Assignments

2025-26 Entrance assignments now released

 

DEADLINE: All interested students (Y10,Y11,Y12) are required to complete and submit both parts of Assignment 01 (Physics and Maths) by 23:59hrs Sunday 5th October 2025.

We do not admit students who only complete one part of the assignment.

 

Y13 is a short programme based on previous years' COMPOS work, we do not accept new students in Y13, but we will accept people to Y13 of the COMPOS Follow-along programme. Y13 students transferring from the Y12 COMPOS programme should submit assignment 01 by 23:59hrs Sunday 14th September.

 

Assignments will be marked. In the past, the passing score was >50% on both the physics and maths parts of the assignment. We cannot anticipate this years' passing score as it depends on the number of entries.

 

Entrance assignments for 2025-26 COMPOS Programme:

Year 10 Year 11 Year 12 Year 13
Maths10_01 Maths11_01 Maths12_01 Maths13_01
Physics10_01 Physics11_01 Physics12_01 Physics13_01
       
       

 

How do I complete the assignments?

 
Step 1: Download the files to print out or open on your device
Step 2: Read them thoroughly and look up any links or additional information mentioned in the text (if you need to)
Step 3: Get some paper and a pen, or an e-note app, and start trying to solve the problems. Make sure you put the problem number in the margin and show all your workings. We don't recommend typing out the solutions as it is a) very time consuming and b) really hard to mark typed out algebra!
The assignment is NOT supposed to be used like a worksheet or exam paper, it's like a chapter from a textbook. DO NOT try and write the solutions on the assignment itself.
Your work should look something like this:
screenshot 2025 08 20

An example of what a photo of a written solution may look like

Step 4: Repeat Step 3 until you have done as many problems as you can
Step 5: Write your full name and COMPOS ID on the top of the first page of your solutions
Step 6: Take photos or screengrabs of your solutions to each individual problem
Step 7: Upload the correct photo/image to our google classroom when they are opened for submission which will be 2 weeks before the deadline
All the information about precisely how to upload your solutions will be emailed to you nearer to the deadline. It is straightforward and nearly 2000 people managed it without any problems last year so don't worry :)