Who it is for
Two sittings,
two passes
Year 13, sitting in January
The test window is Monday 4 to Friday 8 January 2027, and bookings open at 3pm (UK time) on 26 October. From the 16 November launch you have seven weeks of Plan sessions and mock papers before the test window opens. The £30 pass runs to 8 January. The January sitting is generally not accepted for Cambridge or Oxford, so check each university first.
Year 12, sitting next October
Build up steadily through Year 12 and the summer, with Progress showing which topics and levels still cost you marks. The £80 pass runs to 17 October 2027, 48 weeks from the 16 November launch, and covers the January sitting too if your plans change.
Sitting the TMUA in October 2026? EntryQ launches after that sitting. If you are thinking of sitting again in January, check first: some universities, LSE among them, accept only your first sitting in an admissions cycle.
The Plan
Tell it how long you have,
it picks the questions
Most students lose time deciding what to practise, then drift towards topics they already like. The Plan takes that decision away. It reads every answer you have given and builds a session that fits the minutes you have, aimed at the topics that will move your TMUA score most.
Choose 20, 40 or 60 minutes
Open Plan, pick the time you have and press Start. There is nothing to set up and no list to write.
It reads your own results
Your answers are sorted by topic and by difficulty, with accuracy and pace recorded separately. Recent answers count for more than old ones, so the Plan follows how you are doing now.
It weighs four needs
Fix weak spots where you are getting things wrong. Keep it fresh where earlier work is fading. Speed up where you are right but slow. Map your level where it does not know you yet. Topics that carry more weight in the real TMUA count for more.
It fills your time, and says why
Your minutes are shared between those needs and turned into questions using each question's target time. It favours questions you have not seen or got wrong before, and rests ones you have just done. It only calls a topic a weak spot when your answers make that clear.
A January sitter with 40 minutes, struggling with trigonometry
Imagine a student who has answered around 30 trigonometry questions and got fewer than half right. She is accurate on coordinate geometry but often over the target time, and she has hardly touched exponentials and logarithms. She chooses 40 minutes. A session built on the Plan's rules could look like this:
- Fix weak spotsTrigonometry: 4 questions, one at D3 and three at D4about 14 min
- Keep it freshAlgebra and functions: 2 questions at D4, a topic she was doing well on a fortnight agoabout 7½ min
- Speed upCoordinate geometry: 2 questions at D4, judged against the D4 target of 3 min 45about 7½ min
- Map your levelExponentials and logarithms: 2 questions, one at D4 and one at D5, because there is not yet enough evidence to judgeabout 8 min
- Total10 questions, close to her 40 minutes at target paceabout 37 min
Why trigonometry gets the largest share: about 30 answers, mostly wrong, is enough evidence to call it a weak spot, and trigonometry carries real weight on the paper. If she had answered only three trigonometry questions, the same row would be labelled Map your level instead, because three answers are not enough to call anything a weakness. The Plan does not claim more than your results show.
This example is made up to show how the Plan reasons; it is not a real student or a screenshot. Real sessions depend on your own answers and the bank, and the app's screens look different.
Good to know. The Plan and Progress are built from a record of how you are doing, and the app only keeps that record if you switch on Share my practice data. It is off until you turn it on, sends no name, and can be switched off at any time; practice, Learn and mock papers work in full either way. A free account can use the Plan too; a pass gives it the full question bank to draw on.
Progress
Accuracy and pace,
topic by topic, level by level
A single percentage hides the two things that cost marks in the TMUA: questions you get wrong, and questions you get right too slowly to finish the paper. Progress keeps them apart and reads them at each difficulty level, so you can see exactly where your marks are going.
Two measures, kept separate
Accuracy is the share you get right. Pace is the share you finish inside the target time. A student who is right but slow needs different work from one who is quick but careless, and Progress shows which you are.
Judged at the right level
Every question is rated D2 to D5 with its own target time: 1 min 30 at D2, 2 min 25 at D3, 3 min 45 at D4 and 4 min 25 at D5. A slow answer on a D5 question is judged against the D5 target, never the D3 one. Meet every target and you finish a typically balanced paper inside the 75 minutes.
No numbers built on three answers
A measure only appears once there is enough of your work behind it to mean something. Until then the app says so, rather than showing a figure it cannot stand behind. Your TMUA estimate comes from mock papers only, so everyday practice never inflates it.
| Topic | D3 | D4 | D5 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algebra and functions | 85% right80% on time | 68% right62% on time | Too few answers yet |
| Trigonometry | 55% right70% on time | 38% right45% on time | Too few answers yet |
| Coordinate geometry | 90% right48% on time | 74% right40% on time | 50% right35% on time |
| Exponentials and logarithms | Too few answers yet | Too few answers yet | Too few answers yet |
How to read the example. Trigonometry is the clearest problem: accuracy falls away at D4, so it is a candidate for Fix weak spots. Coordinate geometry is the opposite case: mostly right, but often over the target time, so it is a candidate for Speed up. Exponentials and logarithms show no figures at all because there are too few answers, which is exactly where the Plan sends Map your level questions. This is how Progress and the Plan work together: the Plan acts on the same picture that Progress shows you.
