Admissions facts and figures

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	Applications	Shortlisted	Offers	Success Rate	Overall offers
History (single honours)	896	695	212	24%	245
Ancient & Modern History	100	80	26	26%	26
History & Economics	139	59	18	13%	18
History & English	104	58	19	18%	19
History & Modern Languages	97	76	25	26%	25
History & Politics	370	138	52	14%	52
Total	1706	1106	352		385

Overall offers includes candidates who applied for a Joint School, but were offered a place for History. The individual breakdown for joint school applications shortlisted and offered places in History is:

	Applications	Shortlisted for History	Offers in History
History & Economics	139	9	5
History & English	104	2	4
History & Modern Languages	97	5	5
History & Politics	370	24	19
Total	1706	40	33

Candidates are given scores and ranks at two stages in the application process: at the shortlisting stage and after the interviews at the first college. Scores in admissions tests, GCSEs, written work, and interview are combined to provide a framework for assessing candidates, but tutors also take into account the individual circumstances and potential abilities of each candidate.

The contextualised GCSE score provides information about how well and applicant has performed at GCSE compared to other applicants, given the performance of the school at which they took their GCSEs. It can be useful for identifying applicants from low performing schools who have achieved fewer top grades than other applicants, but more than would be expected for an average applicant from that school. Candidates without a cGCSE score will be included in the ranking using the information available.

The ranking calculations for each course are given below.

History (Single Honours)

Application Stage	Contextualised GCSE score	History Aptitude Test (HAT)	History Written Work	History Interview
Shortlisting	50%	50%
Post-Interview	30%	30%	10%	30%

Ancient and Modern History

Application Stage	Contextualised GCSE score	HAT	History Written Work	History Interview	Classics Interview
Shortlisting	50%	50%
Post-Interview	30%	30%	10%	15%	15%

History and Economics

Application Stage	Contextualised GCSE score	HAT	TSA	History Written Work	History Interview	Economics Interview
Shortlisting	33%	33%	33%
Post-Interview	20%	20%	20%	10%	15%	15%

History and English

Application Stage	Contextualised GCSE score	HAT	ELAT	History Written Work	English Written Work	History Interview	English Interview
Shortlisting	33%	33%	33%
Post-Interview	18.3%	18.3%	18.3%	7.5%	7.5%	15%	15%

*Owing to disruption to the ELAT, test scores were not used in 2023-24. Candidates were ranked as below.

Application: cGCSE 37.5%; HAT 47.5%; English written work 15%

Post-interview: cGCSE 21.4% HAT 21.4% History written work 10.5%; English written work 10.5%; History interview 18.1%; English interview 18.1%

History and Modern Languages

Application stage	cGCSE	HAT	MLAT
Shortlisting	33%	33%	33%

HML candidates are given a guide score by the Modern Languages Faculty post-interview, and this is used to guide decisions on offers, in consultation with History tutors.

History and Politics

Application stage

cGCSE

HAT

History written work

History interview

Politics

interview

Shortlisting

50%

Post-interview

30%

10%

15%

Admissions facts and figures

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Applications Success Rate 2023-24

Scoring and ranking during admissions

Contextualised GCSE 9/8/A* score (cGCSE)