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Cambridge University introduced some pre-interview assessment tests, needed for 2018 entry. The tests take place at the beginning of November (register via the Admissions Testing Service).
The NSAA is the Natural Sciences Admissions Assessment for Cambridge University, a Pre-Interview Assessment. As an exam that has only existed for one year, there are only a small number of resources available! Here, you can download specimen NSAA Papers and the specification to help focus your revision.
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- How should I start preparing for NSAA (Natural Sciences Admissions Assessment)?
- What are the NSAA (Natural Sciences Admissions Assessment) exam conditions?
Currently Bookable Courses for Students Taking NSAA (Physical)
Physics Admissions Summer School
27th - 29th July 2018- Taking NSAA this November? In this course we cover every Physics concept you’ll need for the NSAA, even if you haven’t yet covered it at school. This will give you a massive headstart with your preparation.
- Includes:
- 1) Physics Admissions Summer School
- 2) Maths for NSAA Course
- Total Value: £359
- Save up to £100!
- Equivalent cost: from £17.27 per hour
Maths for NSAA Preparation Course
26th July 2018- If you’ll be sitting the Maths section of the NSAA paper (e.g. for Physical NatSci), this course is for you! You’ll learn how to approach tricky Maths questions in the best and most efficient way.
- Includes:
- 1) Physics Admissions Summer School
- 2) Maths for NSAA Course
- Total Value: £169
- Save up to £20!
- Equivalent cost: from £27.09 per hour
NSAA Summer Bundle (Two Courses)
26th - 29th July 2018- This course is highly recommended for you if you’re applying for Physical NatSci at Cambridge. We’ll cover many very useful techniques and content which will simplify the Maths and Physics sections of the paper for you!
- Includes:
- 1) Physics Admissions Summer School
- 2) Maths for NSAA Course
- Total Value: £528
- Save up to £169!
- Equivalent cost: from £17.51 per hour
Currently Bookable Courses if you’re sitting NSAA
NSAA Course Part 2: Physics Problem Solving
Sun 22nd October 2017
Marylebone, London*
10am – 4:00pm
Pricing: £149 before 5th October. £169 thereafter.
You will learn to:
- Effortlessly manipulate and apply unfamiliar formulae
- Draw together knowledge from the whole of the syllabus and apply it to very challenging problems
- Employ geometry and graph sketching in Physics
- Rehearse explaining your assumptions and evaluating your results
- Dive deeper into the background and significance of familiar material
Further Information
In particular, if you are planning to sit the Physics section of the NSAA, you will be directly tested on your ability to understand problems, pick out all important information, choose a method of evaluation or analysis, and determine an answer, all without direction as to what route to take. This is particularly true of Paper 2 of the NSAA.
Our Physics Problem-Solving Course will take you through a series of carefully crafted original questions to help you build up the skills you already have and develop new ones. Among the topics we will cover are radioactivity, capacitors, circular motion, intensity, optics, and scaling laws.
You will be able to practise evaluating questions similar in topic and intent to NSAA long questions in the form of a collaborative group problem-solving session.
In this way, you will be able to absorb ideas from others and practise succinctly presenting your own ideas, but you will also have continual support from our tutors to guide you and expand on your own thinking where necessary.
Multibuy Discounts Available. See below.
NSAA Course Part 3: Maths and Physics Time-Saving Tricks
Mon 23rd October 2017
Marylebone, London*
10am – 4:00pm
Pricing: £149 before 5th October. £169 thereafter.
You will learn to:
- Breeze through calculations by spotting factors, approximations, and hidden Pythagorean triples & special triangles
- Quickly apply the geometry of circles and triangles to forces, optics, and other questions
- Master all the rules of logs and indices for use in simplifying or comparing sizes of terms
- Rapidly analyse functions for their roots, stationary values, and limiting behaviour
- Sidestep long passages of working using proportionality and dimensional analysis
Further Information
In particular, you will have to work without a calculator, you will have to quickly analyse and eliminate options in multiple choice questions, and you will have to decide (with no guidance from the question) which rule or formula to use for the quickest result.
Our Time-Saving-Tricks course will lead you through a series of short questions to practise these skills and others in a structured way.
Our focus will be on simplification, avoid mistakes, and spotting the most efficient technique to apply in each question.
