Admissions assessments

Dates for booking and taking the relevant assessments are strict, and we recommend securing your test slot as early as possible.

Courses with pre-registration assessments

The following courses require a pre-registration assessment:

These are admissions tests conducted by the Cambridge Colleges.

Applicants to Queens’ College who are invited to interview will receive full details directly about these assessments, which will usually take place in the second half of November.

See the University of Cambridge admissions assessments page for more information on dates for each assessment, assessment formats and specifications and example papers.

Courses at Queens’ with a Cambridge College admissions assessment

• Architecture
• Asian and Middle Eastern Studies – if you are combining with a European Language, the MML assessment will need to be taken
• Classics (3 year and 4 year)
• Design
• History and Modern Languages – the MML assessment will need to be taken
• Linguistics
• Linguistics and Modern Languages
• Modern and Medieval Languages (MML)

Mathematics

Applicants for Mathematics who receive an offer after interview will be required to take Sixth Term Examination Papers, known as STEP, in June 2027.

Music

All Music candidates invited to interview at Queens’ College will be required to sit a 60-minute test which consists of four tasks:

• Spotting errors and adding a missing voice-part to sections of a chorale.
• Providing an answering phrase in a song with piano accompaniment.
• Writing two short paragraphs in response to very broad questions about the history of music.
• Reading a short passage of text in preparation for a discussion in the interview.

At the Music interview itself, you will be asked to analyse a short movement from a string quartet, to discuss the passage of text from the test, and to comment on extracts from various musical scores. You will also be asked about work you have covered at A Level (or equivalent) and your wider musical interests.