Progress has three tabs: Overview for the broad picture, By Topic for the topic-by-topic breakdown, and Mocks for every paper you have sat. Like the Plan, it needs Share my practice data switched on.
Choose your pass
Two passes at the
pre-launch price
Sitting in January 2027
January 2027 sitting pass
£30
pre-launch price · one payment
£30 over 54 days, under £4 a week (16 November to 8 January).
- Access from launch on Monday 16 November 2026
- Runs to Friday 8 January 2027, the last day of the January test window
- Seven weeks before the test window opens on 4 January
- About 2,500 questions, 20 timed mock papers, the Plan and Progress
From launch: £25 a month, so 16 November to 8 January would take two monthly payments (£50).
Pre-book the January passLonger access, covers both sittings
Pass to 17 October 2027
£80
pre-launch price · one payment
£80 over 48 weeks, under £2 a week (16 November 2026 to 17 October 2027).
- Access from launch on Monday 16 November 2026 until 17 October 2027
- Covers the January 2027 sitting and the October 2027 sitting, so it suits Year 12 students and anyone who may sit in October 2027 instead
- Same full question bank, mock papers, Plan and Progress
- One payment, no subscription to cancel
From launch: £150 a year.
Pre-book the pass to 17 October 2027| If you are preparing for | Pre-launch price reserve by 23:59 UK time, Sunday 15 November 2026 | Price from launch Monday 16 November 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| The January 2027 sitting | £30, one payment. Access from 16 November 2026 to 8 January 2027. | £25 a month |
| The October 2027 sitting | £80, one payment. Access from 16 November 2026 to 17 October 2027. | £150 a year |
Not sure which? If you will definitely sit in January 2027, the £30 pass covers it. If there is any chance you will sit in October 2027 instead, the £80 pass covers both.
The pre-launch price applies to places reserved by 23:59 UK time on Sunday 15 November 2026. It ends then because the standard prices start when the app launches the next morning.
Bank transfer details are emailed when you pre-book, and you can cancel for a full refund at least 24 hours before your pass starts. Weekly figures are the pass price divided by its length from Monday 16 November 2026.
Pre-book
Reserve your
pre-launch priceJoin
EntryQ
Send your details by 23:59 UK time on Sunday 15 November 2026 to keep the £30 or £80 pre-launch price. I will email you to confirm your place and send bank transfer details. No payment is taken on this form, and you can cancel for a full refund up to 24 hours before your pass starts.
The pre-launch price ended on Sunday 15 November 2026. EntryQ is now £25 a month or £150 a year. Send the form and I will email you how to join.
- Today: send the form. No payment is taken.
- By email: I confirm your place and price, with bank details, a payment reference and a pay-by date.
- Before your pass starts: you pay by bank transfer. Cancel at least 24 hours before your pass starts for a full refund.
- Monday 16 November 2026, launch day: your access details arrive and your pass starts.
For parents
- Who runs it
- Dr Nicky Grant, a Cambridge PhD economist and former university lecturer at Manchester and St Andrews, who also tutors TMUA students one to one. You deal with me directly: [email protected] or +44 7393 352 331.
- Age
- EntryQ is for students aged 16 and over. A parent or guardian can book and pay for a student.
- Privacy
- Practice-data sharing is off until your child switches it on, and it sends no name. I cannot see your child's results unless they choose to show me. Everything can be downloaded or deleted from Settings. See the privacy notice.
- Paying
- No payment on the form. I email the amount, the bank details and a personal payment reference (for example EQ-SURNAME) so your transfer is matched to your booking, and I email you when it arrives.
- Refund
- Cancel at least 24 hours before the pass starts on launch day, Monday 16 November 2026, for a full refund. If the launch date moves, you are told straight away and the same rule applies to the new date.
What you get
Everything in EntryQ,
built around the real TMUA
A question bank of about 2,500
Original TMUA-style questions across Paper 1 (mathematics) and Paper 2 (reasoning), each with a worked solution. Drill by topic, run a balanced set, or sit a full mock.
20 exam-timed TMUA mock papers
Fixed, curated papers of 20 questions in 75 minutes, with no hints or solutions until you finish. Your TMUA estimate comes from mocks only, so everyday practice never inflates it.
A Plan that picks the questions
Choose 20, 40 or 60 minutes and the Plan builds the session from your own results: fix weak spots, keep topics fresh, build speed and map where you stand. How the Plan works.
