OMPT help and frequently asked questions

Your university tells you: it is printed in your conditional offer or on the programme's admission page, and there is no choosing between them. Rough map from what I see: business and economics get OMPT-A (sometimes F), econometrics gets B, psychology and social sciences get E, STEM gets D, and the Finnish science-track institutions use G. When in doubt, email admissions before you buy anything.

Most variants cost €240 a sitting at my last check of omptest.org's pricing; the two long-form tests, D and F, cost €270. A retake means paying the full fee again, and the official practice material is priced on top of that. We sell preparation only; the official test itself is always booked through omptest.org.

Generally up to three attempts are possible, but each attempt is paid separately and (this is the trap) not every programme accepts all three. Verify your programme's retake policy before burning an attempt on a "let's just see" sitting. A diagnostic mock here costs you nothing and answers the same question.

The test is taken remotely under online proctoring: webcam, microphone, photo ID, and a scan of your room before you start. You book a slot at least 72 hours ahead. Do a full tech check the day before. A webcam that fails at check-in is the most avoidable disaster in this whole process.

Standard grading returns your digital certificate with a per-topic score within about 8 business days. omptest.org sells a fast-grading option that cuts this down if a deadline is breathing on you. Check current turnaround times when you book, and count backwards from your university's deadline before choosing a test date.

Plan on doing the arithmetic yourself. The questions are built so that clean algebra rather than number crunching carries you through, and the proctored environment restricts what you can have at your desk. Check the current rules at omptest.org/rules when you book, and practise without a calculator either way; that is the version the real test rewards.

No, and be suspicious of anyone claiming otherwise. Every question here is written by me from the published syllabus: the same skills at the same difficulty, in the same formats, but every item is original. The real test randomises values anyway, so memorising specific questions was never a strategy; owning the underlying skill is.

omptest.org's own estimates: roughly 80 hours for OMPT-A or F, 100 for B, 40 for C, and 120 for D, E and G. Treat those as ceilings for a rusty start, not minimums. Students coming straight from a maths-heavy final year often need half that; students three years out of school should believe the numbers.

More than I can list in one answer: most Dutch research universities (Maastricht, the two Amsterdam universities, Erasmus, Tilburg, Radboud, Groningen, Utrecht, Leiden), KU Leuven and Antwerp in Belgium, NHH and BI in Norway, LUT, Arcada and Turku in Finland, five Lithuanian universities, two Católica schools in Portugal, and Chulalongkorn in Thailand. Each pairs its own variant and minimum with each programme, so check the university pages here for the exact requirement and its official source.

The provider will happily sell you another attempt; it is the university that caps how many it counts. Three is common (Maastricht SBE, Utrecht, UvA's quantitative economics tracks), two is frequent (RSM, NHH, Nyenrode, Groningen's science faculty), and the Erasmus School of Economics only looks at your first result. A one-attempt rule changes your whole prep plan: do not book until a full timed mock says you are ready.

Where universities publish it, two years is the usual figure: Erasmus University College, NHH and Kaunas University of Technology all say so explicitly. Most admission pages stay silent on validity, which in practice means the score is checked for the cycle you apply in. If you are testing a year ahead of your application, confirm with admissions that the result will still count.

Yes. Every variant has free sample questions in the same on-screen answer format as the paid mocks, with the worked solution shown after you answer, and no account needed. The free set deliberately includes harder items: if those feel manageable, the full mock will hold no surprises; if they do not, start with the topic pages first.

No honest prep site promises that. A mock score tells you where you stand against your programme's minimum under realistic timing, and that is worth a lot, but the official test is written, run and graded by its own operator. My rule of thumb: score ten to fifteen points above your required minimum on a timed mock before you book, because the real exam gives no partial credit and exam-day slips are real.

No. This is an independent preparation site with no connection to SOWISO, the official Online Mathematics Placement Test, or any university that accepts it. "OMPT" appears here only to describe which official test our original practice material is modelled on. We have no access to the real question bank and do not reproduce it; the official test is always booked at omptest.org.

OMPT-A, OMPT-B

The OMPT itself never says pass or fail; it reports a percentage, and your university decides where the line sits for your programme. Maastricht's School of Business and Economics benchmarks 75%; Erasmus University College and UvA's PPLE ask for at least 70% on OMPT-A. Check your own programme's page for the exact number and aim ten points above it in practice.

OMPT-A

52 questions in 120 minutes, drawn from a curriculum of 176 topics across eight chapters, numbers and algebra up through differentiation. That is under 2.5 minutes per question, so speed on routine algebra matters as much as knowing the material.

OMPT-A, OMPT-B

Yes, and not subtly. OMPT-B has 64 questions in 150 minutes over 226 curriculum topics: everything on the A plus trigonometry and integration. omptest.org suggests around 100 hours of study for B against 80 for A. If your programme asks for B, start earlier than you planned to.

OMPT-D

Because each one is a multi-step problem. The D covers the widest syllabus of any variant (242 topics including geometry and integration) and gives you 180 minutes for 21 long-form questions. Practising quick drills alone will not prepare you; you need to rehearse full written solutions.

OMPT-E

Statistics. Beyond the shared algebra-and-functions core, the E adds descriptive statistics, combinatorics, probability, random variables, and distributions, and skips deep calculus. Most students find the probability chapters the unfamiliar part, since school tracks often barely cover them.

OMPT-G

It does. The final chapters of the OMPT-G syllabus cover physics mechanics and chemistry alongside the maths (algebra, functions, sequences, trigonometry, geometry). It is 26 questions in 180 minutes. Budget separate prep time for the science chapters; they are not decoration.