Applications for the 2025 STEP Prep Day are now closed.
If you have any questions about the event please email outreach@robinson.cam.ac.uk.
The STEP Prep Day is a one-day event for students who are in Year 12 and are interested in studying Mathematics at university, and particularly at Cambridge.
The 2025 STEP Prep Day will run on Saturday 19th July between 9am - 4pm.
The aim of the STEP Prep Day is to introduce students to the STEP exam, the style of questions used in the STEP papers, and the thought required to tackle them. The event will include an admissions talk and Q&A, a tour of the College, and sessions designed to familiarise students with STEP questions, led by current students and teaching staff from the University of Cambridge. The focus of the academic sessions will be on Pure Mathematics, rather than the Mechanics or Probability and Statistics parts of the STEP syllabus.
STEP (Sixth Term Examination Paper) is an assessment done at the end of Year 13, which forms part of the conditional offer for Mathematics across all colleges of the University. For more information, please see here: https://www.ocr.org.uk/students/step-mathematics/
This event is open to all students who will be in Year 13 (or equivalent) in September 2025 (current Year 12 students). To apply for the event, students must be studying Mathematics and Further Mathematics to A-Level, or IB Higher Level Mathematics.
There are 30 places available on the STEP Prep Day.
If the programme is oversubscribed, we will prioritise applicants who meet one or more of the following criteria:
We are able to reimburse some travel costs for participants. You can find more details about this, including how to make a claim, here.
You can apply via an online form here. Once you have completed the form, you should hear back from us, at the latest, by Monday 7th July.
If you have any questions regarding the event, please e-mail outreach@robinson.cam.ac.uk