What are the ESAT grade boundaries?

There are none. The ESAT reports a scaled score from 1.0 to 9.0 rather than a grade, and raw marks are converted onto that scale so the same score carries the same meaning from year to year. Nothing is published after results day because there is nothing to publish.

Is there a pass mark for the ESAT?

No. You cannot pass or fail it. Universities read your score alongside your predicted grades, your personal statement and, where they interview, your interview, and they set their own expectations privately.

How is the ESAT scored?

Each module is reported separately on the 1.0 to 9.0 scale, in steps of 0.1. Every question is multiple choice and there is no negative marking, so your raw mark is simply the number you got right.

What is a good ESAT score?

It depends entirely on where you are applying, and no university publishes a required score. Treat any figure you see quoted online as someone's guess, and read how each university actually uses the score instead.

ESAT grade boundaries

The ESAT has no grade boundaries. It is not marked out of a total and then cut into grades: your raw marks are converted onto a fixed scale from 1.0 to 9.0, and that conversion is adjusted each year so a given score means the same thing whatever the paper was like. There is no pass mark, nothing to look up after results day, and no university publishes a cutoff.

What the scale actually is

Every module is reported on its own from 1.0 to 9.0, in steps of 0.1, so you receive one score per module rather than a single overall grade. The scale is not a percentage and it is not out of ten. A 9.0 is the top of the reporting range rather than full marks, and a score in the middle of the range does not mean you got half the questions right.

Why there is no conversion table here

UAT-UK / Pearson VUE publishes neither the raw-to-scale conversion nor the cohort distribution for the ESAT, and the test is too new for a reliable public estimate to exist. Tables you find elsewhere are inferred from very little. Rather than repeat a guess, we would rather say plainly that nobody outside UAT-UK / Pearson VUE knows the mapping.

What score do you actually need?

For almost every course there is no answer, because there is no threshold: the ESAT is one input among your grades, your personal statement and, where it exists, your interview. Universities set expectations after they see the year's results, and they do not publish them.

The practical move is to stop aiming at a number and look at how your specific universities use the score, which varies more than most candidates expect. The university requirements set that out one by one.

See where you would land

Sit a real ESAT past paper to the clock and your raw mark converts straight onto the scale above, which is a far better read on where you stand than any target score.

ESAT past papers How the ESAT is marked

ESAT scoring: frequently asked questions

What are the ESAT grade boundaries?: There are none. The ESAT reports a scaled score from 1.0 to 9.0 rather than a grade, and raw marks are converted onto that scale so the same score carries the same meaning from year to year. Nothing is published after results day because there is nothing to publish.
Is there a pass mark for the ESAT?: No. You cannot pass or fail it. Universities read your score alongside your predicted grades, your personal statement and, where they interview, your interview, and they set their own expectations privately.
How is the ESAT scored?: Each module is reported separately on the 1.0 to 9.0 scale, in steps of 0.1. Every question is multiple choice and there is no negative marking, so your raw mark is simply the number you got right.
What is a good ESAT score?: It depends entirely on where you are applying, and no university publishes a required score. Treat any figure you see quoted online as someone's guess, and read how each university actually uses the score instead.