Entrance Exams for Admission in USA/UK

Can you tell me about entrance exams which need to clear to get into top Universities of USA/UK?

[Quick Sam]

Most Universities or Institutes of Higher education abroad evaluate the performance of students through certain tests before consideration the application of the students.

Every institute has different requirements. These admission tests for foreign students are prepared by professional testing organization, like the US Educational Testing Service, that administers a range of test including the following:

Graduate Record Examination-GRE
Graduate Management Admission Test-GMAT
The International English Language Testing System-IELTS
Test of English as a Foreign Language-TOEFL
Scholastic Aptitude Test-SAT

These tests are valid for admission to universities in USA, UK, Australia and Canada.

For getting into top UK/ USA universities you have to be very good at your academics,

One need to have CGPA of 9 or above in 12th and in your B tech

GRE score of 330+ out of 340 and TOEFL score of 8/10 required.

There may test through telephone interview.


Top universities in UK/USA: -

1.The University of Edinburgh

2.King's College London,

3.University of Chicago, USA

4.Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

5.Harvard University, USA

6.University of Cambridge

7.University College London

8.Imperial College London

9.University of Oxford

10.University of Warwick

11.University of Birmingham

I want to go aboard for higher studies. Will you please give me details of the entrance exam available in USA and UK so I can prepare them for admission in UK/USA universities?

[Rajkumar Agarwal]

As per your request, I am giving you list of the entrance exam available in United State of America and United Kingdom. Have a look on following exams list.

Entrance Exams in United Kingdom

BMAT – Biomedical Admissions Test
ELAT – English Literature Admissions Test
GAMSAT - Graduate Medical School Admissions Test
HAT – History Aptitude Test
HPAT - Health Professions Admissions Test, currently only in use for admission into Medicine in the University of Ulster.
LNAT – National Admissions Test for Law
PAT - Physics Aptitude Test
MAT - Mathematics Admissions Test
STEP – Sixth Term Examination Paper, only the subjects of Mathematics(I, II, III) are available after 2003
UKCAT – United Kingdom Clinical Aptitude Test
Modern and Medieval Languages Test, provided and required by the Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages of the University of Cambridge
Thinking Skills Assessment (TSA Cambridge)
Thinking Skills Assessment (TSA Oxford), formerly known as the PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) Admissions Test
Thinking Skills Assessment (TSA UCL)

Entrance Exams in United State of America

SAT – formerly Scholastic Aptitude Test
SAT Subject Tests
ACT – formerly American College Testing Program or American College Test
THEA – Texas Higher Education Assessment
GED – High School Diploma Equivalent
PERT – Replaced Accuplacer as the standard college placement test in Florida
CAEL – Canadian Academic English Language Assessment
Miller Analogies Test (MAT)
Graduate Record Examination (GRE)
Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT)
Medical College Admission Test (MCAT)
Dental Admission Test (DAT) (United States)
Dental Aptitude Test (DAT) (Canada)
Optometry Admission Test (OAT)
Pharmacy College Admission Test (PCAT)
Veterinary College Admission Test (VCAT) (Has not been offered since April 2003)
Allied Health Professions Admission Test (AHPAT)
Law School Admission Test (LSAT)