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I'm Joseph Conlon, I'm the Undergraduate Admissions Coordinator for Physics at Oxford. 
In terms of preparing for the PAT test, the most important single thing is to practise past papers. You can find about 20 years worth of past papers on our website, so download these, practice these, practise the questions. You can also find solutions to some of these papers from our website, but also around the web. You can also find sites which have got solutions to many of the past PAT papers, and using that can give you a real, give you a sense of kind of how these questions are, the level of difficulty and how you can go about doing them in the time.

So this year the PAT is in a new, hybrid format, 
where you're going to get the questions on the screen, but you're going to have to answer them in a physical answer booklet. We know this is new, we know you won't have done this test like this before, so we recommend practising with the practice online test. You can't take a physical calculator in, you're going to have to use the calculator that comes as part of the online exam, so by doing the practice tests you can get a sense of what it's like to read questions on the screen and also work with the online calculator to familiarise those yourself with the environment before you have to sit the actual test.

So, here are my five top tips for the PAT. At the start of the exam, have a quick read through the whole paper so you've got a sense of what all the questions are. Your brain can do marvellous things on questions while you're kind of working on another one. Second tip is to get the easy marks first. The questions you know how to do, you're confident on, do those questions first and get those marks in the bag. The third tip is the converse of this, which is don't get hung up on really hard questions or questions where you're stuck and spend loads of time kind of going around in a circle or just kind of chasing down one mark or two when you can move on to another question you haven't even attempted. The fourth tip is a reminder that the PAT is a hard exam and the average mark on a PAT is often around around 50 percent, so people who get like 60%, 70% can still be doing 

very well, even though they haven't got like 30% or 40% of the marks, so don't agonise over the fact that you, know there's this question in there and you haven't attempted it all.

And the final tip is, if you're entitled to access arrangements, for example extra time, please make sure your exam centre is aware of this and that you do get the extra time you're entitled for, for the PAT.

And when it comes to the day, absolutely the best of luck for the test