146 Learn lessons
Short lessons and topic introductions with worked examples, for when a question shows you are missing the method rather than the practice.
Progress by topic and difficulty
Accuracy and pace measured separately, level by level, with no figure shown until there is enough of your work behind it. See an example.
Difficulty you can trust
Questions are rated D2 to D5 with a target time for each, and grouped under the TMUA's own topics and skills, weighted to match the shape of a real paper.
Also included: automatic +25% or +50% extra time on mock clocks if you have an access arrangement; a mock clock that pauses if the paper leaves your screen (you can return within 24 hours); and anonymous peer comparison if you choose to share your practice data. The Plan and Progress also need that sharing switched on. Private by default: sharing is off until you switch it on, and you can download or delete everything from Settings. EntryQ is for students aged 16 and over, runs in your browser on phone, tablet or laptop, and iPhone and Android apps are planned. See the privacy notice.
What the pass unlocks: a free account keeps Learn, the Plan, Progress, unlimited warm-up questions, a taster of harder questions and one paired mock. The pass unlocks the full question bank and every mock paper.
The evidence behind it
Built from the data,
tested with real students
Past-paper research
The topic map and weighting come from the TMUA past-paper statistical report: all 320 official questions from 2016 to 2023, classified by topic and skill and rated for difficulty.
A closed student beta
Fifty students were given access in an invite-only beta in September 2026. Their answers, mock papers and feedback drove rounds of rewording and re-rating before launch.
Difficulty checked against results
In the beta, average accuracy fell from about 71% on D3 questions to 53% on D4 and 39% on D5, so the ratings track how students really perform (28 questions, each answered by more than 10 students).
Beta figures are from a small invite-only sample in September 2026 and are shown to explain how the app was tuned, not as a promise of results. EntryQ is independent and is not endorsed by the Admissions Testing Service or any university.
Timeline
From pre-launch price
to the January sitting
- Now: beta testing is concluding and places are open at the pre-launch price.
- 26 October 2026, 3pm (UK time): official test bookings open for the January 2027 TMUA sitting.
- Sunday 15 November 2026, 23:59 UK time: the pre-launch price ends.
- Monday 16 November 2026: EntryQ launches and your pass starts. From this day the price is £25 a month or £150 a year.
- Monday 4 to Friday 8 January 2027: the January 2027 TMUA test window. The January 2027 sitting pass runs to the final day; the pass to 17 October 2027 carries on to the next sitting.
Test dates are from the Admissions Testing Service ESAT and TMUA site and the Imperial College admissions-tests page. Always confirm your own deadlines with the universities you are applying to.
Try before you pre-book
Free TMUA practice,
no payment needed
Free TMUA questions
Fifty questions graded D2 to D5 with full worked solutions, a free sample of the style of EntryQ. Open the questions.
TMUA Core Drills
Free timed speed practice across eight rounds, currently in a pilot that needs an access code. See Core Drills.
Past-paper report
Every official question from 2016 to 2023 assessed by topic, skill and difficulty. Explore the report.
More free material is collected on the TMUA materials page.
At a glance
The offer,
at a glance
- Product
- EntryQ, a web-based TMUA question bank and mock-paper app (Test of Mathematics for University Admission): about 2,500 questions and 20 timed mock papers
- Launch
- Monday 16 November 2026. Beta testing is concluding.
- January 2027 sitting pass
- £30 pre-launch price, one payment. Access from launch to Friday 8 January 2027, the last day of the January 2027 TMUA window
- Pass to 17 October 2027
- £80 pre-launch price, one payment. Access from launch until 17 October 2027, covering the October 2027 sitting
- Payment
- Bank transfer, with details and a payment reference sent by email. Full refund if you cancel at least 24 hours before your pass starts.
- Pre-launch price ends
- 23:59 UK time (GMT) on Sunday 15 November 2026. That is 07:59 on Monday 16 November in Singapore and Hong Kong, 05:29 on Monday in India, and 18:59 on Sunday in New York.
- Price from launch
- £25 a month or £150 a year, from Monday 16 November 2026.
- January 2027 sitting
- Monday 4 to Friday 8 January 2027. Test bookings open 3pm (UK time) on 26 October 2026, per the official ESAT and TMUA site.
Common questions
FAQs
EntryQ is a TMUA practice app by Dr Nicky Grant, a Cambridge PhD economist. It has about 2,500 original questions with worked solutions, 20 timed mock papers, a Plan that picks your next questions from your own results, and Progress that tracks your accuracy and pace by topic and difficulty. It launches on Monday 16 November 2026. The pre-sale lets you reserve a pass at the pre-launch price until 23:59 UK time on Sunday 15 November 2026: £30 for access to the January 2027 TMUA sitting, or £80 for access until 17 October 2027. From launch the price is £25 a month or £150 a year.
