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Oxford moved its named 2027-entry reasoning-test courses from TSA to TARA, and this lookup records that scoped change against its official Oxford source. The row points to TARA only for that Oxford scope.

Sources last checked 2026-08-11

What this record establishes

Owner
University of Oxford for the scoped record
Dates
2027 entry transition record
Format
Set by the live test-owner specification
Status
Historic transition

Registration and sitting dates for 2027 entry transition record

Dates change by cycle. Follow the live official pages named below, then check the exact institution deadline rather than copying a date from another course.

  • There is no current sitting on this historic hub.
  • Use the linked institution source and current-test page for the applicable cycle.

Format and modules

What the official sources listed on this page establish about delivery, timing, and papers or modules.

Delivery
TSA is represented here as a historic transition record, not a current booking route
Timing
No current sitting

Papers or modules

  • No current modules are published on this transition hub

Scope of this format record

  • Use the scoped institution and course record to identify the current test; do not apply the transition to other institutions.

Preparation order

Verify the booking decision first. Preparation advice cannot repair a test choice made for the wrong course, entry year, or module combination.

  1. 1Check that your course sits in the Oxford 2027-entry economics, psychology, human sciences, and philosophy group named in the row below; the change recorded here covers that group only.
  2. 2Prepare the three timed TARA modules rather than a TSA sitting once that row matches your course and entry year.
  3. 3Recheck the live course page in the cycle you are applying in; what appears here is a dated snapshot of one Oxford announcement.

The test these rows now name

Taken from the transition rows on this page only: for each institution and course group that moved, this is what the registry establishes about the test it moved to.

  • TARA

    Test of Academic Reasoning for Admissions

    Owner: UAT-UK

    Papers or modules

    • Critical Thinking
    • Problem Solving
    • Writing Task
    TARA guide

Institution and course records

Read the institution, exact course scope, and entry year together. A row is not a rule for a different course or university.

University of Oxford · 2027 entry

Economics and Management; Experimental Psychology; Human Sciences; Philosophy, Politics and Economics; Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics

Historic transition

Historic Oxford transition hub. The current scoped record is TARA for the named 2027-entry courses.

Policy owner
University of Oxford
Last checked
2026-08-11
Next review
2026-09-01

Dates · 2027 entry transition record

  • There is no current sitting on this historic hub.
  • Use the linked institution source and current-test page for the applicable cycle.

Format and modules

TSA is represented here as a historic transition record, not a current booking route

No current sitting

  • No current modules are published on this transition hub

Sitting constraints

  • Do not book or prepare for TSA for this Oxford 2027-entry course group.
  • Open the scoped TARA record and confirm the exact Oxford course.
  • Do not apply this Oxford transition to another institution or every former TSA course.

Transition history

  • tsa → tara

    Oxford's named 2027-entry course group moved from TSA to TARA. This is not a universal TSA-to-TARA rule.

Open the primary official source

Scope of this record

This is a scoped transition record.

A change recorded for one institution, course group, and entry year is not a universal test replacement.

Related test records

Official sources

Each link goes to the official test owner, institution, or official report. A test-owner page does not establish a university course requirement; that requires an institution source.

  1. Admissions tests

    University of Oxford · checked 2026-08-11 · next review 2026-09-01

    Use only for Oxford entry-year and course requirements. It must not be generalized to other universities or courses.

Sources and corrections

Next source review 2026-09-01

These records are dated snapshots of official pages. The live test-owner and institution pages win if a requirement, module, deadline, or sitting rule changes. Send the exact page and row when reporting a correction.

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