Study-Abroad Readiness Checker (2026)

✅ Tick what you've done

How to read the result — and where it stops being reliable

This narrows a list; it does not make a decision. The output is based on published requirements and the figures you enter. Admissions decisions weigh your statement, references, the fit between your background and the specific programme, and how strong the applicant pool is that year — none of which any calculator can see.

Programme requirements beat institutional ones. The figures behind results like these are usually institution-level baselines. Individual departments routinely set a higher bar, and theirs is the one that applies to you. Always confirm on the specific programme page before you rule yourself in or out.

Treat a marginal result as a reason to check, not to stop. Requirements move between admission cycles, and several routes accept a lower score with a pre-sessional English course or a foundation year attached. A near miss is worth an email to the admissions office.

What to do with a borderline result

Ask the admissions office directly — they answer, and it costs nothing. A short, specific email naming the programme and your actual numbers gets a more accurate answer than any calculator, and asking has never counted against an applicant. Published requirements are frequently a guide rather than a hard floor, particularly where an applicant is strong elsewhere.

Build a list, not a bet. A sensible shortlist spans clear-admits, realistic targets and one or two stretches. The most common error is not aiming too high — it is a list where every entry is a stretch, which feels ambitious and routinely ends with no offer at all.

Check for the conditional routes before you rule anything out. Pre-sessional English, foundation years, pathway programmes and conditional offers exist precisely for applicants who are close but not clear. They carry extra time and extra fees, so they are not free — but "not eligible yet" and "not eligible" are different answers, and only one of them means stop.

Study Abroad Readiness Checker is free and the calculation runs entirely in your browser: the values you type are not transmitted to us and are not saved — they disappear when you close the tab. (Like every page here, this one loads Google Analytics, which records the page visit itself; it does not receive what you enter.) The tool is provided for planning — confirm any figure you rely on with the test maker, university or lender directly.