OFFICIAL COHORT DATA · 2016-2025
TMUA results, score distributions and percentiles
Explore historical TMUA score distributions and compare the official means, medians and 90th percentiles for the 2024-25 and 2025-26 cycles.
Latest official results summary
| Cycle | Candidates | Mean | Median | 75th percentile | 90th percentile | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 16,092 | 4.28 | 4.1 | 5.3 | 6.7 | UAT-UK PDF |
| 2024-25 | 13,855 | 4.20 | 4.0 | 5.2 | 6.5 | UAT-UK PDF |
Figures come from the corresponding UAT-UK technical report. Each cycle row combines its October and following January sittings.
Historical score distributions
Digitised from official 2016-2025 charts
- At this score
- 1.5% ±0.1pp
- At or below
- 1.5%
- Estimated mean
- 4.63
- Mode
- 4.5
Bar heights were measured from the original official PDF image and checked against an independent render; per-bin uncertainty is about ±0.1 percentage points. This is not an official numeric table. Legacy bars are actual annual score categories, not 0.5-point bins.
All source Results PDFs
| Year | Published scale statement | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Official score distribution chart | Open |
| 2024 | Official score distribution chart | Open |
| 2023 | about 1/3 > 6.5 | Open |
| 2022 | about 1/3 > 6.5 | Open |
| 2021 | about 1/3 > 6.5 | Open |
| 2020 | about 1/3 > 6.5 | Open |
| 2019 | about 1/3 > 6.5 | Open |
| 2018 | about 1/3 > 6.5 | Open |
| 2017 | about 1/3 > 6.5 | Open |
| 2016 | 50% > 5.0 · 10% > 7.5 | Open |
How to interpret a TMUA result
TMUA reports a 1.0-9.0 scaled score. A percentile describes your position within a candidate cohort; it is not a university admissions cutoff. Each institution and course uses results in its own application context.