英国的大学本科申请跟我们国内有很大的不同，很多大学除了标化成绩和语言成绩之外，还会要求学生参加相关专业的入学考试，用以了解学生是不是适合这个考试，比如：MAT、BMAT、UCAT、STEP、TSA等，都是比较常见的入学考试，今天主要为大家介绍一下TSA考试。

一、TSA考试是什么?

TSA考试全称为Thinking Skills Assessment，是一项思维技能评估，用于衡量学生的批判性思维和解决问题的能力，这些技能对于高等教育的成功至关重要。

二、需要参加TSA的专业

目前英国有三所大学在使用TSA考试，包括剑桥大学、牛津大学以及伦敦大学学院。

1、剑桥大学：土地经济专业。

2、牛津大学:经济与管理、实验心理学、哲学政治和经济、心理学和语言学、心理学和哲学、人文科学、哲学和语言学。

3、伦敦大学学院：欧洲社会和政治研究、国际社会和政治研究。

三、TSA考试内容

1、剑桥大学

TSA Cambridge包括50道选择题，考试时长为90分钟，主要考察解决问题的技能(数字推理)和批判性思维技能(理解论点和使用日常语言进行推理)。

2、牛津大学

TSA Oxford包括两个部分，如果是申请实验心理学，人文科学，哲学政治和经济，心理学和哲学、心理学和语言学专业，需要两个部分都参加，如果是申请经济与管理或者历史与经济，只需要参加第一部分。

第一部分：思维技能评估。包括50道选择题，考试时长为90分钟，主要考察解决问题的技能(数字推理)和批判性思维技能(理解论点和使用日常语言进行推理)。

第二部分：写作任务。考生必须从四个问题中选择一个来回答，能够以清晰简洁的方式组织想法，并以书面形式进行有效沟通，考试时长为30分钟。

3、伦敦大学学院

TSA UCL包括50道选择题，考试时长为90分钟，主要考察解决问题的技能(数字推理)和批判性思维技能(理解论点和使用日常语言进行推理)。

四、TSA考试真题

1、My aunt still makes us lemonade every Saturday. Her recipe is a secret, but she likes to say that it is “one spoon of sugar per person and one for the jug”.

She used to buy a packet of sugar every week but since my uncle came to live with her she now has to buy two packets every fifth week and one otherwise. A packet of sugar contains four spoonfuls.

How many people lived at my aunt’s home before my uncle arrived?

a) 4，b) 5，c) 6，d) 3，e) 11。

2、The motor car has become a monster that is damaging our cities where once it gave us absolute freedom to travel. There are now 21 million cars in this country where once they were only affordable by the wealthy, and the number is rising exponentially year on year. This has exacerbated pollution in our cities and towns.

The time has come that the use of private cars must be monitored and brought under measured control, otherwise, we will see pollution worsening in our cities, as well as congestion on the roads. Why should we be allowed to buy and use more personal cars when it is already faster to walk through a city than drive through it?

Which of the following best expresses the main conclusion of the argument above?

a) Cars do not give us the freedom of travel that they used to.

b) Traffic problems in cities would be better addressed by using public transport.

c) It is necessary to limit the use of private vehicles.

d) Cars are the main cause of city pollution.

e) The number of cars on the road has been driven by their affordability.

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