turned into an official score in advance.
For planning only, the raw-mark mode uses a neutral 22-item Rasch proxy. It centres at the cohort midpoint of , maps the 90th-percentile ability anchor to , and shows a one-standard-error band rather than a single invented conversion.
Real items are not equally difficult, and live forms are equated. Treat the range as orientation for practice, not a result prediction.
There is no hidden safe score
UAT-UK publishes no pass mark or grade boundary. Oxford and UCL publish no TARA course cutoffs. UCL says the score sits alongside the rest of the UCAS application; Oxford requirements remain course-specific.
A high percentile is evidence of a strong relative test result. It is not an offer forecast. A lower percentile is a weaker signal, not an automatic rejection.
Sources and limits
- UAT-UK TARA Explanation of Results, October 2025 and January 2026: scale anchors and binned module distributions.
- UAT-UK test results guidance: Rasch scoring, equating and the absence of pass marks.
- Oxford admissions tests: current TARA courses and sitting requirements.
- UCL tests, tasks and interviews: current TARA courses and how scores sit within the application.
Percentiles between the two official anchors are our estimates from the published half-point distribution chart. Raw-mark ranges are our planning model. Neither is a university cutoff.
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