The Mathematics Admissions Test (MAT) is the entrance exam for Mathematics and Computer Science degrees at Oxford University*. Practical information and past papers with solutions can be found at the official MAT website. I sat a version of this paper when I was accepted to Oxford to study Maths and I have helped a lot of students prepare for this paper whilst teaching at top private schools in London.
The syllabus for the MAT can be found here.
If you’re preparing for the MAT, you can work through my video solutions to 40 short answer questions and 16 long answer questions from the papers from 2016 to 2020 in this free course. The same content can be found via YouTube here:
2020 All Short Answer Questions video
2018 YouTube Playlist – MAT 2018 – All Short (1A to J) and Long Answer Questions (2 to 7)
2017 YouTube Playlist – MAT 2017 – All Short Answer Questions (1A to J)
2016 YouTube Playlist – MAT 2016 – All Short Answer Questions and Q2 and Q3

Past Papers
All* | Interviewed* | Accepted* | ||
MAT 2021 | Solutions 2021 | 51.1 | 69.5 | 73.5 |
MAT 2020 | Solutions 2020 | 57.9 | 75.2 | 81.7 |
MAT 2019 | Solutions 2019 | 44.9 | 63.6 | 69.3 |
MAT 2018 | Solutions 2018 | 50.8 | 67.1 | 72.9 |
MAT 2017 | Solutions 2017 | 51.3 | 68.7 | 73.6 |
MAT 2016 | Solutions 2016 | 50.3 | 66.7 | 73.1 |
MAT 2015 | Solutions 2015 | 43.7 | 56.3 | 62.7 |
MAT 2014 | Solutions 2014 | 48.4 | 63.1 | 71.5 |
MAT 2013 | Solutions 2013 | 44.8 | 54.2 | 60.6 |
MAT 2012 | Solutions 2012 | 52.1 | 63.0 | 68.2 |
MAT 2011 | Solutions 2011 | 50.3 | 63.3 | 71.0 |
MAT 2010 | Solutions 2010 | 49.0 | 61.4 | 69.3 |
MAT 2009 | Solutions 2009 | 51.3 | 61.2 | 70.5 |
MAT 2008 | Solutions 2008 | 58.7 | 68.0, | 77.0 |
MAT 2007 | Solutions 2007 | 56.9 | 63.0 | 75.2 |
MAT Specimen 1 | Solutions Specimen 1 | |||
MAT Specimen 2 | Solutions Specimen 2 |
Previously this page contained links to videos of solutions to the papers from the 2016 to 2020 but I have had to remove these from YouTube. I am looking into ways to make this content available again soon.
Want some ideas of books to read to prepare for undergraduate maths? Take a look at the page here!
Also, here’s a video about writing amazing personal statements, particularly aimed at maths: