TMUA Past Papers 2024 and 2025: Why There Are None

This page answers one specific search: where the 2024 and 2025 TMUA papers are. For the full archive of released papers and how to use them, the past papers hub is the parent guide.

Every year, thousands of applicants search for the most recent TMUA papers on the sensible logic that the newest paper is the best predictor of the next one. For 2024 and 2025 that search ends somewhere unexpected: the papers do not exist in public. Not behind a paywall, not on a hard-to-find official page, not in a Discord archive. They were never released. This guide explains exactly why, what changed with the test in 2024, what the phrase "2024 grade boundaries" can and cannot mean, and what to practise instead so the missing years cost you nothing.

The short answer: they were never released

The October 2024 and October 2025 TMUA sittings happened, tens of thousands of candidates sat them, and no question paper from either has been published. That is the entire story. There is no official download, and UAT-UK, the Cambridge and Imperial joint venture that now runs the test, has released no past paper from any of its on-screen sittings.

This is a clean break from the test's first era. From 2016 to 2023, when the TMUA was a paper-based exam under Cambridge Assessment, each sitting's papers were published afterwards, which is why a complete public archive exists for those years. The moment the test moved on-screen, the releases stopped.

Why the papers stopped being released

The reason is visible in how the test now works, and it is worth understanding because it tells you the missing papers are unlikely to appear later.

From October 2024, the TMUA has been delivered on screen at Pearson VUE test centres, with sittings run in more than one window across the year. On-screen testing at this scale draws questions from secure question banks, and those banks only stay useful if the questions in them stay secret: a question released to the public can never be used again. Publishing each sitting's paper, as the paper-based era did, would burn through the bank sitting by sitting. Keeping the questions secure is what lets an on-screen test reuse and calibrate its material, and it is standard practice across professionally delivered admissions and licensing exams.

To be precise about what is and is not known: UAT-UK has not published its internal policy on future releases, and we will not put words in its mouth. What is observably true is that no on-screen sitting's paper has been released in the two full cycles since the switch, and the format's logic points the same way.

What actually changed in 2024

The missing papers are one visible symptom of a broader handover. Here is the before and after:

Note the last row, because it is the good news: the substance of the exam carried over intact. Same two papers, same 40 questions, same timing, same calculator ban, same syllabus. What changed is who runs it, how it is delivered and how the scores are reported. The rescaled reporting matters if you are comparing scores across the divide: the same performance now lands roughly 1 to 1.5 points lower than it would have on the pre-2024 scale, which is why an old score or an old conversion chart should never be read against a modern target. TMUA grade boundaries covers that trap in full.

"TMUA 2024 grade boundaries" do not exist either

A related search deserves a direct answer. There are no published grade boundaries for the 2024 or 2025 sittings, and there never were for any sitting: the TMUA has no fixed boundary table in the A-level sense. Raw marks are converted onto the 1.0 to 9.0 scale by a calibration UAT-UK does not release, re-tuned each sitting for difficulty. What the public record does give you is the shape of the outcome: the typical candidate scores around 4.5 and roughly 10% clear 7.0. If you want to turn a practice raw mark into an estimated score on the modern scale, TMUA score conversion explains the mapping and links a free calculator.

If someone is selling you a "2024 TMUA past paper"

Plainly: any product listing that offers official 2024 or 2025 TMUA papers is mislabelling something. There is no official release for it to contain. In practice such listings are one of three things: the freely available specimen or an old paper with a new cover, a third-party recreation of what questions "might have looked like", or reconstructed questions from candidates' memory of their sittings. The first is free elsewhere, the second is an unofficial mock whatever the title claims, and the third is unreliable and unfair to rely on. None of them is a past paper, and paying past-paper prices for them is a bad trade.

What to use instead

The absence of two years of papers sounds like a serious loss. It is much smaller than it looks, for one reason: the format has been stable since 2016, so the eight released years train exactly the same skills as the sittings you cannot see. A 2023 reasoning question and a 2025 reasoning question are drawn from the same syllabus, in the same style, under the same timing. Here is the full released archive, each with a dedicated breakdown:

That is the specimen plus a full Paper 1 and Paper 2 for eight years: hundreds of genuine questions, enough for a complete preparation if you use them properly. The past papers hub sets out the three-phase method (untimed familiarisation, targeted topic practice, strictly timed mocks) and, since papers are finite, how to ration them so you do not run out before the timed phase.

Here is the most recent official material you can practise: a reasoning question from the 2023 Paper 2, the final released sitting. Attempt it before revealing the solution:

Covering the gap the missing years left

Two things about the current test are genuinely not covered by the 2016 to 2023 archive, and both have direct fixes.

The on-screen delivery. The released papers are PDFs from a paper-based era, but you will sit the real test on a screen at a Pearson VUE centre, reading from a monitor and working on scratch paper. That interaction pattern deserves rehearsal. CrackTMUA's 24+ full timed mocks run in a replica of the Pearson VUE exam screen, so the interface is familiar before test day rather than a fresh cognitive load during it.

Fresh questions at exam standard. With no new official material since 2023, every serious applicant eventually exhausts the archive. That is why the bank includes 280+ original questions written to the same syllabus, style and trap patterns as the real papers, 640+ questions in all, each with a worked solution naming the trap and the fastest method. The free tier gives you 10 questions a day; Premium unlocks everything for £49 one-time with 12 months of access.

Key dates if you are sitting in October 2026

Since you are here for recent papers, you are almost certainly preparing for the October 2026 sitting. The logistics, verified against the current cycle: booking opened on 20 July 2026 and closes at 6pm BST on 28 September 2026; the test window runs 12 to 16 October 2026 at Pearson VUE centres; results are released on 16 November 2026; and the fee is £78 for UK and Ireland candidates or £133 internationally. Full detail, including how to book, lives in TMUA dates and registration.

The bottom line: the newest official paper is from 2023, everyone sits the same reality, and the applicants who do well will be the ones who mastered the archive that exists instead of hunting for one that does not. Start practising the official questions free.

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