The Best ESAT Preparation Resources in 2026

This should be your starting point.

UAT-UK provides the ESAT specification, ESAT Guide, official specimen and practice tests, and historic ENGAA and NSAA papers free of charge. UAT-UK itself says candidates do not need paid preparation materials.

That's important.

Third-party resources, including ours, are interpretations of the ESAT.

The official material is the reference point.

ESAT Lab has become one of the most commonly mentioned free ESAT resources among students.

That's a very good reason to try it before buying anything.

Recent student discussions are broadly positive about its usefulness, but there is one recurring theme: students often find it substantially harder than historic ENGAA/NSAA material. The creator has also said publicly that the average ESAT Lab question is intended to be somewhat harder than the real ESAT.

That isn't necessarily bad.

Hard practice can expose weaknesses quickly.

But we would be careful about using a deliberately difficult third-party bank as your sole measure of how well prepared you are.

If ESAT Lab gives you a frightening score after you were doing well on official material, it does not suddenly mean you've forgotten physics.

ESAT Ninja is one of the more established admissions-test platforms.

Its ESAT product currently advertises:

225 written tutorials, 1,100+ original practice questions, original mocks, past-paper access and progress tracking. Its complete package is currently listed at £149, with the question bank sold separately for £89.

A free account currently includes introductory teaching material, 30 practice questions and access to the past papers.

Lab45 is probably the most ambitious premium option currently available.

Its question bank advertises 5,000+ questions, topic and difficulty filtering, worked solutions, recommended sessions and detailed progress tracking.

That's a lot of material.

It also offers lectures and eight mock exams in its larger package.

Now for the obvious conflict of interest.

We built ESAT CAMP.

So rather than telling you that we're "the best," here's what it currently has:

2,590+ practice questions, original mocks, a past-paper simulator and roadmap, no-calculator practice, a free calibration test, score conversion and performance tracking.

You can try parts of it for free.

Full access is currently £14.99 for a month or £55 once for access through the October exam season.

With the exam close, the biggest danger isn't choosing the second-best website.

It's spending three evenings comparing websites instead of answering questions.

A typical student does something like:

ESAT Lab → Ninja → Reddit → another mock → another website → back to old past papers.

It feels productive because you're thinking about ESAT all evening.

But you've done 12 questions.

A better system is:

Don't try to finish the internet.

First, use official material to establish your current level.

Then identify whether your limiting factor is knowledge, speed, careless errors or unfamiliar problem solving.

Use one main question bank to attack that weakness.

Keep some realistic timed material unused for the final couple of weeks.

And when a third-party score looks unexpectedly brilliant, or catastrophically bad, check it against official material before changing your entire preparation plan.

That's especially important because students currently report noticeably different difficulty between different third-party resources.

We checked public product pages and prices on 11 September 2026, compared publicly listed features, reviewed official UAT-UK guidance and looked at recent student discussions to identify common strengths and complaints.

We haven't given numerical "quality scores" because there isn't a defensible dataset that would let us claim, for example, that one company's questions are 8.7/10 and another's are 7.9/10.

Where something is subjective, we've tried to say so.