Choose 20, 40 or 60 minutes and press Start. The Plan looks at the questions you have already answered, sorted by topic and difficulty, and shares your minutes between four needs: fixing weak spots, keeping earlier topics fresh, speeding up where you are right but slow, and mapping your level where it has too little evidence. Topics that carry more weight in the real TMUA count for more. It then picks real questions to fill the time, favouring ones you have not seen or got wrong before. It only calls a topic a weak spot when your answers make that clear. See how the Plan works.
Progress measures two things separately: accuracy, the share you get right, and pace, the share you finish inside the target time. Both are read topic by topic and level by level, so a slow answer on a D5 question is judged against the D5 target time (4 minutes 25 seconds), not the D3 one. A figure only appears once there is enough of your work behind it; until then the app says so. Your TMUA estimate comes from mock papers only. See the Progress example.
Until 23:59 UK time on Sunday 15 November 2026 the pre-launch price is £30 for the January 2027 sitting pass, which gives access from launch to Friday 8 January 2027, or £80 for the pass to 17 October 2027, which also covers the October 2027 sitting. One payment each, no subscription. From launch on Monday 16 November 2026 the price is £25 a month or £150 a year.
The pre-launch price is lower. £30 covers launch to 8 January, where two months at the launch price would be £50. £80 covers 48 weeks; the yearly price from launch is £150. You can cancel for a full refund up to 24 hours before your pass starts. To see the style first, try the 50 free TMUA questions from the app bank.
Yes. Cancel at least 24 hours before your pass starts (launch day) and you are refunded in full. If the launch date moves, you are emailed straight away and the same rule applies to the new start date. Email [email protected] to cancel.
Send your details through the form on this page by 23:59 UK time on Sunday 15 November 2026. No payment is taken on the form. I email you to confirm your place and your pre-launch price, with bank transfer details, a payment reference and a pay-by date. Your access details arrive for launch day, Monday 16 November 2026.
EntryQ launches on Monday 16 November 2026. Beta testing is concluding now. Everyone who pre-books is emailed access details for launch day. The pre-launch price ends the day before, at 23:59 UK time on Sunday 15 November 2026.
The January 2027 TMUA test window runs from Monday 4 to Friday 8 January 2027, and test bookings open at 3pm (UK time) on 26 October 2026. The January sitting is generally not accepted for Cambridge or Oxford applications, so check the official ESAT and TMUA site and each university you are applying to.
The January 2027 sitting pass ends on Friday 8 January 2027 either way. If there is a chance you will sit in October 2027 instead, the pass to 17 October 2027 covers both sittings. If your plans change before launch, email me: you can switch pass, or cancel for a full refund at least 24 hours before your pass starts. If you sat the TMUA in October 2026, check before booking January, because some universities, LSE among them, accept only your first sitting in an admissions cycle.
The January 2027 sitting pass costs £30 at the pre-launch price and runs from launch on 16 November 2026 to Friday 8 January 2027, the last day of the January test window. The pass to 17 October 2027 costs £80 at the pre-launch price and runs from launch until 17 October 2027, so it also covers the October 2027 sitting. It suits Year 12 students who want a long run-up, and anyone who may sit in October 2027 rather than January.
Yes, for those two features. Plan and Progress are built from a record of how you are doing, and the app only keeps that record if you switch on Share my practice data. It is off until you turn it on. With it on, the app sends which question you answered, whether you got it right and how long you took, with no name attached. Practise, Learn and mock papers all work in full with it off, and you can download or delete everything from Settings. See the privacy notice.
About 2,500 original TMUA-style questions with worked solutions, rated D2 to D5; 20 fixed exam-timed mock papers (20 questions in 75 minutes); a Plan that picks your next questions from your own results; 146 Learn lessons and topic introductions; and Progress tracking of accuracy and pace by topic and difficulty. It runs in your browser on phone, tablet or laptop, and is for students aged 16 and over. See the full feature list.
Yes. EntryQ is a TMUA question bank of about 2,500 original questions with worked solutions, each rated D2 to D5, together with 20 exam-timed TMUA mock papers of 20 questions in 75 minutes. Questions are marked instantly in your browser, and the Plan and Progress use your own results to choose what you practise next.
Yes. EntryQ runs in a web browser, so it works wherever you are. Payment is by bank transfer in pounds sterling, and a bank outside the UK may charge a fee for this, so email me first if you would like to check the details.
Yes. The site has 50 free TMUA questions with full worked solutions, a free past-paper statistical report covering all 320 official questions from 2016 to 2023, and Core Drills timed practice, currently a pilot that needs an access code.
Yes. One-to-one online TMUA preparation with Dr Grant is available, with the rate confirmed at a free consultation. See TMUA preparation and pricing.