TARA Test Scoring Explained: What Is a Good Score? (2027 Entry)

TARA test scores explained: what your two TARA scores mean, what counts as a good TARA score, and how raw marks become the 1.0 to 9.0 scale. For students preparing for the TARA exam for Oxford and UCL (2027 entry), and for anyone opening their TARA results. In this video: Why TARA gives two scores and no total, and what happens to the Writing Task Raw mark vs scaled score, and why there's no official conversion table How UAT-UK builds a conversion for each paper version What counts as a good TARA score, with the first-year percentiles Why 5.4 in Critical Thinking and 5.8 in Problem Solving can mean the same thing October vs January results, and how precise one decimal place really is Turning mock marks into a score range, and using old TSA papers Chapters 0:00 TARA scores: two numbers and no total 0:36 TARA raw mark vs scaled score 1:25 How TARA scoring works 2:22 What is a good TARA score? 3:19 Comparing Critical Thinking and Problem Solving scores 3:54 TARA results: October vs January 5:07 How precise is a TARA score? 5:44 TARA score conversion for mock marks 6:47 TSA to TARA score conversion and Oxford targets 7:25 When TARA results arrive 7:57 Recap Try TARA practice questions with a free GhostPrep account: https://ghostprep.co.uk/tara/register... Guides: TARA results and scores explained: https://ghostprep.co.uk/tara/guides/r... TSA to TARA score conversion and Oxford targets: https://ghostprep.co.uk/tara/guides/t... How to prepare for TARA: https://ghostprep.co.uk/tara/guides/p... The complete TARA guide: https://ghostprep.co.uk/tara/guides/c... Score figures are from UAT-UK's TARA Technical Report 2025-26 (2,626 candidates across the October 2025 and January 2026 sittings). The mock conversion tables, the TSA conversion and the Oxford targets are GhostPrep estimates; UAT-UK and Oxford publish no official versions. GhostPrep is independent and not affiliated with UAT-UK, the University of Oxford or UCL. #TARAexam #OxfordAdmissions #UCL