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How was the PAT 22nd October 2025?

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How was it guys!!!

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Reply 1

PhysicsMathsNerd

It was alright, I felt like the resistor question was annoying but else from that. What did u find hard?

Reply 2

trxzy

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by PhysicsMathsNerd

It was alright, I felt like the resistor question was annoying but else from that. What did u find hard?

how did u find the maths?

Reply 3

PhysicsMathsNerd

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by trxzy

how did u find the maths?

it was fine, calculus was good, wbu?

Reply 4

trxzy

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by PhysicsMathsNerd

it was fine, calculus was good, wbu?

yh it was good just some of the area qs took a lot of time

Reply 5

CrawshawA

I'm sitting it tomorrow, was it easier than the 2017-2023 past papers but with more time pressure

Reply 6

PhysicsMathsNerd

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by trxzy

yh it was good just some of the area qs took a lot of time

which one?

Reply 7

okaythen8989

anyone who did that test, what were the max number of marks which came up on questions? Was it like 3 marks or 4 marks or more?

Reply 8

Astrofizzz

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by okaythen8989

anyone who did that test, what were the max number of marks which came up on questions? Was it like 3 marks or 4 marks or more?

I’m pretty sure the max was 4 but there were only a couple towards the end then the rest were either 2/3

Reply 9

okaythen8989

okay thank you. But were the questions like a continuation of other questions? (there used to be 20 markers for example but discarded). So were these 2 and 3 markers like a part a, b, c for a 10 marker for example

Reply 10

Astrofizzz

I ran out of time so badly (I had 16 flagged at the end that I was either unsure of or guessed). The start of the paper started off strong but it was just so time consuming for the number of marks per minute and the fact that there’s no working marks meant even if I was the majority of the way through the question but ran out of time it’s either all or 0 which is frustrating.

Reply 11

okaythen8989

How many questions in total? 40?

Reply 12

Anonymous #1

Yeah I’m pretty sure it’s 40 questions

Reply 13

PhysicsMathsNerd

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by CrawshawA

I'm sitting it tomorrow, was it easier than the 2017-2023 past papers but with more time pressure

yes it is not the same format in anyway so mainly focus on time and methodically doing each question.

Reply 14

Anonymous #1

Hi does anyone know of any group chats that have Oxbridge engineering applicants in. I know of a lot of medicine ones but not any engineering ones it would be quite nice to have one