Free tool
OMPT score estimator
You have been scoring, say, 68% on practice sets and want to know if that passes. Short answer: it depends on the variant and the programme. This puts a number on the 'it depends'.
Pick a variant, enter a practice score, and I'll place it against the cutoffs I see programmes actually use.
The honest caveat: a practice percentage is not an exam percentage. Proctoring nerves, unfamiliar phrasing, and a real clock typically cost my students a few points, which is why the band above is 8 points wide on each side. Cutoff labels here reflect the typical range for OMPT-A — 70–75% depending on the programme — but every university publishes its own number, and that number is the one that counts.
Reading the verdict
How to interpret your OMPT score estimate
The tool gives you one of three words, and each one is an instruction rather than a grade. Comfortable means the whole of your uncertainty band, your score minus eight points, sits above the strictest cutoff I know of for your variant. Book the test, keep one timed set a week going so the speed holds, and stop learning new material; at this point new material mostly adds doubt. At risk means the opposite: even your score plus eight points falls short of the most lenient cutoff in the band. It says nothing about your ability; it measures the size of the gap, and the fix is weeks of chapter-by-chapter work on the topic pages, not a booking.
Borderline is the verdict most students get, and it is the one worth reading carefully. It means the band overlaps the cutoff zone: on a good day you pass and on a bad day you do not. Two things decide which day you get. The first is which chapters your misses come from. Look at the chapter breakdown on your free mini-mock; if the misses cluster in one or two topics, a week on those topics usually moves the whole score five points. If they are spread thinly across everything, the problem is pace or accuracy, and the cure is more timed papers, not more theory. The second is how recent and how honest your input number was. A score from untimed practice flatters you by five to ten points on every variant I have taught.
The scale under the verdict draws all of this. The dark segment is the cutoff zone for your variant, from the most lenient published minimum to the strictest. The coloured block is your band, and the line through it is your score. If the block sits entirely to the right of the dark segment, you are comfortable. If it straddles the segment, you are borderline, and the amount of overlap tells you how much is left to do: a block that mostly clears the zone needs a fortnight; a block that mostly misses it needs a month.
One thing the estimator cannot see is your programme. The cutoff zone is a band because universities differ: Maastricht’s business school benchmarks 75% where Erasmus University College asks for 70%, and both are OMPT-A. If your programme publishes a number, use that number and ignore the band. Our university pages collect the published minimums with their sources. Aim ten points above whichever number applies to you, because the real test gives no partial credit and a slip on one long question can cost three or four percent on its own.
Methodology, so you can disagree with it
- The uncertainty band is a fixed ±8 points around your input. It is a working figure from watching students’ real results land against their last timed practice, not a computed confidence interval, and it does not narrow with more sets.
- Cutoff bands are the typical ranges from our variant data: 70–75% for OMPT-A and B (published), 70% for F, 65–75% for D, 65–70% for E, and 60–70% for C and G. The last five are conservative estimates where no programme publishes a variant-specific minimum, and are flagged as unverified in the source.
- Comfortable requires score − 8 ≥ top of the band; at risk requires score + 8 < bottom of the band; everything else is borderline. Scores are rounded to whole numbers before comparison.
- The tool has no memory and no server: it does not know your history, your programme, or how timed your practice was. Feed it a recent, timed, single-sitting average and it is useful; feed it your best untimed day and it will flatter you.
Questions about the estimator
OMPT score estimator questions
Which practice score should I type in?
The average of your last three timed sets on your own variant, sat in one go with no notes. Not your best set, not the untimed homework from last month, and not a drill on a single topic. The estimator assumes the number already includes the clock; if it does not, subtract five points before you type it and treat the result as optimistic.
Why is the uncertainty band eight points wide?
Because that is roughly how far my students' real results have landed from their last timed practice score, in both directions. Proctoring nerves, unfamiliar wording and a real countdown usually cost a few points; occasionally a calm day gains a few. Eight is a working figure from experience, not a statistical interval, and it is the same for every variant.
Where do the cutoff bands come from?
From published admission pages where they exist (Maastricht SBE's 75% benchmark, the 70% minimum at Erasmus University College and UvA PPLE for OMPT-A) and from a conservative reading of what programmes ask for on the variants that publish nothing. Bands for C, D, E, F and G are marked as unverified in our data for that reason. Your programme's own number overrides all of it.
It says borderline. Should I book the test?
Not yet, if you have the time. Borderline means the band overlaps the cutoff zone: a good day passes and a bad day does not. Two more weeks of timed practice on your weakest chapter usually moves a borderline score into comfortable. If the deadline leaves no time, book, and spend every remaining session on full-length timed papers rather than new material.
It says comfortable. Am I done?
You are ready to book, which is not the same as done. Comfortable means even the low end of your band clears the strictest cutoff we know of for the variant. Keep one timed set a week going until the sitting so the speed does not fade, and sit the top generation of your line once, on the clock, in exam week as a dress rehearsal.
Does the estimator store or send my score?
No. It runs entirely in your browser, nothing is sent to us, and nothing is saved when you close the page. There is no account, no email field, and no tracking of the number you type.