Key Deadlines

University Clinical Aptitude Test closes. Required for Medicine at most UK universities including Cambridge, Imperial, UCL, and others.

National Admissions Test for Law — required for Law at Oxford, Cambridge, UCL, LSE, Durham, and more. Book early as slots fill fast.

Final deadline for all applications to Oxford, Cambridge, Medicine (A100/A101), Dentistry, and Veterinary Science. Missing this date means automatic rejection.

Required for Mathematics, Computer Science, and joint courses at Oxford. Taken at school or a test centre.

Replaced the PAT. Required for Engineering Science and Physical Sciences at Oxford. Also used by Cambridge for Engineering and Natural Sciences.

Required for Computer Science at Cambridge. Also considered by some other universities.

The main deadline for most undergraduate courses. Applications received after this date are considered late and universities are not obliged to consider them.

If you've used all 5 UCAS choices and received no offers, Extra lets you apply to one additional course at a time.

Clearing helps students who don't hold any offers, or who didn't meet their offer conditions, find university places that still have vacancies.