Free · 15 questions · About 20 minutes
ESAT Diagnostic
Fifteen mock ESAT questions written for this site, five each from Mathematics 1, Mathematics 2 and Physics. You get a score the moment you finish, a breakdown by module, and a link to the full worked solution for every question you got wrong.
Questions drawn from the free samples published on this site · No calculator, no formula sheet · Scored in your browser
Not sure where to start? 7 places to go
Start with your question
Why visitors arrive: You want to know how ready you actually are for the ESAT, without paying for a mock or booking anything.
Your question: How good am I at the ESAT right now, and what should I fix first?
You may also be asking
- How many questions is it and how long does it take?
- Are these real ESAT questions?
- Will it predict my ESAT score?
- Do I have to give my email to see the result?
- What do I do about the questions I got wrong?
Where to go next
- ESAT preparation plan: What to work through, in order, after the diagnostic
- Free ESAT Mock Papers, Complete Pack: What exists by way of ESAT past papers, and a full five-module mock with worked solutions to sit instead
- Sit a sample module against the clock: four sample papers, five worked questions in every module, with a timed test at the top of each page
- ESAT hub: Every paper, module and solution in one place
- ESAT preparation list: Weekly method, question and correction from June to October
- Enquire about one-to-one: If the diagnostic found a gap you want closed
- Practice a sub-topic you got wrong: Each practice set hub lists the specification sub-topic every one of its questions was written against
- What it is: a 15-question sample of the ESAT, built from the same sample questions and worked solutions published free on this site.
- What it tells you: which of the three modules is currently weakest, and which specific questions to go and read.
- What it does not tell you: a predicted ESAT score. Fifteen questions cannot do that, and this page will not pretend otherwise.
- Cost: nothing, and no account. Your email is asked for once, after the result, and the result is already on screen by then.
- Next sitting: 12 to 16 October 2026. Cambridge and Oxford applicants must sit the October test.
Sit the diagnostic
[01] Before you start
- 15 questions, five from each of Mathematics 1, Mathematics 2, Physics.
- Roughly 20 minutes. The real test allows about 89 seconds a question. A timer runs, but nothing cuts you off.
- No calculator, no formula sheet, exactly as on the day.
- Every question is a real one from the sample questions published on this site, and every one you miss links straight to its worked solution.
- Your score is yours. It is worked out in your browser and shown immediately. Sending it to yourself by email is optional and comes after the result.
You have an unfinished attempt on this device.
There is no negative marking on the ESAT. If you do not know, narrow it down and commit to a guess.
How this is put together
[01] Published questions only
Nothing written for the quiz
Every one of the fifteen is lifted verbatim from the sample questions already published here, each with a full worked solution. Nothing was written to make the diagnostic look good, and nothing sits behind a signup.
[02] Balanced by module
Five, five and five
Mathematics 1 is compulsory for every candidate. Mathematics 2 and Physics are the two most commonly required options. Equal weight means the module comparison is a fair one.
[03] Timed, not gated
89 seconds is the number
The real test gives about 89 seconds per question. A clock runs so you can see your pace against that, but nothing cuts you off and running over does not affect the score.
Read how every solution on this site is checked before it is published, or go straight to the complete ESAT hub.
What a 15-question sample can and cannot do
Being straight about this matters more than the marketing would suggest, because acting on a bad signal costs a candidate weeks.
- Module scores are usable. Five questions per module is a coarse instrument, but the gap between five out of five and one out of five is real information, and it is the fastest way to find out which module is quietly costing you the most.
- Topic rows are a pointer, not a verdict. Most topic groups carry one or two questions. Treat a weak row as a suggestion about what to open first, not as evidence that the topic is a weakness.
- Speed here is not speed on the day. You are sitting fifteen questions at a desk you chose, not twenty-seven under exam conditions in a test centre. To practise against a countdown, sit a practice set: every question in the practice sets can be taken as a timed test on its own page, marked the moment you finish.
- There is no predicted grade. ESAT modules are scored 1.0 to 9.0 and the scaling is not published. Anyone converting fifteen questions into a predicted band is guessing.
Your answers and your email
- Your answers stay in your browser. The diagnostic is scored on your own device and your answers are not sent anywhere unless you ask for the result by email.
- Unfinished attempts are saved locally. If you close the tab part way through, your progress is kept in your browser's own storage on that device only, and you can pick up where you left off.
- Email is optional and comes last. The score, the breakdown and every solution link are on screen before you are asked for anything.
- If you do give it, the address is used to send the result and the ESAT preparation list, and for nothing else. See the privacy policy.
For individual preparation. These questions are free for a candidate working on their own. They are not licensed for a school, college or tutoring provider to print and run with a class, to republish or resell, or to fold into a course sold by another provider. A school sitting a timed mock is welcome to the free sample pack, which comes with mark schemes and a syllabus reference, and a paper written for your own candidates and used nowhere else is a commissioned pack.
Where to go from here
Every paper, practice set and guide on this site is free to read. These are the things worth doing next.
- Find out where you actually stand - Fifteen questions, twenty minutes, scored instantly, with a worked solution for every one you miss
- Work a practice set at full paper depth - Ten sets of five questions, two in every module, each one worked in full
- See what can actually be checked about this tutor - What is published, counted from the pages themselves, and the credentials behind it
- Enquire about one-to-one preparation - For candidates who want the gap closed rather than mapped. Places are limited and taken by application
- Books for admissions test preparation - The ESAT Move Register, a book of shortcuts for the ESAT, with a preview of its pages
The diagnostic and the practice sets linked above are free and stay free. One-to-one places are limited and taken by application, not by the hour.