Cambridge Assessment Admissions Testing

Cambridge Assessment Admissions Testing (formerly the Admissions Testing Service) supports educational institutions, professional organisations, governments and employers in the selection and recruitment of applicants, by providing admissions tests for medicine and healthcare, assessments in thinking skills and behavioural styles, and subject-specific admissions tests.

It is part of Cambridge Assessment, a not-for-profit department of the University of Cambridge, England.

The Thinking Skills Assessment (TSA) was introduced in 2001 for entry to a range of undergraduate courses at the University of Cambridge.

In 2004, a dedicated unit was formally set up within Cambridge Assessment, with responsibility for developing and administering admissions tests. The Thinking Skills Admissions Testing (TSAT) unit was responsible for administering the Thinking Skills Assessment (TSA) and the first BioMedical Admissions Test (BMAT), which had been introduced in 2003.

In 2004, interest in fair admissions to higher education was fuelled by the Schwartz Report. This led to a collaboration between TSAT and the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) and the development of uniTEST. uniTEST explored whether a single test could be used for admission to a broad range of courses and higher education institutions. uniTEST was introduced by some Australian universities, but there was relatively little demand in the UK.

Other projects followed, including work with the Faculty of English at the University of Oxford to develop an admissions test for undergraduate courses in English. Following a successful trial in autumn 2006, the English Literature Admissions Test (ELAT) was introduced in the 2007–08 admissions cycle.

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