You will have the chance to attempt problems yourself, discuss them with others, and see a solution or solutions presented by an expert tutor so that you can see and absorb every useful strategy and be able to apply it come the exam.
Multibuy Discounts Available. See below.
Physics Interview Preparation Course
Sun 26th November 2017
Marylebone, London*
10am – 5:00pm
Pricing: £199 before 5th October. £259 thereafter.
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Get a 30 min Mock Physics Interview, receiving questions you might find in a Cambridge Natural Sciences Interview, Oxford Physics Interview or Oxbridge Engineering Interview.
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You will get 1 interview, but be privy to the interviews of your fellow students, getting many times the benefit!
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Get access to a whole host of questions, many of which will be new to you and will expand your thinking
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Become accustomed to a high pressure interview environment, making the real interview that much easier
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Get feedback and encouragement so that you can perform at your best in the real thing!
Strictly Limited Spaces.
Please note, the Physics Interview Day is non-refundable.
Further Information
You will then get a 30 min dedicated Physics interview, under pressure. But instead of receiving just one practice interview, you will get the opportunity to sit in on and observe every other student being interviewed to and get 10x the benefit, as each student will receive completely different questions to you.
As most Physics questions cannot simply be answered verbally, we will provide writing equipment. Most beneficially for our students, our setup is such that all students will be able to see what the interviewee is writing (as well as what is being said) without the interviewee feeling unecessarily intimidated.
You will be able to analyse how you would have answered and compare it to how others answer. While the interviews are taking place, you’ll be able to attempt the questions yourself too, and you will be given access to a whole host of new, unique interview questions. As you’ll all have shared the same experience, you’ll be able to discuss questions together afterwards too.
You’ll also benefit from getting personalised feedback that you can act upon before the real thing.
Multibuy Discounts Available. See below.
Take advantage of our Multibuy Discounts
NSAA Bundle
(NSAA Parts 2 & 3)
£229 before October 5th
£299 thereafter
Free Trial
Comprehensive Resource
Topic Tutorials
Over 300 Original Maths & Physics Questions
Full Video Solutions
Carefully crafted explanations
Self-paced
Early Bird Discounts
Early Bird Option Pricing for Online NSAA Subscription:
Start your subscription before 7th May
for £40/month (inc. 24hr free trial)
Start your subscription before 7th July
for £45/month (inc. 24hr free trial)
Start your subscription before 7th August
for £50/month (inc. 24hr free trial)
Platinum NSAA Online Bundle
Includes everything from subscription plus online versions of all of our in-person NSAA Courses (inc. 24hr free trial)
Total value £598
Yours today from only £299
In July, we hold a 3-day Physics Summer School covering material on the NSAA syllabus.
We also hold a 1-day Maths for NSAA Course in July, in which we cover how to answer short questions from the Maths section of the paper quickly and efficiently.
Check out our online NSAA subscription to find hundreds of extra original Maths and Physics questions, MAT and PAT questions, all accompanied by video solutions. (Biology and Chemistry Resources coming soon.)
This course was incredibly useful and I would definitely recommend it to anyone who is considering studying physics at university. The pace is slow enough for you to follow and fast enough that a lot of content is covered. The card system is a great way for the tutors to see if you are struggling and need some extra help which they are more than happy to give. Tivi N
This course was very helpful in teaching me how to approach the questions. The teamwork was a good learning tool since it showed me different ways of doing the same question. I like the fact that the teachers come around to help whilst you are working on a question. Mia L
Just some of the schools our students have come from:
King Edward VI Grammar School
James Allen's Girls School
Haberdashers Aske's Girls' School
Godolphin and Latymer
Birkenhead School
Queen Elizabeth's School (QE Boys)
QEH Bristol
Parmiter's School
Northwood College
Mill Hill County High School
King Edward's School
The Holt School
Taunton School
St. Paul's Girls' School
St. Mary's Ascot
St. Helen's Northwood
St. Bartholomew's School
Withington Girls' School
Varndean College
Uxbridge College
Uppingham School
Tiffin Boys' School
*Special Discounts may be available for Physical NatSci Members
*part of Online NatSci Membership Area
A full, timed and marked mock paper in exam conditions, alongside full video solutions