ELAT English Literature Admissions Test Home

The ELAT is a pre-interview admissions test for applicants to undergraduate courses in English at the University of Oxford. The test is designed to enable applicants to show their ability in the key skill of close reading, paying attention to such elements as the language, imagery, allusion, syntax, form and structure of the passages set for comment.

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ELAT Results Online

Cambridge Assessment are unable to reissue candidate PINs for security reasons. Candidates who have lost their PIN will need to ask the Examinations Officer at the centre where they took ELAT to download a Statement of Results on their behalf.

From 2009 paper results will no longer be issued, candidates and centres will be able to download their results using our online results sites:

Results Online - Candidates
Results Online - Centres

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Courses Requiring ELAT

University of Oxford (O33)
Q300 English Language and Literature
QQ38 Classics and English (3 years)
QQH8 Classics and English (4 years)
QQ35 English and Celtic
QR37 English and Czech (with Slovak)
QR31 English and French
QR32 English and German
QR33 English and Italian
QQ37 English and Modern Greek
QR35 English and Portuguese
QRH7 English and Russian
QR34 English and Spanish