Oxford Physics Aptitude Test (PAT)

I hate to say it but the papers, at least before this year, haven't been getting much easier but the pass marks pretty much went up and up for a reason.

I suspect there are just more better people applying making that top 500 harder to get into. The pass mark this year will probably be about 55.


On a personal note, I do give up: I remembered all the stuff I got wrong and the list grows and grows. It's not even funny how much I got wrong. Past papers I was getting in the 70s and even 80s at times. People know me to be good at physics and when I was talking to some people (I know outside of TSR don't worry) about the PAT I was explaining [some!] answers to them that I knew deep down I didn't really do myself. I'm not standing here saying "oh I got 60 boo hoo" because I didn't even get 50. I'm saying all this not because I cheated after or because I had some long think, but because some of it really is straightforward. I don't do written tests well, and I have always done better at speaking and presenting points than writing but that's the game so ...

I do want think about next year. If I go for Cambridge next year, which if I am honest might have been the original place I wanted to go to if it not the fact they didn't do straight physics, because most people get an interview I might be able to get across I like physics and can hopefully do it to some degree even if the NSAA wouldn't go spectacularly to plan.

There is always the "forget oxbridge route" ... but I'm worried I can't do the dream job behind all this ...

Hi guys, I am an international student from China and I also participated PAT, and I am worried about my PAT result.

Did any one work out the last question?
I found the correct method of the question, but the result is tooooooooo long. I cannot confirm that the result is correct.

Can you show your working? Maybe we can help you?

I remember the main part of the question, but I forget the element that need to be worked out. Could you please tell me the element.

One needed to find the conditions necessary for the ring to appear as if it was not moving ...

The angle of observer or the depth of the ring?

I don't know ... all I know was that the height of the observer was fixed and the depth of the ring was a variable ...

Have any interview invites or rejections been sent out for phys yet??

Just got invited for an interview today

Congrats! What college??

st johns :P

Ahhh did you post in the Oxford Invites 2018 thread too?

yea i just did, what college did you apply to?

Keble

Ah i got a friend who applied there, they havent heard back yet, have you?